Omron is a Japanese company whose industrial automation business sells controllers, servo drives, sensors, machine vision, safety components and mobile robots. The Sysmac platform combines NX and NJ machine controllers with EtherCAT networking and a single engineering tool, and its sensors support IO-Link for device-level data. Omron also provides data-collection software that feeds production and quality information to manufacturing execution and analytics systems.
Focus: factory automation, sensors.
Tags: plc · ethercat · io-link · machine vision · factory automation
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