Cultivating Future Human Resources

Yokogawa‘s business is built on its technical strengths in measurement, control, and information, and thereby supports science education in primary schools. The company’s hope is that this will develop an interest in science and technology among the next generation. Yokogawa employees also volunteer to serve as instructors at colleges and research institutions. The company also provides materials (such as instruments and research funds) as part of its wide range of support.

Concerned that children were not being sufficiently educated in science, Yokogawa started offering the Yokogawa Science Classes in 2006 for primary-school children. The classes are currently offered on several weekends each year in Tokyo. These classes address the fundamental technologies that are the basis for Yokogawa's business—optics, electrics, radio, etc. Instructors are generally employee volunteers, who often find that their contact with children helps them grow as well. Programs like this are a way to deepen the company's ties with its surrounding communities, as well as a way to encourage an interest in science and technology in the next generation.

Yokogawa Australia donated more than AUD $45,000 worth of process control instrumentation to universities and training institutes in Australia and New Zealand in 2009.

University of Sydney, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology in New Zealand, and other five educational institutions received Yokogawa’s instruments, including digital controllers, magnetic flowmeters and transmitters.

“We see donations of this kind as an essential part of our corporate citizenship,” said Yokogawa Australia’s Sales and Marketing Director, Russell Palmer. “It’s important that apprentices and engineering students have access to current technology so that they are abreast of the latest advancements in instrumentation.”