Omron brings real manufacturing evolution to factory floors

At Hannover Messe 2022, Omron will demonstrate the future shape of “i-Automation” – the company’s manufacturing innovation concept – as the direction of manufacturing evolution for the next decade. With a stand design that reflects a real factory floor, Omron will highlight intelligent, integrated, and interactive automation.

“Manufacturers around the world need to renew and evolve manufacturing toward the post-Covid world,” Fernando Colas, Omron’s newly appointed CEO for the industrial automation business in EMEA comments. “In addition to responding to technological innovations and changes in products and manufacturing methods, we must focus on sustainable development goals, the diversification of people’s values, and the wellbeing of working people.”

Omron’s stand at Hannover Messe will focus on enabling flexible manufacturing, as well ensuring workforce safety, product quality and sustainability. Visitors can experience solutions based on robotics, machine vision, high-speed and high-precision control application technology, artificial intelligence, and data science, that innovate manufacturing sites so that people can focus on creative work.

One example of innovative automation, shown for the first time at a European tradeshow, is Omron’s new Intelligent Cell Production Line – a control, information, and manufacturing system to support efficient and high-quality assembly and production. This concept has been tested and deployed at Omron factories in Japan as well as in Shanghai, China as a system to achieve harmony between workers and machines.

Accelerated employee training and knowledge transfer, zero defect production and enhanced workflow efficiency are just three of the direct benefits that especially manufacturers with high-mix, low-volume operations, will glean from implementing this new line control approach.