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OMRON – More Than Just Technology. Empowering People Through Automation

December 1, 2025

Established in 1933 by Kazuma Tateishi, Omron helps businesses and infrastructure companies solve problems with creativity worldwide, with more than 30,000 employees in 120 countries. Their new long-term vision, which launched in April 2022, is called Shaping the Future 2030.

With a special focus on material sustainability issues, this vision describes long-term targets through the year 2030 and sustainability targets under a medium-term management plan. Among the most pressing issues in terms of the sustainability of humankind are those of climate change, pollution, resource availability, and human rights issues in the value chain.

Omron will engage with these issues as a group, driven by the commitment of management. Their guiding values are the following:

  • Innovation driven by social needs. Be a pioneer in creating solutions for the future.
  • Respect for all. Act with integrity and encourage everyone’s potential.
  • Challenging themselves. Pursue new challenges with passion and courage.

Omron’s mission is to improve lives and contribute to a better society. More than just supplying the technology, Omron is empowering people through automation.

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The Power of OMRON’s Sysmac Studio: Unify Automation and Integrate Safety
OMRON - More Than Just Technology. Empowering People Through Automation

Industry moves fast. Outpace obsolescence with OMRON’s Sysmac Studio. Designed to empower operations from the edge to the cloud, it unifies automation by prioritizing safety and security. Built for today, ready for the future.

Today, the factory floor faces pressure from suppliers, consumers, competition, and emerging technologies. Operation teams are looking to remain competitive while making resilience standard procedure. At the crux of resilience and a sustainable competitive advantage is confident decisions driven by data-based insight. Sysmac Studio does just that, enabling processes to run predictably, effectively, and hit their output targets, especially when that target is moving.  

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