About OMAC

About OMAC

OMAC—Organization for Machine Automation and Control—is the global organization for automation and manufacturing professionals that is dedicated to supporting the machine automation and operational needs of manufacturing.

OMAC has about 500 members from end-user companies, OEM's, and technology providers and integrator companies. These members include companies with vested interest in developing and implementing open control technologies for manufacturing applications.

We currently operate three two Work ing G groups: Packaging Machinery , Manufacturing Infrastructure, and Machine Tool. These groups lead the way in producing consensus guidelines to improve flexibility, improve capability, and reduce system integration costs. We also seek to improve the automation industry’s capabilities by defining the educational and training needs of our community.

OMAC is a charter member of the Automation Federation .

History

The OMAC Users Group was formed in 1994 as an organization for companies to work together and:

Collectively derive common solutions for both technical and non-technical issues in the development, implementation, and commercialization of open, modular architecture control technologies
Promote open, modular architecture control development among control technology providers and adoption among end users, OEMs, and system integrators
Act as a repository for open, modular architecture control requirements and operating experience from users, software developers, hardware builders and OEMs in manufacturing applications
Facilitate the accelerated development and convergence of industry- and government-developed technology guidelines to one set that satisfies common use requirements
Collaborate with users groups around the world in pursuit of common international technology guidelines.