- Sensor and networking excellence for Packaging, Food, Beverage, Pharma, and Personal Care industries
- Automation in the semiconductor industry
- Life Science
- Drive Technology
- Steel and Metallurgical Industry
- Mobile Equipment
- Intralogistics automation: improve efficiency and throughput
- Metalworking
- Plastic Industry
- Advancing battery manufacturing automation: Achieving superior efficiency and quality
- Automobile industry and suppliers
- Energy Production
- White goods
- Electronics industry
- Tire Industry
- Traffic Engineering
- Components for hydraulics and pneumatics
Components for hydraulics and pneumatics
Maximizing efficiency and reliability with advanced sensor and networking technologies

At Balluff, we provide cutting-edge components for hydraulics and pneumatics that enable the seamless integration of advanced sensor and monitoring technologies into your fluid power systems. Our solutions are designed to improve efficiency, ensure precision, and minimize downtime across a wide range of applications.
Discover innovative solutions for hydraulic and pneumatic systems tailored to your needs.
We offer various technologies for monitoring travel and position as well as pressure, temperature, flow and level. This wide range provides users with both process and service data.
Whether you choose conventional solutions or wish to implement IIoT-capable applications, Balluff offers partnering support tailored to your needs from a single source.
Intelligent fluid power solutions are at the core of various applications, from flight simulators with ultra-fast feedback to optimizing blade adjustment in wind power or controlling valves in gas turbines. We provide advanced position feedback for different types of cylinders and bring expertise in improving commissioning, reducing downtimes, and increasing productivity through digitalization — including auxiliary units. With technologies like IO-Link, we enable efficient monitoring of critical parameters and make systems IIoT-capable using simple tools. We are also your partner for the digital twin, product pass, nameplate, and asset administration shell.
Bernd Schneider, Global Market Segment Manager, Fluid Systems & Drives
Further examples to suit individual areas of use
From the hydraulic system to the digital drive solution
Sensors and actuators with IO-Link have now become a standard in automation technology. However, the standardized IO-Link protocol (IEC 61131-9) also offers significant advantages in fluid power technology when it comes to project planning, commissioning and monitoring components and the system status:
Analysis, data documentation in the cloud
Monitoring, visualization of collected data
Autonomous axis in the field level
Detecting liquid media flow with BFF thermal flow controller
Temperature measurement with BFT temperature sensors
Valve parameterization via IO-Link
Pressure measurement with BSP pressure sensors
Continuous level detection BTL magnetostrictive linear position sensors
Level monitoring using limit value detection with BCS capacitive sensors
Hydraulic power unit monitoring
A powerful hydraulic pump or compressor and the corresponding e-motor is the heart of many production systems. With the Condition Monitoring Toolkit you get a holistic system to collect and analyze your machine condition data. Our toolkit can evaluate physical variables on your hydraulic unit and keep you reliably informed about significant deviations at an early stage so you can intervene.
Explosion protection
Fluid power components are also used in areas where there is a risk of explosion. Examples include the monitoring of hydraulic or pneumatic cylinders, the monitoring of hydraulically and pneumatically controlled valves and oil or fill level detection. Balluff offers a range of sensors and transducers with corresponding regional certifications.
Our portfolio
Sensor technology
Networking
Condition Monitoring
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Videos
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Position Detection down to the Micron – The Balluff Positioning Sensors
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Balluff BTL – The New Generation of Magnetostricitve Positioning Systems
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Fluid Power Technology
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Industrial Networking with IO-Link – Smart, Easy, Future Proof
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Balluff Condition Monitoring Solutions
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Cables, Connectors and Mounting systems – All What You Need
Downloads
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Industry brochure fluid power technology
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Sensors and Linear Position Sensors for use in a potentially explosive environment