Omron Corporation Appoints Kiichiro Miyata as CTO and Senior General Manager of Technology & Intellectual Property Headquarters, Effective March 21, 2015

OMRON Corporation specializes in manufacturing and marketing industrial automation systems. Net sales break down by family of products as follows: - industrial automation systems (56.7%): sensors, switches, programmable controllers, automatic optical inspection devices, temperature control systems, etc.; - medical equipments (17.4%): thermometers, blood pressure monitors, etc.; - electronic and mechanical devices and modules (14%); - social infrastructure solutions and systems (11.5%): energy and environmental solutions, public transport automation solutions (automatic doors, automated ticket vending machines, etc.), road traffic control systems, security, payment and network protection systems, etc.; - other (0.4%). Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Japan (38%), China (25.7%), Europe (15.8%), Americas (10.3%) and other (10.2%).