Pilz GmbH & Co. KG is a German automation technology company headquartered in Ostfildern, Germany, with 42 subsidiaries and branches on all continents.
The company was founded as a glass-blowing business by Hermann Pilz in Esslingen in 1948. Initial products included glass apparatus for medical technology and mercury relays for industrial applications.Hannes Hesse, Florian Langenscheidt und Hartmut Rauen: The Best of German Engineering, , page 753
In the 1960s control passed to Pilz' son Peter, who developed the company into a supplier of electronic control and monitoring devices and programmable logic controllers. In 1987 he launched safety relay PNOZ, an emergency stop system. PSS control systems were developed in the 1990s.European Patent EP0808482B1 Other products and services include sensor technology, bus and industrial wireless systems, risk assessments and machinery safety training courses.Kompetenzatlas microTEC Südwest
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