Florian Hermle, Managing Director, Balluff
Balluff

With over 30 years of experience in the area of RFID, Balluff holds a position as a global leader with industry-proven LF, RF, and UHF solutions for extremely rough environments. The product portfolio includes

  • Customer-specific developments
  • Complete system solutions
  • Extensive selection of robust transponders, also for use with metal and at high temperatures

We improve our customers' competitiveness by accompanying them long-term in their business processes and offering all parties new perspectives through our passion for automation. Through the engagement of our colleagues, we succeed in offering our customers innovative, comprehensive solutions and have become the world leader in industrial automation.

Florian Hermle, Managing Director, Balluff

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Balluff

Global leader with industry-proven LF, HF, UHF solutions

With over 30 years of experience in the area of RFID, Balluff holds a position as a global leader with industry-proven LF, HF and UHF solutions for extremely rough environments. The product portfolio includes stationary and mobile read / write devices, controllers, antennas and transponders.

Robust RFID solutions for industrial use

Balluff RFID systems help solve nearly every application problem. They are used, for example, in production control, counterfeit protection, container management, tool identification, kanban systems, or goods tracking and traceability solutions. Long-term experience in RFID applications with profound technological knowhow provides the basis for individually tailored RFID systems.

With the connection of sensors, bus and network components and the creation of software solutions Balluff also offers professional industrial automation concepts and thereby creates prerequisite for the realization of Industry 4.0. environments.

The product portfolio includes stationary and mobile read / write devices, controllers, antennas and transponders.

Proof of Excellence

Modern Packaging Concept for Chocolate Bars

Format change detection with RFID The quality requirements of globally leading manufacturers of premium chocolate include not only raw materials and manufacturing processes, but also product packaging. Perfectly packaged chocolate bars without a single defect are a must. Frequent format changeovers are a particular challenge. LoeschPack has met this challenge elegantly with their newest version of the two-stage version of the LTM-DUO fold wrapping machine. This relies on format changeover parts with a fixed stop and proven Balluff RFID for automatic interchangeable part detection. The benefits are passed to the user, who profits from extremely short setup times and significantly improved machine flexibility in format changeover. Christoph Krombholz, Marketing Manager at LoeschPack, says: „The packaging machine doesn‘t start until all the components are in their correct location. This makes misplacements virtually impossible.“ Dr. Detlef Zienert, Press Relations Manager, Balluff

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RFID Communication With No Risk

Making production processes for Industry 4.0 data-secure! Automation specialist Balluff together with partner companies in the German IUNO research project is developing an OPC-UA based RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) solution for secure data communication between the object level and corporate IT: A win for companies who now can make their production processes data-secure. Industry 4.0 offers companies huge opportunities: Production is not only made more efficient and cost-effective, companies can now also respond flexibly to customer desires and bring new products to the market faster. But increasing networking of production also brings with it numerous risks from security gaps.

Solution News

Balluff Safety Hub: Safety over IO-Link

Safety with Balluff quality Automation requires safety. Safety based on reliability. Balluff quality guarantees ultra-reliable solutions. Therefore, the Balluff safety concept also consists of products and solutions that fulfill their tasks over the course of years with the same reliability and precision. This includes a continually increasing number of products and components that contribute to minimizing the danger for humans and production plants. These components can easily be integrated into your system controller. Unique: Safety over IO-Link To increase the efficiency of safety concepts and integrate them in the system control, Balluff has developed a safe I/O module: the Balluff Safety Hub, the first integrated safety solution via IO-Link! Safety over IO-Link is easy to integrate, responds quickly and can replace the control cabinet. Safety over IO-Link links automation and safety technology. IO-Link handles communication down to the last meter and provides both sensor/actuator details as well as secure information. State-of-the-art, with the usual Balluff quality and all from a single source.

Product News

IO-Link Converter for RS232 Devices

The simple and practical solution for connecting RS232 with IO-Link Contrary to popular belief, serial RS232 communication is still used in many industrial applications. A typical example is the use of barcode scanners in the automobile or packaging industry. Integrating RS232 interfaces into the existing control architecture is, however, often expensive and time-consuming because special components are often necessary, such as RS232 cards for the controller. This represents an obstacle for many in switching to IO-Link, with the result that they are unable to consistently take advantage of the benefits of this modern communication standard.

Supplier News

Record growth at Balluff: Group turnover rises in 2017 to €459 million

Rapid sales growth continues in the first quarter of 2018 The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is behind some happy faces in Neuhausen: the high demand for industrial automation solutions has resulted in record growth for the Balluff Group in 2017. Together with the sales figures from two companies brought into the fold during the past fiscal year the sensor and automation specialist from Neuhausen near Stuttgart showed an increase of 21.4 percent to €459 million. Sales in 2016 were €378 million. Even without the new companies the increase of 16 percent would have represented a record.

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Balluff Extends Company Headquarters

Automation specialist Balluff presents the plans for its new extended company headquarters in Neuhausen. Construction start is planned for 2019. The new campus will provide jobs for 1250 employees. Since its foundation almost a century ago, the automation specialist, Balluff has been based in Neuhausen. Due to company growth it was already clear in 2013 that the headquarters would soon be stretched to the limits. The initial idea was to extend the premises on Schurwaldstraße with a focus on logistics and office space. However, since 2015 the emphasis has shifted to the long-term development of the Balluff headquarters. The company decided on an architecture competition to acquire a diverse selection of sustainable and viable solution proposals. From the call issue in August 2017 it took just four months to reach a decision.

Oliver Pütz-Gerbig
Oliver Pütz-Gerbig
BU Identification Product Manager
Neuhausen a.d.F., Germany
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