Established in the year 1959, SMC Corporation is a Japanese company that specialise in pneumatic control engineering. Particularly, they design and manufacture a huge array of control systems and tools, including actuators, directional control valves, filtration equipment, and air line equipment. Though they are headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, SMC have technical facilities in the US, China, and Europe, and local production sites located at India, Korea, and Australia, to name a few.