KEB AutomationNot yet claimed

About KEB Automation

KEB Automation is a German family-owned drive and automation company, founded in 1972 and headquartered in Barntrup, that supplies machine builders with coordinated drive and control systems from a single source. It began with electromagnetic brakes and clutches and added electronic drive technology in the 1980s; today its range covers COMBIVERT frequency inverters and servo drive controllers, control technology and automation software, motors and gearboxes, and its original brakes and clutches lines. The company explicitly serves robotics and automation alongside packaging and food, material handling, plastics machinery, medical technology, woodworking, wind energy and e-mobility, positioning its hardware-plus-software combinations as application-ready system solutions developed with the customer from the first question to the tuned application.

KEB reports roughly 1,500 employees, about 1,000 of them at the Barntrup headquarters, with subsidiaries and production facilities at strategic locations in Europe, North America and Asia. It remains an owner-managed, medium-sized company in its second generation. For directory partners, KEB is a component and systems supplier for the drives, motion control and holding brakes inside automated machines and robotic equipment — a single-source alternative to assembling a drive train from separate vendors.

Products & services

• COMBIVERT frequency inverters and servo drive controllers (drive technology)
• Control technology and automation software (including remote-access / control platforms)
• Motors and gearboxes
• Brakes and clutches (COMBISTOP / COMBIPERM / COMBINORM families)
• Application system solutions for robotics and automation, material handling and other machine sectors

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