Yushin America Inc.

THE STORY: Established in 1988, Yushin America Inc. is the oldest and largest subsidiary of Kyoto, Japan-based Yushin Precision Equipment Co. Ltd. The Cranston-based manufacturer operates out of a 70,000-square-foot facility, and specializes in building robots and custom downstream automation for injection moldings found in the plastics industry.


› The robots made at Yushin are used to automate plastic injection molding processes in the manufacturing sector. The robots are matched and mounted with the right injection molding machines and are utilized for multiple applications and systems to fully integrated factory automation such as pick and place of plastic parts, assembly of molded parts, packaging and inspection.

› The robots are used by the automotive, appliances, medical, consumer products, industrial construction, food and beverage packaging, and electronics industry markets. Smaller robots start at $6,000 and some of Yushin’s traverse robots can cost between $30,000 and $80,000.

› Yushin’s robots are mainly built out of steel and various aluminum parts. The robot arm wrist flip unit (the arm end that enters the mold) is optimally designed to be slimmer/thinner. The main arm is incorporated with carbon fiber reinforced plastic panels, which helps shorten mold openings and allows accelerated molding cycle times.

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› It takes between two to three people to complete a robot from start to finish. Sprue pickers take about a week to finish, while it takes between eight to 10 weeks to construct a traverse servo robot. Custom-engineered automation systems may take up to six months.

› Eighty employees work for Yushin America in Cranston.

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