New Delhi, December 4, 2015: Reiterating its contribution towards the automotive sector – one of the main drivers of manufacturing growth in India – Omron Automation underlines the role of ‘Total Traceability’ as a futuristic technology set to bring in significant advancements in the factory automation domain.

The insight was shared by Mr Sameer Gandhi, MD, Omron Automation India at the CII Industrial Automation Summit – 2015 held at Gurgaon recently. Speaking at the summit, Mr Gandhi said, “Total Traceability is the ability to trace and verify the history, location, or application of an item by means of documented recorded identification. Considering one defective product can bring humongous loss and setbacks to the credibility of a brand, the solution holds a lot of importance to ensure zero-defects manufacturing system. This attains more significance for the automotive industry where assembling of multiple complex components needs constant checking at every step and product-recalls are witnessed quite often.”

Explaining more about the practical applications of Traceability solutions provided by Omron for the automotive sector, Mr Gandhi further explained, “For example, in a brake assembly (which has multiple parts), a piston ring assembly or a ball-bearing assembly – the entire assembly can be checked for visual completeness and quality including dimensions by an OMRON vision system. It not only identifies whether the quality is acceptable or not but also can store the images for future analysis. Omron’s Programmable Logic Controller portfolio enables Big Data management of these images collated with parameters ensuring its real time availability for the people on the manufacturing line who see many possibilities to use this data – for statistical analysis, quality control, quick identification of faulty parts, managing and tracing loss of components while processing from one plan to another – to name just a few.”

Not only automotive, the technology has immense potential in other sectors too such as FMCG, pharmaceuticals, digital equipment manufacturing including OEMs and part suppliers who have to share their production data to the manufacturers in real time. Companies adopting traceability can not only actively participate in developing a sustainable and safe production process but also witness significant growth in their profit.

Commenting on the Omron’s growth story in India, he stated that, “With the impetus provided by Make in India, the scenario is quite optimistic. Omron is one of the leading players in the Industrial Automation sector across the globe and is striving to fortify its position as ‘enablers of Make in India’ initiative by providing cutting edge solutions for the manufacturing sector.”