gmbh & co. kg industry automation technology founded 1948 headquarters ostfildern germany key people renate pilz susanne kunschert thomas pilz products sensor technology motion control safety relays programmable safety and control systems automation systems 1 revenue 288 mio . eur may 2015 2 number of employees over 2 000 3 subsidiaries 32 website www.pilz.com pilz gmbh & co. kg is an automation technology company in ostfildern germany . in addition to the head office in germany pilz is represented in 32 subsidiaries and branches on all continents . 4 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 . 5 in the 1960s control passed to hermann s son peter who developed the company into a supplier of electronic control and monitoring devices and programmable logic controllers . 6 in 1987 the company launched safety relay pnoz an emergency stop system . 7 pss control systems were developed in the 1990s . 8 other pilz products and services include sensor technology bus and industrial wireless systems risk assessments and training courses on machinery safety . 9 renate pilz has been managing partner of the company since 1994 . renate pilz thomas pilz and susanne kunschert are the owners . 10 references edit hannes hesse florian langenscheidt und hartmut rauen the best of german engineering isbn 9783816306467 page 757 pilz increases revenue employees and export share in 2015 healthy growth under own momentum pilz increases revenue employees and export share in 2015 healthy growth under own momentum kompetenzatlas microtec s dwest hannes hesse florian langenscheidt und hartmut rauen the best of german engineering isbn 9783816306467 page 753 background information for the annual press conference 2013 german patent 4033801 european patent ep0808482b1 kompetenzatlas microtec s dwest hannes hesse florian langenscheidt und hartmut rauen the best of german engineering isbn 9783816306467 page 752 and following pages external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title pilz company & oldid 732136575 categories electronics companies of germanycompanies established in 1948 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages danskdeutschespa olfran ais italianonederlands polskiportugu s suomisvenskat rk e edit links this page was last modified on 29 july 2016 at 21 51 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view