is a Japanese multinational

electrical engineering Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...

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 A subsidiary, subsidiary company or daughter company is a company owned or controlled by another company, which is called the parent company or holding company. Two or more subsidiaries that either belong to the same parent company or having a s ...

and 3 affiliated companies operating in 55 countries. The company is listed on the

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and is a constituent of the

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. Yokogawa pioneered the development of

distributed control system A distributed control system (DCS) is a computerised control system for a process or plant usually with many control loops, in which autonomous controllers are distributed throughout the system, but there is no central operator supervisory contro ...

s and introduced its Centum series DCS in 1975. Some of Yokogawa's most recognizable products are

production control system Within supply chain management and manufacturing, production control is the activity of monitoring and controlling any particular production or operation. Production control is often run from a specific control room or operations room. With invent ...

test Test(s), testing, or TEST may refer to: * Test (assessment), an educational assessment intended to measure the respondents' knowledge or other abilities Arts and entertainment * ''Test'' (2013 film), an American film * ''Test'' (2014 film), ...

and measurement instruments, pressure transmitters, flow meters, oxygen analyzers,

fieldbus Fieldbus is the name of a family of industrial computer networks used for real-time distributed control. Fieldbus profiles are standardized by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) as IEC 61784/61158. A complex automated industrial ...

instruments,

Manufacturing Execution Systems Manufacturing execution systems (MES) are computerized systems used in manufacturing to track and document the transformation of raw materials to finished goods. MES provides information that helps manufacturing decision-makers understand how curr ...

and Advanced Process Control.

History

Yokogawa traces its roots back to 1915, when Dr. Tamisuke Yokogawa, a renowned architect, established an electric meter research institute in Shibuya, Tokyo. After pioneering the development and production of electric meters in Japan, this enterprise was incorporated in 1920 as Yokogawa Electric Works Ltd. In 1933 Yokogawa began the research and manufacture of aircraft instruments and flow, temperature, and pressure controllers. In the years following the war, Yokogawa went public, developed its first electronic recorders, signed a technical assistance agreement for industrial instruments with the U.S. firm Foxboro, and opened its first overseas sales office (New York). In the 1960s the company made a full-scale entry into the industrial analyzer market and launched the development, manufacturing, and sales of vortex flowmeters, and in the decade following established its first manufacturing plant outside Japan (Singapore), opened a sales office in Europe, and became one of the first companies to bring a distributed process control system to market. In 1983 Yokogawa merged with Hokushin Electric Works and, towards the end of the decade, entered the high-frequency measuring instrument business. In the 1990s, Yokogawa established an office in Bahrain to oversee its business in the Middle East and entered the confocal scanner and biotechnology businesses. In 2002 the firm continued its growth with the acquisition of Ando Electric, and in 2005 set the stage for a new level of globalization in its industrial automation business with the establishment of Yokogawa Electric International in Singapore. In 2008 the company entered the drug discovery support market with a new bio test system. In April 2020, Yokogawa acquired Scarborough-based Fluid Imaging Technologies. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Businesses and main products

* Yokogawa's main businesses are

industrial automation Automation describes a wide range of technologies that reduce human intervention in processes, namely by predetermining decision criteria, subprocess relationships, and related actions, as well as embodying those predeterminations in machines ...

and test and measurement hardware and software. * Some of Yokogawa's main hardware products are Pressure Transmitters, Flow meters, analysers, controllers, recorders and data acquisition equipment. * Yokogawa products are used in different industries requiring process control systems. Depending on the size of the project and the requirements, Yokogawa offers various control systems: DCS, PLC,

SCADA Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) is a control system architecture comprising computers, networked data communications and graphical user interfaces for high-level supervision of machines and processes. It also covers sensors and ...

and ESD (Emergency ShutDown). In collaboration with Shell Global Solutions, Yokogawa also offers Advanced Process Control (APC) solutions for refineries, petrochemical plants, and chemical plants. * Centum, Yokogawa's flagship DCS, has the largest capacity among DCSs, supporting up to 1 million device tags. * Yokogawa manufactures field instruments,

and measurement instruments, and semi-conductor related products. * Yokogawa designs and manufactures the most advanced confocal spinning disks used in

confocal microscopy Confocal microscopy, most frequently confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) or laser confocal scanning microscopy (LCSM), is an optical imaging technique for increasing optical resolution and contrast of a micrograph by means of using a sp ...

Major office locations

Musashino, Tokyo is a city located in the western portion of Tokyo Metropolis, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 147,492 in 77,779 households, and a population density of 13,000 persons per km². The total area of the city is . Based on the 2015 Ka ...

(near Mitaka Station) (world headquarters and East Asia regional office) *

Amersfoort Amersfoort () is a city and municipality in the province of Utrecht, Netherlands, about 20 km from the city of Utrecht and 40 km south east of Amsterdam. As of 1 December 2021, the municipality had a population of 158,531, making it the second- ...

, The Netherlands (Europe regional office) *

Bahrain Bahrain ( ; ; ar, البحرين, al-Bahrayn, locally ), officially the Kingdom of Bahrain, ' is an island country in Western Asia. It is situated on the Persian Gulf, and comprises a small archipelago made up of 50 natural islands and an ...

(Middle East and Africa regional office) *

Bangalore Bangalore (), officially Bengaluru (), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Karnataka. It has a population of more than and a metropolitan population of around , making it the third most populous city and fifth most ...

, India (South Asia regional office) *

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...

, Russia (CIS countries headquarters) *

Sugar Land Sugar Land is the largest city in Fort Bend County, Texas, United States, located in the southwestern part of the metropolitan area. Located about southwest of downtown Houston, Sugar Land is a populous suburban municipality centered around ...

, Texas, USA (North & Central America regional office) *

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borde ...

(Asean, Oceania, South Asia and Taiwan regional office) *

Sao Paulo SAO or Sao may refer to: Places * Sao civilisation, in Middle Africa from 6th century BC to 16th century AD * Sao, a town in Boussé Department, Burkina Faso * Saco Transportation Center (station code SAO), a train station in Saco, Maine, U.S ...

, (South America regional office) *

Khobar Khobar ( ar, ٱلْخُبَر, translit=al-Khobar) is a city and governorate in the Eastern Province of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, situated on the coast of the Persian Gulf. With a population of 457,748 as of 2017, Khobar is part of the 'Triple ...

, Saudi Arabia *

Jubail Jubail ( ar, الجبيل, ''Al Jubayl'') is a city in the Eastern province on the Persian Gulf coast of Saudi Arabia, with a total population of 684,531 as of 2021. It is home to the largest industrial city in the world. It is also home to th ...

, Saudi Arabia

Trademark products of Yokogawa

* DPharp EJA – Pressure Transmitter with Silicon Resonant Technology * DPharp EJX – Pressure Transmitter with Silicon Resonant Technology and SIL2 Certification * Rotamass – Coriolis Mass Flow and Density Meters * Indicator FVX – Fieldbus indicator * Valve Positioner YVP – Fieldbus positioner * ADMag AXF – Magnetic Flowmeter for high-end technology use * ADMag CA – Magnetic Flowmeter for substances without apparent electrode * ADMag SE – magnetic flowmeter for general use * Rotameter – Rotameter * DY – Digital Vortex Flowmeter * YTA – SMART Temperature Transmitter * US – Ultrasonic Flowmeter * Centum CS3000 and Centum VP – Distributed Control Systems * ProSafe-RS – Safety Instrumented System * ProSafe-SLS – Solid State Logic Solver - Safety Instrumented System * Fast/Tools – Web-based SCADA system * Stardom – Network based control systems * DXAdvanced – Data Acquisition Station (DAQ) * DAQMaster – Data logger * SMARTDAC+ – SMART Data Acquisition (DAQ) * ISA100 – Wireless Transmittor * GC8000 - Process Gas Chromatograph * Petro-SIM- Kinetic Process Simulator

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