Every harvest starts a countdown. When growers, contractors, hauliers and processors cannot see the same real-time picture of crop quality, volume and timing, machines travel further than necessary, crops wait longer and food value is lost. This customer reality revealed an opportunity to connect the chain and ensure harvesting capacity and crops arrive where they are needed, at the right time.

In Okinawa, Japan, Yanmar’s data-driven solution is already helping sugarcane customers make the food value chain more visible and efficient. By sharing live operating data across the island rather than managing operations area by area, it enables harvesters to be allocated where they are needed. This helps reduce unnecessary travel and regional imbalances, shorten the raw-material delivery period by around ten days and support better product quality.
In Thailand, Yanmar is also combining customer insights, harvest data, satellite imagery and temperature data to develop a model for more accurate yield forecasts and better alignment of supply with demand. Trials are already underway.

Sugar cane is only the beginning. Yanmar is exploring how connected insight can create value across other crops, regions and stages of the food value chain, from potatoes and tomatoes to meat processing.

Vessel operators face growing pressure to control costs, maintain operational safety and reduce environmental impact. Biofouling, the buildup of marine organisms on a vessel’s hull, creates drag that can increase fuel consumption. Removing it also requires demanding underwater maintenance work. Yanmar sees an opportunity to use sensing and robotics to improve hull maintenance, supporting both the people who carry it out and the efficiency of the vessels they maintain.

The HC12 hull-cleaning remotely operated vehicle (ROV) uses underwater 3D sensing and robotics technologies to remove biofouling from large vessels. By helping reduce diver workload and improve fuel efficiency, it supports safer and more environmentally responsible vessel maintenance.
Showcased in Yanmar’s SEA zone, HC12 has been named a CES Innovation Awards® 2027 Honoree in the Energy Transition & Sustainability category, recognizing its innovation in design and engineering.

Hull cleaning is one example of how technology can address connected challenges in marine operations. Looking ahead, Yanmar aims to bring AI, robotics and data-driven technologies together to help operators make better decisions, manage costs and reduce environmental impact. The ambition is to turn better insight into practical action, supporting safer marine operations, more efficient vessel maintenance and a reduced environmental impact.

Rising electricity prices, grid stress, more frequent extreme-weather events and growing ESG reporting demands are making energy harder and more costly to manage, especially for small and medium-sized businesses. Yanmar Energy System saw the possibility to connect decentralised energy resources, bringing together solar PV and wind with CHP, gen-sets, fuel cells and battery energy storage systems (BESS), to create one intelligent, integrated energy system.

Yanmar Energy System already delivers an integrated energy solution that connects on-site generation, heating and cooling, solar power and the grid, with battery energy storage systems (BESS) under development. A single Global Platform monitors, reports and optimises energy continuously, helping customers cut costs through peak shaving and greater use of on-site solar, sell surplus energy back to the market, keep critical loads powered during outages, and handle emissions and ESG reporting automatically.

Yanmar is looking beyond individual energy assets to create smarter, connected energy systems, where thousands of sites can be managed together on one global platform. By bringing every asset into view and turning data into action, these systems can make energy more reliable, efficient and accessible. We see a future where energy becomes a service, and businesses of every size gain the benefits without having to invest in, or manage, complex systems themselves.