Meiho

What Meiho does

Meiho (有限会社 明峰電機 / Meiho Denki) is a privately held Japanese yūgen gaisha (limited liability company) founded in August 1989 by Nishide Minoru (西出稔) in Komatsu, Ishikawa Prefecture, with current leadership under President and Representative Director Nishide Shota (西出翔太). The company provides custom industrial machinery control and factory automation services spanning the full lifecycle — electrical and mechanical design, sequence circuit design, CAD/ECAD-based circuit and wiring design, PLC (sequence control) programming, control panel manufacturing (wiring and assembly), on-site commissioning, startup verification, and documentation. Its value proposition is a single-vendor, integrated delivery model — from design through manufacturing to on-site installation — eliminating the need for customers to coordinate multiple subcontractors.

The firm operates with 7 employees and ¥3M registered capital, making it a micro-scale specialist rather than a scaled platform. Customers are enterprise Japanese industrial manufacturers including Komatsu subsidiaries (株式会社小松製作所粟津工場, コマツ産機株式会社), Yokogawa Electric (横河電機), Shibuya Kogyo (渋谷工業), Hokushin Denko (北菱電興), and YDC Systems (ワイディシステム). Revenue is generated entirely through bespoke project contracts quoted on a per-engagement basis via direct inquiry (phone or website form); no public pricing, no self-serve channels, and no digital marketing infrastructure exist. Marketing is minimal — a WordPress/BusinessPress website listing services, company philosophy, and recruitment — with no social media presence, app, API, or SDK offerings.

Meiho is part of a small corporate group that includes two affiliated companies: 有限会社ドリームエグゼ (Dream Exe), an independent software house established in 1999 (originally meihoインターネットサービス), and 有限会社ドリームカレッジ (Dream College), a vocational training and certification provider. The parent entity itself remains narrowly focused on hardware-oriented industrial control panel design and manufacturing, with no disclosed AI/ML capabilities, no patent portfolio, no public funding, and operations confined to the domestic Japanese market.

Name

Meiho

Legal name

有限会社 明峰電機

Website

https://meihonet.co.jp

Company type

Private

Founded year

1989

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Meiho Denki (有限会社 明峰電機) is a 7-employee Japanese custom industrial machinery control and factory automation specialist in Komatsu, Ishikawa, delivering integrated electrical design, PLC programming, control panel manufacturing, and on-site commissioning to enterprise manufacturers including Komatsu and Yokogawa Electric.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Industrial Automation Services

NAICS

Machinery Manufacturing (333)

SIC

Electrical Industrial Apparatus (3620)

akta.pro primary industry

Control System Integration & Engineering Services (Design, Commissioning, Retrofits) (IMAGABAK)

akta.pro secondary industries

Factory Automation & Control Systems (PLC/SCADA/DCS) (IMAIAMAA), Electrical Controls, PLC & Industrial Automation (EDAOABAE)

Keywords

• Industrial automation services
• Control panel manufacturing
• PLC programming
• Factory automation engineering
• Sequence circuit design

Headquarters

HQ city

Komatsu

HQ country

Japan

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Industrial machinery control equipment manufacturing and sales: Manufacturing and sales of various industrial machinery control devices and control machines designed for factory automation. Revenue is generated through project-based custom manufacturing contracts.
2. Software development and sales: Development and sales of computer software for various office processing and business automation purposes.
3. Design, manufacturing, and consulting for factory automation control equipment: Design, manufacturing, and sales of control equipment for factory automation projects, along with associated consulting services.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Meiho provides integrated industrial machinery automation services, including electrical and mechanical design, sequence circuit design, control panel manufacturing and wiring, PLC programming, and on-site commissioning and debugging. The company handles the full lifecycle from design through delivery and startup under one roof for Japanese industrial manufacturers.

Product overview

Meiho is a traditional industrial automation company offering integrated services for industrial machinery control systems. The company provides a unified set of services including electrical design (using E-CAD), sequence circuit design, PLC programming, control panel manufacturing (wiring and assembly), startup and debugging, and documentation. Rather than a modular software platform, Meiho operates as an engineering and manufacturing firm delivering turnkey automation solutions from design through production to on-site installation and commissioning.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Electrical Design (電気設計) Design of control panels and electrical drawings based on customer-provided electrical specifications, with consideration for space-saving and energy efficiency.
• Sequence Circuit Design (シーケンス回路設計) Design of circuits for safe and efficient machine control based on specifications, with rapid response to additional requirements and specification changes.
• Wiring and Assembly (配線・組立) Manufacturing of control panels and wiring, with thorough input/output checks before on-site delivery and responsible implementation from startup to operation verification.
• Industrial Robot Electrical Control Design (産業用ロボット電気制御設計) Electrical control design and mechanical design for industrial robots, including control panel wiring, assembly, and control device manufacturing.
• PLC Programming (PLCシーケンス制御) Programming using PLC (sequence control) for industrial automation systems.

Quantifiable outcome

• Space-saving and energy-saving design of control panels
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• 有限会社 ドリームエグゼcoreOthersAn independent software house within the Meiho Group. Provides solutions and services not limited by manufacturer or product boundaries, offering optimal solutions for customer problem-solving. Formerly known as 有限会社meihoインターネットサービス, renamed in August 1999.
• 有限会社 ドリームカレッジcoreOthersA group company within the Meiho Group offering vocational training, various classes, certification exams, and employment/career change support services.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Yokogawa Electric Corporation: Industrial control systems and process automation major in Japan. Notably a named customer of Meiho's, but also operates an in-house control system integration capability that could substitute for outsourced panel work.
• IDEC Corporation: Japanese manufacturer of industrial control components (switches, relays, PLCs, safety devices). Competes with Meiho in the factory automation control value chain, though focused on components versus system integration services.
• Yaskawa Electric Corporation: Major Japanese factory automation and motion control incumbent offering PLCs, drives, and robots. Competes with Meiho in industrial control design/commissioning but at vastly larger scale and product breadth.
• Fuji Electric: Japanese industrial automation and power electronics incumbent with PLCs, drives, and control systems, supplying the same factory automation customers Meiho serves.
• KEYENCE Corporation: Japanese factory automation sensor and vision systems major, serving the same Japanese manufacturing customers with adjacent control and monitoring technologies.
• Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems: Hitachi's industrial equipment and systems integration subsidiary, providing control systems and factory automation services overlapping with Meiho's panel/integration scope.
• Omron Corporation: Factory automation components and systems provider (PLCs, HMIs, sensors). Overlaps with Meiho's control-panel and PLC-programming focus as a much larger component supplier in Japanese automation.
• Panasonic Industrial Solutions: Industrial automation components and systems (PLC, servo, sensors) arm of Panasonic, serving Japanese factory automation customers with broadly comparable offerings.
• Mitsubishi Electric Factory Automation: Global industrial automation leader with PLCs, inverters, and full system integration offerings. Operates across Meiho's domain as part of a much broader automation portfolio serving Japanese manufacturers.

Direct peers

• Hakko Electric Machine Works: Japanese manufacturer of industrial control panels and control equipment for factory automation, with a comparable mid-/small-tier system-integration footprint and Japanese industrial customer base.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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