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21/39 IAB: Revolutionary Manufacturing Concept Accelerates Growth

This slide depicts innovative-Automation, a concept that revolutionizes manufacturing and will accelerate the growth of the IAB business. The “i” of innovative also captures the 3 components that underpin the revolution in manufacturing . The first i is for integrated, which represents the evolution of control technology: to smoothly control machinery at high speeds and with high accuracy. The second i is for intelligent, which represents the active use of data to enable ‘smart’ facilities. The third i is for interactive, which represents the development of a new type of collaboration between humans and machines. The solutions that incorporate innovative-automation are not being sold as discrete products. Instead, OMRON is combining these products with application software and is selling these revolutionizing applications as package solutions. Examples of revolutionizing applications are solutions for quality management for the EV assembly process or the final visual inspection of electronic components. Revolutionizing applications refer to solution packages that are specifically developed for our focus industries. The number of OMRON control software applications used in revolutionizing applications has increased dramatically over the last 2 years and now stands at more than 230. The number of revolutionizing solutions, which consists of combinations of the control software applications and multiple products, has doubled over the last 2 years. We now offer more than 50 solutions packages. The number of revolutionizing applications continues to grow. The customers that have adopted a full revolutionizing package do not need to undertake the technically challenging task of aligning and fine-tuning multiple devices; instead they are easily able to achieve sophisticated machine control. This epitomizes OMRON’s unique competitive advantage and is the reason why OMRON is highly rated by many customers around the world. I will explain in more detail.