2019.7 | Received an "Encouragement Award" from the Director of Okayama Labor Bureau for the activities of the Safety and Health Committee at the plant. |
2018.3 | PASSED THE TRANSITION AUDIT TO ISO 9001:2015 |
2017.11 | Received an award from the Okayama City Fire Department for fire prevention management and fire prevention efforts at the plant. |
2017.3 | PASSED THE TRANSITION AUDIT TO ISO 14001:2015 |
2015.7 | PASSED THE TRANSITION AUDIT TO ISO27001:2013 |
2014.5 | Ludovico Ciferri joins as President |
2013.8 | An organization focused on expanding sales of M2M solutions and system products provided by Eurotech. Established "Eurotech System Business Unit" |
2012.6 | Acquired ISO 27001 certification for the factory |
2011.4 | Advanet Co., Ltd. and Spirit 21 Merged. Advanet Co., Ltd. succeeded the business |
2009.11 | Spirit 21 moved to the new plant (134-1 Yonegura, Minami-ku, Okayama City)
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2008.6 | Acquired ISO27001 certification extended for the Tokyo branch |
2008.4 | Vantec Corporation and Spirit 21 Corporation merge and Spirit 21 Corporation takes over the business. |
2008.1 | Moved the Tokyo branch to the current location (4th Floor KDX Kazicho Bld, 3-5-2, Kandakaji-cho, Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo, 101-0045) to expand the business. |
2007.11 | Becoming part of the Eurotech Group, headquartered in Italy
Changed the fiscal year end to December. |
2006.10 | Increased capital to 72.44 million yen. |
2006.7 | Acquired ISO 27001 certification (Okayama head office) |
2004.11 | Moved Vantec Corporation to 3-20-8 Noda, Okayama City. |
2004.8 | To expand our business, we moved the Advanet Head Office to the current location (Tanaka 616-4, Okayama City). |
2002.5 | ISO 9001 2000 Edition transition completed.
Spirit 21 ISO 9001 ISO 14001 Extended Registration |
2002.2 | Developed Japan's first compact PCIBus Pentium4 board. |
2001.4 | ISO 9001 periodic audit update (2nd)
New factory of Spirit 21 was built and the latest mounting line was installed. |
2000.10 | Promoted the Tokyo Sales Office to the Tokyo Branch due to business expansion. |
1999.6 | Acquired ISO 14001 certification in our manufacturing division (Vantec co., ltd.) |
1999.4 | Expanded the Okayama Head Office due to business expansion. |
1998.3 | ISO 9001 Periodic audit update |
1997.10 | Participated in the Okayama Information Highway Project as an experiment. |
1997.7 | Participated in NTT's OCN business |
1996.7 | Set up a website for your company
Expanded solder inspection equipment, board checkers, and surface mounting lines to strengthen production and inspection facilities.
With the completion of the intranet environment, we developed and installed our own Internet server |
1996.5 | Spun off Vantec Corporation as a mass-production plant and Spirit 21 Corporation as a prototype plant from the software development department (138-110 Tanaka, Okayama City, 900 square meters in size) to expand business.
Launching an internet business and building an in-house intranet system. |
1995.4 | Acquired ISO 9001 screening |
1995.2 | ISO 9001 preliminary examination ends |
1995.1 | Migrated to the latest CR5000, a comprehensive CAD/CAM/CAE system for electronic circuits.
Introduced a comprehensive file management system (PDM5000) |
1993.1 | Started to develop a quality assurance system as an ISO 9001 certified company |
1992.7 | Improved processing power by upgrading the overall CAD/CAM/CAE system for electronic circuits |
1992.5 | Opened an R&D center to settle a new product development division adjacent to the head office, as a process of actively investing in future businesses |
1991.6 | Opened Tokyo Sales Office and strengthened the sales expansion system. |
1991.5 | Changed the company name to Advanet, Inc. and introduced the second CI system.
Increased capital to 42 million yen. |
1991.2 | Introduced a business division system at a subsidiary and operated on an independent accounting basis |
1990.12 | Introduction of nine additional units of comprehensive CAD/CAM/CAE systems for electronic circuits, for a total of 12 units, for integrated automation of everything from circuit design to printed circuit board design
Moved the Vantec head office and plant to Tanaka, Okayama City (153-101 Tanaka, Okayama City, 900 square meters in area) for business expansion.
Ltd. established a surface mounting CIM line for printed circuit boards and established a high-mix low-volume production system. |
1990.4 | Introduced the HP BOARD TESTER 3070AT (CIM INSPECTION SYSTEM) for printed circuit boards |
1990.2 | (Capital: 10 million yen, Representative Director Fumio Komatsu), a software development subsidiary, is established to expand business, and the software development division is made independent. |
1989.7 |
Established a manufacturing subsidiary, Vantec Co., Ltd. (capital of 10 million yen, representative director Fumio Komatsu), and independently operated the manufacturing division. |
1988.4 | Moved the head office and plant to 3-20-8 Noda, Okayama City for business expansion.
Increased capital to 21 million yen.
Chip mounter, reflow oven, and automatic jet solderer were introduced to establish a production system for surface mount boards.
Signed a distributorship agreement with Fujitsu Ltd. for VARs.
Sales of the company's FMR series personal computers and development and sales of the AFM series expansion cards |
1987.7 | Three printed circuit board design CAD/CAM/CAE systems are introduced to strengthen the in-house development system for printed circuit boards |
1985.7 | MDS SERIES is introduced to further enhance computer application development systems |
1983.2 |
MDS225 upgraded to MDS286FD-KIT to develop 8086 system |
1982.10 | Moved the head office and plant to 497-1 Fujisaki, Okayama City for business expansion.
Introduced automatic soldering equipment and environmental testing equipment for mass production of printed circuit boards. |
1981.9 | INTRODUCED INTEL MDS225 AND DEVELOPED A MICROCOMPUTER APPLICATION SYSTEM. |
1981.7 | Established as Advanced System Corporation with capital of 10 million yen.
Started to design and manufacture industrial electronic control and measurement equipment. |