Shinohara Industry Co., Ltd.篠原工業(株)EP 213:172025-07-24Shinohara Heavy Industries' predecessor was Shinohara Automobile Parts Manufacturing Works (「篠原自動車部品製作所」). Its current president is Kazuma Shinohara, and the current Hachioji Factory manager is Jitsuyama. It merged Asuka Heavy Industries (now the Tokorozawa Factory) and Asakawa Iron Works (now the Hachioji Factory) to become Shinohara Heavy Industries Co., Ltd., founded in 1945 (Showa 20), with capital of 50 billion yen!! It is also Japan's largest robot manufacturer, with 40,000 employees!! (as of March 1999). Headquarters are in Tokyo; facilities include the Ibaraki Research Institute (Tsukuba Research Institute). Robot production plants are in Hachioji, Tokorozawa, Ibaraki, Narashino, and Kawagoe. The Hachioji Factory is the largest robot manufacturing plant in Japan. Early on it developed civil engineering robots (such as KV-93, SSL-95 type). It then began a police-dedicated robot project, MPL (Mobile Police Labor). By 1998 the focus shifted to the next-generation AV project (Advanced Vehicle Project), with AV-98 and ARL-99B as pioneers, achieving great success and opening a new era of robots!! Ingram, one of the protagonists of Patlabor, was produced at the Hachioji Factory!!
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