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- Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. manufactures and sells information and communications technology products, mechatronic systems, printers, and electronic manufacturing services worldwide. Founded in 1881 by Kibataro Oki and headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, the company operates in 80 countries and regions through four main segments: Public Solutions, which provides mission-critical systems for social infrastructure including radios, sensing, data analysis, disaster prevention, transportation infrastructure, defense, and ticket reservation systems; Enterprise Solutions, offering mechatronics such as automated teller machines, cash processing machines, sales terminals, check-in terminals, foreign currency changers, ATM monitoring services, and solutions addressing labor shortages; Component Products, delivering edge devices with AI, sensing, communications, and output technologies; and Electronics Manufacturing Services, encompassing one-stop design, manufacturing, reliability testing, printed circuit boards, and production outsourcing. The company targets governments, financial institutions, transportation, airlines, railways, enterprises, and manufacturing industries. In recent developments, OKI entered a strategic capital and business alliance with FPT Japan in December 2024, involving partial ownership of two OKI software subsidiaries in China to enhance software capabilities and global expansion in Japan, China, and ASEAN; joined the ETRIA joint venture with Ricoh and Toshiba Tec in 2024 for multifunction printer development, manufacturing, and LED print head technology integration; transferred its Oki Data Manufacturing operations to ETRIA via absorption-type split in September 2025; signed a partnership with Mito Kogyo Thailand in October 2025 to deploy the Projection Assembly System for zero-error production in Southeast Asia; and became the first Japanese company to acquire ISO 56001 innovation management certification in July 2025.