Pepperl+Fuchs GmbH is a privately owned company with some 3,000 employees worldwide, which develops, manufactures and distributes electronic sensors and components for the global factory and process automation market. The ongoing success of the company is based upon innovation, quality and continuous growth. The business unit Factory Automation is a worldwide leading vendor of a wide range of inductive, opto-electronic and ultrasonic sensors. It also provides complex sensor, identification and communications systems. The business unit Process Automation is market leader with intrinsically safe components for signal separation, as well as remote I/O systems and products for the field bus topology for the worldwide process industries. The product range is extended by explosion proof display and control units, Ex-p systems and a range of level sensors.

Applications for wind energy systems:

• Azimuth control with initiators


• Azimuth control with speed sensors


• Rotation measurement with initiators


• Rotation measurement with generators


• Rotation measurement with slip ring sensors


• Pitch control


• Analogue distance measurement e.g. for brake discs, clutches etc.


• Store and maintain life cycle and component lists on one storage media