Kusuda International: consulting office in industrial automation and mechatronics
Kusuda International: consulting office in industrial automation and mechatronics
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Kusuda International has recently been established to provide sales, marketing and engineering consulting services for overseas companies interested in establishing or solidifying a presence in the automation market in Japan and other Asian countries.
Mr Yoshihiro Kusuda,principal partner of Kusuda International, has over 30 years of engineering,marketing, sales and academic experience in the field of factory automation,robotics and mechatronics on a world-wide basis. According to Automation magazine,he is recognized as "the number one expert in industrial automation".
Through Kusuda International companies can obtain easy access to end-users, equipment manufacturers, system-integrators as well as investors in the Asian industrial automation and mechatronics community.
Mr Kusuda is currently corporate adviser of Yaskawa Electric Corporation and lecturer at Graduate School of Information Engineering Department, Kyushu Institute of Technology. He also serves as Associate Editor of Industrial Robot and Assembly Automation (UK) journals and a member of the Program Committee of 1988 IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation.
Significant past experiences make Mr Kusuda a valuable resource in exploring international markets. As President of Yaskawa & Company, he ran a company responsible for over 40,000 robot installations. As general manager of Yaskawa Electric Corporation's Robotics division, he was responsible for the development,manufacturing, sales, marketing, and system integration operations of the company. Under his leadership, the Motoman business has become one of the top three robotics companies in the world.
Contact Mr Yoshihiro Kusuda, Kusuda International, 4-34-19 Fukazawa, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 158, Japan. Tel: +81 3 3704 3650; Fax: +8 l 3 3701 0801; E-mail: kusuda@mb.intoweb.ne.jp
