The History of Fanuc Ltd.

(manufacturer of numerical control (NC) equipment for machine tools)

Headquarter: near Japan's Mount Fuji,

FANUC, is an acronym for Fuji Automatic Numerical Control. (also Factory Automation Numeric Control ??)

Founded as a subsidiary of Fujitsu in 1955. Seiuemon Inaba heading the subsidiary.

Fujitsu FANUC became world leader in robotics in 1970s.

FANUC became an independent company in 1972, and Seiuemon Inaba became president of the new
company. Fujitsu Fanuc, continued to call itself until 1982.

In 1978 Fujitsu Fanuc took its manufacturing operations abroad, building a plant in South Korea.

Japanese companies on the whole lacked the advanced technology necessary to create sophisticated robots,
while the U.S. plants lacked Japanese manufacturing skill.

German engineering slogan Weniger Teile, which means "fewer parts," Fanuc's slogan; machines with fewer
parts are cheaper to produce and easier for automatons to assemble.

http://edtech.mcc.edu/~lsmith19/comw100/project2/fanuc.html

1956 : Dr. S. Inaba develops the first numerical control (NC)

1958 : Shipment of first commercial FANUC NC
1959 : Dr. S. Inaba co-develops first industrial electrical pulse hydraulic motors
1972 : First computer numerical control (CNC). First FANUC ROBODRILL CNC machining centre
1973 : First CNC and ROBODRILL installation in Europe
1974 : Development and installation of the first industrial robots and DC servo motors in Japan and their
implementation in FANUC factories
1975 : First FANUC ROBOCUT
1977 : FANUC starts to export industrial robots
1978 : FANUC establishes companies in Europe and Korea
1983 : First Robot in Europe
1984 : First FANUC ROBOSHOT installed in Japan
2003 : FANUC starts producing intelligent robots
2010 : FANUC is the leading global manufacturer of factory automation
2012 : All FANUC businesses in Europe are grouped under FANUC Europe Corporation
2015 : FANUC develops FIBER LASER and introduces the first industrial collaborative robot in Europe
2017 : FANUC opens Customization and Distribution Center in Contern, Lxuembourg
2018 : FANUC introduces new SCARA robot series in Europe