Yokogawa Electric

Yokogawa Electric Corporation
Company typePublic (K.K)
TYO: 6841
Nikkei 225 Component
IndustryElectrical equipment, IT
FoundedSeptember 1, 1915; 109 years ago (1915-09-01)
Founders
Headquarters2-9-32 Nakacho, Musashino, Tokyo, Tokyo 180-8750, Japan
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
  • Takashi Nishijima (chairman)
  • Hitoshi Nara (president​ and CEO)
Products
RevenueIncrease $ 3.7 billion USD (FY 2017)
(¥404.4 billion JPY) (FY 2019)
Increase $ 156 million USD (FY 2012)
(¥14.7 billion JPY) (FY 2019)
Number of employees
Increase 18,107 (consolidated) (as of March 31, 2019)
Subsidiaries84 (15 in Japan, 69 overseas)
WebsiteOfficial website
Footnotes / references
[1][2]
Company headquarters in Musashino

Yokogawa Electric Corporation (横河電機株式会社, Yokogawa-denki Kabushiki-kaisha) is a Japanese multinational electrical engineering and software company, with businesses based on its measurement, control, and information technologies.

It has a global workforce of over 19,000 employees, 84 subsidiary and 3 affiliated companies operating in 55 countries.[3] The company is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the Nikkei 225 stock index.[4]

Yokogawa pioneered the development of distributed control systems and introduced its Centum series DCS in 1975.[5]

Some of Yokogawa's most recognizable products are production control systems, test and measurement instruments, pressure transmitters, flow meters, oxygen analyzers, fieldbus instruments, manufacturing execution systems and advanced process control.

  1. ^ "Corporate Data". Retrieved June 3, 2020.
  2. ^ "2019 Yokogawa Report" (PDF). Retrieved June 3, 2020.
  3. ^ "Corporate Profile 2013" (PDF). Retrieved March 25, 2014.
  4. ^ "Components:Nikkei Stock Average". Nikkei Inc. Retrieved March 25, 2014.
  5. ^ "Top technologies and events". ISA. August 1, 2003. Retrieved March 25, 2014.