NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION
History
This page shows NIDEC INTSTRUMANTS's history - from its foundation to the present.
| 1946 | Sankyo seiki Mfg.establised as an individual enterprise. | |
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| 1947 | Reorgnized as ayugen kaisha (small-size limited liability company). | |
| 1948 | Sankyo completed prototype musical movement in Japan. | |
| 1950 | Structure set up for mass production of musical movements.Sales began. | |
| 1951 | Tokyo Branch Office established. | |
| 1953 | Osaka Branch Office established.Rorganized as Sankyo Seiki Mfg. Co.,Ltd. | |
| 1957 | Shimosuwa Plant began operation.New York Representative Office opened.Production of 8mm cameras and projectors commenced. | |
| 1959 | Nagoya Branch Office established.Production and sales of time switches and micromotors began. | |
| 1961 | Stock listed on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.Paid-in capital was \530 million. | |
| 1962 | Stock listed on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.European Representative Office opened in West Gemany.Sales of precision machime tolls began. | |
| 1963 | production of tape recorders commenced. | |
| 1965 | Production and sales of level meters began. | |
| 1968 | Magnetic heads for AV equipment and digital clocks developed. |
| 1970 | Hong Kong Representative Office opened.Development of numerically contolled machines and a seembly began. | |
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| 1971 | Multiple wavelength date recorder Sankyo SANAC developed.Began prodution of magnetic card readers. | |
| 1975 | Taiwan tenlon Co.,Ltd.established(now:Nidec Sankyo Taiwan Corporation.) | |
| 1976 | Awarded a deming prize for TQC program. | |
| 1975 | Sankyo Seiki(Shingapore)Pte.Ltd.established.Development completed for cassette deck machanisms. | |
| 1979 | 2.5-inch microdisk drives and direct-drive motors for cassette decks developed. | |
| 1980 | Machine tools for numerically controlled machinery developed. | |
| 1981 | Production and sales of SKILAM assembly robots began. | |
| 1982 | Sales of stepping motors began. | |
| 1985 | ORPHEUS, a 50-notes deluxe music box,introduced first in Japan.Production of clean room robot began. | |
| 1988 | Development of a SANVIC standard motor for VCRs. | |
| 1990 | Sankyo Precision(Malaysia)Sdn.Bhd.established.Entered the robot busineee in the United States and Europe with IBM Corp. | |
| 1993 | Sales of an AC servo system for use in industrial machines began.ROBODOC,a world-first surgical robot, developed. | |
| 1995 | 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. |
| 2000 |
Sankyo seiki(shanghai)Co.,Ltd.established. Production of stepping motors(Φ6)began. |
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| 2001 | Sankyo Seiki (Shanghai)Co.,Ltd.and Sankyo Seiki(Hong Kong)Co.,Ltd.,Shilong Factory are established. | |
| 2002 | Miniature magnetic levitation motors developed.Mass producation of diffraction optical elements using die molding achieved.Magnetic seasors for external sale developed. | |
| 2003 | Nidec Corporation becomes majority shareholder.Sankyo Seiki joins Nidec's corporate group.Large volume of orders received for transport robots for seventh generation LCD glass substrates.Mass production of DVD recorder optical ickups beings. | |
| 2004 | Sankyo Seiki(korea)Co.,Ltd.established.Transport robots for eighth generation LCD glass substrates developed. | |
| 2005 | NIDEC SANKYO(ZHEJIANG) CORPORATION established.NIDEC SANKYO VIETNAM CORPORATION established.The company name was changed to NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION.NIDEC SANKYO DO BRASIL LTDA.established. | |
| 2007 | sales of solar cell glass substrate handing robots bedins. | |
| 2009 | Developed a optical mage stabilizers.NIDEC SANKYO ELECTRONICS (DONGGUAN) CORPORATION established. |
| 2010 | NIDEC SANKYO (THAILAND) CORPORATION established. | |
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| 2011 | TAMMY CORPORATION joined the NIDEC SANKYO group. | |
| 2012 | NIDEC SANKYO SHOJI CORPORATION is merged with NIDEC SANKYO.Headquarters laboratory building opens.NIDEC NISSIN CORPORATION is merged with NIDEC SANKYO.NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION is merged into NIDEC CORPORATION as its wholly-owned subsidiary through share exchange.NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION purchases South Korea's SCD CO.,LTD. | |
| 2014 | NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION purchases Mitsubishi material C.M.I corporation(now NIDEC SANKYO CMI CORPORATION) | |
| 2015 | NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION purchases PT.NAGATA OPTO INDONESIA (now PT. NIDEC SANKYO OPTO INDONESIA). | |
| 2017 | NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION purchases TOKYO MARUZEN INDUSTRY CO.,LTD | |
| 2018 | NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION purchases Genmark Automation, INC. |
