B&R Industrial Automation GmbH is a manufacturer of automation technologies and is ABB's global center for machine and factory automation. B&R is was founded in 1979 by Erwin Bernecker and Josef Rainer and is based in Eggelsberg, Upper Austria. Today B&R is leading provider of global solutions for machine and factory automation and is responsible for machine automation in the Robotics & division Discrete Automation by ABB.