Omicron electronics

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OMICRON electronics GmbH

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founding 1984
Seat Klaus , Austria
Number of employees 750 (as of September 2015)
sales EUR 75 million (2010)

EUR 100 million (2013)

Branch Electrical Power Engineering
Website www.omicronenergy.com

The firm OMICRON electronics GmbH is a global medium-sized company with headquarters in Klaus , Vorarlberg . Test and diagnostic devices are manufactured for the condition assessment of primary and secondary technical equipment in electrical power engineering . The company is one of the world market leaders in test equipment for protection and measurement technology in electrical energy systems.

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The company was founded in 1984 by Rainer Aberer, originally based in Hohenems , and today employs 750 people. The company has 24 offices in Europe, North America, South America, Asia, Australia and the Middle East and has customers in around 160 countries.

The product range includes diagnostic systems for transformers, converters, rotating machines, cables and lines (primary technology) as well as test equipment for protection and measurement technology (secondary technology). In addition, services in the areas of consulting, commissioning, testing, diagnosis and training are offered. Customers include energy suppliers, manufacturers of equipment, large industrial companies and energy technology service providers.

On June 18, 2009, the company's founder and sole owner, Rainer Aberer, and his wife Sharen Seversen had a fatal accident with their private plane, a Cessna 182 , near Dougherty, Texas . Rainer Aberer had already handed over the management of Omicron to a management team in 2000. Since then he himself had developed new business areas such as B. in the field of learning software or laboratory measurement technology.

Individual evidence

  1. a b Our Company. Omicron website, accessed September 29, 2015 .
  2. ^ Vorarlberger Nachrichten from 22./23. January 2011: Omicron on the road to success
  3. Vorarlberger Nachrichten of January 22, 2013: 100 million mark reached
  4. With Omicron, excitement is guaranteed. WirtschaftsBlatt, August 8, 2007, archived from the original on March 16, 2016 ; Retrieved January 9, 2013 .
  5. Our Company. Omicron website, accessed July 13, 2018 .
  6. Omicron founder killed in plane crash. on ORF Vorarlberg from June 22, 2009 accessed on January 9, 2013