Omron Healthcare is a leader in medical equipment for therapy and health monitoring. The Omron range of products includes blood pressure monitors, respiratory therapy devices, electronic fever thermometers and body fat monitors among others. By looking beyond the technology, Omron's real commitment lies in building healthy lives. Omron aim to provide a total healthcare management service, aimed at preventing and improving such increasingly common health problems as hypertension, respiratory problems, diabetes and obesity.
’Working for the benefit of Society’ is Omron’s core corporate value, and in 2008, Omron celebrated their 75th year of reinforcing this message. Omron offers a wide variety of healthcare products that help people to improve the quality of their lives. All of them are designed and made to class-leading quality standards, ensuring long-lasting accuracy throughout many years of use.
Omron founder Kazuma Tateisi, a brilliant inventor and determined salesman, tried his hand at a knife-grinder and trouser press before launching Tateisi Electric Manufacturing Co. in 1933 based on a need by hospitals for faster X-ray timers.
The 3-employee factory grew into Omron Corporation, today a US$5.5 billion plus global leader in sensing and control components with over 35,000 employees spread out across 35 countries.
In its trail Omron has left a string of developments that have revolutionized our lives, including several incredible world's firsts: non-contact proximity switch, automatic traffic signal, ticket vending machine and fully automated train station system, and automatic cancer cell diagnostic equipment.
Omron makes significant contributions in a wide variety of fields such as industrial automation, home appliances & office equipment, automobiles, social & financial systems, and healthcare
