Since 1969, ifm has developed, manufactured, and marketed sensors and controls to industries that include food and beverage, assembly and robotics, material handling, packaging, mobile equipment, and plastics.  ifm is a strategic partner to those in the wine industry due to its innovative hardware to software ecosystem of products that help you increase quality in your production by reducing waste and help you to lower production costs by reducing unplanned downtime. We do this by offering  IO-Link enabled sensors that connect directly with open source software, allowing you to set parameters for the machine to monitor continuously.  ifm sensors allow you to unlock your process data, so you know what happens in your plant even when you cannot be there.  The ifm team of sales engineers can help you set up your system so the machine alerts you if wine in production leaves your ideal temperature range. 

We can help you save time and ongoing maintenance costs because we constantly work to improve products so that you are able to focus on doing what you do best - producing some of the world's finest wines.  We have a national sales team of engineers that are able to help you optimize production by working with you to figure out where you can bring more functionality to your plant within your budget.  But, we also have a full team of applications engineers in-house that can answer questions anytime you may have one.  When you place an order with us online or over the phone, we strive to keep 90% of our orders shipping out in under one hour.  

Since our founding, ifm, Efector has experienced tremendous growth in the US with more than 120 employees at our headquarters in Chester County, PA, the expansion of ten branch sales offices throughout the country, and the opening of a manufacturing and technology center in Malvern, PA in 2012.

Today, roughly 240 dedicated individuals drive innovation and productivity and successfully service 22,000 customers resulting in $148 Million in annual sales (2017). Represented in more than 70 countries, ifm has more than 7,000 dedicated employees serving over 165,000 customers.