SMC Corporation

Market context

SMC matters as a motion-control and end-of-arm tooling supplier for robot builders, integrators and factory automation teams.

Products

• LEKFS Electric Actuator

Facts

• Website: https://www.smcworld.com/
• HQ: Tokyo, Japan
• Founded: 1959
• Ticker: 6273.T / TSE
• Segment: actuation and motion control

Pneumatic and electric automation component supplier

SMC supplies pneumatic components, electric actuators, grippers and automation products used across industrial machinery and robot workcells.

• Target environment: Factories, machine automation, robotic end-effectors, production lines, handling systems and industrial equipment.
• Deployment model: Component supply through pneumatic systems, electric actuators, air preparation equipment, grippers and automation accessories.
• Customer context: Machine builders, robot integrators, manufacturers, industrial automation teams and equipment OEMs.
• Workflow context: Gripping, actuation, pneumatic control, electric motion, material handling, machine automation and end-of-arm tooling support.
• Commercial maturity: Commercially mature global automation component supplier with broad factory and robotics-adjacent product lines.
• Market position: Automation component supplier serving pneumatic, actuation and handling layers inside industrial robot systems.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on application fit, reliability, compatibility with robot cells, lifecycle support, energy efficiency and customer qualification.
• Adjacent context: Adjacent context includes pneumatic automation, electric actuators, robot grippers, end-of-arm tooling and industrial motion components.
• Source confidence: high

Events

• 2025-07-14 - Product Launch - SMC launches Air Grippers for Collaborative Robots RMH Series - SMC launched the RMH Series air grippers for collaborative robots as a new robotics-specific gripping product line. The company said the series can be used with collaborative robots from 13 manufacturers including Universal Robots, FANUC, Yaskawa, ABB, KUKA,…
• 2025-06-03 - Award - SMC receives Applied Materials Supplier Excellence Award for the second year in a row - SMC announced that it received Applied Materials' Supplier Excellence Award for the second consecutive year. The award is relevant because Applied Materials is a major semiconductor-equipment manufacturer that depends on high-performance motion and fluid-cont…
• 2025-02-21 - Partnership - SMC Singapore announces collaboration with Universal Robots - SMC Singapore announced a collaboration with Universal Robots through its local news channel. The collaboration reinforces SMC's position as a motion, gripping, and automation-component supplier for collaborative robot deployments. This is a direct robotics-r…
• 2024-10-21 - Product Launch - SMC launches e-Actuator integrated controller series for slider, rod, and guide rod types - SMC launched a new e-Actuator integrated controller series covering slider, rod, and guide rod configurations. The product extends SMC's electric actuation lineup for compact motion-control applications across factory automation and robotics-adjacent systems.…
• 2019-04-08 - Partnership - SMC joined Universal Robots UR+ program with certified gripper products - Universal Robots said SMC’s grippers were developed and certified to work with UR cobots. The announcement named the MHM Series Magnetic Gripper as a UR+ certified product. The gripper was demonstrated at Automate 2019 in Chicago.

Team

• Yoshiki Takada - President

Relationships

• Universal Robots - Technology Partner - SMC Corporation supplies pneumatic and electric grippers certified for Universal Robots cobot platforms.

Context tags

• Robot actuation components - Stack Layer
• Pneumatics - Stack Layer - SMC is a pneumatic and automation-component supplier.
• Hydraulic actuation supplier - Peer Group
• Universal Robots ecosystem - Peer Group - SMC has UR+ certified products for Universal Robots cobots.
• Robotic grippers - Capability - SMC supplies UR+ certified grippers for collaborative robot applications.