Home About Yokogawa Research & Development Research & Development R&D Structure R&D activities at Yokogawa are classified into two types, Firstly, product development and applied research activities are geared to meeting customer needs and target a relatively foreseeable future. Secondly innovation activities are conducted from a longer-term perspective, involve greater uncertainty, and are directed toward the generation of new business opportunities. Whereas business headquarters are mainly responsible for the former, the latter is primarily the task of the Innovation Center. Innovation Activities By engaging in innovation activities, Yokogawa not only provides systems but also creates technologies and solutions together with customers that prompt them to change their perspectives and approaches. The innovation process consists of three concentric layers as show in the figure below. The outermost layer, consisting of information from the field and signs of change obtained by scanning the "external environment," such as markets and customers, is reflected in "standardization, intellectual property and open innovation," which constitute the second layer that supports "innovation activities," the innermost layer. In innovation activities, we generated ideas, refine the technologies to realize the ideas through R&D, and incubate them. A cycle of these three stages is executed repeatedly to achieve commercialization. Innovation Center The Innovation Center is an R&D department in Yokogawa mainly responsible for innovation activities that target an uncertain, unpredictable future for which new business opportunities are sought. Cell-Based Manufacturing Biological Contamination Management Improving Cell Productivity All-Solid-State pH Sensor EMS with Battery Diagnosis Augmented Reality Solutions of Optimizing Operations Edge Computing and Machine Learning Pervasive Corrosion Monitoring Optical Fiber Sensor Printed Sensor System Innovation Center's Core Process The Innovation Center’s process for the future-oriented R&D activities is described below. Yokogawa Technical Report "Yokogawa Technical Report" is a technical journal which includes articles about technologies and product information developed by Yokogawa. Vol.60 No.2 (2017) Vol.60 No.1 (2017) Vol.59 No.2 (2016) Vol.59 No.1 (2016) Vol.58 No.2 (2015) Vol.58 No.1 (2015) Vol.57 No.2 (2014) Vol.57 No.1 (2014) Vol.56 No.2 (2013) Vol.56 No.1 (2013) Vol.55 No.2 (2012) Vol.55 No.1 (2012) Vol.54 No.2 (2011) Vol.54 No.1 (2011) Vol.53 No.2 (2010) Vol.53 No.1 (2010) No.47 (2008) No.46 (2008) No.45 (2008) No.44 (2007) No.43 (2007) No.42 (2006) No.41 (2005) No.40 (2005) No.39 (2005) No.38 (2004) No.37 (2004) No.36 (2003) No.35 (2003) No.34 (2002) No.33 (2002) No.32 (2001) No.31 (2001) No.30 (2000) No.29 (2000) No.28 (1999) No.27 (1999) No.26 (1999) No.25 (1998) No.24 (1997) No.23 (1997) Contact Us - R&D Industries Oil & Gas Oil & Gas Downstream LNG Supply Chain Chemical Power Water & Wastewater Mining & Metal Pharmaceutical Food & Beverage Pulp & Paper Iron & Steel Solutions Synaptic Business Automation OpreX Profit-driven Operation Digital Transformation Industrial IoT Plant Security Operations Management Safe Operations Production Management Inventory Management Quality Management Asset Management Energy Management Analyzer System Manufacturing Operations Management Life innovation Products Control System Solution-based Software Data Acquisition Field Instruments Process Analyzers Industrial Networking Components Test & Measurement Life Science Information Solutions Commercial Avionics Business Navigation Business Announcements Discontinued Products Services Lifecycle Performance Care Services Sustainable Plan Consulting Project Execution Services Upgrade & Migration Services Training Secured Remote Services Asset Performance Monitoring Basic Maintenance Services Advanced Decision Support Library Documents & Downloads Resources Videos About Yokogawa Company Overview Investor Relations Sustainability Careers Research & Development Procurement Information Quality Assurance Quality Management Terms of Use Privacy Policy Cookies and Web Beacons Social Media Policy Sitemap © Copyright 1994-2018 Yokogawa Electric Corporation