| 1976 |
April |
- Established the company with capital of 2 million yen at 75 Nishi Takahara-cho, Shimizu-ku, Shizuoka-city
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- Company name at the establishment: Shimizu Kiden Co., Ltd.
- The company name "Shimizu Kiden" is named after the name of city where the company is established "Shimizu" with essence of our target "Applying mechanical technology and electronics/electronic technology, in order to develop technological products harmonizing such technologies"
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| 1978 |
July |
- Moved to 1935 Miho, Shimizu-ku, Shizuoka-city
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| 1981 |
April |
- Moved the Head office and factory to 105-1 Obane, Shimizu-ku, Shizuoka-city
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| July |
- Manufacture and sales of Four Axle Sealing Machine
- Four Axle Sealing Machine used to use an actuator manufactured by third-party, however we changed our operation and started developing a ROBO on full-scale.
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| 1983 |
April |
- Became a member of Industrial Research Institute of Shizuoka Prefecture
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| September |
- Developed a high-speed image processing machine
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| 1986 |
October |
- Manufacturing and sales of small sized single axis robot with built-in microcomputer "IA" was released
- IA is the abbreviation of Intelligent Actuator
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| 1989 |
April |
- American sales company IAI America, Inc. was established in Los Angels with capital of 30,000 USD
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| August |
- Increased capital to 30 million yen
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| 1991 |
October |
- A sales office was established in Chicago
- Started to provide technical services in U.S.A.
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| 1992 |
May |
- Achieved the sales of 30,000 sets IA (Intelligent Actuator)
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| June |
- Company name was changed to IAI Corporation.
- IAI is the abbreviation of Intelligent Actuator Incorporated
- The head office and factory is moved to newly built building at 645-1 Hirose, Shizuoka-city
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| 1995 |
September |
- European sales company IAI IndustrieROBOter GmbH was established in Frankfurt, Germany
- Follow to Germany, the sells network was expanded to U.K., Italia, France, Netherlands, Austria, Denmark, Switzerland, Hungary, Ireland.
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- Sells of IS series were released
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| 1997 |
February |
- Sales offices were established in Shizuoka, Tokyo, Osaka, Fukuoka, Nagano
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| June |
- Achieved the sales of 100,000 sets IA (Intelligent Actuator)
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| November |
- Nagoya sales office was established
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| 1998 |
May |
- Sendai sales office was established
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| 1999 |
June |
- Kumagaya sales office was established
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- Earth friendly electric cylinder "ROBO Cylinder" series were released.
- The "ROBO Cylinder", which have high accuracy, rigidity, and functionality and obtained significant reduce in it's cost by simplified controller, was became one of main products from IAI.
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| 2000 |
January |
- Toyota sales office was established
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| May |
- Kyoto sales office was established
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| 2001 |
January |
- Niigata sales office was established
- Hiroshima sales office was established
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| March |
- Matsuyama sales office was established
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| May |
- Kanazawa sales office was established
- Utsunomiya sales office was established
- Kumagaya branch was reformed to Kumagata sales office
- Atsugi sales office was established
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| October |
- Acquired ISO 9001 certification
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| 2002 |
October |
- Linear servo actuator was released
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| December |
- SCARA Robot IX series were released
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| 2003 |
May |
- Okayama sales office was established
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| December |
- Ibaraki sales office was established
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- Achieved the sales of 300,000 sets IA (Intelligent Actuator)
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| 2004 |
August |
- Obane new factory was complete
- New factory was built by integrating 4 factories (main assembly shop at Hirose, ex-Obane, Nagasaki, Yokosuna) and 3 warehouses (Ihara, Nagasaki, Sodeshi) which located around Shimizu area
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| November |
- Kumamoto sales office was established
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| December |
- Hamamatsu sales office was established
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| 2006 |
July |
- "New ROBO Cylinder" series were released.
- Conventional ROBO Cylinder was up-graded and new type was released.
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| August |
- Tama sales office was established
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- Koufu sales office was established
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| 2007 |
January |
- IAI(Shanghai)Co.,Ltd. was established in Shanghai, to provide more services within China.
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- "Eco-farm department (Agricultural research department)" was established.
- New agriculture, new research will be done at the farm created mainly for organic farming.
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| August |
- Head office was moved to a newly built building at the south of Obane Factory, Shimizu-ku
- The windows of new head office shows the word "heart" lightly. We put our wishes here;
- 1. Work from your sincere heart.
- 2. Work together with your client to feel and understand each other.
- 3. Thank to client, thank to all people surrounding, from your sincere heart.
- 4. Keep wishing a company improved.
- 5. Work together in close cooperation with people.
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| 2008 |
April |
- Oita branch was established
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| May |
- Hyogo branch was established
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| October |
- Morioka branch was established
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| 2009 |
April |
- Next generation electrical cylinder, Compact-Sized Actuators series, which obtains the client's needs which wish to have "Smaller" machine, were released.
- 1. Compact-sized (Space-saving
- 2. Shape and usability is similar to Air Cylinder type
- 3. Rich variation
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| 2010 |
March |
- The controller for the ROBO Cylinder "MEC" was released. It is easy to set up, even for people who use this at first time.
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- Online-shop for electric cylinder called "iai-netstore.com" is launched.
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| October |
- Certified with Environmental management system "Eco Action 21"
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| 2011 |
February |
- Achieved the sales of 1,000,000 sets IA (Intelligent Actuator)
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| September |
- In order to provide more sales and services in South China, Shenzhen sales office was established in Shenzhen.
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| 2012 |
August |
- Sales office was promoted to Shenzhen branch office in Shenzhen, China
- Started providing Technical Support (e.g. seminar, repair etc)
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| 2013 |
March |
- Sales company in South East Asia IAI Robot (Thailand) Co., Ltd. was established in Bangkok, Thailand
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| 2014 |
January |
Fujinomiya factory was established |
