| 1915 |
Tamisuke Yokogawa, Doctor of Architectural Engineering, established an electric meter research institute in Shibuya, Tokyo with Ichiro Yokogawa and Shin Aoki |
| 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 the 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 |
| 1974 |
Established Yokogawa Electric Singapore Pte. Ltd. as Singapore plant |
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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. |
| 1984 |
Released Model 3520 Analog LSI Test System and entered IC tester field |
| 1986 |
Established Xiyi Yokogawa Co., Ltd. in Xian, China, jointly with Xian Instruments factory |
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To further establish the corporate identity, the company name is 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 |
| 1997 |
Announced the Enterprise Technology Solutions business concept |
| 2000 |
Announced the new VISION-21＆ACTION-21 corporate strategy |
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Released Magnetoencephalograph |
| 2001 |
Released the world's first 40Gbps optical communication module and entered the next-generation optical fiber communication field |
| 2002 |
Acquired 100% of Ando Electric's stock |
| 2004 |
Developed 40Gbps optical packet switch and entered the optical communication business |
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Fully integrated the Ando Electric's business |
| 2005 |
Established Yokogawa Electric International Pte. Ltd. in Singapore to oversee global industrial automation business |
| 2006 |
The Second Milestone of the VISION-21 & ACTION-21 corporate strategy is announced |
