Omron has opened a new automation facility in Tokyo, Japan, designed to help customers find solutions to manufacturing issues.
Located in the Shinagawa ward of the city, the 1,114m2 (11,992ft2) ATC-Tokyo is designed for customers to find solutions to manufacturing issues using from Omron’s 200,000+ control devices.
ATC-Tokyo – Omron’s 37th ATC facility in the world – is being billed as the company’s flagship factory automation (FA) technology centre, featuring model production floors enabling customers to test FA that integrates AI, IoT, robotics and other technologies.
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There, customers can witness manufacturing developments made using Omron’s ‘innovative-Automation’ manufacturing innovation concept, which facilitates solutions to issues facing manufacturers globally.
A seminar room is also available for customer technical training.
Adjacent to ATC-Tokyo is POC-Tokyo, a 1,919m2 (20,655ft2) facility where customers can conduct demonstration tests in a simulated usage environment to verify processes using various robots, including collaborative robots, mobile robots, and other devices that they have brought in.
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Also in the vicinity is a development function where customers can demonstrate, learn skills for, and develop devices that they need.
Of the new facility, Omron said in a statement: “Amid the major transition on production floors, manufacturing businesses are being challenged by the rapid changes in social needs, the ongoing shift toward low-volume, high-mix production, cultivation of skilled workers, and simultaneous start-up of multiple locations, while at the same time AI, robotics, and other technological innovations are accelerating the advancement of seeds.
“The flagship ATC facility, ATC-Tokyo, will take the lead in extending the frontiers of manufacturing through innovation.”
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