Yokogawa Electric

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Yokogawa Electric Corporation, Inc.

Type	Yokogawa Electric
Founded	1915
Headquarters	Tokyo, Japan
Products	Industrial Automation , Test and Measurement , Photonic Network Business
Revenue	433.4 billion Yen as of FY2006
Employees	19,286 (Worldwide operations in 33 countries)
Website	www.yokogawa.com

Yokogawa (横河電機, Yokogawa Denki^?) is a Japan-based Electrical engineering company that has been engaged in developing businesses that are based on its technologies in measurement, control, and information fields with a workforce of over 19,000 in its 80 companies worldwide operating in 33 countries.

Yokogawa's consolidated net sales accounted for above 3,700 million US dollars in the fiscal year 2005.

Yokogawa is one of the World leaders in Distributed Control Systems and they introduced their own independently produced Distributed Control systems at roughly the same time along with Honeywell, with their popular CENTUM systems.

Yokogawa has many brands that consumers are familiar with. Some of its most recognizable products are production control systems, test and measurement instruments, pressure transmitters, flow meters, oxygen analyzers, fieldbus instruments ,etc.

1 History
2 Businesses and Main products
3 Major Office locations
4 Trademarks of Yokogawa
5 References
6 External links

[edit] History

Yokogawa came into existence in 1915 with the establishment of an electric meter research institute in Shibuya, Tokyo by Tamisuke Yokogawa, Doctor of Architectural Engineering, with Ichiro Yokogawa and Shin Aoki. Later, it became Incorporated as Yokogawa Electric Works Ltd. after it became the first company to produce and sell electric meters in Japan.^[1]

[edit] Businesses and Main products

Yokogawa's main businesses are Industrial automation and Test & Measurement. Its newly developed businesses include Photonic Network Business, Navigation business and Services business.
Some of the main products manufactured by Yokogawa are Controllers, Recorders and Data acquisition equipment.
Yokogawa also undertakes projects from different plants in various countries related to control systems. The control system includes various solutions like DCS, PLC, SCADA and ESD systems. Under collaboration with Shell Global Solutions , Yokogawa offers APC (Advanced Process Control) soultions to refineries, petrochemicals, and chemical plants.
Actually the Yokogawa have largest DCS with capacity of up to 1 million of TAG's.
Besides it also produces field instruments, environmental products, CCTV solutions.
It also manufactures test and measurement instruments and semi-conductor related products.^[2]

Current COO is Mr. Shuzo Kaihori & CEO is Mr. Isao Uchida

[edit] Major Office locations

The world head quarters and the regional head quarters of Yokogawa are listed below:

Tokyo, Japan
Australia
Europe - Netherlands
Georgia, USA
Texas, USA
Bangalore, India
Singapore
China
Bahrain
Brazil
Al Khobar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

[edit] Trademarks of Yokogawa

Process control instrumentation

DPharp EJA - pressure transmitters with resonant silicon technology
DPharp EJX - pressure transmitters with resonant silicon technology and certification SIL2
ADMag AXF - Hi End technology of magnetic flow meters
ADMag CA - Magnetic flow meter that dont have apparent electrode
ADMag SE - Magnetic flow meter for general use
Rotamass - Mass flow meter with coriolis technology
Rotameter - Rotameter - "the first flow meter of variable area"
DY - Vortex flow meter
YTA - Temperature transmitter
US - Ultrassonic transmitter