January 31, 2010 - Yaskawa Electric America announced that its operation in Brazil, Yaskawa Elétrico do Brasil, received ISO 9001, ISO 14000 and OHSAS 18001 certifications from Bureau Veritas, one of the world's leading certification bodies. From its headquarters in Sao Paulo, Yaskawa Elétrico do Brasil and its distributors provide motion and control products—including servo drives and motors, ac drives and motors, linear motion components, robotics components, controllers and network devices—to automation and process control industries throughout South America.
José Luiz Rubinato, General Director of Yaskawa Elétrico do Brasil, says that the Brasilian operation follows the Yaskawa quality policy – which is to place quality, continual improvement, and customer satisfaction at the forefront of everything we do. “All phases of Yaskawa Brasil’s business including research and development, production, quality control, sales and marketing and technical service are committed to delivering top quality products and service in Brasil and South America,” said Rubinato. Yaskawa’s reputation for quality is legendary worldwide. Yaskawa is the only industrial drives and motion control manufacturer to have won the Deming prize – the most prestigious quality award in manufacturing.
Yaskawa also received the Ohm Technology Award, the Frost and Sullivan Excellence in Technology Award (2004), Control Engineering magazine’s Customer Satisfaction Award (2004 and 2006), the Frost and Sullivan Customer Value Leadership Award for MicroDrives (2008), and Quality Magazine's Quality Leadership 100 No. 5 ranking (2008).
About Yaskawa
Yaskawa is the world’s largest producer of variable frequency drives, machine controllers, servo amplifiers and servo motors (rotary, linear, and direct drive). Yaskawa Electric America, Inc. is headquartered in Waukegan, Ill. with manufacturing centers and offices throughout the Americas.