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Keyence is very well known in industrial automation. Many vision and light-based products, largely for sensing and quality control. High quality components, re

Keyence is very well known in industrial automation. Many vision and light-based products, largely for sensing and quality control. High quality components, reasonable prices, attentive, educated technical field sales, will stop calling you if you express that you'd rather not hear from them again.

systemvoltage 5y ago
Keyence is not well known outside of the tech world. Keyence sales team rocks! They bugged me, annoyed me, gave me tons of free information, free loaners of $100k equipment, persuaded me and we’ve become friends now after years of great engineer+sales relationship. Their purpose truly is to make you succeed as an engineer.
- gerdesj 5y ago
  "Keyence sales team rocks! They bugged me, annoyed me, gave me tons of free information, free loaners of $100k worth of equipment, persuaded me and we’ve become friends now after years of great engineer+sales relationship. Their purpose truly is to make you succeed as an engineer." $ RLY LOL ?
- ackbar03 5y ago
  What's the price of the typical product they sell though? I went to one of their booths at a trade show in Shanghai. It seemed that one of their key products was these OCR tools for components manufacturing for QA type tasks, although I assume they have more sophisticated products. The trade convention was filled with a lot of smaller type competitors as well. I think the typical sticker price for one of those OCR type things is something around 20k RMB which is around 3-4K USD although I can't be sure exactly since they sort of throw these price ranges around, final quotation might be higher. But at the time I didn't quite understand how such a low revenue product could support all the sales and engineer people running around. Plus these OCR tools tend to be fragile and need to be tailored to a specific production line meaning more costs.
  - systemvoltage 5y ago
    We were mostly interested in surface measurements. I lobbied for $80k VK-X series and bought a whole bunch of them. Ridiculously sexy tech, with great specs and performance. They're a high quality supplier in every way - think Apple of B2B - from sales to support.

systemvoltage 5y ago

Keyence is not well known outside of the tech world. Keyence sales team rocks! They bugged me, annoyed me, gave me tons of free information, free loaners of $100k equipment, persuaded me and we’ve become friends now after years of great engineer+sales relationship. Their purpose truly is to make you succeed as an engineer.

gerdesj 5y ago
"Keyence sales team rocks! They bugged me, annoyed me, gave me tons of free information, free loaners of $100k worth of equipment, persuaded me and we’ve become friends now after years of great engineer+sales relationship. Their purpose truly is to make you succeed as an engineer." $ RLY LOL ?
ackbar03 5y ago
What's the price of the typical product they sell though? I went to one of their booths at a trade show in Shanghai. It seemed that one of their key products was these OCR tools for components manufacturing for QA type tasks, although I assume they have more sophisticated products. The trade convention was filled with a lot of smaller type competitors as well. I think the typical sticker price for one of those OCR type things is something around 20k RMB which is around 3-4K USD although I can't be sure exactly since they sort of throw these price ranges around, final quotation might be higher. But at the time I didn't quite understand how such a low revenue product could support all the sales and engineer people running around. Plus these OCR tools tend to be fragile and need to be tailored to a specific production line meaning more costs.
- systemvoltage 5y ago
  We were mostly interested in surface measurements. I lobbied for $80k VK-X series and bought a whole bunch of them. Ridiculously sexy tech, with great specs and performance. They're a high quality supplier in every way - think Apple of B2B - from sales to support.