Japanese Factory Automation and Industrial Controls Market Size & Share Analysis - Growth Trends & Forecasts (2024 - 2029)

Japan Factory Automation & Industrial Controls Industry Overview

The Japan Factory Automation and Industrial Control Market is a moderately consolidated market with several firms in the market, each having a small level of market dominance. Industry 4.0 and digitalization initiatives across regions provide lucrative opportunities in the industrial robots market.

• March 2022 - Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced that it had acquired 42,000 square meters of land in OwariasahiCity, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, to establish a new production site to manufacture factory automation (FA) control system products from April 2025. The new factory would employ numerous advanced technologies like 5G communication, permitting simultaneous connection of machines, automatic guided vehicles (AGVs), and human workers as they perform their manufacturing duties. In parallel, real-time and high-speed data acquisition throughout the factory will deliver data sets on all facets of the production cycle for Artificial Intelligence based analysis to realize a flexible and safe production environment.
• February 2022 - Yamaha Revealed Initiatives to Support Factory-automation Sales Network. Yamaha Motor Robotics Factory Automation section has held its 2022 annual distributor meeting online. Among new initiatives revealed during the meeting, a new online portal for agents was introduced that accelerates solution integration and customer support by easing access to parts and setup information. In addition, the main Yamaha industrial robots website is claimed to provide extra help to configure, program, and operate the robots and add capabilities like tracking.