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 Keyence Headquarters and Lab in Osaka, Japan | |
Native name | 株式会社キーエンス |
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| Company type | Public (K.K) |
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| Industry | Electronics |
| Founded | 27 May 1974; 51 years ago (1974-05-27) |
| Headquarters | Osaka, Japan |
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| Products | FA sensors, measurement systems, machine vision, barcode readers, laser markers, and digital microscopes |
| Revenue | US$4.937 billion (2021) |
| US$2.539 billion (2021) | |
| US$1.810 billion (2021)[1] | |
Number of employees | 8,380 (2020)[2] |
| Website | Official website |
Keyence Corporation (キーエンス,Kīensu) is a Japan-based direct sales organization that develops and manufactures equipment for factory automation, sensors, measuring instruments, vision systems, barcode readers, laser markers and digital microscopes.
Keyence isfabless — although it is a manufacturer; it specializes solely in product planning and development and does not manufacture the final products. Keyence products are manufactured at qualified contract manufacturing companies.[3]
Keyence Corporation is a global company with a network of 16 international organizations that specializes in factoryautomation. Keyence Corporation earns overUS$4.9 billion in yearly sales and employs more than 8,300 employees worldwide.[2] As adirect sales company, Keyence salespeople visit customers on site with demonstration cases to show products live.[4]
Keyence's range of products are part of themanufacturing and research processes in a variety of industries, including theelectronics,semiconductor,automotive, food and packaging,biotechnology, andpharmaceutical industries.[5]
Keyence is afabless manufacturing company that sells a broad range of products, from thephotoelectric sensor andproximity sensors to measuring instruments for inspection lines to high precision microscopes used in research institutes. These products are used by more than 300,000 customers globally.[6] Products are shipped from Keyence's warehouses in Japan, the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Germany, Italy, France, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, and South Korea, or from 148 agents in 31 countries.
Keyence Japan is consistently listed in theNihon Keizai Shimbun's yearly ranking of the "Top Ten Most Excellent Companies in Japan." The company maintains a strong ROE (12.32%) and a conservative equity ratio (95.54%), and it is also known as one of the top companies in Japan in terms of salaries; the average annual salary for full-time employees (average age: 35.8 years old) in FY2022 being¥21,820,000 (US$198,815).[7] A 350-million-year-old ammonite fossil is displayed at the entrance of the Japanese headquarters; other fossils of long-dead creatures line the corridors and meeting rooms. Relics are supposed to convey the company’s culture: Develop new products regularly, or go out of business.
In 2000 the headquarters building was awarded theOutstanding Structure Award by theInternational Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering in recognition of the most remarkable, innovative, creative or otherwise stimulating structure.[8]
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