Yamaha Motor Design
Bringing New Dimensions to Ideas, Forms and Monozukuri
Since its founding, Yamaha Motor has placed particular importance on design in its quest to be a Kando* Creating Company, aiming to create a distinct corporate presence by building products with a high standard of quality that move and inspire people. Alongside original and innovative ideas, concepts and technolo
IWATA, March 15, 2017 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Tokyo:7272) announced today that the unmanned WATER STRIDER boat - capable of being remotely controlled for herbicide spraying work required before and after rice planting and direct sowing in paddy rice cultivation - is to be available for the agricultural market from April 25.
The WATER STRIDER is an unmanned boat approx. 1.6 m in length, which
IWATA, March 14, 2017 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Tokyo: 7272) will enter the CeBIT 2017 event running for the five days of March 20 to 24 in Hannover, Germany as an exhibitor. On display will be Yamaha’s Z:LEX YSM20 surface mounter, the FAZER R G2 industrial-use unmanned helicopter capable of automated flight and the HARMO electric boat propulsion system, all aimed at demonstrating how Yamaha uses
IWATA, March 14, 2017 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. announces the following personnel changes.
Main businesses of the group companies referenced above;
・SUNWARD INTERNATIONAL, INC.:
Export of expendable parts, tools, facility maintenance equipment, raw materials, import of parts for boats and sailing yachts, etc., motorcycle and automobile tires, etc.
・Yamaha Motor Support & Se
IWATA, March 3, 2017 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Tokyo: 7272) is proud to present the continuation of the Yamaha Racing strategy for the 2017 on and off-road racing season. Yamaha restructured its mid- to long-term global strategy in 2015 - the year marking the company’s 60th anniversary - and has engaged in a variety of corporate initiatives under its basic policies for racing activities: increasin
IWATA, March 1, 2017 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Tokyo: 7272) announced today that the JW Business Division, which works with electric power units for wheelchairs and electric wheelchairs etc., has acquired certification for the international standard "ISO 13485: 2003*1"” for quality management systems in the medical equipment field.
This certification was assessed by the "TÜV SÜD*2" - headquarte
IWATA, February 28, 2017 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Tokyo: 7272) announces that it has completed construction of the new Hamamatsu IM Base (located in Toyooka-cho, Kita-ku, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture) for the IM Business Unit, which undertakes the development, manufacture and sales of surface mounters and industrial robots. The building has been under construction since April 2015 with the goal
IWATA, February 22, 2017 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Tokyo:7272) conducted an inauguration ceremony today for the Yamaha Motor Innovation Center (originally known as the New Design Building), which will become the focal point for cutting-edge design initiatives that drive product design development and new innovation.
The facility, which was completed in December 2016, has five floors, an archite
New Corporate Video: “At Yamaha, This is What We Do.”
IWATA, February 21, 2017—Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Tokyo: 7272) announces the global release of a new corporate video entitled “At Yamaha, This is What We Do.” The video depicts through CGI things that Yamaha might look to do or create someday in the future and the kinds of worlds that could be possible as a result.
https://youtu.be/QcvT8gS
Yamaha Industrial-use Unmanned Helicopters
Expanding from Selling Products to Selling Solutions
Over the last few years, we have been seeing what is now being called the “aerial industrial revolution,” rising from the prevalence of primarily electric-powered multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicles commonly known as drones. They are expected to play increasingly wide-ranging roles in areas
IWATA, February 14, 2017 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Tokyo: 7272) (hereafter “Yamaha Motor”) announced today that its XSR900 motorcycle and the &Y01 electrically power-assisted wheelchair that performs music designed in collaboration with Yamaha Corporation (hereafter “Yamaha”) have received the internationally-prestigious “iF Design Award 2017.”*Both awards are in the product category, and this
IWATA, February 14, 2017 – Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. announces the following personnel changes, effective February 15, 2017.
Changes in duties of Group Companies
Main businesses of the group companies referenced above;
・Yamaha Motor Electronics Thailand Co., Ltd.: Manufacture and sales of motorcycle electrical parts inThailand
・Yamaha Motor Electronics Vietnam Co., Ltd.: Manufa
