Omron

Omron Corporation, founded in 1933 in Kyoto as a sewing machine timer workshop, has grown into one of the world's largest manufacturers of automation components and electronic control equipment. The company's product universe for machine and plant builders includes relays and switches, photoelectric and proximity sensors, machine vision systems, safety light curtains and interlocked guards, temperature and process controllers, PLCs and motion controllers, servo drives, variable frequency drives and industrial robots through its Omron Automation business. For the valve and pump sector, Omron components appear throughout packaging, filling and dosing machinery that uses small pneumatic valves and pumps, in pump station control panels where its relays and controllers manage motor operation, and in safety circuits guarding rotating equipment. The company's sensing technologies — including fiber-optic amplifiers and displacement sensors — support precision assembly and inspection lines across electronics, automotive and food industries. Omron invests heavily in sensing-and-control integration, marketing the concept of innovative-automation that links machines, people and data. With global manufacturing and an unparalleled component catalog, Omron is a fixture in industrial control design worldwide.