Prosthetic knee joints greatly impact the independence, mobility, and social participation of people who have lost their legs. With a shortage of caregivers, welfare equipment helps individuals become independent. To support active participation in society, “normalization” is essential.

Nabtesco developed the world’s first microprocessor-controlled intelligent prosthetic knee joint. The microprocessor detects walking speed, adjusts the pneumatic cylinder, and controls the knee joint’s swing speed for comfortable, natural walking.

Nabtesco became the first in the world to develop a microprocessor-controlled intelligent prosthetic knee joint as mobility support equipment. The microprocessor detects the user’s walking speed, adjusts the pneumatic cylinder, and automatically controls the swing speed of the knee joint to help the person walk comfortably and naturally.

Nabtesco’s brake systems are essential for trucks and buses in distribution services and public transportation. Recently, it has become more important to develop technologies for these commercial vehicles to make them friendlier to urban and natural environments alike, in addition to ensuring their safety.

Nabtesco leverages its expertise as a leading Japanese brake system manufacturer to develop high-safety, eco-friendly air brakes for trucks and buses and electric compressors for electric buses. These products enhance motorized society’s safety and comfort. In Japan, we hold approximately 70% of the market for air dryers and 75% for wedge brake chambers (Nabtesco’s estimate).

The Shinkansen, a world-class high-speed railway system, exemplifies Japanese expertise, with trains exceeding 300 km/h requiring top-notch safety and reliability. Nabtesco contributes to this with our Shinkansen brake systems and door operating units, core components ensuring safety and performance. Our advanced technologies are used in various transportation systems in Japan and abroad, including local trains and new transit systems.

As train speeds increase, railway operators aim to reduce equipment size and weight for more cabin space and environmental benefits. Nabtesco develops technologies to advance rail transportation, holding about 50% of Japan’s brake system market and 60% for door operating units, including all Series N700 Shinkansen carriages.

Recent years have seen an ever-increasing demand for AGVs^*1and AMRs^*2in the fields of logistics and transportation. Besides these technologies, autonomous drones and service robots are also predicted to have increasingly wide applications in the near future.

Taking advantage of its strategic partnership with WiBotic Inc., a manufacturer and supplier of wireless power and charging systems, Nabtesco provides efficient and safe automatic charging systems, which are essential for the completely autonomous operation of the above devices, thereby contributing to accelerating the shift to automated and unmanned logistics and transportation.

A wide range of foods, beverages, cleaning supplies, chemicals, and other products now use retort pouch packaging and refills. These lightweight, easy-to-use, and hygienic products are gaining global popularity. Nabtesco, with years of experience in automated weighing equipment, packaging machines, and entire packaging plants, supports the production of convenient products in Japan and abroad.

In 1970, Nabtesco developed the world’s first rotary packaging machine, integrating filling and packaging processes. Today, we supply a broad range of packaging machines to various industries and hold approximately 85% of the Japanese market for automatic fillers/sealers for retort-pouch foods.

Large marine vessels transport goods and people worldwide, requiring optimization measures for safety, efficiency, and environmental impact. Nabtesco assists by supplying main engine remote control systems and related services for medium-size to large vessels.

We rapidly meet the demand for both mechanical and future-focused electronically controlled engine control systems. These efforts, alongside our global MRO offices and comprehensive after-sales service, pursue environmentally friendly technologies while enhancing vessel safety and navigation.

Nabtesco holds an estimated 50% domestic and 40% global market share for vessel engine remote control systems.

Infrastructure development and resource mining often face challenging conditions, from wild deserts to steep slopes, jungles, and even underwater. Powerful, high-precision construction machinery becomes essential for such demanding tasks.

Nabtesco’s hydraulic technology empowers this machinery, extracting immense power from small units. We provide key components like traveling units for hydraulic excavators and control valves for various actuators. Thus, we support construction sites worldwide while pioneering new hydraulic technologies as an industry leader.

Our global market share for traveling units in hydraulic excavators reaches approximately 25%.

Wind power generation, a promising source of renewable energy, expands globally. Wind turbines now face harsher environments, demanding solutions for reliability and longevity.

Nabtesco’s CMFS equipment helps prevent wind turbine failures. Yaw drive units, essential for optimizing turbine movement, constantly endure external forces. To counter wear and damage, Nabtesco pioneered the first condition monitoring system with fail-safe (CMFS) specifically for these units.

Airplanes constantly crisscross the skies, and the global civil aviation market thrives alongside globalization. Nabtesco, a recognized leader in flight control components and systems, supplies major aircraft manufacturers with various quality equipment, while also providing aftermarket sales, technical support, and customer service to airlines worldwide.

Leveraging extensive expertise and years of experience in hydraulics and high-quality production, we enhance air travel safety and ensure passengers fly comfortably and securely. Furthermore, Nabtesco dominates the flight-control actuation systems market for aircraft made in Japan, boasting a near 100% share.

Precision reduction gears, key components in industrial robots, drive automobile production lines.Without them, the robots would be unable to perform the powerful, swift, and precise actions needed to assemble the cars and other vehicles that we see all around us every day all over the world.

Nabtesco, a specialist in precision reduction gears, has been a market leader for 30 years. Our innovative technology enables high power and precision from small motors. Nabtesco’s gears, lightweight and compact yet highly accurate and rigid, find applications not only in industrial robots but also in various other fields.

Their reliability has made them the preferred choice for domestic and overseas robot manufacturers, giving us a large market share. We estimate an approximately 60% share of the global market for precision reduction gears used in medium-size to large industrial robots.size to large industrial robots.