Issue 2/2023
 Pilz celebrates its anniversary!

Our anniver­sary issue of “Men­sch und Automa­tion” takes you on a jour­ney through 75 years of Pilz – from its begin­nings as a glass-blow­ing busi­ness to today’s automa­tion experts for Safe­ty and Indus­tri­al Secu­ri­ty. Read more about the joy of inno­va­tion and a val­ue-ori­ent­ed togeth­er­ness at Pilz.

“We look to the past with gratitude and to the future with complete joy”

Found­ed in 1948, Pilz has con­tin­u­ous­ly trans­formed itself – from a glass-blow­ing busi­ness to an elec­tron­ics com­pa­ny, to an automa­tion and digi­ti­sa­tion com­pa­ny. In con­ver­sa­tion with Susanne Kun­schert and Thomas Pilz, Man­ag­ing Part­ners, they give their per­son­al insights into the devel­op­ment of the safe automa­tion com­pa­ny.

Pilz through the ages

Pilz’s com­pa­ny his­to­ry is char­ac­terised by inspi­ra­tional events and tech­no­log­i­cal mile­stones. A jour­ney from 1948 to the present day.

Green light for engine parts

On an exten­sive crack test­ing machine, how can you ensure that only autho­rised employ­ees gain access to the indi­vid­ual process steps? With the flex­i­ble oper­at­ing mode selec­tion and access per­mis­sion sys­tem PIT­mode fusion, only autho­rised per­sons now get the “green light” at Rhode + Wag­n­er.

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A brief history of machinery safety

Even today, safe­ty in the work­place can­not be tak­en for grant­ed in many parts of the world. How­ev­er, in more and more coun­tries there is a grow­ing recog­ni­tion that machin­ery safe­ty is worth it – for human and machine.

“We’ll take the load off your shoulders”

In Novem­ber 2022, Daniel Kohler became the new head of the Pilz Acad­e­my, look­ing after the world­wide train­ing offer for machin­ery safe­ty and automa­tion from Pilz. In this inter­view he tells us what he val­ues about the Pilz Acad­e­my, and how he wish­es to write anoth­er chap­ter in its his­to­ry.

3 minutes with …
… Jan Falb

Jan Falb works in the Qual­i­ty Man­age­ment depart­ment at Pilz, where he is pri­mar­i­ly respon­si­ble for sus­tain­abil­i­ty man­age­ment. In our “3 min­utes with …” col­umn, he answers the most impor­tant cur­rent ques­tions about his area of work.

Close at hand since 1948

The Ger­man Sales and Ser­vice Com­pa­ny is also cel­e­brat­ing its 75th anniver­sary. What sets the most expe­ri­enced of the Pilz sub­sidiaries apart?

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 Standards in flux

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