FANUC Corporation overview

FANUC is one of the largest and most influential industrial robotics and factory automation companies in the world. The company is vertically integrated around CNC controls, servo systems, industrial robots and production machines, which gives it unusual depth in machine tools and automated manufacturing.

Company fact	Detail
Founded	1972
Country	Japan
Address	3580 Shibokusa, Oshino-mura, Minamitsuru-gun, Yamanashi 401-0597
Employees	Approx. 9,000+ globally
Specializes in	Industrial robot arms, CNC systems, factory automation, servo motors, robomachines
Products	M-10, M-20, M-710, R-2000, CRX cobots, LR Mate, ARC Mate, Paint Mate, SCARA robots, ROBOGUIDE, iRVision, CNC systems
Typical projects	Automotive welding and handling lines, machine tending, injection molding automation, CNC factory automation, palletizing, painting, arc welding, high-speed picking and vision-guided production cells
Management and ownership	Publicly listed Japanese corporation. President and CEO: Kenji Yamaguchi. Governance is through a board of directors and executive officers. Ownership is public-market based, with institutional investors among major shareholders.

Website: www.fanuc.co.jp/en

FANUC Corporation review summary

FANUC Corporation is a Japanese factory automation company with net sales of JPY 857.8 billion in its latest fiscal year, more than one million robots shipped and more than five million CNCs produced. It builds three things on one shared technology base: CNC and servo systems, robots, and compact machine tools. This profile sets out FANUC's history, structure, financial performance by division and region, factories, subsidiaries, leading products, technology strategy, management, shareholders and share data.

Verified key facts from the review

Fact	Detail
Company	FANUC CORPORATION
Origins	1955, as a numerical control project team at Fuji Tsushinki Manufacturing, today Fujitsu
Established	1972, as FUJITSU FANUC LTD, independent from Fujitsu
Headquarters	3580 Shibokusa, Oshino-mura, Minamitsuru-gun, Yamanashi, Japan
Paid-in capital	JPY 69 billion
Net sales	JPY 857.8 billion in the year to March 31, 2026
Operating income	JPY 183.8 billion, a margin of 21.4%
Businesses	FA, Robot, Robomachine and Service
Cumulative output	1 million robots shipped (2023); 5 million CNCs produced (2022)
Stock listing	Tokyo Stock Exchange: 6954
President and CEO	Kenji Yamaguchi

Strengths

A leading position in both CNC controls and industrial robots, built on shared servo and control technology.
Operating margins above 20%.
Highly automated production concentrated in four Japanese sites.
A balanced regional mix, with the Americas, China and Europe each a major market.
A lifetime service commitment that ties customers to the brand.

Challenges

Results depend on capital spending cycles in machine tools, cars and electronics.
A quarter of sales come from China, where demand is volatile and local competitors are growing.
Production in Japan makes earnings sensitive to exchange rates; the forecast assumes JPY 150 to the US dollar.
Robomachine sales fell in the latest fiscal year.

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