After the successful launch of its four automation centres (ATCs) across the world, OMRON Automation, part of OMRON Corporation of Japan, opened its fifth ATC in India, at Mumbai, on April 22.
Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Yutaka Miyanaga, Senior Managing Officer, President, OMRON Corporation, Japan, said: “Believing in bringing innovation to manufacturing by automation to enrich lives of people around the world, today OMRON is well-known for its quality products and application strength in the industrial automation segment globally. This initiative is a part of our ‘Asia Hotspots’ strategy. One of the important tasks is to consolidate our foothold in India which is indeed a highly promising market for OMRON Automation.”
Based on the philosophy of “you create the concept, we will help you to make it work”, the centre aims to showcase OMRON’s expertise in the ‘sensing & control’ technology, so that customers are able to test their new ideas, experience and understand how they can bring more improvements to their current manufacturing set-up and can become more competitive in their respective fields in the industrial automation domain.
According to Mr. Takehito Maeda, Managing Director, OMRON Asia Pacific Pte Ltd., Industrial Automation Business: “Driven by many positive factors such as boost in investments owing to rise in consumerism and the growth in the exports sector, India continues to be an important destination for OMRON Automation. The ATC is a step towards highlighting our solution-centric approach and excellence in execution as a complete ‘automation partner’. It shall play a very important role in strengthening our contribution towards India’s manufacturing prowess and the society.”
“In the industrial automation sector, it is extremely vital to provide a hands-on exposure to the associates so that they are able to actually believe and then achieve what they have not been able to do so far through their manufacturing establishments. We are confident of achieving relevant traction in many industries through this initiative such as packaging, F&B, FMCG, pharmaceuticals, special purpose machines, automotive and textiles by catering to the advanced requirements of the manufacturing segment like productivity, quality, efficiency and safety”, said Mr. Sameer Gandhi, Managing Director, OMRON Automation, India.
The centre opened in Mumbai has on display OMRON’s key portfolio of industrial automation range as well as the technical and application support capabilities through state-of-the-art actual demonstrations on machines and laboratories. The field of expertise includes SYSMAC Platform, Vision Inspection Solution, Robotics Solution and Machine Safety Solutions.
The SYSMAC platform depicts a high-speed and high-accuracy fully-integrated platform by three “ones” – one machine controller, one machine network and one machine software.
The Delta Robot and the SCARA Robot, together with bottle filling and VFFS machines, are displayed in the machine demonstration area to explain the usage of SYSMAC to enhance a machine’s performance by improving speed, accuracy, flexibility and reliability, in all industrial applications, primarily packaging and material handling.
The centre also has a vision lab to allow testing of vision inspection functions by customers with all possible variations of lighting, lens and controllers.
Another notable area in the centre is the “Tsunagi Lab” which provides the complete integration experience of OMRON to OMRON and OMRON to third party components, so that the patrons are able to learn and handle the technologies which are in the scope of the total solution.
Spread over 3,750 sq.ft., the new facility hosts more than 10 experts as software, hardware and application specialists dedicated to ATC.