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  "card_url": "https://itha.ai/c/yaskawa.co.jp/card.json",
  "status": "unclaimed",
  "updated_at": "2026-09-28",
  "revision": 2,
  "provenance_url": "https://itha.ai/c/yaskawa.co.jp/provenance.json",
  "card": {
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    "proof": {
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        {
          "id": "iso_14001",
          "issuer": "JQA",
          "status": "third_party_certified",
          "evidence_url": "https://www.yaskawa.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/YE-E_2026.pdf"
        },
        {
          "id": "iso_9001",
          "status": "self_declared"
        }
      ]
    },
    "company": {
      "hq": {
        "city": "Kitakyushu",
        "region": "Fukuoka",
        "country": "JP"
      },
      "url": "https://www.yaskawa.co.jp/",
      "name": "Yaskawa Electric",
      "domain": "yaskawa.co.jp",
      "founded": 1915,
      "same_as": [
        "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2620239",
        "https://www.linkedin.com/company/yaskawa_"
      ],
      "employees": {
        "max": 12483,
        "min": 12483
      },
      "legal_name": "YASKAWA Electric Corporation",
      "description": "Yaskawa Electric Corporation manufactures and sells servo motors, inverters and industrial robots sold under the MOTOMAN brand. It also supplies system engineering and environmental and energy equipment.",
      "identifiers": {
        "lei": "3538003K39GR98R0CK58"
      }
    },
    "offerings": [
      {
        "id": "servo-motors",
        "url": "https://www.yaskawa.co.jp/product/servomotor",
        "kind": "hardware",
        "name": "Servo Motors",
        "role": "manufacturer",
        "summary": "AC servo motors, including rotary servo motors, direct drive motors and linear motors/linear sliders. Cumulative AC servo motor shipments exceed 20 million units.",
        "category": "servo_motor",
        "spec_url": "https://www.e-mechatronics.com/product/servo/"
      },
      {
        "id": "inverters",
        "icp": {
          "use_cases": [
            "Elevators and escalators",
            "Air conditioning",
            "Conveyors",
            "Pumps",
            "Cranes",
            "Food machinery"
          ]
        },
        "url": "https://www.yaskawa.co.jp/product/inverter",
        "kind": "hardware",
        "name": "Inverters",
        "role": "manufacturer",
        "summary": "Motor speed-control inverters: general-purpose, application-specific and system inverters, plus regenerative energy-saving units. Cumulative shipments reached 30 million units in 2021.",
        "category": "motion_control",
        "spec_url": "https://www.e-mechatronics.com/product/inverter/"
      },
      {
        "id": "industrial-robots",
        "icp": {
          "industries": [
            "Automotive and auto parts",
            "Electronics",
            "Semiconductors and flat panel displays",
            "Food",
            "Biomedical",
            "Logistics"
          ]
        },
        "url": "https://www.yaskawa.co.jp/product/robotics",
        "kind": "hardware",
        "name": "Industrial Robots (MOTOMAN)",
        "role": "manufacturer",
        "summary": "Industrial robots sold under the MOTOMAN brand since 1977, including collaborative robots and semiconductor wafer transfer robots. More than 500,000 units have been shipped worldwide.",
        "category": "industrial_robot",
        "spec_url": "https://www.e-mechatronics.com/product/robot/",
        "extensions": {
          "robotics": {
            "category": "industrial_robot",
            "applications": [
              "welding",
              "material_handling",
              "assembly",
              "palletizing",
              "painting",
              "material_removal",
              "cutting"
            ],
            "spec_version": "0.2"
          }
        }
      },
      {
        "id": "system-engineering",
        "icp": {
          "industries": [
            "Steel",
            "Water and wastewater treatment",
            "Paper, film and textile",
            "Ports and cranes"
          ]
        },
        "url": "https://www.yaskawa.co.jp/product/engineering/",
        "kind": "service",
        "name": "System Engineering",
        "role": "manufacturer",
        "summary": "System engineering by subsidiary Yaskawa Automation & Drive Corporation, supplying medium-voltage inverters, system inverters and CP-series system controllers for plant applications.",
        "category": "engineering_service"
      },
      {
        "id": "environmental-energy-equipment",
        "url": "https://www.yaskawa.co.jp/product/environmental/",
        "kind": "hardware",
        "name": "Environmental & Energy Equipment",
        "role": "manufacturer",
        "summary": "Power conditioners for solar photovoltaic generation, control equipment for small-capacity power generation systems, and motor drive systems.",
        "category": "power_conversion_equipment"
      }
    ],
    "extensions": {
      "robotics": {
        "roles": [
          "robot_manufacturer",
          "component_manufacturer"
        ],
        "spec_version": "0.2"
      }
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-28"
  }
}