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Pilz GmbH & Co. KG is an automation technology company in Ostfildern, Germany. In addition to the head office in Germany, Pilz is represented by subsidiaries and branch offices in 30 countries.〔(Kompetenzatlas microTEC Südwest )〕 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.〔Hannes Hesse, Florian Langenscheidt und Hartmut Rauen: ''The Best of German Engineering'', ISBN 9783816306467, page 753〕 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.〔(Background information for the annual press conference 2013 )〕 In 1987 the company launched safety relay PNOZ, an emergency stop system.〔(German patent 4033801 )〕 PSS control systems were developed in the 1990s.〔(European Patent EP0808482B1 )〕 Other Pilz products and services include sensor technology, bus and industrial wireless systems, risk assessments and training courses on machinery safety.〔(Kompetenzatlas microTEC Südwest )〕 Renate Pilz has been Managing Partner of the company since 1994.〔Hannes Hesse, Florian Langenscheidt und Hartmut Rauen: ''The Best of German Engineering'', ISBN 9783816306467, page 752 and following pages〕 == References == 〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pilz (company)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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