Existing Core Competencies
Trace the steps of how our technology has changed mobility and people’s lives
The PATH taken on our value creation journey with our core competencies
It is said that Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens—the discoverer of Saturn’s rings—perceived the need for some kind of power-producing device, i.e., an engine, to drive water pumps and alleviate the labor-intensive task of drawing water from the Seine to feed the Palace of Versailles’ many fountains. That initial idea would later be adopted and developed by engineers around the world until the basic forms of engines as we know them today were created in the 19th century.
Yamaha Motor’s origins lie with powertrains, with the YA-1 the company offered at its inception powered by a 125cc 2-stroke engine. In the more than 50 years since, Yamaha has kept its finger on the pulse of people’s lifestyles while continuing its powertrain research and development to improve not just quality and performance, but to also expand their fields of use.
- Easy-to-Use CVT-equipped Engines
- An Engine Design Enabling Reduced Loss and Compact Size
- The Result of Aluminum Research: The DiASil Cylinder
- Electronically-Controlled Fuel Injection
- “2-Strokes” to Handle Any Job, Anywhere
- The Pioneering “4-Stroke”
- Smooth Torque Refined in the Desert
- Electronically-Controlled Throttle
- The Waza: Combining Human Power and Electric Power
- The “GREEN CORE” Ideal: An Accumulation of Yamaha Know-how and Success
- Two Drive Units Expanding the PAS World
- A Liquid Engine Component
- Yamaha’s First 125cc Engine
- Forty Years of Admiration for the Big Single
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Electric motors for use in automobiles and other vehicles 
Yamaha Motor Monozukuri prioritizes human senses, perceptions and sensitivities, and this remains the same with electronic control as we always strive to make the results feel as natural as possible for the user. Beginning with electromagnetic guidance systems to automate golf cars and the electronics for motorcycle engines and chassis, Yamaha’s expertise in electronics continues to grow and is put to use in our businesses for electrically power-assisted bicycles, electric wheelchairs, boats and outboard motors, industrial-use unmanned helicopters and drones, and robotics.
- 6-axis IMU-based Electronic Control System
- Examining MOTOROiD
- Low-Speed Automated Driving Mobility-Based Service System
- From Surface Mounters to Electric Wheelchairs
- An Unmanned Industrial-use Helicopter Bringing Together Three Types of Technology
- An Unmanned Helicopter that Helped Unravel the Mystery of Continent Formation
- The Original Model that Led to Multipurpose Capability
- Electronically-Controlled Fuel Injection
- The Waza: Combining Human Power and Electric Power
- The “GREEN CORE” Ideal: An Accumulation of Yamaha Know-how and Success
- Two Drive Units Expanding the PAS World
- Electronically-Controlled Throttle
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RiDE: Control technology for personal watercraft [view movie]
Many of Yamaha Motor’s products are vehicles for the land and water, and the energy generated by powertrains like engines or electric motors can only be used to the fullest when paired with an equally well-designed chassis or hull. Yamaha is developing various technologies for chassis/hull design as well as for processing, machining and utilizing materials. Our tests and evaluations also emphasize human senses and perceptions, and we are working to define these feelings with numbers. In these ways, Yamaha Monozukuri is centered on producing a feeling of unity between the user and their machine.
- LMW — From Seed to Blossom
- The Origins of Yamaha’s LMW Technology? Chopsticks.
- The Near Future Created by LMW Vehicles
- Performance Damper - Giving Cars a More Pleasing Ride
- 3D FRP Hull Surfaces and CNC Machining
- FRP Fishing Boats to Carry Seaweed Harvests
- Frame Technology Christened in Salzburg
- Low-Speed Automated Driving Mobility-Based Service System
- An Unmanned Industrial-use Helicopter Bringing Together Three Types of Technology
- An Unmanned Helicopter that Helped Unravel the Mystery of Continent Formation
- The Original Model that Led to Multipurpose Capability
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Yamaha Performance Dampers
Yamaha Motor products are built to offer new excitement and a more fulfilling life for people all over the world, and are manufactured not only in the company’s hometown of Iwata, Japan, but also in numerous regions worldwide. In bringing an idea or plan put together by engineers and designers to life as a real product, and then delivering it to people around the globe to add color and convenience to their lives, developing various manufacturing technologies as well as accumulating pertinent know-how becomes another vital technical pursuit.
- Like Selecting Ingredients in a Recipe
- The Result of Aluminum Research: The DiASil Cylinder
- The Aluminum Casting Process and its Applications
- From Piano Frames to Motorcycle Engines
- How Yamaha’s Forging Technology Has Evolved
- 3D FRP Hull Surfaces and CNC Machining
- FRP Pools: Products of Adapting and Optimizing Materials
- The Relationship Between Nano-film Coating and Soap Bubbles
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Yamaha Motor Craftsmanship
Casting and Forging
