Editorial

Even in crisis, or perhaps especially in crisis, there are interesting options which strengthen one’s competitive position. Pepperl+Fuchs has used the unique opportunity to acquire the proximity sensor business from Siemens. You can find out more about this in our Company News.

In addition to this great opportunity to accelerate our growth with this acquisition, we have also used this crisis period to increase our growth potential with innovative product developments. For example, we are presenting a compact AS-Interface I/O-module with which individual binary standard sensors can also be connected to the AS-Interface flat cable simply and cost-effectively.

The world’s first reflection principle ultrasonic sensor with a stainless steel housing enables entirely new applications.

Furthermore, we have continued to improve the Measurement instead of Detection principle, and applied it to vision sensor technology.

Finally, we are using vision sensor technology for a new positioning system for material handling.

The following pages provide you with an overview. Enjoy reading.