Is KEYENCE a public company?
Yes. KEYENCE CORPORATION is a public company. Its shares trade on the Prime Market of the Tokyo Stock Exchange under stock code 6861.
What KEYENCE does
KEYENCE makes sensors, measuring instruments, machine vision systems, control equipment, analysis instruments for research and development, and business information devices. It was established on May 27, 1974, and its head office and research laboratory are in Osaka. It reports 12,784 employees across the group as of March 2026.
Its shares trade on the Prime Market of the Tokyo Stock Exchange under stock code 6861. Its fiscal year runs from March 21 to March 20 of the following year.
KEYENCE says its technically trained sales staff support customers with on-site demonstrations, application tests and trial units before purchase. Its US subsidiary, KEYENCE CORPORATION OF AMERICA, was set up in 1985 as its first international subsidiary and has run its US headquarters in Itasca, Illinois, since 2016.
In machine vision, its newest line is the VS series, which it calls a vision system with built-in AI. KEYENCE says the camera runs 25-megapixel AI inspection and can be trained from a few dozen images (company-reported). It also sells the CV-X, XG-X and VS-G vision systems and the IV series vision sensors, launched in 2012.
Products
VS series
KEYENCE describes it as a smart-camera vision system with built-in AI that runs AI and rule-based tools on the same image, with a motorised optical zoom it calls ZoomTrax. It says the AI can be trained on a general-purpose PC from a few dozen images (company-reported).
VS-G, CV-X and XG-X series
Its other vision system lines: VS-G, which KEYENCE calls an AI-powered high-performance vision system; CV-X, an intuitive vision system; and XG-X, a customizable one.
Sensors and measurement
Photoelectric, fiber, laser and proximity sensors, vision sensors, laser profilers and displacement sensors, used for detection and measurement on production lines.
Microscopes and metrology
Digital and laser microscopes, optical comparators, coordinate measuring machines and 3D scanners for dimensional inspection.
Marking, barcode and controls
Laser markers and inkjet printers, barcode readers and handheld computers, PLCs, HMIs and servo systems.