Yokogawa is completing its transformation from hardware provider to solution provider with the aim of strengthening its capability to propose to its customers a comprehensive range of solutions spanning the fields of test and measurement, industrial automation and control, and information systems. This is the essential feature of Yokogawa's Enterprise Technology Solutions (ETS) business concept.  ETS has the aim of presenting customers with optimum solutions for issues that can occur at any level in a company's operations, from management to research & development and production. It encompasses the entire range of corporate activities so that objectives such as increasing efficiency and reducing costs can be attained in a comprehensive way.

The following graph shows how ETS is a comprehensive solution that can help companies operate more efficiently. The introduction of real-time operations management enables the efficient synchronization of every phase of business activities, from business planning to product development, production planning, procurement of materials, production, sales, and service; however, business opportunities can be lost due to the existence of an information gap between the manufacturing and management domains that prevents the full and complete synchronization of business activities. To fill this gap, Yokogawa has developed a Manufacturing Execution System (MES) that gives client executivess quick access to production data as well as all other key management data arising from marketing and other business domains, enabling them to make a complete analysis and to feed back their decisions quickly and directly to internal operations.

This ability to manage an operation in real-time is one very important solution that captures the essence of the ETS concept. Companies with such a system in place are able to manufacture products with the highest efficiency, and also reduce the life-cycle costs and total cost of ownership (TCO) of their manufacturing infrastructure. This minimization of TCO is one very significant outcome of ETS.

In order to present its customers with optimum solutions regardless of their business scale or product category, Yokogawa must be able to integrate its existing technology offerings in the test and measurement, industrial automation and control, and information systems areas. Yokogawa has the experts with the requisite wide-ranging knowledge who can work together with the company's partners to provide the complete systems integration consulting service that is the essential feature of the ETS business concept.

Yokogawa is the only global solution provider that is able to integrate its own testing and measurement, industrial automation and control, and information systems technologies in an optimum solution for its enterprise clients.