Yokogawa Electric

Yokogawa Electric

Yokogawa Electric Corporation (横河電機株式会社, Yokogawa-denki-kabushikigaisha?) (TYO: 6841) is a Japanese electrical engineering and software company, with businesses based on its technologies in measurement, control, and information. It has a workforce of over 19,000 in its 80 companies worldwide, operating in 33 countries.

Yokogawa's consolidated net sales in fiscal year 2007 accounted for over 437.4 billion yen (4.1 billion US dollars), and net income was 11.7 billion yen; net sales fell to 376.5 billion yen, and net loss was 38.4 billion yen in fiscal year 2008; net sales fell further to 316.6 billion yen, and net loss was 14.8 billion yen in fiscal year 2009,. In fiscal year 2010, net sales increased slightly to 325.6 billion yen and net loss decreased to 6.7 billion yen. Unlike profitable competitors Omron, Yamatake (山武), Horiba (堀場), and Shimadzu, Yokogawa asset-per-share and share price figures have fallen below what they were ten years ago, so the company created takeover defense measures in 2007. In Japanese Wikipedia, a subscriber-only article in the Nikkei financial newspaper is cited as ranking Yokogawa as #299 out of 300 in their Nov. 2011 list of the top 300 Japanese companies to work for — a drop from #221 in the previous year.

Yokogawa was one of the pioneering industry leaders in Distributed Control Systems. Their popular CENTUM system was first introduced in 1975.

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