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Elektroteks accelerates smart automation with OMRON’s Sysmac integrated platform
Elektroteks, the world's largest mattress machinery manufacturer, has implemented OMRON's Sysmac Integrated Automation platform across its comprehensive range of production equipment.
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Smart sensors, smart decisions: 3 ways sensors can help improve machine performance
Discover three ways how integrated smart sensing helps machine builders and manufacturers achieve better control, reliability, and quality.
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How to build resilience into every manufacturing decision
Thriving through turbulence: How to build resilience into every manufacturing decisionIn the world today, adaptability is no longer only a competitive advantage, it’s a necessity. Manufacturers across all sectors face continuous disruption: changing regulations, unpredictable demand, shifting supply chains, a growing workforce shortage and skills gap. Resilience isn’t something that can be tacked on after the fact. It must be designed into the system, embedded in strategy, and reinforced through technology and culture.Here are five key principles for designing resilience into manufacturing operations:1. Put customers and partners firstResilient manufacturers share a common trait: they prioritize long-term relationships. In our experience, strong partnerships, with both customers and technology providers, create a foundation of trust that becomes invaluable during disruption. This foundation will also become stronger and more robust over time. Whether it’s a global component shortage or a sudden regulatory shift, companies that operate with openness, loyalty, and collaboration respond faster and more effectively. These human connections are just as important to resilience as any machine or system.
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User-Friendly and Simple to Design with NB Faceplate
Our cost-free NB-Faceplate makes the integration process smoother by facilitating connections with OMRON devices and the configuration of essential HMI functions, such as communication, settings, recipe management, multilingual support, trend analysis, data logging, and security options.
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Automation Technology Center Autonomous Mobile Robots Annecy, France
Join us for a virtual visit to our ATC Mobile Robotics in Annecy, France. Find out how to improve flexibility and productivity with the help of innovative autonomous and collaborative robotics.
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Comau and OMRON Robotics collaborate to accelerate advanced industrial automation across high-growth manufacturing sectors
Combining complementary robotics, control, and software capabilities to deliver flexible, scalable automation solutions for global customers.
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OMRON introduces new mast configuration options for OL-450S AMR
OMRON has announced expanded configuration options for its OL-450S Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR), adding new mast options for cart and load carrier transport across production and intralogistics operations. At interpack 2026, OMRON gives visitors a first-hand look at one of the new options in action, with a live demonstration at the Packaging Valley booth in Hall 16, Stand D72-11. The demonstration also features the OL-450S with an integrated VHV5 QR code reader, showing how mobile robotics can be combined with sensing and identification technologies to support enhanced tracking in workflows.
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One platform, ten axes: PROTiM and OMRON automate secondary tea packaging
Powered by OMRON's Sysmac automation system, the result is a fully integrated, high-speed packaging line with 10 synchronized 1S servo axes, a RaceTrack-like transport system, integrated safety, and a single Sysmac Studio project covering all motion, logic, HMI, and safety functions
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Elektroteks accelerates smart automation with OMRON’s Sysmac integrated platform
Elektroteks, the world's largest mattress machinery manufacturer, has implemented OMRON's Sysmac Integrated Automation platform across its comprehensive range of production equipment.
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"Just add a camera." Often the four most expensive words in machine building.
For OEMs, a customer's request to "just add a camera" is common and, on the face of it, simple. To the customer the inspection itself may seem trivial: is the cap on? is the label the right one? is the part the correct way round?The trap is often assuming that because the inspection is simple, the system needed to deliver it will be simple too.A traditional vision setup is a stack of decisions, each its own small discipline. Selecting the camera and resolution. Choosing a lens and calculating the field of view. Specifying lighting and managing reflections, which is the single biggest determinant of whether the thing works at all. Sourcing trigger sensors, brackets and protection. Wiring to the controller, integrating the software, configuring the inspection tools. Then the part nobody budgets for: tuning. Conventional systems need thresholds fine-tuned by iteration, and defect inspection has traditionally needed a skilled engineer to curate the training images by hand. Both can quietly consume days.For an OEM the complexity compounds. Every separate component is another line on the BOM, another connector, more cabinet space, maybe even another supplier relationship. It creates a dependency: either you keep a vision specialist on staff, or you stay tied to an integrator every time a part changes. Often it does not end at commissioning. Once the machine ships, the OEM usually owns the support burden too, including operator training and every "it stopped inspecting" call months later. That recurring cost is why so many genuinely simple inspections never get automated. The maths doesn't close.This is the calculus that integrated AI smart cameras change. OMRON's FHV7-AI puts camera, lighting, autofocus lens and image processing in one IP67 body, collapsing most of the selection and integration problem before you've written a line of config. Setup is guided: pick the inspection type, sort sample images into OK and NG, press learn. The self-learning AI then selects its own training images and sets the thresholds from the distribution of results, rather than leaving that to an engineer. Days become minutes, and the expertise tax largely disappears, for the builder and for the end user who must live with it.The honest caveat: This will not replace a full high-end vision platform for harder applications, such as precision measurement, complex OCR or genuinely subtle defects and AI is only ever as good as the images it learns from. But for the large middle ground of presence, type, orientation and simple defect, where the system integration overhead used to dwarf the inspection, that trade-off has shifted.For machine builders, the value was never only in detecting the defect. It's in everything you no longer need to design, commission and support around it.Vision is just one piece. See how it fits into the wider machine - motion, logic, safety and networking in one platform: SYSMAC
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SYSMAC - A Name Older Than Most of the Engineers Using It
Many brands in industrial automation don't last. Product lines get absorbed, renamed, or quietly retired whenever a company is acquired or a strategy shifts. SYSMAC has done the opposite. The name has sat on OMRON's programmable controllers since the early 1970s, and it's still on the controller you'd specify today. That's not marketing longevity for its own sake; it's roughly 55 years of unbroken lineage on the same class of product.It helps to remember why it existed at all. In 1967, OMRON (then Tateisi Electric, the firm whose Kyoto home district, Omuro, would later give the company its name) set up a study group to do something unusual for a components manufacturer: predict the future. The result was SINIC theory, a model presented internationally in 1970 that mapped how society, science, and technology pull one another forward. The conclusion that matters to us: manufacturing was heading toward smaller batches, more variety, and faster change. The rigid relay panels of the day simply couldn't keep up. OMRON's answer in 1971 was a programmable controller it called SYSMAC.
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