Yokogawa Electric Corporation

At a Glance: The Transformation

“Before Incredibuild, we used to run builds during the night. But today, we can start in the morning and finish by the evening. When we run builds at night, we cannot find errors in real-time. We notice the errors only in the next morning, so it takes more time to fix them. But, when an error occurs during the day, it’s much easier to find developers to fix it immediately”
Yasunori Yamaguchi
Digital Solution HQ Systems Development Center Development DX Dept.

The Challenge: Tens of Millions of Lines of Code

Founded in 1915, Yokogawa Electric Corporation is a global leader in industrial automation and measurement. Their Engineering Department manages a massive codebase consisting of tens of millions of lines of code.

Before Incredibuild, their 10-hour build process forced the team into a rigid “nightly build” schedule. If a developer introduced a bug at 10:00 AM, they wouldn’t discover the failure until the next morning – resulting in a 24-hour delay for every major fix. This lag made rapid iteration and real-time bug resolution impossible.

“Incredibuild cut build time into less than half, which is great, but the real value is that it’s so much easier to predict and plan the next processes”
Yasunori Yamaguchi
Digital Solution HQ Systems Development Center Development DX Dept.

The Solution: Distributed Acceleration

Yokogawa integrated Incredibuild for Visual Studio, Make & Build tools, and Dev Tools to distribute heavy processing tasks across their network. By treating their infrastructure as a unified “supercomputer,” they eliminated the local hardware bottlenecks that were stalling their C++ builds.

Beyond Build Times: Strategic Impact

The 50% reduction in build time did more than just save hours; it fundamentally changed how the team operates:

A Culture of Innovation: Freed from the “waiting for build” slump, developers now have the bandwidth to experiment with new features and improvements.

Predictable Planning: Engineering leads can now accurately predict and plan the next stages of the development lifecycle.

Developer Agility: Teams iterate faster within the same workday, significantly shortening the QA feedback loop.

“The best part with Incredibuild is that we now have time to try new things since we are saving time to wait and handle tasks. We, as an infrastructure team, want to create a comfortable and productive working environment for our developers. We believe that Incredibuild can help us creating a better workplace”
Takumi Fujiwara
IA System & Services HQ System Development Center

Bonus: Accelerating Parallel Workloads

Yokogawa’s team discovered that Incredibuild’s power isn’t limited to code. Because their technology is platform-agnostic, it can accelerate any parallel processing task, including data packaging and complex simulations.

“Incredibuild is not just good for builds, it also works well with any parallel processing tasks.”
Akito Shikimachi
IA System & Services HQ System Development Center,

Technical Implementation Note

• Environment: C++
• Solutions Deployed: Incredibuild for Visual Studio, Incredibuild for Make & Build Tools, Incredibuild for Dev Tools.
• Deployment: Rapidly scaled across the System Software Engineering Department to support global industrial automation projects.

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