Research & Development

Promoting Comprehensive Measures to Produce Innovations

Nabtesco has integrated its component and system technologies focusing on “motion control,” and works to develop high-precision control devices and driving units. Based on the relations of trust we have built with customers, who are advanced companies themselves, we are shifting the focus of our business from the sales of component products to the provision of solutions, while identifying the sophisticated needs of customers and enhancing our existing technologies. To this end, we are working to create new products and businesses, including mechatronic products and systems.

R&D activities toward Innovation

R&D activities

With the aim of eventually improving manufacturing quality to the industry’s top level in each business field, Nabtesco, while vigilantly watching trends in leading-edge technologies, has been supporting the development activities of the in-house companies by using IT-based technologies, including computer-aided engineering (CAE), digital engineering (DE), 3D printing technologies and its unique material technology. Through simulations made at the initial product development stage, Nabtesco makes prior verifications in a precise manner. In addition to this “front-loading type” of development, it also implements in-house companies in human capital development and other development activities by providing electronics and sensor technologies. Moreover, it formulates and implements intellectual property strategies to increase the company’s competitiveness and protect its intellectual rights and associated benefits in all business segments. Moreover, it seeks to focus efforts on driving co-creation with start-up firms through corporate venture capital.

＜CAE Analysis technology＞ Examples by business activities

Activities by utilizing IoT technology

Status monitoring in our product/ Detect and prevent failures
Labor saving/ automation at customers and our factories

System Development

Nabtesco offers customers new system products and technologies with the aim of strenghening fundamental system development.
Through controlling actuators by data-based analysis and diagnosis from our unique sensors, customer's systems can be transformed to provide higher safety and security.
To this end, we conduct verification work by using our actuator evaluation, structural analysis, numerical analysis and simulation technologies as well as various machine learning algorithms.

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Activities for Quality

Nabtesco has been implementing cross-company committees for a company-wide quality improvement, unique system to educate employees on high-quality manufacturing, cyber security measures and other measures that ensure the functional safety, and training for workers who are responsible for quality to strenghen quality of oversea companies.

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