in industrial imaging, sensing, control and mobile robotics since 1990. 1990 196 3,657 Founded — over three decades in industrial technology Employees group-wide (April 2026) Customer companies in Japanese manufacturing 6 Debt-free Offices — Japan (2) and Asia (4) Interest-bearing debt; profitable for 30+ consecutive years Where we work Machine vision Smart sensing Industrial control Mobile robotics Inspection, measurement, guidance 3D, profiling, high-precision imaging Machine and motion control, embedded AMR and in-plant material handling Independent, debt-free, and able to stay with a technology for the years it takes to reach production in Japan. Ⓒ LINX Corporation 2
Market entry In production, the real barrier is not selection. It is validation. A new product may pass a technical evaluation and still fail to reach production. Customers must confirm that it will deliver the same result, every day, under actual operating conditions. That requires local engineering, application knowledge and time. 01 02 03 Technology arrives into existing plants, not new ones Once the requirement is met, the decision turns to risk A successful demonstration is only the beginning Most industrial technology enters Japan through production environments that were designed years ago. Success depends on fitting the technology into established equipment, processes and operating constraints. In a mature process the required performance level is already understood. When several products meet it, what decides the outcome is the work and risk involved in revalidation — not the specification or the price. Changing a vision system, sensor, controller or mobile robot means rebuilding operating conditions, interfaces and acceptance criteria, then proving the result holds every day on the line. Production teams are cautious because every change must be validated under actual operating conditions. Appetite for automation is strong: labour scarcity and productivity pressure are pushing adoption. What paces it is engineering effort and production risk. Ⓒ LINX Corporation 3
What is often missing is the local engineering required to turn a proven product into reliable production. LINX fills the implementation gap between globally proven technology and the requirements of Japanese production. What that layer actually consists of Understand the application Test against real conditions Adapt for the local environment The customer's process, constraints and acceptance criteria — before any product discussion. Real samples, real operating conditions, benchmarked against what the customer runs today. Documentation, software, interfaces and workflows made usable by the customer's own team. Integrate into the line Rebuild and validate criteria Support the full lifecycle Connection to the customer's equipment, software, process and site. Detection, measurement or control criteria re-established and proven repeatable. Qualification, commissioning, ramp-up, stable supply and local support thereafter. We combine hardware, software, application engineering and local support around the customer's operating requirements. Ⓒ LINX Corporation 4
do Six stages. The last two are what separate a completed trial from a working production line. 01 Evaluate 02 Confirm technical fit through benchmarks, sample testing and application evaluation. Adapt Localize the product, documentation and operating conditions for Japan. 03 Integrate Connect the technology to the customer's machine, software, process and workflow. 04 Validate Prove repeatability, reliability and performance under actual production conditions. 05 Ramp up Stay through qualification, commissioning and the start of volume production. 06 Sustain Provide local support, stable supply and continuous improvement across the lifecycle. Stages 04 to 06 are where an evaluation becomes a production asset — and where support most often stops elsewhere. It worked in the demo. It keeps working in production. We stay involved after the first order — through qualification, ramp-up and the life of the installed base. Ⓒ LINX Corporation 5
and sales coverage are different work. We do the first, and the second follows from it. 01 02 03 04 FIND BRING PROVE GROW • Scan the world for technology approaching industrial readiness • Build the partnership and secure exclusive rights • Create the first reference applications with named accounts • Turn reference cases into repeatable applications • Assess fit against Japanese processes and constraints • Localize the product, documentation and support • Benchmark against what the customer runs today • Activate integration partners to scale beyond us • Decide where the next category will open • Train our own engineers before we sell anything • Carry the first installations into stable production • Expand into adjacent accounts and processes What this means for you We invest ahead of revenue We sell proven performance in the customer's application We create the applications that generate demand Evaluation units, benchmarks, localized material and engineer time are carried by us. Our engineers win the design-in, then hold it through to volume. Through LINX DAYS and continuous technical engagement, we put global success stories in front of Japanese manufacturers. A design-in that reaches volume production is worth more than a hundred qualified leads. Ⓒ LINX Corporation 6
We commit where industrial readiness and market need are beginning to converge. Early enough to build the category, mature enough to solve real customer problems. TOO EARLY THE POINT WE LOOK FOR TOO LATE If practical adoption is still a decade away, we cannot build a market around it yet. The product is industrially proven, and Japanese demand is beginning to form. This is where we commit. Once the market is in full growth, the category is already built and we add little. A technology fits our model when It is industrially distinctive It is proven in its home market Something Japanese customers cannot readily source locally, and would gain from adopting. Already delivering results somewhere. We build markets; we are not a first-customer development partner. It needs engineering to reach production It serves high-precision, high-value processes Our contribution is largest where evaluation, integration and validation decide the outcome. Inspection, measurement, control and automation, where getting it wrong is expensive. The vendor wants one committed partner The relationship is built for the long cycle We invest ahead of revenue, and ask for exclusivity so that investment is protected. Our model returns over five to ten years, and we plan for that from the start. We are an active market builder, and we choose the technologies we can carry into production. Ⓒ LINX Corporation 7
do Whether the technology is machine vision, sensing, control or mobile robotics, our role is the same: turn product capability into reliable operational performance. Machine vision Smart sensing Industrial control Mobile robotics Vision software, industrial cameras, advanced imaging and metrology 3D scanning, laser profiling, structured light, interferometric measurement Soft PLC, motion and machine control, embedded systems AMR and automated in-plant material handling Machine vision Mobile robotics In a mature inspection process, replacing a vision system requires more than matching the specification. Detection criteria must be rebuilt, and the customer must confirm that the new system produces consistent results in production. We work with the customer from sample evaluation through line validation and long-term supply. Performance is determined not only by the robot, but by the site in which it operates. Layout, traffic, safety rules, interfaces and human workflows all affect the outcome. We stay on site until the system works as intended in daily operation — whichever manufacturer the hardware comes from. We prefer to partner rather than build. We search globally for the strongest available technology. When a critical gap remains and no product answers it, our engineering and product-development capability lets us complete the solution around our partners' technology — as we did with our own controller on a partner control platform. The customer buys an outcome. Our job is to make the complete operating system deliver it. Ⓒ LINX Corporation 8
record Long-term exclusive relationships with technology leaders across four domains. MVTec Basler Teledyne DALSA Chromasens Machine vision software (HALCON, MERLIC) Industrial cameras High-end industrial imaging Line scan and colour imaging LMI Technologies Photoneo heliotis HuaRay / iRAYPLE 3D smart sensors (Gocator) 3D vision and robotic picking High-speed interferometric 3D Cost-optimized industrial cameras CODESYS Allied Vision envision SD Optics Soft PLC and industrial control platform Industrial cameras and embedded vision Advanced imaging solutions Variable-focus optical technology Where we completed the solution ourselves TRITON (machine control) · Vision Station · Proteus · Ginga LAB — developed in-house where a genuine application gap remained. We hold exclusive rights on what we sell. We commit to the brands we take on. Ⓒ LINX Corporation 9
companies, reached through engineers who already work inside their processes. Automotive Electronics & FA OEMs and tier-one component makers Automation, machinery and electrical equipment Semiconductor & precision Electronic components & materials Front-end, mid-process and back-end equipment Components, materials, film and chemicals A selection of our customers These relationships were built over years of engineering work inside the customer's processes. Your technology is introduced by people the customer already relies on. Access is the starting point. What decides the outcome is who carries the technology into the process. Ⓒ LINX Corporation 10
A typical first two years. We adapt the plan to your product and the processes it targets. Months 0-3 Months 3-6 Months 6-12 Year 2+ Assess & agree Prepare Prove Scale • Technical deep-dive and joint market assessment • Engineer training at your site or ours • Named-account engagement by our sales-engineer pairs • Qualification, commissioning and first volume shipments • Application evaluation against the customer's real samples • Integration partner network activated • Target processes and named accounts identified • Distribution agreement and commercial terms • Localized documentation and demo assets • Evaluation units and a benchmark environment in place • First design-in wins targeted • Expansion into adjacent accounts and processes Before any of this, our engineers evaluate your product themselves. We do not sign a distribution agreement for a product our own engineers have not put through their paces against the applications we intend to sell it into. It is slower at the start, and it is why our commitments hold afterwards. Deliberate before we sign. Fast once we do. Ⓒ LINX Corporation 11
different — but equally important — commitment. What we ask of you What we commit to you • Exclusive distribution rights for Japan, and where relevant our Asian markets • A dedicated product manager who owns your business in Japan • Direct access to your engineering team, alongside the commercial relationship • Sales-engineer pairs who carry your product into the customer's design • Technical training for our engineers, and early sight of the product roadmap • Localized documentation, first-line support and technical training for end users • Support for evaluation and demonstration units during the design-in phase • Evaluation, benchmarking and application validation capability funded by us • Pricing that leaves room for the local engineering Japanese customers require • Access to 3,657 customer companies, including Japan's leading manufacturers • A planning horizon that matches a design-in cycle measured in years • Support that continues through qualification, ramp-up and the installed base Where responsibility sits The split of technical and commercial responsibility is agreed product by product. What does not change is that we stay involved until the technology performs reliably in the customer's production. Bring us a technology that deserves the Japanese market. We will carry it into production. Ⓒ LINX Corporation 12
Asian offices work as a two-way learning system between Japan and the region. Japan supports the region The region informs Japan Application knowledge, validated configurations and engineering practice built in Japanese production transfer to customers across the region — including the same customers as their production moves offshore. A design-in won in Japan is not lost when the line relocates. Advanced requirements sometimes appear outside Japan first. Semiconductor customers in Taiwan, for example, can raise demands ahead of those we see domestically — which gives us and our partners early sight of where the Japanese market is heading. Japan Taiwan Singapore Thailand Malaysia Tokyo (HQ) · Osaka Semiconductor ecosystem and advanced requirements Regional hub for South-East Asia Automotive and electronics manufacturing Semiconductor mid- and back-end processes Engineering, validation and market development Experience from Japan supports regional customers, while advanced requirements in markets such as Taiwan create openings for Japan. Ⓒ LINX Corporation 13
the long cycle. Basics What we do for a technology partner Legal name LINX Corporation Founded June 1990 • Evaluate your product against the applications we intend to sell it into • Localize it and build the first reference installations • Validate performance under the customer's production conditions Group employees 196 (April 2026) • Stay through qualification, ramp-up and the installed base Customer companies 3,657 • Develop the category, not only the account list Capital JPY 32 million CEO Kei Murakami Ownership Independent, privately held • Extend the same work across our Asian network LINX is the implementation and market-development partner that turns advanced industrial technology into reliable production performance in Japan and across Asia. If that is what your technology needs, we should talk. Ⓒ LINX Corporation 14
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