Baden-Württemberg’s location in the centre of Europe offers a significant advantage in that it guarantees access to many important markets. Control engineering companies in Baden-Württemberg develop and produce technologically high-quality products and are therefore leading players in Germany and Europe. The products supplied by control engineers in Baden-Württemberg enjoy high national and international demand and are used throughout the world.

Control engineering in Germany

• Control engineering is a branch of the electrical engineering, scientific and technical application sector which deals amongst other aspects with the development, manufacture, optimisation and monitoring of measurement, control and regulating equipment of all types. The cross-disciplinary technologies of control engineering are used for a multitude of applications, such as within the automotive industry, mechanical engineering, medical technology and environmental technology.

• In Germany around 3,500 businesses work in the field of control engineering and employ over 137,000 people.

• German control engineering companies account for over 30% of total European sales in the sector with a turnover of over 24 billion Euros.

• The sector has grown more strongly over the past few years than the German economy as a whole. The driving force for this development is increasing demand from user sectors such as mechanical engineering, the automotive industry or renewable energy.

• The German control engineering sector is highly innovative. The “measurement and testing” branch alone with over 7,500 patent applications is one of the strongest sectors in applications registered, standing at sixth place in Germany. Taking into account the high level of interdisciplinary research in the sector, it can be assumed that control engineers actually account for a significantly higher number.