The Sysmac family - Proud of our history, confident in our future

Sysmac stands for System for Machine Automation Control and has been a trade name for our Programmable Logic Controllers since their launch in the early seventies. Since then Omron has shipped more than 10 million units world-wide. From now on the Sysmac name stands for a complete machine automation platform. It covers controller, network, software, servo drives, inverters and even vision systems. From a performance stand point we believe that this is the fastest and most robust machine control platform in the market. This gives us confidence in the future and strength to continue innovating and pioneering.

Omron introduced the first Sysmac PLC in 1971 and since then we have introduced a number of innovations. Communication, numerical control, back-plane less hardware and compact size have been just a few of our breakthroughs in the world of PLC’s. However two intrinsic images that have characterised Omron’s controllers throughout this long history are robustness and ease of use. This has inspired an appreciation and consequently a loyalty from small to medium-sized machine builders. Now that Sysmac has moved from a PLC to a total automation platform we are committed to keeping the same values.

The guiding values for the new Sysmac automation platform were simple yet challenging:

• Designed specifically for machine control
• One connection, one software philosophy
• Open to global standards
• Omron quality

We decided to go develop the platform for high speed and high accuracy machine control. For this we opted for the lightest architecture and the fastest machine network in the market. To ensure scalability and control flexibility we decided to use an INTEL atom processor instead of traditional ASICs-based architecture and an industry proven real-time operating system (RTOS). Both were pre-tested for more than two years before adoption.