Back in 1948 Hermann Pilz founded the company as a glass-blowing business in Esslingen. He laid the foundation for the success of an independent, medium-sized family business. Starting with the manufacture of glass apparatus for medical technology and mercury relays for industrial applications, Hermann Pilz moulded his own style of management. Even then, staff were given overall responsibility for a project, independently processing each stage of the job, from soldering and testing through to dispatch.

Thus, Pilz has a tradition as a family-run company stretching back over 60 years. Their proximity to customers is evident in all areas - Pilz instills confidence through personal consultation, high flexibility and reliable service. With worldwide and  around the clock service, in 30 subsidiaries and branches as well as 15 sales partners on all continents. Pilz has more than 1600 staff, each one of them an ambassador for safety, making sure that any company's most valuable asset – its staff – can work safely and free from injury if they are working with Pilz.
 
Technical, personal, ecological and economical – these are the four dimensions of automation that the Pilz brand offers man, machine and the environment, as "Ambassadors of Safety".