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  "status": "unclaimed",
  "updated_at": "2026-09-28",
  "revision": 2,
  "provenance_url": "https://itha.ai/c/hirata.co.jp/provenance.json",
  "card": {
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        "automotive",
        "semiconductor"
      ]
    },
    "itha": "0.2",
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        {
          "name": "Toyota Motor Corporation"
        },
        {
          "name": "Honda Motor Co., Ltd."
        },
        {
          "name": "Isuzu Motors Limited"
        },
        {
          "name": "DENSO Corporation"
        },
        {
          "name": "DISCO Corporation"
        },
        {
          "name": "Ebara Corporation"
        },
        {
          "name": "Tokyo Electron Ltd."
        },
        {
          "name": "ULVAC Inc."
        },
        {
          "name": "Yanmar Co., Ltd."
        },
        {
          "name": "Ford Motor Company"
        },
        {
          "name": "General Motors"
        },
        {
          "name": "Samsung Display Co., Ltd."
        }
      ],
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        },
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        }
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    },
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        "city": "Kumamoto",
        "region": "Kumamoto",
        "country": "JP"
      },
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      "name": "HIRATA Corporation",
      "domain": "hirata.co.jp",
      "founded": 1951,
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      },
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      "description": "HIRATA Corporation manufactures and sells manufacturing line systems, industrial robots and logistics equipment for industries including automotive and semiconductors. It describes itself as a production equipment integrator and is headquartered in Kumamoto, Japan."
    },
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            "transmission assembly",
            "EV drive unit and battery pack assembly"
          ],
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            "automotive"
          ]
        },
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        "name": "Automotive Related Production Equipment",
        "role": "manufacturer",
        "pricing": {
          "model": "quote"
        },
        "summary": "Assembly equipment and lines for engines, cylinder heads, CVT/AT/DCT transmissions, and EV components including motors, inverters, drive units, battery modules and battery packs.",
        "category": "production_line",
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          "robotics": {
            "category": "production_line",
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              "assembly"
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          }
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            "semiconductor"
          ]
        },
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        "kind": "hardware",
        "name": "Equipment Front End Module/Sorter Freedom",
        "role": "manufacturer",
        "summary": "Equipment Front End Module and sorter placed in front of wafer and panel process equipment, offered in 300 mm configurations with 4-port, 2x2-port and 2-port options.",
        "category": "efem",
        "extensions": {
          "robotics": {
            "category": "efem",
            "spec_version": "0.2"
          }
        }
      },
      {
        "id": "wafer-transfer-robots",
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            "semiconductor"
          ]
        },
        "url": "https://www.hirata.co.jp/en/products/semiconductor",
        "kind": "hardware",
        "name": "Wafer Transfer Robots",
        "role": "manufacturer",
        "summary": "Atmospheric and vacuum wafer transfer robots for 300 mm wafers in low- and high-vacuum environments, plus robots for FOPLP.",
        "category": "wafer_handling_robot",
        "extensions": {
          "robotics": {
            "category": "wafer_handling_robot",
            "spec_version": "0.2"
          }
        }
      },
      {
        "id": "load-ports",
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          "industries": [
            "semiconductor"
          ]
        },
        "url": "https://www.hirata.co.jp/en/products/semiconductor",
        "kind": "hardware",
        "name": "Load Ports",
        "role": "manufacturer",
        "summary": "FOUP openers (300 mm KWF series and FOPLP variants) and 200 mm SMIF pod openers (KWO, KWY and KWP series).",
        "category": "efem",
        "extensions": {
          "robotics": {
            "category": "efem",
            "spec_version": "0.2"
          }
        }
      },
      {
        "id": "scara-type-robots",
        "url": "https://www.hirata.co.jp/en/products/robot",
        "kind": "hardware",
        "name": "SCARA-type Robots AR-F series",
        "role": "manufacturer",
        "summary": "AR-F series SCARA robots in three models (AR-F450HCs, AR-F500HCs, AR-F650HCs) with different movable ranges.",
        "category": "scara",
        "extensions": {
          "robotics": {
            "category": "scara",
            "spec_version": "0.2"
          }
        }
      },
      {
        "id": "articulated-robots",
        "url": "https://www.hirata.co.jp/en/products/robot",
        "kind": "hardware",
        "name": "Articulated Robots AR-V series",
        "role": "manufacturer",
        "summary": "AR-V series vertical articulated robots, models AR-V700H, AR-V950H, AR-V1200H and AR-V1000H30.",
        "category": "industrial_robot",
        "extensions": {
          "robotics": {
            "category": "industrial_robot",
            "spec_version": "0.2"
          }
        }
      },
      {
        "id": "cartesian-robots",
        "url": "https://www.hirata.co.jp/en/products/robot",
        "kind": "hardware",
        "name": "Cartesian Robots",
        "role": "manufacturer",
        "summary": "Cartesian robots: GR-3000 and GR-1750 series gantry robots, and small MACHINE-BASE series single-, twin- and triple-axis robots with Z/W axis assemblies.",
        "category": "gantry_robot",
        "extensions": {
          "robotics": {
            "category": "gantry_robot",
            "spec_version": "0.2"
          }
        }
      },
      {
        "id": "asrs-transfer-machines",
        "url": "https://www.hirata.co.jp/en/products/transfer",
        "kind": "hardware",
        "name": "ASRS・Transfer Machines",
        "role": "manufacturer",
        "pricing": {
          "model": "quote"
        },
        "summary": "Material handling systems: automated storage and retrieval systems (ASRS), AGVs, sorting systems, and production management functions for planning, results management and traceability.",
        "category": "material_handling"
      }
    ],
    "engagement": {
      "url": "https://www.hirata.co.jp/en/contact/",
      "phone": "+81 96 272 0555"
    },
    "extensions": {
      "robotics": {
        "roles": [
          "robot_manufacturer",
          "systems_integrator"
        ],
        "spec_version": "0.2"
      }
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-28"
  }
}