Omicron

Regional products are a megatrend. However, the team of OMICRON in Vorarlberg does not manufacture culinary delights, but they fulfill the highest demands regarding testing technology – and they export this all over the globe.

It needs to be admitted that from a world market leader you would expect to sponsor the Olympic Games or to fly into space. But the services of OMICRON are priceless and much more helpful than international stardom: They have been taking care of conformity with regulations, safety, and stability in the testing field of the energy sector since the beginning of the 1990s. “At your own home there is a fuse box with a FI circuit breaker that you should push once a month to check that it is functioning properly,” starts Wolfgang Senoner. “OMICRON does the same, but on a larger scale: we are simulating failures.” It is too late when you only find out that the automatic switch-off at fault currents works when a tree hits the power line – this must be regularly checked beforehand. OMICRON develops and produces testing devices exactly for scenarios like this.

Even though the network know-how is found to a large extent in-house, one is pleased to have NTS as a reliable partner (and Cisco expert) on site for several years already, as telecommunication has entered the daily routine of testing devices. “In the past, somebody had to visit the customer for device training, very often to the farthest corners of the world. Today we are staging video live sessions almost continuously throughout the day.” By the way: It was recently proven in an especially innovative cooperation that you can rely on NTS and that you can crack nuts with them: OMICRON and NTS have joint forces and offer cross-industrial security solutions for the IT and OT sector.

OMICRON is offering “innovation out of passion” not only for its customers, but they also follow their founder’s slogan, who was killed in a plane crash in 2009. Self-organization, team awareness and quality of life maintain top priorities. This is for example apparent from the presence of a climbing park on the roof of the headquarter, from the (voluntary) kitchen team of 200 employees or from the three-day party for the entire OMICRON staff that is held every 5 years. “It is also a part of the high level of self-responsibility that you can separate the job from your private life,” reckons Senoner. Of course, he does not disclose how he does it, but he reveals as much: He never pushes the circuit breaker at his home either.”

• Established in 1984 by Rainer Aberer
• Around 1,100 employees
• 25 subsidiaries and service centers globally
• Customers in more than 160 countries