Kyoto, Japan - OMRON Corporation (TSE: 6645; ADR: OMRNY) announces the following representative director changes, following a resolution made at a Board of Directors meeting held on February 21, 2012. A formal decision regarding the changes (outlined below), will be made following approval at an Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders in June of this year and a subsequent Board of Directors meeting.

1. Reason for the changes
   Enhancement of corporate governance.

2. Names and positions of new and retiring representative directors
   

   (1) Newly appointed representative director

   Name: Yoshinobu Morishita
   New Position: Representative Director and Executive Vice President

   (2) Retiring representative director

   Name: Hisao Sakuta
   Position: Chairman of the Board of Directors
   (Hisao Sakuta is expected to re-assume the position of Chairman of the Board of Directors but without representative rights)

3. Brief biographical profile of new representative director

   Name: Yoshinobu Morishita
   Date of Birth: September 22, 1949
   Career:	April 1972, Joined the Company
   	June 2003, Appointed Executive Officer and General Manager of Sensing Device Department, Industrial Automation Business Company
   	June 2006, Appointed Managing Officer
   	March 2008, Appointed President of Industrial Automation Business Company
   	June 2008, Appointed Senior Managing Officer
   	June 2011, Appointed Director and Executive Vice President
   Number of Shares Held: 11,300

   
   

4. Proposed Date of Appointment
   June 21, 2012