Keyence
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Company type | Public (K.K) |
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| Headquarters | Osaka, Japan |
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| Products | FA sensors, measurement systems, machine vision, barcode readers, laser markers, and digital microscopes |
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Script error: No such module "Nihongo". 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 is fablessTemplate:Thinspalthough 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]
Operations
Keyence Corporation is a global company with a network of 16 international organizations that specializes in factory automation. Keyence Corporation earns over Template:Currency in yearly sales and employs more than 8,300 employees worldwide.[2]Template:R/superscript As a direct sales company, Keyence salespeople visit customers on site with demonstration cases to show products live.[4]
Keyence's range of products are part of the manufacturing and research processes in a variety of industries, including the electronics, semiconductor, automotive, food and packaging, biotechnology, and pharmaceutical industries.[5]
Products
Keyence is a fabless manufacturing company that sells a broad range of products, from the photoelectric sensor and proximity 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.
Company culture and reputation
Keyence Japan is consistently listed in the Nihon 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 Template:Currency (Template:Currency).[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.
Outstanding Structure AwardTemplate:Thinsp2000
In 2000 the headquarters building was awarded the Outstanding Structure Award by the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering in recognition of the most remarkable, innovative, creative or otherwise stimulating structure.[8]
Controversies
Sexual assault case involving employees
In August 2024, four then-employees of Keyence were indicted by the Sendai District Public Prosecutors Office on charges of non-consensual sexual intercourse under Japanese criminal law, in connection with an alleged group sexual assault on a woman at a guesthouse in Tokyo.[9] In October 2025, two additional Keyence employees were reported to have been further indicted on the same charge in relation to the case.[9]
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Annual Report 2025" (PDF). Keyence.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Corporate Profile". Keyence Corporation. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2022-05-25. Retrieved 2022-05-25.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Keeping The Seats Warm". Forbes. 2006-01-09. Retrieved 2022-05-25.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Umekuni, Ten (2021-10-29). "Evolve or die: How nimble Keyence grew into a $140bn titan". Nikkei Asia. Retrieved 2022-05-25.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Keyence Corp. of America". Thomas Register. Retrieved 2022-05-25.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Corporate Overview". Keyence Corporation. Retrieved 2022-05-25.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."(Kabu) kīensu kigyō jōhō" (株)キーエンス 企業情報 [Keyence Corporation Corporate Information]. Yahoo! Japan (in 日本語). Retrieved 2022-05-25.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Outstanding Structure Award". International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering. Retrieved 2022-05-25.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."キーエンス社員、不同意性交でさらに2人起訴…同僚だった別事件の被告と共謀か". Yomiuri Shimbun Online (in 日本語). 2025-10-09. Retrieved 2025-10-09.
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