OMICRON

History

OMICRON states that Rainer Aberer founded the company in Vorarlberg, Austria, in 1984. Its early work involved software for electronics and communications, followed by hardware for testing measurement transducers. The company entered protection testing and the power industry with the CMC 56 in 1990, establishing the product direction most closely associated with the OMICRON manuals in this catalog.

The company expanded from relay testing into broader primary-equipment and diagnostic work. Its history identifies the CPC 100 primary test system in 2001, the addition of partial-discharge analysis technology in 2006, online monitoring in 2009, and later digital-substation and cybersecurity products. These developments place OMICRON primarily in electric-power commissioning, protection, diagnostics, and condition assessment rather than general-purpose bench instrumentation.

OMICRON's current contact registry identifies OMICRON electronics GmbH at Oberes Ried 1 in Klaus, Austria. The company continues to describe its work as making electrical power systems safe and reliable through testing, diagnostic, and monitoring solutions. This draft uses the public-facing OMICRON name while retaining the legal company name to distinguish the manufacturer from unrelated meanings of 'omicron.'

Equipment specialties

• Protection-relay testing
• Primary power-equipment testing
• Partial-discharge measurement and analysis
• Power-system diagnostics and monitoring
• Digital-substation testing