Daifuku expands cleanroom transport backlogs as Asian chipmakers accelerate fab builds
Surging orders for overhead hoist transport systems across Japanese, Taiwanese, and South Korean wafer fabs lift cleanroom…
Aiko Tanaka covers industrial robots, precision reducers and motion control, and the factory automation decisions that drive their order books.
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Nabtesco adapts cycloidal gearboxes for heavy logistics robots
Japanese precision reducer leader shifts industrial robot joint drives into heavy-payload autonomous mobile platforms and pallet…
Keyence deploys edge vision sensors for battery inline inspection
The Osaka automation supplier integrates on-chip classification engines into machine vision hardware to eliminate processing…
Harmonic Drive expands Japanese reducer capacity for humanoid robotics demand
Capital expenditure at the Hotaka plant targets high-torque strain wave gears to clear joint actuator bottlenecks across…
Fanuc and Yaskawa Expand China Motion Control Plants to Meet Local Content Rules
Japanese automation leaders localize servo motor and drive assembly in Jiangsu and Shanghai while retaining proprietary encoder…