Istoria Mitutoyo

Înființată ca un mic institut de cercetare în 1934, Mitutoyo a devenit o companie globală cunoscută în întreaga lume..

Totul a început cu pasiunea neclintită a fondatorului nostru, Yehan Numata, care dorea să contribuie la dezvoltarea lumii și la fericirea oamenilor prin intermediul afacerilor.

Această aspirație continuă să fie transmisă și astăzi, în aceste vremuri în continuă schimbare.

Moștenind aspirațiile noastre, traversând cumpăna dintre secole.

Cronologia

1934

Începuturile Mitutoyo

1954

Expansiunea

1987

Generatia nouă Mitutoyo

2020

Orizonturi noi

1934

Nașterea Mitutoyo, cu scopul de a produce micrometre pe plan intern

În 1934, Mitutoyo a început producția de micrometre, care erau aproape 100% importate la acea vreme..

Fondatorul, Yehan Numata, a făcut primii pași către producția internă..

În 1936, numele companiei a fost schimbat în Mitutoyo Manufacture. În același an, s-a finalizat în sfârșit primul lot de producție în masă de 100 de bucăți.

Doar 17 bucăți au trecut de controlul calității, iar celelalte sunt îngropate pe terenul fabricii. Acest lucru demonstrează hotărârea noastră de a nu face compromisuri în ceea ce privește calitatea și performanța, facilitând prea mult inspecțiile.

Repere istorice 1934 - 1953

1934

Yehan Numata a înființat un centru de cercetare în Musashino, Tokyo, pentru a produce micrometre pe plan intern.

1936

A fondat fabrica Kamata la Kamata, Tokyo, și a numit-o Mitutoyo Manufacture.
Producție internă de Micrometre a avut succes

1938

Compania a fost restructurată într-o societate pe acțiuni, iar Yoshinori Numata a fost numit președinte.

1940

A înființat fabrica Mizonokuchi în Kawasaki, Kanagawa, pentru producția în masă de micrometre și a început imediat producția..

1942

Prototipul de cale plan paralele.

1943

Prototip de micrometru bazat pe senzor capacitiv.

1944

A înființat fabrica Utsunomiya pentru producția în masă de perforatoare de film de mare viteză și a început imediat producția.

1947

A înființat in Shiwa, prefectura Hiroshima Centrul de cercetare pentru conservarea tehnologiei de fabricație a micrometrelor.
Producția de micrometre a fost reluată.

1949

A început producția de probă a Șublerelor.

1952

A început producția de micrometre cu cadran
A început producția de "Pasametre".
A fost finalizat micrometrul de exterior de 3 m (cel mai mare din lume atunci) .

1953

A început producția de etaloane frezate.

1954

Încep exporturile la nivel mondial și Mitutoyo pune bazele unei corporații internaționale

Mitutoyo a avut ca scop extinderea companiei încă de la înființare, iar în 1954, Yehan Numata a participat ca reprezentant japonez la prima Conferință și Expoziție Internațională de Instrumente de Măsurare, care a avut loc în Statele Unite.

A fost o oportunitate de a confirma tendințele globale în domeniul instrumentelor de măsurare de precizie și poziționarea companiei noastre.

Folosind această experiență ca punct de sprijin, a fost înființat prima bază Mitutoyo în Statele Unite în 1963.

În 1968, a fost înființată o companie de vânzări în Germania.

De atunci, rețeaua s-a extins în țări din întreaga lume, inclusiv în America de Sud, Europa și Asia.

Repere istorice 1954 - 1986

1954

Yehan Numata a participat la Conferința Internațională de Metrologie (SUA), a expus produse corporative ca punct de sprijin pentru exporturi.

1956

A început producția de Alezometre.

1957

A început producția de Proiectoare de Profile.

1958

A început producția de Etaloane de înălțime.
A început producția de Pupitasturi.
A început producția Plăcilor de granit de precizie.
A început producția de Șublere mici din oțel inoxidabil.

1959

A separat departmentul de vanzari și a Mitutoyo Trade Corporation.

A înființat o fabrică din Hiroshima, în Kure, prefectura Hiroshima, și a fuzionat cu Laboratorul de Cercetare din Hiroshima, având ca scop producția integrată de micrometre..
A început producția Comparatoarelor cu cadran.
A început producția Coloanelor de măsură.
A început producția Microscoapelor Toolmakers.

1960

A fost dezvoltată un etalon de rugozitate pentru măsurarea texturii suprafeței..
A început producția Șublerelor de mari dimensiuni.

1961

A început producția Comparatoarelor electrice.

1962

A început producția de rugozimetre de suprafață cu sistem Okoshi..
A început producția de Șublere cu cadran.

1963

A fondat prima corporație internațională „MTI Corporation” (în prezent Mitutoyo America Corporation) în New York City, SUA.
A început producția de comparatoare electrice numite “Mu-Checker”.
A dezvoltat ultracomparatoare pentru sisteme de manometre extensometre.

1967

Laboratorul de Cercetare Numata a fost transformat într-o fabrică dedicată de cale plan paralele.
A înființat Fabrica de Turnare Hiroshima (în prezent Fabrica de Materiale de Formare Hiroshima) prin separarea diviziei de turnare de la Uzina Hiroshima.
A început producția de “Surftest”,care este un aparat de testare a rugozității de tip medie
A început producția Cale plan paralele Seturile standard.

1968

A fondat Sampo Messgeräte GmbH (atunci după Mitutoyo Messgeräte GmbH) în Dusseldorf, Germania.
Yehan Numata a fost învestit în funcția de președinte al consiliului de administrație, iar Junzo Katayama în funcția de președinte.
A dezvoltat și a început producția de mașini de măsurat în coordonate 2D.

1969

Developed and started production of three-point type Inside micrometer named “Holtest”.
Started production of CMMs.

1970

Established and started operation of Batoh Factory as Utsunomiya Sub-Factory at Batoh-cho, Nasu-gun, Tochigi prefecture.
Started production of CMMs equipped with Mitutoyo developed linear scales.
Started production of 2-column type height gauges with counter.

1971

Toshihide Numata was inaugurated as the president.
Started production of outside micrometers with counter.
Developed horizontal-type CMMs.
Developed (the first in the world) a contour measuring machine named “Contracer”.

1972

Developed a table rotary-type roundness measuring machine.

1973

Founded Mitutoyo Canada Inc.

1974

Founded Mitutoyo do Brazil Industria e Comercio Ltda. and established Suzano Plant as the first full-scale overseas production base.

1975

Mitutoyo Metrology Institute was opened.
Started production of “Linear Scale” Units.

1976

Developed a CNC CMM.

1977

Founded Onomi Precision Corporation at Onomi village in Kochi prefecture as a cooperative corporation of Hiroshima Plant.
Started production of “check masters”.

1978

Founded Mitutoyo Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. in Singapore.

1979

Founded Mitutoyo (UK) Ltd. in Andover, England.
Founded Mitutoyo Mexicana SA de CV in Mexico City.
Founded Mitutoyo-Messgeräte Leonberg GmbH, in Germany.
Operations started in Shiwa Factory, sub-factory of Hiroshima Plant.
Started production of Digimatic Micrometers, “MD Series”.
Manufactured CNC CMM for NRLM-type large-bore thread gauges.
Developed inspection instruments for dial indicators.

1980

Yasuura Factory established in Yasuura-cho, Toyota-gun, Hiroshima prefecture.
Started production of “Digimatic Height Gauges”, “HD Series”.
Developed probe automatic exchangeable universal CMM “MBS” for roundness measurement.

1981

Founded Sampo Nederland BV (currently Mitutoyo Nederland BV) in the Netherlands.
Founded Mitutoyo Scandinavia AB.
Started production of “Digimatic indicators”, “ID Series”.

1982

Established and started operation of Kiyohara Plant at Kiyohara district in Utsunomiya as a dedicated factory for linear scales.
Founded Mitutoyo Belgium N.V.

1983

CT Laboratories opened in Germany.
Started production of Digimatic Calipers, “CD Series”.
Started production of Laser Scan Micrometers.

1984

Developed optical microscope FS Series.

1985

Yehan Numata was inaugurated as the Executive Advisor, Toshihide Numata as the chairman of the board of directors, and Yoshiteru Numata as the president.
Established Miyazaki Plant (dedicated to gauge block production) at Tano-cho in Miyazaki prefecture and succeeded in production from Numata Research Laboratory.
Developed portable surface roughness tester “Surftest 201”.

1986

Founded Mitutoyo France S.A.R.L.
Founded Micro Encoder Inc. in Kirkland, U.S.A.
Started production of non-contact machine for measuring roll diameters.

1987

A new generation of Mitutoyo, leading the industry in digitalization

Since the late 1970s, the digitization of measuring tools has progressed in the global measuring equipment industry.

Fierce technological competition was underway to achieve compact, low-cost digitalization.

Meanwhile, in 1978, Mitutoyo released the digital measuring tool "digimatic series".

It became a hit product that swept the domestic and international markets, and while the lineup was strengthened and improved, we led the industry in digitalization.

In 1987, we changed our company name to "Mitutoyo Co., Ltd." and took a new step toward the 21st century.

Historical Events 1987 - 2019

1987

Founded Mitutoyo Taiwan Co., Ltd. in Taipei, Taiwan.
Founded Mitutoyo Italiana S.R.L.
Renamed to Mitutoyo Corporation and merged into Mitutoyo Trade Corporation.
Established and started operation of Shiwa Plant in Higashi-Hiroshima as a dedicated factory for micrometers.
Established a subterranean institute building for high precision scales at Kiyohara Plant.
Started production of non-contact CMMs (VS).
Started production of measurement data network system “μ-net”.

1988

Founded Mitutoyo Schweiz AG in Zurich, Switzerland.
Founded Mitutoyo (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd.
Developed and started production of ceramic gauge blocks.
Developed a length measuring encoder “laser holoscale”.

1990

Founded European Research Laboratory in the Netherlands for researching basic technology of measurement.
Akashi Corporation, as a group company of Mitutoyo, took over the testing machines and measuring instruments business from Akashi Seisakusho.

1991

Developed a roundness measuring machine “RA600 Series”, provided with analysis software running on a personal computer.
Developed an XY position detecting encoder.

1992

Tsukuba Research Laboratory established in Tsukuba, Ibaraki prefecture.

1993

Developed an interferometer as the standard for gauge block calibration.
Developed ABS Digimatic linear encoder.
Started production of ABSOLUTE Digimatic Calipers.

1994

Founded Mitutoyo Korea Corporation.
Developed and started production of non-contact.
CNC vision measurement machine named Quick Vision Series.
Developed and started production of economy-type CNC CMM "Bright Series”.
Uses environmentally friendly solar cells.
Started production of ABS solar-type Digimatic calipers.

1995

Norio Takatsuji was inaugurated as the President.
Started production of ABS Digimatic Indicators.
Developed a vertically-dual head differential-type gauge block comparator.

1996

Founded Mitutoyo South Asia Pvt. Ltd. in New Delhi, India.
Developed vision measuring machine “Quick Scope QS series”.
Multi-joint typed CMM digitizer “spin arm”.

1997

Established and started operation of Nakatsugawa plant.
Founded Mitutoyo (Thailand) Co., Ltd.
Founded by KOMEG Industrielle Messtechnik GmbH.
Founded Mitutoyo Finance Europe AG.
Developed and released CMM with temperature compensation function: “FALCIO Series” provided with analysis software for running on a personal computer.

1998

Founded Mitutoyo Measuring Instruments (Suzhou) in Suzhou, China.
Developed and released horizontal CNC CMM for in-line measurement MACH Series.
Developed and released ultra-high accuracy CNC CMM LEGEX Series.

1999

Founded Mitutoyo Association for Science and Technology.
Developed non-contact laser displacement gage laser indicator “LI-4030N/5030T”.
Developed the world's largest 35-ton vibration testing machines "NASD".

2000

Founded Mitutoyo Finance Europe AG.
Detector integrated surface roughness/contour measurement.
Developed integrated detector hybrid surface roughness & contour tester “CS-5000”.
Developed flexible measuring gauge for workshop use "QM-Measure".

2001

Kazusaku Tezuka was inaugurated as the President.
Founded Shanghai Mitutoyo.
Founded Mitutoyo Sul Americana Ltda. Argentina Branch.
Released integrated display/digital bore gauge, ABS digimatic bore gauge “CG-D100”.

2002

Founded Poland Mitutoyo.
Founded Mitutoyo Cesko s.r.o.
Released moving-bridge-type CNC coordinate measuring machines “FALCIO-Apex2000/3000” Series.
Released a micro part form measuring system “UMAP Vision System”.
Released 2D vision measuring machines “QUICK IMAGE Series”.

2003

Released world’s first CNC form measuring instruments series.
Released digital height gauge with built-in absolute scale.
Released IP65 coolant-proof micrometer.
Released IP66 coolant-proof caliper.

2004

Integrated Akashi Corporation, Meiho Engineering Limited, and Meioh Giken Limited.
Founded Tianjin Mitutoyo.
Founded Mitutoyo Hungary.
Released ultimate absolute coolant-proof caliper “super caliper”.
Released column-moving CNC surface roughness measuring system “SV-3000CNC”.
Released world’s highest precision measuring microscopes “Hyper MF/MF-U”.

2005

Founded Mitutoyo Indonesia.

2006

Toshihide Numata was inaugurated as the Chairman & President.
Released gauge blocks with thermal expansion coefficient.

2007

Masashi Sakamoto was inaugurated as the President.
Released ultimate digital micrometer “QuantuMike”.

2008

Relocation detection system adopted for CNC high-precision measuring machines.
Released low-priced, easy-to-operate measurement data wireless communication system “U-WAVE”.

2009

Toru Nakagawa was inaugurated as the President.

2010

Founded Mitutoyo Europe GmbH.

2011

Released CNC measuring head “MACH Ko-ga-me”.
Released Rockwell hardness testing machines HR-100 to 400 series.
Launched non-contact line laser probe SurfaceMeasure606 for CNC Coordinate measuring machines.
Released non-contact 3D measuring system Hyper Quick Vision WLI Series.
Released high accuracy digimatic micrometer MDH-25M.
Released contracer CV-4500.
Released micro Vickers hardness testing machines HM-200 Series.
Released ABS Solar-Powered Digimatic Indicator ID-SS.

2012

Founded Mitutoyo Russia.
Founded Mitutoyo Vietnam.
Founded Mitutoyo Romania.
Mitutoyo Leeport Metrology Corporation became consolidated subsidiary company.
Released Compact size, separate incremental scale ST46-EZA Glass linear scales.
Released Fiber Scale ST-F11.

2013

Founded Mitutoyo Austria GmbH.
Founded Micro Encoder Los Angeles, Inc.
Released high precision height gauge QM-Height Series.

2014

Founded Mitutoyo Philippines, Inc.
Released high precision Height Gauge QM-Height Series.
Released ultra-high accuracy CNC CMM “New LEGEX Series”.
Released Contracer CV-4500.
Released micro Vickers hardness testing machines HM-200 Series.
Released ABS Solar-Powered Digimatic Indicator ID-SS.

2015

Released high-speed, high-resolution absolute tape scale ABS ST1300 series.
Released display unit for linear scale KA-200 counter.
Released automatic measurement program generation software MiCAT Planner.

2016

Acquisition of shares and commercial alliance for TAG Optics Inc.
Acquisition of shares and commercial alliance for Mapvision Ltd.
Founded Mitutoyo Optics Manufacturing America Corporation.
Released IP67 ABSOLUTE coolant proof caliper.
Released CNC vision measuring system Quick Vision Active Series.
Released absolute linear scale AT-1100 series.
Indicator inspection instrument i-Checker.

2017

Toru Nakagawa was inaugurated as the chairman of the board of directors.
Yoshiaki Numata was inaugurated as the president.

2018

Released measurement data wireless communication system "U-Wave fit".

2020

A solution company that supports manufacturing sites towards new horizons.

With the advent of cutting-edge science and technology such as IoT, industry has become more sophisticated.

Nowadays, what is required for "measurement" is constantly changing.

Mitutoyo not only responds to change, but also understands needs that have not yet been formed.

We are committed to providing innovative solutions which surpass expectations.

More than just a measuring equipment manufacturer, we are a trusted partner that supports all manufacturing sites.

Information on museums and history centers where you can experience the history of Mitutoyo and the evolution of precision measurement around the world.

Historical Events 2020 - Present

2020

Conclusion of Marketing Agreement with Shimadzu Corporation for Dimensional X-ray CT system.
Conclusion of sponsorship agreement with professional basketball team KAWASAKI BRAVE THUNDERS.
Released shop-floor Type CNC CMM "MiSTAR 555".

2021

Released CNC Roundness/Cylindricity Measuring System "ROUNDTRACER EXTREME".

2022

Released new generation ABSOLUTE Digimatic Indicator "ID-C".

2024

Released ultra-high accuracy CNC CMM "Legex Takumi model".

Museums and History Centers

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