Our history since 1915
| 1915 | Tamisuke Yokogawa, Doctor of Architectural Engineering, established an electric meter research institute in Shibuya, Tokyo with Ichiro Yokogawa and Shin Aoki |
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| 1917 | First to produce and sell electric meters in Japan |
| 1920 | Incorporated as Yokogawa Electric Works Ltd. |
| 1933 | Started research and manufacture of aircraft instruments and flow, temperature, and pressure controllers |
| 1948 | Made public offering of the Company's stock |
| 1950 | Developed Japan's first electronic recorder |
| 1955 | Signed a technical assistance agreement for industrial instruments with Foxboro, USA |
| 1957 | Established Yokogawa Electric Works, Inc. as North American sales office |
| 1964 | Made a full-scale entry into the industrial analyzer market |
| 1969 | Developed and started manu-facture and sale of vortex flowmeter |
| 1974 | Established Yokogawa Electric Singapore Pte. Ltd. as Singapore plant |
| Established Yokogawa Electric (Europe) B. V. as European sales office | |
| 1975 | Released CENTUM, the world's first distributed process control system |
| 1983 | Formed Yokogawa Hokushin Electric Corp. through merger with Hokushin Electric Works, Ltd. |
| 1985 | Established Xiyi Yokogawa Co., Ltd. in Xian, China, jointly with Xian Instruments Factory |
| 1986 | To further establish the corporate identity, the company name was changed to Yokogawa Electric Corporation and the  trademark to  |
| 1988 | Entered the high- frequency measuring instrument business |
| 1990 | Established Yokogawa Middle East E.C. in Bahrain |
| 1996 | Released confocal scanner and entered biotechnology business |
| 2002 | Acquired 100% of Ando Electric's stock |
| 2008 | Entered the drug discovery support market with a new bio test system |
| 2010 | Transferred the measuring instruments business to Yokogawa Meters & Instruments |
| 2013 | Formed Yokogawa Solution Service Corporation to handle sales, engineering, and services for the Japan industrial automation business |
| 2016 | Acquired KBC Advanced Technologies plc |
| 2024 | Announced "Growth for Sustainability 2028" medium-term business plan |