Omron Scientific Technologies specializes in solutions for machine safeguarding. The company offers light curtains, laser scanners, mats, contact strips and bumpers, interlock switches, monitoring relays, two-hand controls and awareness signs. It produces photoelectric sensors, profiling scanners, continuous-level transmitters, flow switches, controllers and monitors. Scientific Technologies maintains a network of international distributors throughout the United States, France, Italy, Spain, Japan, China and the Netherlands. The company s products are used to keep workers safe in automated factories that produce a variety of complex products, such as automobiles, computers, electronics, and food and beverages. It also serves the defense and tollway markets. Omron Scientific Technologies has established relationships with various customers, including 3M, Abbott Laboratories, General Motors, IBM, Motorola and Hewlett-Packard. The company is headquartered in Fremont, Calif.