Issue 1/2024
 Helping to shape change!

What impact do sus­tain­ability and digi­ti­sa­tion have on industry? The require­ments for func­tional safety and indus­trial secu­rity are increasing. Secure automa­tion has a key role to play. The leg­is­lator has also rec­og­nized this and is changing the legal sit­u­a­tion. Our dig­ital cus­tomer mag­a­zine pro­vides insights.

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Textbook retrofit

Presses have a spe­cial status when it comes to safety require­ments. Grass GmbH, global man­u­fac­turer of move­ment sys­tems for fur­ni­ture and house­hold appli­ances, was aware of this while looking for a partner that would be able to update “slightly” older plants to the cur­rent state of the art in com­pli­ance with stan­dards. In Pilz Aus­tria, the Salzburg-based com­pany found a partner who could “com­plete the job in text­book fashion.”

“It is important to try things”

Sezgin Yumuk and Steffen Heber both started their pro­fes­sional lives as mecha­tronics engi­neers at Pilz. Today they are man­agers in Product Man­age­ment and Sales. In an inter­view, they dis­cuss their indi­vidual career paths and what advice they have for young pro­fes­sionals today.

Security: The more aware you are, the more questions arise

Ever since the pub­li­ca­tion of the new EU Machinery Reg­u­la­tion, it is clear: Secu­rity is now a legal require­ment! But how are com­pa­nies around the world dealing with this? Our secu­rity experts from Ger­many, Italy and Aus­tria explain.

A second life for Pilz products

(Elec­tronic) com­po­nents are a valu­able asset. This hasn’t only been the case at Pilz since the pro­cure­ment crisis in recent years. Pilz estab­lished its Repair Centre as early as 2002, at which defec­tive Pilz devices can be prop­erly repaired and then reused at the same quality. A sus­tain­ability ware­house now gives many prod­ucts a second life.

Security legislation: What’s happening in 2024?

In terms of Safety and Secu­rity, machine builders and oper­a­tors are cur­rently facing a number of legal require­ments. What’s hap­pening in 2024?

“The market leads!”

Whether pack­aging, bat­tery pro­duc­tion, com­bus­tion tech­nology or intral­o­gis­tics – PNOZ & co. are used in a number of sec­tors. Bernd Müller, Senior Man­ager Busi­ness Devel­op­ment, explains why Pilz offers more than just prod­ucts and how they are suc­cessful in sat­is­fying the var­ious require­ments.

Operational Safety Intelligence: Production adapts to the person

On the journey to net­worked pro­duc­tion, Safety & Secu­rity remain a crit­ical factor for suc­cess. The archi­tec­ture of new flex­ible machine mod­ules must con­sider the cor­re­sponding safety tech­nology from the start, and inte­grate func­tional safety into the pro­duc­tion processes.

Automation for a “green” Norway

In Norway, this year’s partner country of Han­nover Messe, the energy sector has tra­di­tion­ally played an impor­tant role. In the last years, topics such as renew­able ener­gies and robotics have def­i­nitely come to the fore. Since as far back as the 90s, Pilz prod­ucts and solu­tions have been used in the oil and gas industry – including in Scan­di­navia.

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