OMRON Corp., which has 33,000 employees and billions in revenue, just acquired tiny 178-employee Delta Tau Data Systems Inc., a control device developer.
The giant Japanese manufacturer of automation components, equipment, and control systems for factory automation won the Grand Prix in the Innovation Awards for its ping-pong robot in 2014.
Following a resolution at a meeting of its board of directors held on July 30, OMRON announced its entry into a stock-purchase agreement to acquire a 100 percent stake in Delta Tau Data Systems (DT).
The acquisition is subject to customary conditions to closing. Omron said expects the acquisition to close around early September 2015.
With headquarters in Chatsworth, Calif., DT is a control device company. This acquisition is part of OMRON’s strategy to promote its development of factory automation technology and strengthen its sales capability in the control device business.
Through the acquisition of DT, OMRON aims to reinforce its technology development and engineering capabilities in the field of motion control designed to drive manufacturing equipment.
Merging products and technologies of both companies will also enable delivery of optimized motion-control solutions globally through combined distribution networks.
DT, as a specialist manufacturer of motion controllers, is best known for development and systems integration capabilities that enabled the company to develop, manufacture, and market what is widely recognized as the world’s highest level motion controller, dubbed “PMAC.”
This product is now used mainly by U.S. and South Korean manufacturers of semiconductor and LCD equipment, machine tools, and packaging machines, among others. This acquisition will allow OMRON to combine DT’s PMAC motion controller with its wide range of products and offer new solutions to its customers globally.
By leveraging DT’s sales network equipped with highly skilled engineering capability, OMRON will provide DT’s customers with high-performance solutions comprising OMRON’s control devices and DT’s PMAC.
OMRON will also aim to expand applications of its solutions by adopting the high-performance motion control technology to OMRON’s NJ/NX series controllers that DT has accumulated over many years.
The PMAC motion controller is a controller designed to control the motion of a servo or stepping motor by executing the program that specifies its motion by means of time and position.
