History
This page shows NIDEC INTSTRUMANTS's history - from its foundation to the present.
Hong Kong Representative Office opened.Development of numerically contolled machines and a seembly began.
Multiple wavelength date recorder Sankyo SANAC developed.Began prodution of magnetic card readers.
Taiwan tenlon Co.,Ltd.established(now:Nidec Sankyo Taiwan Corporation.)
Awarded a deming prize for TQC program.
Sankyo Seiki(Shingapore)Pte.Ltd.established.Development completed for cassette deck machanisms.
2.5-inch microdisk drives and direct-drive motors for cassette decks developed.
Machine tools for numerically controlled machinery developed.
Production and sales of SKILAM assembly robots began.
Sales of stepping motors began.
ORPHEUS, a 50-notes deluxe music box,introduced first in Japan.Production of clean room robot began.
Development of a SANVIC standard motor for VCRs.
Sankyo Precision(Malaysia)Sdn.Bhd.established.Entered the robot busineee in the United States and Europe with IBM Corp.
Sales of an AC servo system for use in industrial machines began.ROBODOC,a world-first surgical robot, developed.
Sankyo Electronics(Shaoguan)co.,Ltd.,and Sankyo Seiki(Fuzhou)co.,Ltd.are established.An 80-note disc music box,and LCD panel handing robot developed.