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"We are striving to expand our line certification system to ensure the highest possible product quality."

Along with the rapid globalization of its production system, OMRON is working to reinforce its product quality assurance system worldwide. To strengthen productivity and product quality across the OMRON Group covering all business companies, OMRON set up a cross-divisional specialized organization, the Monozukuri Innovation Headquarters in September 2006. This organization implements various measures globally to maintain its quality policies of "no input, no production and no output" of defective parts or products.

: Norishige Aoki
Parts Evaluation Group
Monozukuri Innovation HQ

For some time, we at the Monozukuri Innovation Headquarters have concentrated on preventing the production of defective products by implementing a line certification system designed for assurance of supplier's production line quality. OMRON engineers inspect and evaluate each supplier's production lines throughout the world to verify that OMRON's quality standards are met.

In fiscal 2007, the line certification system was expanded globally so that a total of 300 lines in 15 countries had been certified as of March 2008. As a result, we can now purchase from certified highly ranked suppliers for 65% of all parts/materials categories. In the future, we will strengthen our collaboration with the head office's centralized procurement department to build a solid partnership with suppliers and further contribute to quality improvement.

Assurance of supplier's production line quality