Watch or listen to Juan Carlos Garcia, Product Manager – Components at Omron Automation, share expert insights into industrial control panels — extending from the essentials to common panel building challenges, effective design strategies, and product solutions.
Components at Omron Automation
Industry 4.0 trends and technologies are fueling significant growth in the global industrial control panel market, which currently has an estimated value of $15 billion and is projected to grow to around $25 billion by 2033. Control panels are vital to virtually every industrial organization. So, they tend to be unavoidable costs. However, control panel designs, complexity, and costs can vary widely. Some industry experts estimate that the engineering time required to overcome common control panel design challenges, including maximizing available space and supporting scalability, often accounts for approximately 45% of total control panel cost — or roughly the same as all the components and devices they contain — while others claim that it can account for up to a whopping 80% of the total cost. So, solutions engineered to ease design complexity, mitigate common challenges, optimize performance, minimize labor, and facilitate future growth can have an outsize impact on total control panel costs and build timelines.
We spoke to Juan Carlos Garcia, Product Manager – Components at Omron Automation, to learn more about industrial control panels. Here, Juan Carlos addresses the essentials, common panel building challenges, and effective design strategies and product solutions, including Omron Automation’s Value Design system for industrial control panels.
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(0:29) Welcome, Juan Carlos. Please introduce yourself and tell us a little about Omron Automation.
(2:56) You joined us today to talk about industrial control panels — and panel building in particular. So, let’s dive in. What should people know?
(5:36) What common challenges do people face when it comes to panel building, and do you have any advice for overcoming these challenges?
(10:10) Please introduce us to Omron Automation’s Value Design system for industrial control panels.
(12:55) Please introduce us to a few Value Design system components.
(17:01) Are there any success stories you’d like to share about Omron Automation’s Value Design system?
(18:47) Is there anything else you’d like our listeners to know about Omron Automation or its Value Design system for industrial control panels?
Optimize your industrial control panels with Omron and RS
Omron Automation is a trusted global supplier of industrial automation products and solutions, ranging from sensors and safety devices to control, vision, and motion technologies and fully integrated automation solutions, including robotic systems. Omron Automation products and solutions are backed by more than 90 years of research, design, and manufacturing experience, built to leverage cutting-edge technologies, like AI and the IIoT, and engineered to enable a more sustainable future.
RS offers an extensive portfolio of Omron Automation products, including a vast selection of panel building products. Selections extend from power supplies, like the S8VK-G series, and relays, like the MY-GS-R and G2RV-ST series, to other Value Design control panel products, including power monitors, safety controllers, timers, terminal blocks, temperature controllers, counters, fiber amplifiers, and pushbuttons.
For more information about Omron Automation products available through RS, please visit the links embedded above, as well as the company’s Industrial Control Panel Component Selection Guide and panel building page. For more expert insights from Omron Automation, check out the company’s other contributions to the RS Expert Advice series.
For assistance identifying, procuring, installing, and maintaining Omron Automation panel building products and integrated solutions, please contact your local RS representative at 1.866.433.5722 or reach out to the RS technical support team.
