Horiba, Ltd. is a Japanese manufacturer of precision instruments for measurement and analysis. They make instruments that measure and analyze automobile exhaust gas, and environmental, medical and scientific applications. Horiba is one of the top 25 analytical and life sciences instrumentation companies in the world. The group has been involved in measurement technology for more than 50 years. It is diversified in 5 different sectors: automotive tests systems, environmental, medical, semiconductor and scientific fields. Today, the group, chaired by Atsushi Horiba, gathers 5,965 employees worldwide and generated 1 294 million of dollars in 2014.[dubious – discuss] The motto of HORIBA Ltd. is "Joy and Fun".