Spotlight: How innovation and safety go together at Pilz

Our customer magazine is evolving: from now on, it will be published exclusively online – supplemented by a wide range of image and video content. With the new “Spotlight” section, twice a year we'll focus on topics of particular relevance.

In the current Spotlight section of our customer magazine, we show why machinery safety is anything but conservative. For decades, Pilz has been developing solutions that combine safety, innovation and practicality – from the first PNOZunits to modern, certified safety controllers.

Spotlight provides insights into development processes, test procedures and the lived safety culture at Pilz. Experts such as Matthias Holzäpfel, Christoph Weishaar and Arndt Christ report on how safety products are developed, why experience is crucial and why "good safety" remains inconspicuous – without slowing down operators or production.

One figure speaks for itself: Zero – no Pilz product has ever led to an accident.

Other exciting topics in Spotlight: 

• Pilz Brazil – Safety as an engine for growth: Brazil's industry is modernising rapidly – Pilz is supporting this transition, with the growing importance of digitisation, automation and safety. 
• More efficient diagnostics via IO-Link Safety: IO-Link Safety ensures more efficient diagnostics and flexible safety architectures in increasingly complex production environments.
• All set for the Machinery Regulation? Do the checks now: The new EU Machinery Regulation will apply from 20 January 2027 – those who prepare early gain planning certainty and a competitive edge.

Read Spotlight in full