Inside YOKE’s smart factory: Automation enhancing quality and efficiency

A bifocal modernisation strategy, implemented in 2011, is ongoing at YOKE Industrial Corp.’s pioneering industrial lifting equipment manufacturing facility.

Production at YOKE Industrial Corp. started in 1997. A lot has changed since, as we’ll explore. What hasn’t, is that there are long-term career opportunities in an everevolving manufacturing environment.

YOKE’s approx. 56,000 square-metre facility produces a staggering 20 million pieces per year. The smart factory is built on 71 automation systems with 108 robotic arms; it is an automated fleet of state-of-the-art Fanuc equipment, that represents approx. US$30m worth of investment. In October 2024, for example, the total time of robotics operation topped 5,176 hours.

Importantly, the factory, located in Taiwan, also employs 500 employees, while human workforce numbers globally are on a steady upward trajectory. As Steven Hong, the company’s president, says, “We aim to achieve regional business services through the expansion of expatriate staff.”...

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