Omron
Omron Corporation (オムロン株式会社, Omuron Kabushiki-gaisha), styled as OMRON, is a Japanese electronics company based in Kyoto, Japan. Omron was established by Kazuma Tateishi (立石一真) in 1933 (as the Tateishi Electric Manufacturing Company) and incorporated in 1948.
Native name | オムロン株式会社 |
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Romanized name | Omuron Kabushiki-gaisha |
Type | Public K.K. |
TYO: 6645 FWB: OMR | |
Industry | Electronics |
Founded | May 10, 1933 Osaka, Japan |
Founder | Kazuma Tateishi |
Headquarters | Shiokoji Horikawa, Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto 600-8530, Japan |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Yoshihito Yamada (President and CEO) |
Products | |
Revenue | $ 8.279 billion USD (FY 2015) (¥ 833.60 billion JPY) (FY 2015) |
$ 453 Million USD (FY 2015) (¥ 45.64 billion JPY) (FY 2015) | |
Number of employees | 39427 (June 2015) |
Website | www |
Footnotes / references [1][2][3][4] |
The company originated in an area of Kyoto called "Omuro (御室)"(ja), from which the name "Omron" was derived. Prior to 1990, the corporation was known as Omron Tateishi Electronics. During the 1980s and early 1990s, the company motto was: "To the machine the work of machines, to man the thrill of further creation".
Omron's primary business is the manufacture and sale of automation components, equipment and systems, but it is generally known for medical equipment such as digital thermometers, blood pressure monitors and nebulizers. Omron developed the world's first electronic ticket gate,[5] which was named an IEEE Milestone in 2007,[6] and was one of the first manufacturers of automated teller machines (ATM)[7] with magnetic stripe card readers.[8]
Omron Oilfield & Marine is a provider of AC and DC drive systems and custom control systems for oil and gas and related industries.
Omron was named one of Thomson Reuters Top 100 Global Innovators in 2013.[9]
Business divisions and products
- Industrial automation: industrial robots, sensors, switches, industrial cameras, safety components, relays, control components, electric power monitoring equipment, power supplies and PLCs
- Electronic components: relays, switches, connectors, micro sensing devices, MEMS sensors, image sensing technologies
- Social systems: access control systems (building entry systems), road management systems, traffic signal controllers, security/surveillance cameras, automated ticket gates, ticket vending machines, fare adjustment machines
- Healthcare:
- Personal use: blood pressure monitors, digital thermometers, body composition monitors, pedometers, nebulizers
- Professional use: blood pressure monitors, non-invasive vascular monitors, portable ECGs, patient monitors
- Other businesses
- Power distribution and controls for drilling rigs
- Environmental solutions
- Electronic controls and automation for detention center systems
Shareholders
As of September 30, 2015:
- State Street Bank and Trust Company 505223
- Japan Trustee Services Bank, Ltd.(trust account)
- The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd. (trust account)
- State Street Bank and Trust Company 505001
- The Bank of Kyoto, Ltd.
- The Master Trust Bank of Japan, Ltd. (trust account)
- Nippon Life Insurance Company
- Japan Trustee Services Bank, Ltd. (trust account 9)
- The Bank of New York, Non-Treaty Jasdec Account
Gallery
- Omron 8P calculator (1976)
- A digital Omron HJ-112 pedometer
See also
- Motorola 88000 used by the Omron luna88k 4-processor computer
- Arena, a browser which was extended by OMRON
- Yaskawa Electric Corporation
- EURion constellation
- Fuzzy logic
- MEMS
References
- "Corporate Data". Retrieved April 11, 2014.
- "Integrated Report 2015". Retrieved 1 August 2015.
- "Company Profile". Google Finance. Retrieved April 11, 2014.
- O'Brien, E.; Mee, F.; Atkins, N.; Thomas, M. (1996). "Evaluation of three devices for self-measurement of blood pressure according to the revised British Hypertension Society Protocol: the Omron HEM-705CP, Philips HP5332, and Nissei DS-175". Blood Pressure Monitoring. Europe PMC. 1 (1): 55–61. PMID 10226203.
- "Omron History: Realization of Unmanned Station System, First in the World". Retrieved April 12, 2014.
- "Milestones:List of IEEE Milestones". IEEE. Retrieved April 12, 2014.
- "Omron Global Website: Development of an automatic cash dispenser (1969)". Retrieved April 12, 2014.
- "Omron in Russia". DMLieferant. Retrieved July 22, 2013.
- "Top 100 Global Innovators 2013". Thomson Reuters. Retrieved April 17, 2014.