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Transferring knowledge during coffee breaks

On the Rexel Campus, Rexel Germany’s training center, the coffee breaks have become a true IoT experience. A smart coffee machine by Pepperl+Fuchs and Neoception clearly demonstrates what is possible with sensors and intelligent IoT solutions.

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Field rep helps out privately

Hendrik, technical sales specialist at Pepperl+Fuchs, is used to spending a good deal of his time on the road. But not quite in this way: From March to the end of May, he was a volunteer driver for the Civil Relief Munich aid organization, drove to the Polish-Ukrainian border to pick up refugees and take them to stay with host families in and around Munich.

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Being able to help is a great feeling

Right now, giving refugees from Ukraine a temporary home is probably the biggest help anyone can offer. That same thought occurred to Wolf, EPE Product Management Assistant at Pepperl+Fuchs. Together with his wife, mother-in-law, and children, ages three and five years, he took in refugees for several weeks starting in early March. He reports on his experiences in the career blog.

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A sigh of relief in South Africa: Oz the rhinoceros is fit again

It has been over six years since Pepperl+Fuchs began sponsoring an orphaned baby rhinoceros named Oz. Now an imposing bull, he lives at the Care for Wild Rhino Sanctuary in Mpumalanga, South Africa, a reserve for orphaned rhinos. After suffering some health problems in recent months, the pachyderm is now enjoying the African summer in his new reintroduction area.

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Driverless transport systems at Pepperl+Fuchs in the Czech Republic

They move silently through production halls, transporting goods and materials to exactly where they are needed: auto-guided transport systems. The Pepperl+Fuchs plant in Trutnov (Czechia) has also been using driverless transport systems since the beginning of the year.

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Special works of art for the Pepperl+Fuchs walls

Fun and creativity despite home office: Employees at the Pepperl+Fuchs sites in the United States and Canada, along with their children, grandchildren, nieces, and nephews, had the opportunity to submit creative works in an art project. The results will grace the walls of the lunch rooms at the sites in the future.

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Health challenge – staying fit through the pandemic, together

“An apple a day keeps the doctor away.” Okay, it takes a little more than that to be truly healthy and fit. That’s why a team at Pepperl+Fuchs in Twinsburg, Ohio, is responsible for health-related matters concerning employees at the Pepperl+Fuchs locations in the United States and Canada. As one initiative, an eight-week health challenge was launched in the summer of 2020, despite the changed working conditions due to the pandemic. We caught up with Laretha, Project Manager and Human Resources Generalist in Twinsburg, to talk about how it went.

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Driving a Polo to Mongolia

Caius, an employee at Pepperl+Fuchs subsidiary Neoception, wanted to experience a really big adventure. So, in 2019, he and two friends took part in the Mongol Rally: from Prague to Ulan-Ude in Russia and back – around 28,000 kilometers through 19 countries in a Polo built in 91.

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