At a Glance

Spread of Sustainable Social Infrastructure

We support the manufacturing processes of our customers
by providing high-quality, high-efficiency and easy-to-use
production systems.
We manufacture and sell production systems for various ﬁelds, including automobiles,
semiconductors, ﬂat panel displays (FPD) and home electronics.
We continually take on the challenges of responding to the needs of our customers inmany industries by utilizing the technology and know-how we have accumulated throughour wide-ranging experience in global manufacturing.

Automotive-related EquipmentHirata’s all-electric transfer system reduces theenvironmental impact of customer factories
and contributes to carbon neutrality

Contribution toCarbon Neutrality
with Our ProductsP22-23

We completely handle equipment for electric vehicles (EVs), engines, transmissions andautomotive component production. We provide optimized solutions by means of
pre-veriﬁcation utilizing digital technologies and comprehensive tests at our plants.
We support assembly equipment for
products ranging from EV-related
components and the main components ofpower transmissions/drive systems known
as powertrains to smaller components suchas the computerized systems that control
them, automotive electronic parts such as
sensors, air compressors for
air-conditioning, and ABS brake modules.

Installing an all-electric transfer system equippedwith a Hirata-developed DC brushless motor
renders pneumatic tooling unnecessary,
contributing to signiﬁcant reductions in electricity
consumption, CO2 emissions and running costs.

Leveraging digital technologies to transform
entire businesses

Efforts to Realize
Management Adapted • Virtual commissioning using an emulator• Utilization of new technologies, such as
to New Normal Era

extended reality (XR) and artiﬁcial intelligence (AI)• Remote meetings/remote maintenance• Digitization of forms/use of cloud computing• Visualization of plant operational status

Other Automatic Labor-saving Equipment
Semiconductor-related Equipment

P24-25

P26-27

Industrial robots, contract manufacturing of organic electroluminescent (EL) panel vacuum
deposition equipment, single-item sales of factory automation (FA) equipment, manufactureand sale of home electronics, transfer-related equipment, medical and scientiﬁc equipment, etc.

Manufacture/sale of load ports that load silicon wafers into various processing equipment,
wafer transfer robots that can handle atmospheric and vacuum environments, aligners andthe equipment front-end modules (EFEMs) that integrate them as well as vacuum platforms.

In the front-end processes of semiconductor
manufacturing, we manufacture and sell equipment
platforms, transfer equipment, etc. In post-process,we mainly manufacture and sell the transferequipment utilized within and between processes.

We also provide the load ports and transfer robots
for FOPLP* equipment and the EFEMs that
integrate them. In the ﬁeld of semiconductor-related
equipment, we also have N2 purge load port,
N2EFEM and other technologies available for use inminiaturization.
*Fan Out Panel Level Packaging

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Our core industrial robot
technology is incorporated in
production equipment in avariety of applications, such as
automotive, semiconductor andhome electronics manufacturing.

We manufacture and market
medical, chemistry and physics
devices that are used in thehealthcare ﬁeld and in thedevelopment of new medicines.
We endeavor to contribute tosociety by providing productsthat are easier to use and havehigh reliability.

We help customers to optimize
their plant layouts and provide
material handling equipment forcoaters and laminating systems,
for the ﬂat panels and baseplates used for OLED and LCD
applications as well as for thesystems used for transfer,division and shifting systems.

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