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Bridge Tech: Automation

T e ‘Future Bridge’

With autonomous navigation and remote electronics management, Furuno is on a digital transformation journey to help revolutionize the maritime industry. Matt

Wood, National Sales Manager, Furuno USA takes a deeper dive.

By Greg Trauthwein n 1938, Kiyotaka Furuno founded Furuno Electric nual sales (2020) of about $770 million. The company

Shokai Ltd., the predecessor of Furuno Electric is headquartered in Japan, and in addition to the parent

Company. Today Furuno is best known as a radar company there are 40 wholly owned subsidiary compa-

I and navigation company with nearly 90 percent of nies globally. “We’re acknowledged as a brand in the its business in the maritime sector. “We are still princi- maritime space, and marine is what we do. Research pally a family-owned, family-oriented company, found- and Development (R&D) is our engine, and the major- ed by two brothers that were radio engineer special- ity of employees in the company are engineers,” said ists,” said Matt Wood, National Sales Manager, Furuno Wood. Focused on all levels of maritime, from small

USA. “They parlayed the radio engineering into under- recreational to the largest oceangoing commercial and water depth sounding and fish finding, and the rest, as government ships, the Furuno product line-up is in a they say, is history.” word ‘broad’. “It’s impossible to say this and not sound

Today, Furuno is just under 3,000 employees with an- a little bit arrogant, but the fact is we have the largest

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