Success stories

Our success stories

Place your trust in the technology leader for safe automation when automating your plant and machinery and provide not only a complete, but also safe solution for your employees worldwide. Write your own success story with us!

We work with our customers to develop sophisticated automation concepts that harmonise safety and productivity – from advice to the complete solution, exactly to customer specifications, without compromising on automation.

Here you'll find some examples of our best success stories, sorted by industry and products.

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Safe procedures with safety light curtains PSENopt II

SRW opted for a barrier-free safety solution from Pilz in two different plants: Type 3 light curtains PSENopt II safeguard the process on a cartoner filling station, which erects cartons fed in via conveyor technology and then has a robot stack them in transport containers.

Barrier-free solution with Type 3 PSENopt II

Adams engine safely packaged with SafetyEYE

At the Opel site in Vienna up to ten containers with gears and engines are packed every day and shipped to production sites worldwide. Opel counts on SafetyEYE to make the fully automated packaging process efficient, safe and smooth.

Barrier-free monitoring with SafetyEYE

Pilz servo amplifier for all drives

Xactools specialises in automated special solutions in infeed technology, palletising and measurement technology. With the universal servo amplifier PMCtendo DD5 from Pilz and a Profinet connection the company can control all the motors quickly, precisely and easily.

Powerful controllers for all drives

PNOZmulti: Automation for the zero joint

For edge processing in its machines for the furniture industry, HOMAG relies, among other things, on the use of high-power lasers - and therefore also on the freely configurable safety system PNOZmulti from Pilz. So HOMAG avoids potential hazards at the machine operator's workplace.

Safeguarding with PNOZmulti

Move locomotives safely with the automation system PSS 4000

The railway technology specialist Schweizer Electronic AG offers innovative solutions to safeguard construction sites, level crossings, and radio remote control systems for locomotives. For the remote control of a freight train locomotive from Bombardier the automation system PSS 4000-R(ail), acts as an interface between receiver and locomotive control system, checking the signals for feasibility and consistency, and ensuring the required safety in accordance with SIL3.

Safeguarding the railways with PSS 4000

Metro more punctual thanks to the automation system PSS 4000

Transport operator De Lijn runs the metro network in the Belgian metropolis of Antwerp. At the intersection point of three metro lines under the heart of the city, the SIL 4-capable industry-proven automation system PSS 4000 is replacing the obsolete control technology. The modernisation was carried out step by step without any interruption to ongoing operation.

More on the automation system for rail operations

Reproducible automation solution

In new developments as in retrofits, the engineering company Brodbeck values safety solutions and components from Pilz, which can be transferred to several plants. For example the control system PNOZmulti 2, the safety gate system PSENmlock and the coded safety switch PSENcode.

Reproducible automation and safety solutions

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