Fanuc Corporation: Next Generation Robotics and Automation

Fanuc Corporation is a Japanese company that manufactures electromechanical robotics. It is one of the biggest industrial robots manufacturers in the world. Fanuc is a member of the Furukawa Group. The company started as part of Fujitsu. It develops numerical control (NC) systems.

Fanuc is the acronym for Factory Automatic Numerical Control. Fujitsu’s Computing Control Division became an independent segment when FANUC Ltd. was created in 1972.

Fanuc supplies robotics to many of the largest automobile and electronic companies in Japan and the US. This made Fanuc as arguably the Japanese company that is instrumental in building Japan’s image as a supplier of quality and precision equipment. Companies such as Panasonic located in Amagasaki was able to produce 2 million TV sets in one month, most of them plasma LCD screen including the 103-inch TV, with only 25 workers manning industrial robotics.

Aside from electronics, Fanuc has been instrumental in providing servo motor and laser products used in factory automation. Among the largest companies in the automotive industry that has benefited in Fanuc’s technologies are Volkswagen, Peugeot Citroën, Ford and General Motors.  Majority of Fanuc’s sales are contributed by the Asia Pacific markets. Half of the company’s revenues come from Japanese markets.

At the center of Fanuc’s core business is research and development. The company understands the need to produce products that are intelligent, precise, functional and reliable. That can only be possible through in-depth research and development. So Fanuc has commissioned one third of its employees, most of them are young and idealistic researchers, to research and develop the leading-edge products.

Around the world, Fanuc has a number of subsidiaries, sales offices and joint ventures in 22 countries, making Fanuc as one of the biggest manufacturers of CNC controls in the world, in terms of market share.

Fanuc is based in Yamanashi Perfecture, Japan. Its shares are traded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.