Aratas: Same People, Same Products, New Name

Aratas Corporation is a leading manufacturing company that began as a spin-off from OMRON Corporation and looks to the future that sustains a legacy of engineering expertise, quality products, and customer relationships. On October 1, 2026, Aratas Corporation, formerly OMRON component business, transitioned to an independent company from OMRON Group.

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The name “Aratas” is a combination of the Japanese words for "new" and "tomorrow,” reflecting the new company's desire to create a better tomorrow by making an innovated connection to be the first one that customers call and the first one to deliver solutions all while utilizing the same people and products they have always been known for.

This is the philosophy that the company uses to develop products and partnerships with customers to position itself as technology grows and expands. Aratas aims to anticipate market needs and demands of a rapidly evolving technology in high-growth sectors such as electric vehicles (EVs), factory automation, and smart energy management. The evolution of Aratas is not about forgetting the company’s origin, but leveraging it to provide innovative solutions to the rising technology challenges that customers face.

The demands placed on application designs have escalated to require components withstanding higher voltages, faster switching, longer lifetimes, smaller footprints, and harsher environments. Aratas continues to provide solutions to each of the problems through an extensive lineup of relays, switches, sensors, and connectors. Aratas offers applications such as energy storage systems, smart homes, HVAC, automated test equipment; compact, energy-efficient components that ensure reliable and consistent performance.

Electronic Vehicles

Electric vehicles are reshaping transportation, energy, and the industrial landscape and require electronic components that offer reliability, cost efficiency, and scalable infrastructure. The G9KD family of high-capacity power relays are PCB-mount relays designed for high-voltage, high-current DC switching. The G9KD offers flexibility while supporting DC devices up to 1500 VDC.

Factory Automation

Manufacturers are facing various challenges from labor shortages, supply chain volatility, and rising quality and sustainability requirements. Aratas switch components are designed to survive the vibration, dust, and chemical exposure typical of industrial environments. The B5W color sensor series can help automation within these harsh environments through the detection of equipment and remote monitoring, optimizing maintenance and efficiency.

Smart Energy Management

While traditional energy systems were passive and centralized, smart energy systems are active, distributed, and increasingly autonomous. They respond rapidly to changes in supply and demand, balance loads across complex networks, and make decisions that reduce waste, lower costs, and shrink carbon footprints. Aratas’ product lineup includes the G9KA relay that minimizes heat generation while supporting high-capacity capabilities in energy storage systems, EV chargers, and solar inverters.

Summary

The agility and flexibility that Aratas can offer solutions to customers’ challenges is rooted in the long history of established reliable products and trusted expertise that is harnessed to build innovative connections through people and technology. Aratas is investing in the technologies its customers will need tomorrow without sacrificing the quality they depend on today. The company’s wide range of products utilize cutting-edge manufacturing technology to contribute to superior functionality, precision, and miniaturization across a variety of fields. Each new component and module pushes the frontier of what is possible while maintaining the reliability engineers expect from Aratas.