| 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 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. |
| 1986 |
Established Xiyi Yokogawa Co., Ltd. in Xian, China, jointly with Xian Instruments Factory |
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 |
| 2005 |
Established Yokogawa Electric International Pte. Ltd. in Singapore to oversee global industrial automation business |
| 2008 |
Entered the drug discovery support market with a new bio test system |
| 2010 |
Transferred the measuring instruments business to Yokogawa Meters & Instruments |
| 2011 |
Announced «Evolution 2015» Mid-term Business Plan |
| 2013 |
Formed Yokogawa Solution Service Corporation to handle sales, engineering, and services for the Japan industrial automation business |
| 2015 |
Announced «Transformation 2017» Mid-term Business Plan |
