CKD Corporation
About
About CKD Corporation
CKD Corporation supplies motion, gripping and fluid-control components for factory automation. Its pneumatic range covers cylinders, valves, regulators, vacuum handling and collaborative-robot grippers, while ROBODEX electric actuators provide slider, rod, table, rotary and gripper motion. Motorless versions accept controls from multiple drive vendors, and networked controllers coordinate position, speed and force across a machine.
Robot end-of-arm products include compact two- and three-finger grippers, long-stroke FFLD units for larger workpieces and application kits for major collaborative-arm brands. Integrated controllers and single-cable connections reduce wrist mass and wiring failure points. CKD also builds complete automation equipment for inspection, packaging and assembly, positioning the company both as a component supplier and as a machine builder for high-mix production.
Products
Supply
Supply chain relationships
- ACCRETECH
Inbound - Manufacturing - ACCRETECH supplied CKD with an X-ray CT system in 2023 for dimensional inspection of valve components
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Financials
- 6407.T - TSE - JPY
Team
- Katsuhito Okuoka - Representative Director, President - His role sits over CKD's automation components, pneumatic systems and robot-compatible gripper business.
Timeline
Events
- 2026-08-18 - Product Launch - CKD releases LHB miniature linear-guide parallel gripper
CKD lists the LHB body at 11 g and 8 mm thick, targeting compact integration in equipment for electronic-component assembly. The gripper uses a linear guide for high-accuracy motion, and a cylinder-switch variant is designed to save additional space. CKD describes the LHB as a special-order product for compact, high-accuracy handling of electronic components.
Source - 2026-05-07 - Product Launch - CKD releases RJAC Robot Rotary series
RJAC combines a rotary joint and slip ring to route air and electrical connections through a robot's rotating tip. The range covers four payload classes: 1, 5, 7 and 25 kg. CKD lists handling, semiconductor back-end manufacturing and conveyance among its target applications.
Source - 2020-09-30 - Product Launch - CKD releases grippers for collaborative robots certified by Techman Robot and Omron
CKD released three gripper models for collaborative robots: RLSH-TM, RHLF-TM and RCKL-TM. The grippers were certified for Techman Robot and Omron TM Series collaborative robots with plug-and-play setup. Major applications included machine tending, pick-and-place parts conveyance and product assembly.
Source - 2020-02-26 - Product Launch - CKD releases three UR-certified collaborative robot gripper models
The release covered the RLSH, RHLF, and RCKL gripper series. CKD said the grippers were customized for Universal Robots collaborative robots. The company listed machine tending, pick-and-place, and product assembly as major applications.
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Context
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Shared workflows
- Smartshift Robotics
workflow adjacency - Cobot End Effector Peripherals
Context tags
- Industrial end-effector supplier - Stack Layer - CKD grippers are certified as collaborative robot peripherals by Techman Robot and OMRON.
- End-effector supplier - Peer Group - CKD supplies grippers and end-effectors for collaborative robot and industrial automation cells.
- Industrial gripper builder - Peer Group - CKD has certified gripper products for collaborative robot peripheral programs.
- Electric gripper supplier - Peer Group - CKD supplies electric grippers including the GCKW 3-finger gripper family.
- Factory automation component stack - Stack Layer - CKD supplies pneumatic, fluid-control and automation components around robot cells.
- Cobot end-effector peripherals - Workflow - CKD grippers appear in collaborative robot peripheral programs.
- End-effector adjacent hardware - Stack Layer - CKD supplies grippers, pneumatic components and automation hardware used around robot end-effectors.