with batman and robin disambiguation . bernecker rainer industrie elektronik type ges.m.b.h . gesellschaft mit beschr nkter haftung founded 1979 in eggelsberg austria founder erwin bernecker & josef rainer headquarters eggelsberg upper austria austria number of locations 162 offices in 68 countries key people erwin bernecker & josef rainer owners hans wimmer general manager products industrial automation revenue approx . 500 mio . est. 2014 number of employees 2 300 worldwide as of oct. 2011 slogan perfection in automation website b & r homepage as a manufacturer of automation technology the company specializes in controller visualization and drive technologies . in addition to scalable complete solutions b & r also provides individual components . the entire product range is oriented toward machine and system manufacturing . b & r is also active in the area of process control automation . contents 1 company data 2 locations 3 company history 4 products 5 references 6 external links company data edit in the year 2011 the company generated 410 million of revenue with more than 2 300 employees . sales were distributed by region as follows europe 65 % asia 17 % america 15 % row 2 % in the year 2013 reports showed an increase of 11 % year on year revenue up to a total of 475 million . 1 locations edit the company headquarters are located in eggelsberg upper austria . the first building addition there took place in 2000 adding another production plant with a surface area of 10 000 m2 . the company has occupied newly expanded facilities since march 2008 . with an investment volume of approximately 50 million an additional 50 000 m2 were added to the headquarters . b & r has subsidiaries in the following countries belgium brazil canada china czech republic denmark france germany great britain india italy korea netherlands poland russian federation singapore slovakia spain sweden switzerland ukraine usa . partner companies expand b & r s presence in over 60 countries worldwide . company history edit 1980 unicount counter product series unicontrol first freely programmable logic controller 1983 multicontrol controller with digital and analog processing 1986 provit programmable visualization terminal 1987 maestro control system with integrated computer technology 1989 maestro axis controller basis technology for cam profile and cnc technology 1992 system 2000 controller with scalable hardware 1993 ipc2000 industrial pc 1994 panelware first modular operating panel 1995 system 2003 controller with distributed intelligence pg2000 dos based plc programming system 1996 ipc5000 industrial pc with remote display technology 1997 automation studio automation software 1999 acopos servo drives power panel 41 operating unit with integrated controller and visualization 2000 system 2005 fourth system generation 2001 x67 system control system for ip67 protection 2002 powerlink real time ethernet system 2003 power panel operating unit with integrated controller visualization and motion control 2004 x20 system modular control system apc 620 first automation pc 2005 acoposmulti inverter product series 2006 integrated safety technology integrated safety technology 2007 gmc cnc robotics motion control and plc operations in a single controller 2008 acoposinverter frequency inverter under stie schneider electrictoshiba inverters europe patents 2009 motors with gears 2011 multi touch panels 2012 integrated motor drives acoposmotor products edit industrial pcs automation pcs i o systems control technology visualizations safety products automation software b & r automation studio drive technology acopos process automation aprol modular application technology mapp technology references edit http www.br automation.com en us company press room br reports strong growth external links edit b & r homepage b & r discover automation homepage automotion ethernet powerlink homepage retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title b % 26r & oldid 710487811 categories manufacturing companies of austriacompanies of austriarobotics companies 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 languages deutschespa olfran aispolski edit links this page was last modified on 17 march 2016 at 06 32 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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