Manufacturing's attack surface is physical. When a CNC machine talks to an ERP, when a paint shop robot takes a firmware update, when a woodworking line streams telemetry - that's the territory. Dürr Group, founded in 1896, builds and maintains the highly automated plant systems where those intersections happen at scale: painting and final assembly lines for automotive, CNC and production machinery for HOMAG woodworking solutions, and assembly/test/balancing systems across medtech, electronics, new energy, and mobility through its BBS Automation and Schenck divisions.
The company operates across 124 locations in 32 countries, pulling in €4.2 billion in revenue. Its digitalization and automation work spans industries where uptime isn't optional - automotive production (53% of revenue), furniture and timber construction (33%), plus industrial automation customers in consumer goods and medical technology. The threat model here isn't just IT lateral movement; it's the integrity of OT systems controlling physical processes, the supply chain running through plant-floor software, and the digital twins and efficiency tooling layered on top of legacy machinery.
A family-held stake keeps governance relatively stable. For security practitioners, the draw is concrete: hardening globally distributed industrial control environments, securing digital product offerings around energy efficiency and production flexibility, and building defenses where the consequences are measured in halted production lines and compromised physical systems - not just data.
