Balluff
| Balluff Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1921 |
| Seat | Neuhausen on the Fildern , Germany |
| management | Katrin Stegmaier-Hermle, Florian Hermle, Frank Nonnenmann |
| Number of employees | approx. 3600 |
| sales | EUR 469 million |
| Branch | Sensors |
| Website | www.balluff.com |
| As of July 29, 2020 | |
Balluff is a global supplier for all areas of automation and one of the major manufacturers of sensor technology . The company has been family-run for four generations and is based in Neuhausen auf den Fildern and has sales offices in 60 countries as well as ten production sites around the globe.
history
In 1921 the company was founded by Gebhard Balluff as a mechanical repair workshop. A company for precision, turned and milled parts emerged from it. It was here in 1956 that new types of electromechanical limit switches were developed , which were patented and which were the starting point for the development and production of industrial sensors .
Electronic sensors and position measuring systems followed. The development of identification systems began in the 1980s. As one of 14 founding members of the consortium, Balluff was involved in the introduction of the new IO-Link communication standard .
The diversification of the company went hand in hand with its internationalization . The first subsidiary in Austria was founded in 1971 . SIE Sensorik Industrie-Elektronik GmbH in Viernheim was taken over in 2009 and High Resolution GmbH in Kirchheim am Neckar in 2012 . In 2014 the company STM Sensor Technologie München GmbH was incorporated into the Balluff Group. Stuttgart-based iss innovative software services GmbH and Matrix Vision GmbH in Oppenweiler have been part of the company since September 2017, with the aim of strengthening digitization.
Products
The portfolio includes industrial sensors with the common measuring principles for object detection , path and distance measurement, condition monitoring and identification. In addition, the appropriate network and connection technology as well as extensive accessories . Application- specific customer solutions and systems are just as much a part of the program as mobile automation.
The most important product areas are:
- inductive , capacitive , optoelectronic , mechanical as well as magnetic field , ultrasonic , microwave, inclination , pressure , temperature and flow sensors
- Distance and displacement measurement systems such as displacement transducers , analog displacement sensors , inductive positioning systems, magnetically encoded displacement measurement systems and optoelectronic distance sensors
- Vision sensors , industrial cameras and industrial RFID
- inductive couplers , fieldbus modules , IO-Link , passive distributors, connectors and connecting cables
Sponsorship
The company is involved in day-care centers and kindergartens etc. a. for the Technolino program of the employers' association Südwestmetall and in schools. The company also sponsors local cycling.
Web links
- www.balluff.de
- sensorlab.ims-chips.de Cooperation, learning platform (SensorLab), Institute for Microelectronics Stuttgart
Individual evidence
- ↑ The company in figures https://www.balluff.com/local/de/company/corporate-profile/
- ↑ www.io-link.com
- ↑ Mobile machines for individual requirements - Balluff.de. .
- ^ Kinder- und Elternzentrum Neuhausen eV: Kinder- und Elternzentrum Neuhausen eV
- ↑ www.fss.es.bw.schule.de ( Memento from November 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ www.rkv-neuhausen.de