Tell us something about your company in terms manufacturing facilities, capacity, products manufactured, end-user industries served, exports, etc.
OMRON Automation – India, caters to varied industrial applications encompassing the wide requirements of packaging, automotive, material handling, food & beverages, medical, digital, infra and panel building applications. The company is focusing on the solution business, including Robotics and IIoT, providing “One Stop” solutions to improve the overall efficiency on diverse production sites. Focusing on the themes of quality, safety and the environment, it supports manufacturing innovation with its unique sensing & control technologies and caters to customers across the country via its strong network of offices, application, service and sales engineers supported by an automation technology centre (for demos and PoCs), training centres as well as channel partners to address the ever- challenging requirements.

How is your organisation helping manufacturers adopting digitalisation and Industry 4.0?
As enablers to help the manufacturers make products of global quality in India, OMRON with its advanced portfolio of Input, Logic, Output, Robotics & Safety industrial automation solutions is powering the manufacturers turn their factories smarter and connected by helping them cope up with their biggest challenges like reducing downtime, decreasing frequency of sudden failures, improving changeover efficiency and real-time data based predictive maintenance.

We have the widest portfolio of Smart Sensors, Robots, Vision, Machine Safety, PLCs, Servos and Drives, based on our world renowned ‘innovative-Automation’ concept (‘I’ stands for intelligent, integrated and interactive); the three important core elements required to make a smarter and ‘connected shop floor’ enabling the Indian manufacturers to make world-class in India’ in the wake of the speedily rising and demanding Industry 4.0 expectations. OMRON is also being acknowledged for introducing flexibility at the shop floor, impeccable product inspection, reducing development time, and automating activities which are mundane, hazardous, burdensome, or do not require critical thinking.

What kind of new opportunities are you looking to tap? What are your growth plans for your company in coming years?
Our vision is to “Enriching the Future for People, Industries and the Globe by Innovative Automation”. Carrying ahead the concept of "innovative-Automation”, we are all set to tackle the diversified and complicated changes in the market environment by giving this concept a new lease.

In addition to responding to technological innovations and changes in products and manufacturing methods, manufacturers’ emphasis is placed on the sophistication of manufacturing that takes into consideration the global environment represented by the SDGs, the diversification of people's values, and the wellbeing of working people. Hence OMRON strives to work together with the customers to solve the issues of the manufacturing industry in the following ways:

i) “Automation beyond human abilities,” Let the machine do what the machine can do
Based on high-speed and high-precision control application technology, OMRON aims to innovate manufacturing sites where people can engage in creative work while feeling at ease by making full use of IoT, AI and robotics technology, and leaving the work that depended on people to the machine.

ii) Manufacturing site innovation by “Digital engineering transformation”
OMRON believes that such on-site innovation by DX is indispensable for the sophistication of manufacturing even in the post-COVID world and will strengthen the development of technologies and solutions that accelerate the conversion of manufacturing sites to DX.
In terms of industries, Automotive, Digital, FMCG, medical, Logistics and Infra are going to be the key focus areas for us.