Yokogawa Electric Corporation is a Japanese electrical engineering and software company, with businesses based on its technologies in measurement, control, and information. It has a workforce of over 19,000 in its 80 companies worldwide, operating in 33 countries.
Yokogawa was established in 1915 as an electric meter research institute in Shibuya, Tokyo by Tamisuke Yokogawa (Doctor of Architectural Engineering) with Ichiro Yokogawa and Shin Aoki. Later, it became incorporated as Yokogawa Electric Works Ltd., the first company to produce and sell electric meters in Japan