FACTS & FIGURES

227,411 BIS C122-04/L RFID data carriers were sold in 2020. This means that the product sold an average of 19,000 units per month. The BIS C data carrier is established as the standard for tool identification.

Balluff has equipped 1,000 wind turbines from Shanghai Electrics with three magnetostrictive linear position sensors (BTL) each. In the offshore wind farms off the east coast of China, these monitor the tilt angle of the rotor blades.

The Balluff condition monitoring smart multifunction sensor can measure different states: Vibration, contact temperature, relative humidity, ambient pressure and its own temperature, operating hours and start cycles.

From 1950 to 1981 the former Managing Director of Balluff, Eduard Hermle, was president of the Esslingen Chamber of Commerce and Industry and as such left his mark on the economic region. He was particularly interested in the training of junior staff. For example, he was an early advocate of the introduction of training to become an industrial foreperson to ensure good work supervisors in industrial companies.

is the shortest response time (real-time response) that a Balluff system can guarantee. This incredible speed is achieved with Real Time Industrial Ethernet interfaces, which are used in vision systems and magnetostrictive position measuring systems.

Interruptores de leva – means “cam switch” in Spanish. Cam switches are one of the many product groups in the Balluff Web Shop. The Web Shop is available in more than 30 countries and translated into 14 different languages. What’s special about it: The Balluff Web Shop has the same look worldwide.

is the smallest distance that a Balluff sensor can measure. The sensor is the BML magnetic encoder S1H.
0.5 µm is 0.0005 mm – for comparison: A hair is around 0.05 mm thick.

Balluff is a global organization represented worldwide in more than 60 countries or regions. With 38 subsidiaries – of which eight are production sites – and numerous sales partners, the Balluff Group is close to the customer and provides optimal care and support.

Over the past five years orders have been processed through the Balluff Web Shop. There the entire product portfolio is for sale – including product variants that customers can put together individually.

Balluff GmbH currently owns many active patents – an average of 25 to 30 have been added in each of the last few years. This confirms Balluff’s role for the IIoT: As a data collection specialist, we are a pacesetter for Industry 4.0.