Setting the pace of Industry 4.0

The automation specialist Balluff stands for innovative technology, quality and maximum customer orientation. As a leading provider of industrial automation and in tune with its company motto “innovating automation”, the family-run company offers high quality sensor and automation solutions.

Industry 4.0 denotes a high level of production flexibility. The basis for this are sensor, identification and network solutions by Balluff, who turns sensors into data sources that make optimum process monitoring possible in the first place. As Managing Director Florian Hermle emphasises: “Sensors are the basis for Industry 4.0 now and in the future, because they supply crucial data. They represent a constant in the midst of the rapid pace of development.”

Headquartered in Neuhausen auf den Fildern and with 62 subsidiaries and representatives, Balluff is internationally aligned and at home worldwide. In its fourth generation, the family-run company is set on a steady growth curve. Over the past five years the workforce has risen by around 50 per cent to 3,300 employees. In 2016, Balluff generated group revenues of EUR 378 million.