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Yanmar

A Japan-headquartered industrial group built around engine and power-system engineering, with agricultural machinery, compact equipment, energy, marine, component, and food-value-chain activities.

LEGAL NAMEYanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.
FOUNDING REFERENCE1912
EVIDENCEManufacturer stated
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COMPANY RESEARCH CONSOLE / PUBLISHED DOSSIER
4MILESTONES12CONTEXT RECORDS36SOURCE LINKS
FOUNDING REFERENCE1912Yanmar
  1. 1912The enterprise begins in Osaka
  2. 1933A practical compact diesel engine is commercialized
  3. 1960s–1970sAgricultural machinery broadens
  4. 2010s–presentMachines connect to digital and automated services
RESEARCH LAYERSMove through the dossier by evidence layer
01 / Company profile1context records

5 unique sources · 5 links

Open layer ↓02 / History4context records

3 unique sources · 6 links

Open layer ↓03 / Brands1context records

5 unique sources · 9 links

Open layer ↓04 / Product series2context records

4 unique sources · 6 links

Open layer ↓05 / Technology4context records

9 unique sources · 10 links

Open layer ↓
SOURCE MIXPublisher classes in this dossier

manufacturer5

research5

official organization3

standard1

PUBLISHER FOOTPRINTMost represented source publishers
  1. 01Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.5 registered records
  2. 02USDA Agricultural Research Service2 registered records
  3. 03AgriEngineering1 registered records
  4. 04Computers and Electronics in Agriculture1 registered records
  5. 05European Union Agency for the Space Programme1 registered records
  6. 06GPS.gov1 registered records
Counts describe the current World Farm Tech dossier, not company scale, quality, innovation, market position, or independent verification. Milestones follow editorial sequence; their spacing does not represent elapsed time.
01 / Overview

Read the company as a system.

Yanmar was founded in Osaka in 1912 and built its industrial identity around compact diesel engines before expanding across agricultural machinery, construction equipment, marine, energy systems, components, and related services. Yanmar Holdings is the group-level company; agricultural subsidiaries and regional sales companies perform different roles within that structure.

Agriculture spans tractors, combines, rice transplanters, tillers, implements, crop-establishment machinery, smart-agriculture services, and production support. The global English site is an orientation layer rather than a single universal catalog: emissions level, model code, transmission, connectivity, implements, support, and availability differ by country.

02 / Brands

The identities users meet in the market.

Brand records sit between the parent company and individual product series. They preserve ownership context while allowing regional portfolios to be documented separately.

Published company ecosystem / live map1 brand / 2 series / 4 concepts
Parent companyYanmarOwnership context, not a product-compatibility claim
01 / brandYanmar3 public groups · 2 bounded series
tractorYanmar YT3 SeriestractorYanmar YT4 Series
The global English agriculture site spans multiple product and emissions contexts rather than one worldwide catalog. Japan, Southeast Asia, North America, Europe, and other regions may use different model codes, tractor families, engines, emissions levels, transmissions, tillage packages, positioning hardware, connected services, safety configurations, attachments, and sales channels. Regional documentation and exact serial or model scope control compatibility.
Independent learning layerDecode the systems behind the portfolio
Lines show the editorial hierarchy of published company, brand, and series records. Concept links remain independent explainers: they do not state that every listed series includes a feature or that products across branches are compatible.
03 / Timeline

The lineage behind the name.

Company history / select one milestone01 of 04 / 1912
Milestones follow the editorial sequence in the published company record. Equal spacing does not represent equal elapsed time, and portfolio-era labels are not exact dates.
04 / Portfolio

From brand architecture to field work.

PORTFOLIO LAYER

Agricultural power and field machinery

The agriculture business supports dry-field, paddy, crop-establishment, cultivation, and harvest work with region-specific machinery.

  • Tractors
  • Combine harvesters
  • Rice transplanters
  • Tillers
  • Implements and crop-establishment machinery
PORTFOLIO LAYER

Smart-agriculture and production support

The manufacturer presents connected machine support, remote services, automation, and agronomic or production initiatives as a layer around physical machinery.

  • SmartAssist
  • Remote support
  • Robot tractors
  • Positioning-enabled functions
  • Farm and production support
PORTFOLIO LAYER

Power-system and industrial group

Agricultural machinery sits inside a wider group whose engine, transmission, component, energy, compact-equipment, and marine capabilities provide important engineering context.

  • Industrial engines
  • Transmissions and components
  • Compact equipment
  • Energy systems
  • Marine systems
05 / Technology

Learn the concepts behind the portfolio.

These links explain independent technology concepts. They do not assert that every brand, model, or market offering implements every feature.

Connected machinery

Remote machine support

Understand the data, service, connectivity, and consent layers behind manufacturer-described connected support.

Agricultural Machinery Telematics →Positioning

Positioning

Separate a position source from steering, job planning, field boundaries, and safe machine supervision.

GNSS →Agricultural automation

Robot tractors

Place an automated tractor inside the complete perception, planning, control, supervision, and fallback system.

Agricultural Robotics and Autonomy →Farm software

Farm information systems

Follow machine and operation records into management workflows while preserving provenance and regional service boundaries.

FMIS →
06 / Evidence

Official company sources.

Company history, brand structure, and portfolio descriptions are original World Farm Tech summaries based on the linked official pages. Manufacturer statements are not treated as independent performance verification.

01
Yanmar Holdings Company OverviewYanmar Holdings Co., Ltd. · Accessed 2026-07-23
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02
The History of YanmarYanmar Holdings Co., Ltd. · Accessed 2026-07-23
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03
Yanmar AgricultureYanmar Holdings Co., Ltd. · Accessed 2026-07-23
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04
Global Tractor LineupYanmar Holdings Co., Ltd. · Accessed 2026-07-23
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05
YT3 Series TractorsYanmar Holdings Co., Ltd. · Accessed 2026-07-23
Source fileOriginal