Servomotors Support Global Manufacturing Automation

If you look inside your everyday smartphones, tablets, computers and home appliances, you can see that they are made up of hundreds of different components, including electronic components, semiconductor chips, batteries and cameras etc. When manufacturing these, companies try to automate by installing industrial robots and machine tools to maintain high quality while increasing production efficiency. Servomotors are often used to enable such machines and industrial robots to perform ultra-high-speed, ultra-precise motion such as right to left or up and down.

Servomotors are not seen in everyday life, but they are “motors that are good at stopping at the position indicated by a comma several millimeters”, and they are important parts that must be used as power for factory automation. The positioning accuracy is such that, for example, when the motor is rotated the circumference of about 40 km, it can detect and control the error of the moving 4 mm.

Since Yaskawa invented the world’s first prototype Minertia motor in 1958, AC servo motor has led the factory automation industry with a global market share of No. 1, with cumulative shipments exceeding 20 million units. We would like to introduce what kind of industry servomotors are contributing to.