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  • Yamaha Motor's Performance Damper for Use in LEXUS LC - Contributing to a higher-driving comfort and steering stability -

    IWATA, July 27, 2020 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Tokyo: 7272) announced that the vehicle performance vibration damper - Yamaha Performance Damper -has been adopted for use in "LEXUS LC500 Convertible" models (released from July 15), and 2021 model year of "LEXUS LC500" (released from June 18)
    The Yamaha Performance Damper will be installed in LEXUS models IS350/300, RC350/300, GS350(2WD)/300

  • New Organizational Reforms and Personnel Changes at Yamaha Motor

    IWATA, July 14, 2020 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Tokyo: 7272) has resolved to implement the following organizational reforms and personnel changes, effective Wednesday, July 15, 2020.
     
    ■ Organizational Reforms
    1. Corporate Planning & Finance Center
    The Corporate Planning & Finance Center will be reorganized for the purpose of concentrating management resources on st

  • Dylan Ferrandis Wins Back-to-Back 250SX West Titles for Yamaha AMA Championship Three-peat

    June 23, 2020—On June 21, 2020 at the final round of the AMA 250SX West Championship held in Salt Lake City, Utah, Monster Energy/Star/Yamaha Racing’s Dylan Ferrandis finished 4th aboard his #1 plated YZ250F to clinch the 2020 championship for back-to-back titles. With Aaron Plessinger’s 2018 championship win, this marked a third consecutive title for Yamaha in the class.
    The AMA Supercro

  • Announcement of Personnel Changes

    IWATA, June 5, 2020 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. announces the following personnel change, effective June 15, 2020
     
    1. Change in duties of Executive Officers
    (Name) (New position) (Current position) USUI, Hirofumi Senior Executive Officer,
    Chief General Manager of Marine
    Business Operations,
    and Senior Gen

  • Yamaha Motor Consolidated Business Results Summary, First Quarter of Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 2020

    IWATA, May 29, 2020 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Tokyo: 7272) announces consolidated business results for the first quarter.
    Net sales for Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd.'s consolidated cumulative period for the first quarter of the fiscal year ending December 31, 2020 were 395.9 billion yen, (a decrease of 33.5 billion yen or 7.8% compared with the same period the previous fiscal year), and operating

  • Dividend from Surplus and Revision of Forecast Dividends

    IWATA, May 29, 2020 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Tokyo: 7272), by a resolution of its Board of Directors on May 29, 2020, has decided to cancel dividends from surplus at the end of the second quarter (June 30, 2020). Yamaha Motor will therefore make a new announcement when making projections become possible for forecast dividends from surplus for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2020.
     

  • #StayHome Diversions for Fun and Fitness Yamaha Motor Newsletter (May 26, 2020 No. 81)

    Around the world today, the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has drastically affected people’s lives and brought illness and even death to countless victims. To stem the spread of the disease, numerous countries have asked or required people to stay home and avoid going out as much as possible.
    However, this unprecedented restriction of people’s freedom to go about their daily lives can defi

  • Yamaha Motor Launches New Linear Conveyor Module LCMR200 - Contributing to streamlining and improving quality at complex and diversified production sites for realizing next-generation factory -

    IWATA, May 26, 2020 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Tokyo:7272) announced today that it will release the LCMR200, a new linear conveyor module on July 1. The structure of the current model LCM-X has undergone a major review in order to further improve ease of use.
    The LCMR200 inherits features from the current LCM-X model such as high accuracy and narrow pitch, but now with greatly improved r

  • Yamaha Motor: Production Adjustments & Temporary Closures due to COVID-19 Pandemic

    IWATA, May 15, 2020 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Tokyo: 7272) announced today that it has determined that all business locations, factories, and offices in Japan will have an additional temporary closure at the same time for the five days between June 8 and 12. The only exceptions to the suspension are the Hamamatsu Robotics Building and the Miyakoda Building (both of these robotics-related facili

  • Yamaha Motor Launches New RCXiVY2+ Vision System - Capable of Detecting Irregular Shaped Objects; also Applicable to Food, Pharmaceuticals, Cosmetics, and Clothing -

    IWATA, May 14, 2020 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Tokyo: 7272) announced today that it will launch the RCXiVY2+ vision system, which features a new “blob detection” enabling picking, presence recognition, and high-speed counting of multiple workpieces for irregular shaped objects such as foodstuffs and clothing, on June 1. As the successor to the existing iVY2, in addition to new functionality this

  • Announcement of Personnel Changes

    IWATA, May 14, 2020 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. announces the following personnel change, effective May 15, 2020
     
    Change in duties of General Managers
    (Name) (New position) (Current position) AOTA,
    Hajime General Manager of Corporate
    Planning Division, Corporate
    Planning & Finance Center,

  • Yamaha Motor Launches Support Software for RCX3 Series Robot Controller - New Functions Significantly Reduce Robot System Setup Time -

    IWATA, May 14, 2020 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Tokyo: 7272) announced today that it will launch the RCX-Studio 2020 support software for the RCX3 Series of robot controllers on May 14, 2020. This new product adds new functions such as a 3D simulator and program templates (automatic sample generation) to the existing RCX-Studio Pro software, and also features usability enhancements.
    RCX-Stu

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