EDN

Keyence vision sensor offers eight different sensor heads

Difficult presence-detection tasks that formerly requiredmultiple conventional photoelectric or proximity sensors can now be tackledwith the IV Series vision sensor from Keyence. The IV offers a ...
EDN

Keyence adds line-scan option to XG-8000 vision system

You can now configure the XG-8000 vision system fromKeyence with line-scan cameras to give it an extra level of image processing.With simultaneous operation of up to ...
The Financial Times

Keyence: sensors solve Japan’s factory worker shortage

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Spotting which bottle has its lid screwed on properly is just the sort of tedious work that robots excel at. In ...
Business Insider

An entrepreneur who built an automation giant is now the richest person in Japan — and his company is known to pay some of the highest salaries in the country

Takemitsu Takizaki, the founder of sensor-making manufacturer Keyence, is now Japan's richest man. Keyence, which Takizaki founded in 1974, was recently chosen to enter Japan's blue-chip stock index.