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It all started with a motor.

The five business fields that Nidec focuses on

The five business fields that Nidec focuses on  to realize a sound material-cycle society

Move the world, change the future.

Toward the Realization of Circular Society

We at the Nidec Group utilize our products and technologies to contribute to realizing a sustainable sound material-cycle society where energy is converted efficiently.

Our determination

Move the world,
change the future.
To move the world in a better direction, Nidec takes on various issues around the world.

Move the world, change the future. To move the world in a better direction, Nidec takes on various issues around the world.

Keyword

Since its inception in 1973, Nidec has been offering motors and various other products, many of them enjoying the world’s largest market share. From tiny devices that go inside PCs and smartphones to huge equipment such as vessel power generators and industrial pumps to mechanical devices like machine tools to support manufacturing, Nidec supplies a wide variety of products as energy to make the entire world go around.

What Nidec excels at

Five business fields

Five business fields Five business fields

Nidec aims to realize a sustainable sound material-cycle society where clean energies flow smoothly. We expand our “motor + α” businesses in the “five fields of focus,” i.e., appliance and mobility, deeply rooted in our daily lives; AI-related areas, home to cutting-edge technologies; production and logistics operations and large-scale social infrastructure, all linchpins of people’s lives.

Nidec aims to realize a sustainable sound material-cycle society where clean energies flow smoothly. We expand our “motor + α” businesses in the “five fields of focus,” i.e., appliance and mobility, deeply rooted in our daily lives; AI-related areas, home to cutting-edge technologies; production and logistics operations and large-scale social infrastructure, all linchpins of people’s lives.

Base of AI Society

Digital Society Solutions

Issues surrounding the world

AI and other types of digital technology have been evolving exponentially for the past several years. Behind these trends are servers and datacenters to process an enormous quantity of data. Processing such an amount of data requires a stable infrastructure and an efficient cooling of heat from data processing.

Look what Nidec can do!

By providing thermal solutions that incorporate technologies from its group’s wide range businesses, Nidec offers cooling fans, water-cooling modules, and other cooling solutions that meet its customers’ needs, while supplying inspection and manufacturing process equipment essential to electronic devices.

Digital Society Solutions

Main products largely popular in the AI society

  • *CDUs (Coolant Distribution Units)

    Server CDUs & fans *CDUs (Coolant Distribution Units)

  • Electricity-producing alternators

    Electricity-producing alternators

  • Chiller motors

    Chiller motors

  • Semiconductor inspection equipment

    Semiconductor inspection equipment

Sustainable Infrastructure and Energy

Electrification & Energy Infrastructure

Electrification & Energy Infrastructure

Issues surrounding the world

As electricity consumption increases amid technological development to enrich people’s lives, demand for electricity is on the rise globally. Now, focus is on how to utilize renewable energies.

Look what Nidec can do!

Nidec contributes to all types of infrastructure of “generating,” “storing,” “transmitting,” and “using” electricity. In such businesses of power generators to generate electricity out of renewable energies efficiently and of BESS (battery energy storage system) to store electricity to use it as much as and when necessary, Nidec seeks sustainable infrastructure and energies!

Electrification & Energy Infrastructure

Main products to contribute to infrastructure maintenance

  • BESS (Battery Energy Storage System)

    BESS (Battery Energy Storage System)

  • BESS inverters

    BESS inverters

  • Electricity (power) generators

    Electricity (power) generators

  • Electricity pitch system for wind turbines

    Electricity pitch system for wind turbines

Efficient Manufacturing

Advanced Manufacturing Solutions

Issues surrounding the world

While demand is on the rise for goods needed globally, labor shortage is now a serious issue at production and logistics sites. To address this issue, a growing number of robots and mechanical equipment to replace/reduce humans are introduced, generating a need for higher work efficiency based on precise machines.

Look what Nidec can do!

Nidec offers motors, reducers, sensors, and other products to help spread the use of automatic robots that can recreate human movements and goods-transferring drones that require precise control, among others. In its machine tool business, Nidec offers, for example, composite machining equipment that incorporates multiple processes into one, contributing to industry’s production efficiency improvement.

Advanced Manufacturing Solutions

Main products that operate actively in production and logistics sites

  • Servo motors and reducers

    Servo motors and reducers

  • Drones motors

    Drones motors

  • Machine tools

    Machine tools

  • Press machines

    Press machines

Better Life

Better Life

Issues surrounding the world

Air conditioners, refrigerators, vacuum cleaners, and other appliances are essential to our daily lives. To enrich them more, motors, compressors, and other components that go inside those life-supporting appliances must evolve.

Look what Nidec can do!

Nidec offers modular products that use lighter, smaller, quieter, and more energy-efficient motors and motor-using modules. By producing small, light, and quiet motors to serve as appliances’ cores, Nidec contributes to saving the energy of single-hand-type stick vacuum cleaners, low-noise appliances, and refrigerators that work 24/7.

Better Life

Main products in energy-saving appliances

  •  Refrigerator compressors

    Refrigerator Compressors

  • Brushless DC motors for air conditioners

    Brushless DC motors for air conditioners

  • Robot vacuum motors

    Robot vacuum motors

  • Clothes washer and drying machine motors

    Clothes washer and drying machine motors

Mobility Innovation

Mobility Innovation

Issues surrounding the world

Bicycles, motorcycles, and other moving vehicles are required to secure high-level safety and convenience while mitigating environmental burden. Expectations are growing for not only better driving performance and electrification, but for comfortable and free transportation based on the development of new, next-generation mobility products.

Look what Nidec can do!

Nidec offers, among other products, motors and camera modules to make various moving vehicles run, turn, and stop safely, and air-conditioning fans to help people transport more comfortably. In addition, Nidec develops motors for eVTOL, a vehicle-type drone whose future practical use is expected, contributes to realizing comfortable and free transportation.

Mobility Innovation

Major products widely used in vehicles

  • Electric-motorcycle motors

    Electric-motorcycle motors

  • Electric clutch ECU for motorcycles

    Electric clutch ECU for motorcycles

  • Electronic power steering motors

    Electronic power steering motors

  • Brake motors

    Brake motors

Based on its “motors + α” strategy,
Nidec enhances its corporate value in a broad area of business,
ranging from state-of-the-art AI to energy.