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Pepperl+Fuchs Innovations for the Future of Automation

Pepperl+Fuchs Radio Repair Shop
Pepperl+Fuchs Radio Repair Shop

"Your automation, our passion"—Pepperl+Fuchs' company claim is also our promise to our customers: that we are committed and passionate about developing solutions and products that optimally support their automation challenges.

A spirit of research, entrepreneurial vision, and a belief in their own abilities—in 1945, founding fathers Walter Pepperl and Ludwig Fuchs laid the foundations for a success story in a small radio workshop in Mannheim that continues to this day. A look at 80-year history of Pepperl+Fuchs reveals many milestones, including the invention of the inductive proximity sensor in 1958, which not only demonstrates the company's consistently high level of innovation. It also reflects a fundamental attitude that has been the most important pillar of this success story from the very beginning: working in partnership with our customers, working together as equals.

Awards for outstanding engineering performance
Awards for outstanding engineering performance

The individual needs and challenges of each customer, which we identify together in an intensive dialog, are the focus of our actions, both today and in the future. This applies in particular to the digital transformation of processes and applications in the automation industry. We continue to drive this progress forward: with innovations and investments in a well-rounded range of services that pave the way for IIoT-enabled applications. Reinterpreting proven technologies is just as important to us as developing state-of-the-art technological concepts such as Ethernet-APL.

Always thinking one step ahead, developing and realizing visions for automation, and shaping its development in the future—this is what drives us.

Welcome to our world—let us inspire you!

Divisions

To meet the changing requirements associated with digitalization, IIoT applications, new digital business models and the development of new markets, Pepperl+Fuchs has expanded its Factory Automation and Process Automation divisions, which were founded in 1991, to include new divisions. Today, five divisions focused on the target markets are working on sustainable innovations that are supported by strategic investments. The result is a well-rounded range of services offering the right solution for every application.

Factory Automation

  • Development of industrial sensors, systems, and communication
  • For every application; numerous industries; providing a wide range of technologies
  • From product development (standard, customized, or application-specific) to integration and complete solutions

Factory Automation Solutions

  • Powerful network for sensors, scanning technology, and industrial 2-D / 3-D industrial vision systems
  • Clear focus on solution business, digitalization, and turnkey solutions
  • One-stop shop—from development, design, and project planning to the implementation of intelligently networked systems and processes as well as after-sales support

Entrance Automation

  • Sensor solutions for entrance automation
  • Maximum protection and convenience for people and vehicles with sensor-based, noncontact detection for doors, gates, and lifts
  • Flexible adaptation to different requirements and applications
  • Wide range of functional principles
  • Compliance with the highest safety standards

Process Automation

  • Development of products and solutions for potentially explosive atmospheres
  • Market leader in electrical explosion protection with more than 70 years of experience
  • Ethernet-APL for IIoT applications in process industries
  • Solution Engineering Centers around the globe for application-specific system solutions in all types of ignition protection
  • Leading provider of functional safety technologies with more than 10 million standard-portfolio SIL products installed

Enterprise Mobility

  • Digitalization of industrial and hazardous area-rated applications and processes with intrinsically safe, industrial-grade mobile devices (smartphones, tablets), and HMI operating stations
  • Holistic one-stop solution with an end-to-end portfolio that connects infrastructure, devices, and people across company boundaries in digital workflows and processes
The Mannheim headquarters by night
The Mannheim headquarters by night

Facts and Figures

Board Members
Gunther Kegel, Ph.D (Chairman)
Werner Guthier (Deputy Chairman)
Tobias Blöcher
Lutz Liebers
Reiner Müller
Florian Ochs

Sales 2024
840 Mio. EUR

Employees
6,450 worldwide

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