Azbil

Azbil Corporation, formerly known as Yamatake and tracing its origins to 1906, is one of Japan's foremost automation and measurement companies, headquartered in Tokyo. The name azbil derives from automation zone bit, but the company's history is thoroughly mechanical: its predecessor built Japan's first flowmeters and became the Japanese manufacturing partner for Honeywell's control products for much of the twentieth century. Today Azbil's process instrumentation portfolio includes differential pressure and pressure transmitters, electromagnetic and vortex flowmeters, temperature sensors, and — of particular value to valve engineers — the AVP series smart valve positioners, which are installed in enormous numbers across Japanese-designed chemical, refinery and power plants throughout Asia. The company also supplies distributed control systems, building automation under the Systemy brand, and advanced control software. Azbil's engineering culture emphasizes measurement accuracy and field reliability, and its products carry the reputational weight of Japanese quality standards in markets from Indonesia to the Middle East where Japanese EPCs have historically specified them. For positioners, transmitters and control devices compatible with the Japanese plant design tradition, Azbil remains the reference supplier.