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DENSO Robotics Opens New Training Center in U.S. Midwest

New facility offers comprehensive training in state-of-the-art setting

LONG BEACH, Calif. — DENSO Robotics has opened its new Main Training Center in Dayton, Ohio. The full-service facility brings the total number of DENSO Robotics training centers in the U.S. to three, adding to the company’s West Coast Training Center in Long Beach and its Maintenance Training Center in Maryville, Tenn.

“Expanding our customer support services is a core element of our business,” said Peter Cavallo, robotics sales manager, DENSO Products & Services Americas Inc. “We strategically located our new training center in Ohio to better serve our growing customer base in the U.S. Midwest, East Coast and South.”

The Main Training Center offers the company’s full line of courses in a state-of-the-art classroom designed to provide customers with the highest level of support and product training for their DENSO Robotics systems. Basic and advanced robot programming, ORiN™ programming language, operation and application courses are taught by experienced instructors in a small group setting. Training on DENSO’s new RC8 Controller, as well as existing equipment such as the RC7M Controller, is available.

The high-tech facility is equipped with vision hardware, infrastructure for wireless operations, and workstations with dedicated robots and controls to ensure customers get hands-on training specific to their operational needs. The center also offers online video training, including real-time classes via remote webcast. For more information, visit www.densorobotics.com/training.

DENSO Robotics also offers on-site classes and an online Customer Support section on its website. The latter features a robot service FAQ page, how-to videos, downloadable product information sheets, installation guides, user manuals, legacy-model information, white papers and contact information for DENSO Robotics Sales & Customer Service Center, Repair & Service Center, and Applications Support regional offices.

More than 77,000 DENSO robots are used for precision assembly, manufacturing, product testing and quality assurance by companies worldwide. A leader and pioneer in manufacturing automation, DENSO is the world’s largest user of small assembly robots, with more than 17,000 of its own robots designed and used in its own manufacturing facilities.

DENSO Robotics will showcase its full line of products and services at Automate 2015, March 23-26, in Chicago. Held once every two years, Automate is the largest automation technologies and solutions trade show in North America.

About DENSO Robotics

DENSO Robotics, a global supplier of advanced robotic technology, offers a wide range of high-speed, high-precision four-axis SCARA to five- and six-axis articulated industrial robots for payloads up to 20 kg. Standard, dust- and mistproof, dust- and splashproof, cleanroom and aseptic models are available to accommodate many different applications. In addition to industrial robot arms, DENSO also offers easy-to-use programming software, controllers and teaching pendants. For more information, visit www.densorobotics.com.

About DENSO

DENSO Corp., headquartered in Kariya, Aichi prefecture, Japan, is a leading global automotive supplier of advanced technology, systems and components in the areas of thermal, powertrain control, electronics, information and safety. Its customers include all the world’s major carmakers. Worldwide, the company has more than 200 subsidiaries and affiliates in 38 countries and regions (including Japan) and employs nearly 140,000 people. Consolidated global sales for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2014, totaled US$39.8 billion. Last fiscal year, DENSO spent 9.0 percent of its global consolidated sales on research and development. DENSO common stock is traded on the Tokyo and Nagoya stock exchanges. For more information, go to www.globaldenso.com, or visit our media website at www.densomediacenter.com.

About DENSO in North America

In North America, DENSO employs more than 17,000 people at 33 consolidated companies and affiliates. Of these, 28 are manufacturing facilities located in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. In the U.S. alone, DENSO employs more than 14,000 people in California, Alabama, Michigan, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia, Iowa, Ohio, Arkansas and Pennsylvania. DENSO’s North American consolidated sales totaled US$7.9 billion for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2014.

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