Ten millionth inverter for Yaskawa

In August this year, Yaskawa Electric Corporation marked the production of its 10 millionth inverter. The milestone unit was an inverter of the new “V1000” generation. The Yaskawa inverter business has been growing steadily in the past decades, a development which was recently enhanced by the global economic situation. The new “V1000” inverter generation introduced earlier this year, contributed to revitalizing the business.

According to Yaskawa Electric Corporation, the company’s present global market share amounts to over 14 per cent.

In the past five years, the company’s sales volume has gained considerable momentum. It had taken nineteen years – from 1974 to 1993 – to cross the one million mark in inverter production. In the 90’s, production facilities in the Usa, Europe and China enhanced production, with Yaskawa steadily raising its output to reach the first 5 million in 2001. In only five years – from 2002 to 2007 – the figures soared by another five million to hit the 10 million mark.

The international production sites in the Usa, Europe and China form part of the Yaskawa strategy to globalize corporate activities, increase production capacities, and establish local links to the markets. With the inauguration of “Drive Center”, the new 12,000 square meters inverter production plant at the company’s site in Yukuhashi, Japan, the corporate production effort is further enhanced globally.