Safety is a productivity engine

As warehouses automate, the risk profile changes-there are more moving assets, higher speeds, denser layouts, and more human-machine interaction. Tanmay Nevgi, Business Development Manager, Pilz India Pvt Ltd, spoke about how functional safety serves as a framework that ensures the system behaves safely even when faults occur, and that safety functions are reliable and verifiable throughout the lifecycle.

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How is Pilz supporting the Indian intralogistics industry to become safer and more productive?

Pilz is a German automation technology company, with a long heritage of engineering innovation and a clear mission: "Safety for human, machine and the environment."

Over the decades, Pilz has helped define modern machine safety with its innovative products & comprehensive services. In India, the same ethos has been carried forward—we have been living "The Spirit of Safety" in the Indian market for the last 15 years—creating awareness about machine safety, building local competence & supporting our customers with uncompromising safety solutions.

Intralogistics is evolving from conventional material handling to highly connected, automated ecosystems—AMRs/AGVs, conveyors, sorters, AS/RS, palletizers and integrated warehouse execution systems. Pilz supports this journey end to end. We believe modern automation can only be truly reliable when it is both functionally safe and protected against unauthorised access or manipulation. That's why Pilz combines technology with lifecycle support—consulting, system implementation, validation and training—so customers can implement safety and security consistently from concept and design through commissioning and operation.

Importantly, we position safety as a productivity enabler—through better diagnostics, smarter zoning, quicker restarts after stoppages, and consistent compliance documentation. For warehouse operators, this means safer human-machine interaction and higher availability; for integrators and OEMs, it means faster commissioning and easier replication of proven safety architectures.

What role does functional safety play as warehouses move toward higher levels of automation and system integration?