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title: "B&R: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: "B&R Industrial Automation GmbH is an Austrian automation and process control technology company. It was founded in 1979 by Erwin Bernecker and Josef Rainer, and is headquartered in Eggelsberg, near Braunau in the state of Upper Austria."
canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-b-r
type: Organization
wikidata: Q662982
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%26R
website: http://www.br-automation.com/
source: AI News Monitor
publisher: Paciva
license: CC BY 4.0 for this page's own layer; facts from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
---

# B&R

> B&R Industrial Automation GmbH is an Austrian automation and process control technology company. It was founded in 1979 by Erwin Bernecker and Josef Rainer, and is headquartered in Eggelsberg, near Braunau in the state of Upper Austria.

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## Facts

- Category: Artificial intelligence
- Country: Austria
- Founded: 1979-01-01
- Headquarters: Eggelsberg
- Status: private
- Website: http://www.br-automation.com/

## Products

- automation

## Coverage on the Monitor

Every article, podcast, video and market the Monitor holds on B&R, dated and linked to its publisher: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-b-r#connections

## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q662982, read 2026-11-11
- Summary: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%26R

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