We
began as a challenge undertaken by a few individuals of confidence and optimism,
and more than 30 years later we have grown into a company that makes an important
contribution to our society. The spirit of challenge remains the core of our enterprise,
as our engineers and their colleagues work diligently to develop new possibilities
for each new age. We shall continue to move forward as a group of top-level professionals
applying our ideas and our expertise to the tasks of creating new values and fulfilling
dreams.
Katsumi
Ito and Sumiyoshi Tagaya started Hamamatsu Controls in November 1968, and the
following November established the company as Pulstec Industrial Co., Ltd. The
Japanese economy was entering its period of very high growth, and the electronics
industry was beginning to move away from vacuum tubes and into a new era of transistors
and integrated circuits. The company's founders foresaw the rapid advance of electronics
into a wide variety of different fields, and understood the growth potential of
a company that focused on applied electronics technologies. The name Pulstec was
an abbreviation for "pulse technologies"-the technologies of the electronic
pulses that serve as the heartbeat of all electronic equipment.
Since
our beginnings, we have brought together new technologies, original ideas, and
highly capable engineers for the purpose of creating products that meet customer
needs and contribute to the advancement of society. Our customer list includes
manufacturers from various fields, such as electric appliance, OA equipment, transport
equipment, precision machinery, chemical, fiber, and medical equipment-and we
believe that it is our mission to help these manufacturers solve their production-line
problems and other technical issues. Consequently, we strive to provide high-quality
and reasonably priced products that meet a wide variety of needs-such as products
and equipment that support automation and power savings. (See "R&D.") Our
business principles and business strengths are enumerated below.
Business
Principles
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To use our creativity and capabilities to create new value and to contribute to
the betterment of society.
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To
proceed in good faith with all members of society, as we seek to further not just
our own prosperity but also the well-being of all individuals.
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To
remain aware of our responsibilities, and to apply wisdom and good faith as we
seek to open new possibilities.
Strengths
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Approximately 55% of our employees
are engineers-bringing together expertise in electronic circuitry,
computer applications, optics, precision machinery, automated
control, and mass production. Consequently, we excel in creating
products that combine various technologies and that bring together different kinds
of expertise.
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We
are the industry leader in technologies related to evaluation,
adjustment, and inspection of optical discs and pick-ups.
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We have customers in a variety of industries-including electrical appliance manufacturers,
chemical suppliers, and automakers. The majority of these are top-level companies
listed on the first section of the stock exchange.
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We
are actively working to develop markets in Asia, Europe, North America,
and other areas throughout the world.
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We have a strong R&D
organization, with 10 engineers assigned as R&D
specialists and over 60 engineers engaged in R&D issues
in addition to their usual duties, all working together to come
up with new high-value-added products.
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We respect the autonomy of all of our employees, and maintain a flexible
company structure that encourages all employees to generate their own
ideas and to venture opinions freely without regard to rank or position.
We
manufacture and market inspection and evaluation devices for optical discs and
pickups, as well as a variety of measuring devices, control devices, data-processing
equipment, and other such electronic equipment. We also assemble and market electronic
components, including circuit boards for use in control of various commercial
and non-commercial devices.
For the period ending March 2008, 91% of our sales revenue came from
electronics application equipment (specifically, 71% from equipment
and devices related to optical discs, with 20% from other specialized
devices), while 9% came from assembly of electronic components.
Equipment
for Optical Disc Applications
Our
optical-disc evaluation equipment is considered as industry standard,
and has played a crucial role in the development of the optical-disc industry.
Today-as we move into the age of broadband-we are applying leading-edge technologies
in our effort to develop even faster and higher-capacity optical discs that can
meet the coming demand. We are working to utilize our leading-edge technical capabilities
and our creativity as we develop new products that will help fulfill our mission
of further developing the optical-disc industry.
Production-line
device for evaluating the electrical characteristics of HD DVD and Blu-ray discs.
Maintains high-level compatibility with our ODU-1000, the industry standard..
Used
by disc manufacturers and developers as a quality control tool and process checking
tool.
Disc
evaluation device used for quality control checking. Based on our ODU-1000, the
device incorporates original expertise and offers excellent cost-performance value.
Includes built-in measurement board, so that data can be taken without connection
to external measurement equipment.
Used
as a standard quality control device on disc production lines.
Special
Devices
From
our very beginnings, we have used leading-edge electronic technologies to support
our active development of products that solve known problems in various fields.
This activity is centralized under our "special devices" initiative.
As we move ahead, we shall continue to aggressively explore the possibilities
for new special devices, as a means for reaching new customers and for building
new foundations for our operations.
Light-weight
high-performance non-contact scanner developed for contact-type 3D measuring devices.
Allows for rapid measurement of complex shapes, where measurement by contact probe
is too time consuming.
Used
for measuring automotive parts, sheet metal, glass, and so on.
Offers
rapid nanometer-size etching, in air, of the entire resist film on the substrate
(semiconductor wafer, glass, and so on). Turns the substrate as it carries out
etching. Developed jointly with the National Institute of Advanced Industrial
Science and Technology (Center for Applied Near-Field Optics Research).
For
processing of optical filters, anti-reflection structures, photonic crystals,
nanoimprint molds, and so on.
Our
policy is to provide a stable dividend in accordance with our business results.
