Yahorng
Encyclopedia
Ya Horng Electronic Co., Ltd. , is a manufacturing
company that has a history of producing audio
equipment, home appliances, and health care
products. Founded in 1972, the company started out in Tainan, Taiwan before soon expanding overseas in both Penang, Malaysia and Dong Guan, China
.
, which eventually led them to produce audio equipment. Five years later, the company started production and moved their contstruction to the headquarters, Tainan City and produced the Strobo turntable with DC servo motor
. After getting settled with audio production for a couple years, home appliances emerged as the next structure that the company wanted to overcome. Starting out with rechargeable can openers and food processors, the company secured its place in the home appliance
sector. Eventually, the company geared itself toward a more health
conscious group of people and started coming out with health care
products and also made their products more environmentally safe to attract more people.
Ya Horng manufactures and sells audio and electronic products. It offers audio electronic products, such as turntable, CD player, mini disc player, Midi Hi-Fi, CD mechanism, 3CD rotary changer, mixer, amplifier, and digital signal processor. The company also provides midi belt drive turntables, direct drive DJ turntables, exclusive DJ turntables, DJ mixers, 3-disc CD changers, CDJ players, 5-disc CD changers, and multimedia players. In addition, it provides original equipment manufacturing, original design manufacturing, and contract manufacturing services. YA Horng Electronic maufactures its products primarily in Malaysia, Taiwan, and China.
Recently, Yahorng merged with Kunitakara Electric Co., Ltd. located in Taiwan on January 2007.
Diversification
The 3 business sections have independent teams to develop products for different markets.
Control Core Components
YA HORNG produces the key parts such as CD loader for CD player, direct driving motor for turntable and home appliances, and we have our own DSP
control software.
International Scope
YAHORNG established foreign plants in Malaysia and China
.
SMT
machine, as well as all the assembly
procedures." The productivity
of the company led to a large force in the group of companies.
and digital
products. Being traded on the stock exchange
, the company has generated a lot more revenue.
teams here. There are also quality control
rooms held here, which tests products before they are released into production. The quality line moves from research and development to quality control by means of evaluation and production. In 2002, Ya Horng was listed on an OTC exchange board in Taiwan. In 2004, Ya Horng went public, being listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange.
Selling both DJ equipment as well as other types of key technology has helped the company expand. Other types of audio technology include CDs, MP3
music, and USB storage.
Health Care
Products in this line include blood pressure
monitors, oral irrigators, and electronic toothbrushes.
Appliances
Other appliances have also been produced besides kitchen products, such as an air purifier, heater, and dehumidifier
after the merger of Kunitakara Group with Yahorng.
1974 - Auto Return Turntable
1976 - Strobo Turntable
1977 - Servo Motor Belt Drive Semi-Automatic
1978 - Direct Drive Motor System
1979 - Radio Cassette Recorders
1982 - Front-Operation Turntables
1985 - Compact Disc Player
1987 - Direct Drive Manual Turntable, Belt-Drive Turntable, High-Torque Belt-Drive Turntable
1988 - Rechargeable Can Opener, Carving Knife, Food Processor, Juice Squeezer, Chopper, Blender, Dual Speed Processor
1989 - Quartz Direct Drive Manual Turntable
1991 - CD Player, 2-Speed Blender, Juice Squeezer, Deep Fat Fryer
1993 - Dual Mechanism Compact Disc Player with Wired Remote Control, 3 Beam Laser Pickup Servo System
1994 - Mini Turntable for 280mm Width
1996 - 5CD Changer Complete Set
1997 - Super Blender, Blender & Grinder
1999 - Direct Drive Turntable, Belt Drive Turntable
2001 - Professional Compact Disc Player
2002 - Table Top CD Player, CD/MP3 Player, Direct Drive Turntable
2003 - Professional Table-Top CD Player, 2 Channel Stereo Mixer
2004 - Dual CD/MP3 Player, Professional CD/MP3 Player, Direct Drive Turntable
2006 - Dual CD/MP3/Media Player
2007 - Single CD/MP3 Player
2008 - Digital Controller
2009 - 2 Channel Recordable Mixer, Slide In/Out Turntable
Manufacturing
Manufacturing is the use of machines, tools and labor to produce goods for use or sale. The term may refer to a range of human activity, from handicraft to high tech, but is most commonly applied to industrial production, in which raw materials are transformed into finished goods on a large scale...
company that has a history of producing audio
Sound recording and reproduction
Sound recording and reproduction is an electrical or mechanical inscription and re-creation of sound waves, such as spoken voice, singing, instrumental music, or sound effects. The two main classes of sound recording technology are analog recording and digital recording...
equipment, home appliances, and health care
Health care
Health care is the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in humans. Health care is delivered by practitioners in medicine, chiropractic, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, allied health, and other care providers...
products. Founded in 1972, the company started out in Tainan, Taiwan before soon expanding overseas in both Penang, Malaysia and Dong Guan, China
China
Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
.
History
The company started out as JYH HORNG before eventually changing its name to YA HORNG in 1985. The first product that the company came out with was the 5" TurntableTurntablism
Turntablism is the art of manipulating sounds and creating music using phonograph turntables and a DJ mixer.The word 'turntablist' was coined in 1995 by DJ Babu to describe the difference between a DJ who just plays records, and one who performs by touching and moving the records, stylus and mixer...
, which eventually led them to produce audio equipment. Five years later, the company started production and moved their contstruction to the headquarters, Tainan City and produced the Strobo turntable with DC servo motor
Servo motor
thumb|right|200px|Industrial servomotorThe grey/green cylinder is the [[Brush |brush-type]] [[DC motor]]. The black section at the bottom contains the [[Epicyclic gearing|planetary]] [[Reduction drive|reduction gear]], and the black object on top of the motor is the optical [[rotary encoder]] for...
. After getting settled with audio production for a couple years, home appliances emerged as the next structure that the company wanted to overcome. Starting out with rechargeable can openers and food processors, the company secured its place in the home appliance
Home appliance
Home appliances are electrical/mechanical machines which accomplish some household functions, such as cooking or cleaning. Home appliances can be classified into:*Major appliances, or White goods*Small appliances, or Brown goods...
sector. Eventually, the company geared itself toward a more health
Health
Health is the level of functional or metabolic efficiency of a living being. In humans, it is the general condition of a person's mind, body and spirit, usually meaning to be free from illness, injury or pain...
conscious group of people and started coming out with health care
Health care
Health care is the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in humans. Health care is delivered by practitioners in medicine, chiropractic, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, allied health, and other care providers...
products and also made their products more environmentally safe to attract more people.
Ya Horng manufactures and sells audio and electronic products. It offers audio electronic products, such as turntable, CD player, mini disc player, Midi Hi-Fi, CD mechanism, 3CD rotary changer, mixer, amplifier, and digital signal processor. The company also provides midi belt drive turntables, direct drive DJ turntables, exclusive DJ turntables, DJ mixers, 3-disc CD changers, CDJ players, 5-disc CD changers, and multimedia players. In addition, it provides original equipment manufacturing, original design manufacturing, and contract manufacturing services. YA Horng Electronic maufactures its products primarily in Malaysia, Taiwan, and China.
Recently, Yahorng merged with Kunitakara Electric Co., Ltd. located in Taiwan on January 2007.
Diversification
The 3 business sections have independent teams to develop products for different markets.
- AudioSound recording and reproductionSound recording and reproduction is an electrical or mechanical inscription and re-creation of sound waves, such as spoken voice, singing, instrumental music, or sound effects. The two main classes of sound recording technology are analog recording and digital recording...
- Home Appliances
- Health care
Control Core Components
YA HORNG produces the key parts such as CD loader for CD player, direct driving motor for turntable and home appliances, and we have our own DSP
Digital signal processing
Digital signal processing is concerned with the representation of discrete time signals by a sequence of numbers or symbols and the processing of these signals. Digital signal processing and analog signal processing are subfields of signal processing...
control software.
International Scope
YAHORNG established foreign plants in Malaysia and China
China
Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
.
China
The branch in China was opened in 1989 in Dong Guan. Specializing in home appliances, this branch of Yahorng produces the appliances as well as gear the products in a more eco-friendly area. In 2003, the factory branch of Dong Guan was established working primarily with audio products. The company produced products with facilities such as a "full service injection machine, PCBPrinted circuit board
A printed circuit board, or PCB, is used to mechanically support and electrically connect electronic components using conductive pathways, tracks or signal traces etched from copper sheets laminated onto a non-conductive substrate. It is also referred to as printed wiring board or etched wiring...
SMT
Surface-mount technology
Surface mount technology is a method for constructing electronic circuits in which the components are mounted directly onto the surface of printed circuit boards . An electronic device so made is called a surface mount device...
machine, as well as all the assembly
Manufacturing
Manufacturing is the use of machines, tools and labor to produce goods for use or sale. The term may refer to a range of human activity, from handicraft to high tech, but is most commonly applied to industrial production, in which raw materials are transformed into finished goods on a large scale...
procedures." The productivity
Productivity
Productivity is a measure of the efficiency of production. Productivity is a ratio of what is produced to what is required to produce it. Usually this ratio is in the form of an average, expressing the total output divided by the total input...
of the company led to a large force in the group of companies.
Malaysia
The Malaysia branch was established in 1989. Providing audio products to consumers, this branch of the company is manufacturing Audio Electronic Products such as Turntables, CD Players, Mixers". Recently, Malaysia is starting to manufacture information technologyInformation technology
Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...
and digital
Digital
A digital system is a data technology that uses discrete values. By contrast, non-digital systems use a continuous range of values to represent information...
products. Being traded on the stock exchange
Stock exchange
A stock exchange is an entity that provides services for stock brokers and traders to trade stocks, bonds, and other securities. Stock exchanges also provide facilities for issue and redemption of securities and other financial instruments, and capital events including the payment of income and...
, the company has generated a lot more revenue.
Taiwan
The headquarters of the company are located in Tainan. Being the first branch established, the company holds its Research and DevelopmentResearch and development
The phrase research and development , according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, refers to "creative work undertaken on a systematic basis in order to increase the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of man, culture and society, and the use of this stock of...
teams here. There are also quality control
Quality control
Quality control, or QC for short, is a process by which entities review the quality of all factors involved in production. This approach places an emphasis on three aspects:...
rooms held here, which tests products before they are released into production. The quality line moves from research and development to quality control by means of evaluation and production. In 2002, Ya Horng was listed on an OTC exchange board in Taiwan. In 2004, Ya Horng went public, being listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange.
Products
AudioSelling both DJ equipment as well as other types of key technology has helped the company expand. Other types of audio technology include CDs, MP3
MP3
MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression...
music, and USB storage.
Health Care
Products in this line include blood pressure
Blood pressure
Blood pressure is the pressure exerted by circulating blood upon the walls of blood vessels, and is one of the principal vital signs. When used without further specification, "blood pressure" usually refers to the arterial pressure of the systemic circulation. During each heartbeat, BP varies...
monitors, oral irrigators, and electronic toothbrushes.
Appliances
Other appliances have also been produced besides kitchen products, such as an air purifier, heater, and dehumidifier
Dehumidifier
A dehumidifier is typically a household appliance that reduces the level of humidity in the air, usually for health reasons. Humid air can cause mold and mildew to grow inside homes, which pose various health risks. Very humid climates or air make some people extremely uncomfortable, causing...
after the merger of Kunitakara Group with Yahorng.
Product Timeline
1972 - 5" Turntable1974 - Auto Return Turntable
1976 - Strobo Turntable
1977 - Servo Motor Belt Drive Semi-Automatic
1978 - Direct Drive Motor System
1979 - Radio Cassette Recorders
1982 - Front-Operation Turntables
1985 - Compact Disc Player
1987 - Direct Drive Manual Turntable, Belt-Drive Turntable, High-Torque Belt-Drive Turntable
1988 - Rechargeable Can Opener, Carving Knife, Food Processor, Juice Squeezer, Chopper, Blender, Dual Speed Processor
1989 - Quartz Direct Drive Manual Turntable
1991 - CD Player, 2-Speed Blender, Juice Squeezer, Deep Fat Fryer
1993 - Dual Mechanism Compact Disc Player with Wired Remote Control, 3 Beam Laser Pickup Servo System
1994 - Mini Turntable for 280mm Width
1996 - 5CD Changer Complete Set
1997 - Super Blender, Blender & Grinder
1999 - Direct Drive Turntable, Belt Drive Turntable
2001 - Professional Compact Disc Player
2002 - Table Top CD Player, CD/MP3 Player, Direct Drive Turntable
2003 - Professional Table-Top CD Player, 2 Channel Stereo Mixer
2004 - Dual CD/MP3 Player, Professional CD/MP3 Player, Direct Drive Turntable
2006 - Dual CD/MP3/Media Player
2007 - Single CD/MP3 Player
2008 - Digital Controller
2009 - 2 Channel Recordable Mixer, Slide In/Out Turntable