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Beckhoff Automation
7 Ateljee Street, Randpark Ridge, Randburg
Core business offering: open automation systems using PC-based control technology. The product range covers industrial PCs, I/O and fieldbus components, drive technology, automation software, control cabinet-free automation and hardware for machine vision. Product ranges can be used as separate components or integrated into a complete and mutually compatible control system.
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Gqeberha
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Cape Town
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Durban
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Section - Actuators & manipulators
-Linear
- Electro-linear
- Other
- Servo
-Rotary
- Other
- Servo
- Stepper
Section - Control systems & components
-Control components
- Control relays
- Other
-Programmable controls
- PAC
- PC-based
- PLC
-Visualisation
- HMI
Section - Electro, mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic systems, including mechatronics & robotics
-Robotics & mechatronics
- Peripherals; Vision systems
- Research
- Robots
Section - Motors, drives & motor controllers
-Controller motor combinations
-Controllers
-Motors
-AC controllers & starters
- 3-phase; frequency control; 1 - 10 kW
- 3-phase; frequency control; 10 - 100 kW
- 3-phase; frequency control; Fractional kW
- 3-phase; frequency control; Over 100 kW
- Single phase; Frequency control; 1 - 10 kW
- Single phase; Frequency control; Fractional kW
- Single phase; Frequency control; Over 10 kW
-AC Motors
- 3-phase
- 3-phase; 1-10 kW
- 3-phase; Fractional kW
- 3-phase; Synchronous
- Geared
- Servomotor; Geared
- Servomotor; Ungeared
- Single phase; 1-10 kW
- Single phase; Fractional kW
- Single phase; Over 10 kW
- Single phase; Synchronous
-Controller motor sets
- AC; 3-phase; Frequency control; Closed loop
- AC; 3-phase; Frequency control; Open loop
- AC; Single phase; Frequency control; Closed loop
- AC; Single phase; Frequency control; Open loop
- DC; Motor controller combination; Closed loop
- DC; Motor controller combination; Open loop
- DC; Pulse width modulation (PWM); Closed loop
- DC; Pulse width modulation (PWM); Open loop
-DC controllers & starters
- Current control; 1-10 kW
- Current control; Fractional kW
- Voltage control; 1-10 kW
- Voltage control; Fractional kW
-DC Motors
- 1-10 kW
- Geared
- Servomotor; Geared
- Servomotor; Ungeared
-Other electric motors
- Stepper
Section - Services
-Design & engineering
- Engineering
- System integration/consulting
-Manufacture
- Control panel
-Plant & maintenance
- Condition monitoring
- Energy efficiency
-Training & education
- Electrical drive systems; Courses/seminars at customers' premises
- Electrical drive systems; Courses/seminars at training centre
News from Beckhoff Automation: |
Prestigious award recognises inventiveness and entrepreneurial courage
Third Quarter 2025, News & events, Beckhoff Automation
Hans Beckhoff, managing director, owner and founder of Beckhoff Automation, was recently honoured with the widely acclaimed Rudolf Diesel Medal 2025. This medal honours him as a visionary pioneer in automation technology. |
PC-based control for sustainable fertiliser production on an industrial scale
Third Quarter 2025, Electrical switching & drive systems & components, Beckhoff Automation
On a farm in the USA, valuable ammonia is extracted from slurry and processed into ammonium sulphate. NSI Byosis has transformed this complex process into a flexible modular system. This modular approach requires an automation solution with flexible scalability in both hardware and software, which this Dutch company has found in PC-based control from Beckhoff. |
Beckhoff’s XPlanar boosts productivity in medical device assembly
Third Quarter 2025, Electrical switching & drive systems & components, Beckhoff Automation
The intelligent transport system, XPlanar from Beckhoff provided the basis for an innovative system concept allowing the specialists at Automation NTH to reduce the space requirement of an assembly machine for medical diagnostic devices by a factor of 10. |
German Chancellor visits Beckhoff at Hannover Messe
Second Quarter 2025, News & events, Beckhoff Automation
As part of the traditional Hannover Messe opening tour, Federal Chancellor of Germany, Olaf Scholz visited German company, Beckhoff Automation. Hans Beckhoff, managing director and owner of Beckhoff Automation, presented his company and its comprehensive expertise in the field of software and AI. |
PC-based control for a food capsule and pod packaging machine
Second Quarter 2025, Electrical switching & drive systems & components, Editor's Choice, Beckhoff Automation
For TME, a machine builder specialising in the packaging of powdered foods, Beckhoff’s PC-based control technology offers unlimited opportunities when it comes to performance and innovative capacity in terms of flexibility, scalability and openness.
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Robotic solution for adhesive tape application with flexible control
First Quarter 2025, Robotics & Mechatronics, Editor's Choice, Beckhoff Automation
In industry, even elaborate processes, such as the application of adhesive tape to parts with varying geometries are automated. Innovative Automation has developed a platform with Beckhoff control technology and a remote feeding module, which increases productivity and enables flexible customisation for different requirements. |
Planar motor system for quality assurance
First Quarter 2025, Electrical switching & drive systems & components, Editor's Choice, Beckhoff Automation
Achieving the shortest possible inspection times, even when working with different components, is paramount when it comes to series production. This is precisely what special machine builder, stoba Sondermaschinen set out to achieve with its InspectorONE optical inspection system, which is based on deep learning and features the Beckhoff XPlanar planar motor system at the conveyor system core. |
PC-based control for advanced hydrogen storage technology
Fourth Quarter 2024, Electrical switching & drive systems & components, Editor's Choice, Beckhoff Automation
The proportion of renewable energies from solar, wind and water is rising continuously. However, sufficient storage options are of the essence to use these energies as efficiently as possible. GKN Hydrogen offers a particularly compact and safe option, low-pressure metal hydride hydrogen storage systems with PC-based control from Beckhoff.
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Innovative separation of recyclable materials with PC-based control
Fourth Quarter 2024, Electrical switching & drive systems & components, Beckhoff Automation
A plant built by Belgian specialist machine builder, Absolem Engineering features an innovative process for separating recyclable materials. Using PC-based control from Beckhoff, a major problem has been elegantly solved - the generation of different signal sequences for the exact synchronisation of different camera systems.
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