Bengaluru, October 8, 2025: OMRON, global leader in industrial automation, announced the inauguration of its new Automation Center in Bengaluru, marking a milestone in the company's long-term commitment to advance industrial automation-based transformation of India's manufacturing sector. The Center, part of OMRON's global network of 10 Automation Centers and 34 Proof of Concept (POC) labs, is strategically located to serve manufacturers in South India as well as across the country, including micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) to empower them to make world-class in India.

Supporting the government's Make in India and Industry 4.0 initiatives, the Center demonstrates practical automation solutions for manufacturing challenges, facilitates proof-of-concept development, provides technical training, and enables collaboration with manufacturers, machine builders, and system integrators to strengthen India's manufacturing capabilities.

The launch also underscores the deepening India-Japan partnership, as both nations expand collaboration in technology, talent, and supply chain resilience. With Japan committing ¥10 trillion in investments over the next decade^*1 across sectors such as semiconductors and digital industries, the Center contributes to a shared ambition of positioning India as a trusted global hub for smart manufacturing and innovation.

India's manufacturing sector is at a transformative juncture. The goal to raise manufacturing's GDP share from ~12% to 23% over the next two decades^*2 is ambitious but within reach, provided there's sustained focus on technology adoption, skills and infrastructure development. Industrial automation plays a pivotal role by enhancing productivity, global competitiveness, and sustainability.

*1 Support Based on the Framework for Strengthening the AI and Semiconductor Industry Infrastructure（METI) (Only in Japanese）
*2 India aims to double share of manufacturing in GDP to 23% helped by sunrise sectors: FM - The Hindu

Speaking at the inauguration, Motohiro Yamanishi, Company President, Industrial Automation Company, OMRON Corporation, Japan, said,
"We see immense potential in the dynamism of India's manufacturing sector. The Automation Center underscores India's profound importance to our global as well as Asia Pacific vision and is designed to work hand-in-hand with local partners to enhance their global competitiveness and jointly address evolving societal needs through innovative automation. This Center is more than a showcase of technology; it is an engine for co-creation. With smart technologies driving efficiency and innovation, facilities like these are set to be one of the key catalysts in India's journey toward becoming a global manufacturing leader."

Expanding on the broader vision behind the center's establishment, Sameer Gandhi, Managing Director, OMRON Automation, India shared,
"At OMRON, we believe technology should serve society's greatest needs. Our Automation Center takes a solutions-based approach to help Indian manufacturers tackle the challenges of building safer workplaces, delivering higher quality products, and improve efficiencies. This is about more than automation, it's about participating towards creating a manufacturing ecosystem that has an active role in protecting public health, reducing waste, and driving economic growth."

About OMRON Automation India Business
Headquartered in Kyoto, Japan, OMRON Corporation is a multi-billion-dollar, diversified company with business units producing industrial automation products, device & module solutions, healthcare, data and social system solutions. The Industrial Automation business unit of OMRON is a global leader providing complete automation solutions for industrial applications. It brings innovation to manufacturing sites through automation with "Integrated", "Intelligent" and "Interactive" concepts with one of the world's most sophisticated and wide product range encompassing panel components, smart sensors, Vision technologies, PLCs, Servos, Drives, Robots & Cobots and Machine safety solutions (ILOR+S) technology.

OMRON Automation - India, now more than two decades old in the country, caters to varied industrial applications encompassing the wide requirements of packaging, automotive, material handling, food & beverages, digital and panel building applications. The company is focusing on the solution business, including Robotics and IIoT, providing "One Stop" solutions to improve the overall efficiency on diverse production sites. It supports manufacturing innovation with its unique sensing & controlling technologies and caters to customers across the country via its wide network of offices, application, service and sales engineers supported by an automation center, PoC labs, training centers as well as channel partners to address the ever-challenging requirements. A major factor in OMRON's progress globally & locally has been the strong commitment to provide solutions to its customers' unique challenges.

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www.omron-ap.co.in