Press kit Annual Press Conference 2022

Overview of contents

Financial year press release

Financial year 2021: Pilz Group posts record revenue and considers itself well-positioned for future developments – crisis-tested and strengthened: Pilz on path to growth

Speeches

Susanne Kunschert: Financial year 2021 and forecast for 2022
Thomas Pilz: The Spirit of Safety in Digital Automation
Susanne Kunschert: Automation solutions from Pilz: Safe and secure

Additional press releases

TÜV Süd certified product development from Pilz in accordance with IEC 62443-4-1 – Pilz developments safe and secure
Pilz at the Hannover Messe 2022 (Hall 9, Stand D 17) – “Transforming Automation” with Pilz!

Company profile

Photographic material

Financial year press release

Speeches

Thomas Pilz, Managing Partner (photo: © Pilz GmbH & Co. KG)

Thomas Pilz: The Spirit of Safety in Digital Automation

From the beginning of the industrial revolution to the start of the last century, the primary focus for machinery was productivity. The cost of human labour was low, which unfortunately meant no impetus to invest in protective measures. Machinery safety as we know it today dates back not even 40 years. 1986 brought us a change to the Machinery Directive; from this point machinery safety became mandatory in Europe.

Susanne Kunschert, Managing Partner (photo: © Pilz GmbH & Co. KG)

Susanne Kunschert: Automation solutions from Pilz: Safe and secure

Europe must digitise its entire rail network in the next 10 – 15 years to secure, improve and revolutionise railway operations. This is the only way to achieve higher capacity, greater punctuality, more energy efficiency and thus green mobility! The use of modern, safe and environmentally friendly technologies for railways is thus the path of the future. On the basis of this reasoning, we have repositioned Pilz.

As a manufacturer of safe automation solutions, Pilz considers aspects of both safety and industrial security in equal measure – as early as the product development stage. (Photo: © Pilz GmbH & Co. KG)

TÜV Süd certifies Pilz product development in accordance with IEC 62443-4-1 - Pilz's development is safe – and secure

TÜV Süd certifies the development processes of the automation company Pilz in accordance with the international security standard IEC 624434-4-1. So Pilz's development is demonstrably secure: Right from a product's design phase, security features are regarded systematically; risks are identified and, ideally, already rectified within the product. This addition to the existing functional safety management certification promises Pilz customers double security from now on.

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Photographic material

The Pilz Group reached a new record turnover in 2021 of € 348.4 million. This is primarily thanks to the high innovative force of the employees at the family company for safe automation. (Photo: © Pilz GmbH & Co. KG)

Pilz develops controllers that are safe and secure. These controllers can be used in all areas of mechanical engineering, including the packaging and automotive industry, robot applications, plus the intralogistics and railway technology sectors. (Photo: © Pilz GmbH & Co. KG)

Family company in the third generation: Susanne Kunschert and Thomas Pilz have formed the Management Team at the Pilz Group since 2018. (Photo: © Pilz GmbH & Co. KG)

The automation company Pilz also invests continuously in research and development at its Ostfildern headquarters as well as in expansion of its production capacities. (Photo: © Pilz GmbH & Co. KG)

Additional photographic material

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Contact

Pilz New Zealand
4 Prescott Street, Penrose
Auckland 1061
New Zealand

Telephone: +64 9 6345350
E-Mail: office@pilz.co.nz

Press contact

Telephone: +64 9 6345350
E-Mail: office@pilz.co.nz