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factor in the acquisition. Microscan, for its part, will now
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benefit significantly from a much broader sales base, through Omron’s network. “The thing that Omron re- ally brings to Microscan is the com- mercial scale,” said Scott Sum- merville, CEO of Microscan. “It’s go- ing to be full integration, so the sales force will be much, much larger than what Microscan had by itself. This gives us the ability to scale and grow the business more quickly.” According to both companies,
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the acquisition has gone very smoothly. The rapid progress and lack of major setbacks is due to the level of planning and collaboration that went into the process. Rather than a typical, hands-off business ac- quisition, this is a complete integra- tion of Omron Microscan as a global business unit with Omron. Manufacturers are becoming
more concerned with traceability and are more carefully governing product quality to meet industry require- ments, such as the Electronic Indus- try Citizenship Coalition (IECC) code of conduct. Final products are also becoming increasingly personalized, leading to a greater need for high- mix,
low-volume manufacturing.
With such a demand for one-to-one customized production, companies are finding individual product trace- ability critical. Omron has unveiled examples
of new solution packages that are tai- lored to meet the specific needs of dif- ferent industries, including the auto-
December, 2017 Omron Acquires Microscan...
motive, consumer electronics and pharmaceutical markets. A “robot-linked traceability” so-
lution could enable easy and stable reading of multiple, intricately-posi- tioned ID codes. A “high-quality manufacturing”
solution package could be used for ideal combinations of components, depending on their grades and char- acteristics. A “serialization solution package for legal/regulatory compli- ance” would allow a customer to more easily meet various legal re- quirements and regulations, such as in the pharmaceutical industry. A “zero defect” package would
be focused on creating a manufactur- ing environment of interconnected machines that leverage machine da- ta to improve product quality. Omron is now committed to
bringing data collection, analysis and application to the manufacturing floor. The company plans to accom- plish this by connecting the informa- tion from various code-read objects to its i-BELT IoT service platform. Working together in the same space, production machines of the future will be able to assist humans by rec- ognizing their behavior and reacting accordingly. With the acquisition of Microscan, Omron is a step closer to creating a new, harmonious relation- ship between human operators and machines. Contact: Omron Microscan Sys-
tems, Inc., 700 SW 39th Street, Renton, WA 98057 % 425-203-4864 E-mail:
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vices. The versatility of this process allowed the researchers to design not only single transistors, but all-print- ed integrated electronic circuits com- bining active and passive compo- nents.
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ics normally require toxic solvents and are not suitable to be worn, whereas our inks are both cheap, safe and environmentally-friendly, and can be combined to create elec- tronic circuits by simply printing dif- ferent two-dimensional materials on the fabric,” says Dr. Felice Torrisi of the Cambridge Graphene Centre, the paper’s senior author. “Digital textile printing has
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been around for decades to print sim- ple colorants on textiles, but our re- sult demonstrates, for the first time, that such technology can also be used to print the entire electronic inte- grated circuits onto textiles,” says co- author professor Roman Sordan of Politecnico di Milano. “Although we demonstrated very simple integrated circuits, our process is scalable and there are no fundamental obstacles to the technological development of wearable electronic devices, both in
terms of their complexity and per- formance.” “The printed components are
flexible, washable and require low power, essential requirements for ap- plications in wearable electronics,” says Ph.D. student Tian Carey, the paper’s first author. The work opens up a number of
commercial opportunities for two-di- mensional material inks, ranging from personal health and well-being technology, to wearable energy har- vesting and storage, military gar- ments, wearable computing, and fashion. “Turning textile fibers into
functional electronic components can open to an entirely new set of appli- cations from health care and well-be- ing to the Internet of Things (IoT),” says Torrisi. “Thanks to nanotech- nology, in the future, our clothes could incorporate these textile-based electronics, such as displays or sen- sors and become interactive.” The use of graphene and other
related 2D material (GRM) inks to create electronic components and de- vices integrated into fabrics and in- novative textiles is at the center of new technical advances in the smart textiles industry. The teams at the Cambridge
Graphene Centre and Politecnico di Milano are also involved in the Graphene Flagship, an EC-funded, pan-European project dedicated to bringing graphene and GRM tech- nologies to commercial applications. Web:
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