Machine tools such as the small size lathe for academic use, tapping machine, and the ultrasonic washer were commoditized after the 1960s. It was fulfilled by the technology and a consistently held belief that "We make the machines which make the products", inherited from the day when the company was founded.
In 1985, TC-211, a CNC tapping center that enables automatic manufacturing by computer, was released, and from that point, the industrial machinery business gradually becomes Brother's core business.