To ensure the highest quality and reliability, all the major items within the Olympus Industrial range, including videoscopes, fiberscopes, borescopes, light sources, video cameras and controllers, are designed and manufactured within the Olympus Group, under its ISO 9001 certification, either in Japan or the UK.

Lenses for Olympus endoscopes, from as small as 0.5mm (0.020") in diameter, are manufactured in purpose built factories in Ina and Aizu, Japan, where many leading-edge production technologies have been introduced, including the manufacture of aspheric and molded lenses, which give special optical characteristics important in high brightness, small diameter, distortion free systems.

Endoscope lenses can be as small as 0.5mm diameter

Videoscopes, fiberscopes, borescopes and cameras are made in factories in Hinode and Tatsuno, Japan, and Southend–on-Sea, UK.
The same high standards are employed at each plant, all of which accommodate leading-edge production processes including computer-controlled machining, metal forming, laser welding, surface mount printed circuit assembly and automatic testing of electronic equipment. Clean rooms provide a dehumidified, temperature-controlled environment for the production of precision optical systems.

The manufacturing team includes production engineers and buyers, skilled machine tool operators and assembly technicians, all of whom benefit from comprehensive in-house training programs, to ensure the highest standards of product quality are maintained.

Production control staff, forming the link between Manufacturing and the Sales and Service divisions, use sophisticated manufacturing management software to ensure production plans are targeted to maximize customer service.

The company’s manufacturing operations also produce components and sub-assemblies for many other industries, including aerospace and medicine.

As an example, Olympus’ UK subsidiary Algram Ltd, based in Plymouth, specializes in plastics molding and toolmaking for a wide range of applications across many industries.