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About POSITAL (FRABA Group)

POSITAL is the position and motion sensor brand of the international FRABA Group, a Cologne-rooted company whose history goes back to 1918, when its predecessor was founded to manufacture electrical relays. Today POSITAL designs and sells rotary encoders, inclinometers and linear position sensors for motion control and safety assurance, used in settings from factory automation and robotics to mobile machinery, mining, agriculture and energy. Its differentiator is mass customisation at scale: the official site’s product finders navigate more than a million possible configurations, with datasheets, manuals and drawings generated for the exact variant, backed by a 36-month warranty and more than 60 years of encoder experience.

Production uses FRABA’s highly automated, digitally managed plant model for high-mix, low-volume manufacturing, which lets the company offer catalogue breadth without catalogue lead times. POSITAL operates with the FRABA Group’s subsidiaries in Europe, North America and Asia and a worldwide distribution network, while its European base remains in Cologne. For directory partners, POSITAL is a sensor supplier for machine and robot builders that need a precisely specified encoder or tilt sensor — incremental or absolute, with the right interface, housing and certification — configured online rather than engineered as a one-off special.

Products & services

• Incremental and absolute rotary encoders
• Inclinometers (tilt sensors)
• Linear position sensors, including draw-wire and magnetostrictive systems
• Online product finders and configuration tools for mass-customised sensor variants

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