OMRON Group recently announced that it will acquire Microscan Systems Inc., an American industrial bar code reader and machine vision expert, to better realize IoT at the manufacturing site and evolution of manufacturing control. At present, it has concluded with its parent company, SiBI, and is expected to complete its 100% acquisition in early October 2017.

Founded in 1982 and headquartered in Renton, a suburb of Seattle, Washington, USA, Microscan is the world's leading maker of industrial code readers with sales of approximately 6 billion yen. The benefits of Microscan include the "industry-leading software technology" that is required for industrial field environments and enables stable reading even under harsh conditions.

As we all know, due to the increasing global consumer demand for product safety and reliability, manufacturers are continually enhancing their efforts to build a management model that addresses stringent traceability and product safety. In addition, consumer preferences are increasingly diversified, requiring more variety and less volume customization. As a result, in the days when the IoT Internet of Things was being focused in various industries, the technology of giving "ID codes" to products and individual parts was rapidly expanding, and at the same time, there was a growing trend toward manufacturing code readers using image technology Increasing demands.

Through the acquisition of reading technology and a variety of reader products, combined with Omron's original strong automation product group, will provide more new solutions in the future combination: 1. In the complex configuration of the complex ID code can be simple and stable, we can see that "robot linkage traceability 2. The most suitable "high quality manufacturing" based on the classification and characteristics of components 3. In medicine and other statutory restrictions, anyone can simply correspond 4. Machine ID implementation, the use of omens to ensure high efficiency preservation operation 5. Achieve zero-defect manufacturing environment through information connection of machines and machines

In this way, not only can any item be informatized, but also the information can be used to respond to the diverse and flexible consumer needs. Accelerate Omron's unique IoT innovation! Also accelerated Omron "intelligent" (intelligent) * manufacturing concept!