PB Swiss Tools

PB Swiss Tools AG is a manufacturer of hand tools based in Switzerland.

PB Swiss Tools AG
IndustryManufacturing
FoundedSwitzerland (1878 (1878))
FounderPaul Baumann
Headquarters
Wasen, Sumiswald, Bern
,
Switzerland
Key people
  • Eva Jaisli
  • (CEO)
  • Max Baumann
  • (CTO)
ProductsProfessional hand tools
Number of employees
150 (as of September 2017)
Websitewww.pbswisstools.com

The company was started in 1878 by Paul Baumann, from whose initials the company name was derived. In 1916 Paul Baumann established the family-owned company PB Baumann GmbH. In 1940 the company began producing tools, the first of which was a screwdriver. In 2011 medical devices were added to the portfolio. Today, 150 employees in Wasen and Sumiswald manufacture 12 million tools and instruments every year. More than two thirds of these are exported worldwide.[1]

The "Classic" and "Multicraft" styles of tool handles are made of cellulose acetate butyrate and vanilla-scented to counteract the potentially unpleasant aroma of butyric acid that would otherwise form as the tools age. The "SwissGrip" and "ElectroTool" styles have handles made of Santoprene-coated polypropylene.[2]

PB Swiss hand tools are individually serial-numbered, and the serial number can be used to search a database and find the date of manufacture for a given tool.[2]

  • Set of interchangeable blade screwdrivers
  • Voltage-test screwdriver
  • Screwdriver with short handle
gollark: Some uses: if you are going shopping in a real-world shop you could get reviews displayed on the items you look at; it could be a more convenient interface for navigation apps; you could have an instructional video open while learning to do something (which is already doable on a phone, yes, but then you have to either hold or or stand it up somewhere, which is somewhat less convenient), and with some extra design work it could interactively highlight the things you're using; you could implement a real-world adblocker if there's some way to dim/opacify/draw attention away from certain bits of the display.
gollark: There's nothing you can't *technically* do with a phone, but a more convenient interface does a lot.
gollark: There are rather a lot of cool uses for being able to overlay information on reality.
gollark: I think you're being uncreative.
gollark: You can also do really fast automatic flight with Plethora kinetic augments.

References
  1. "PB SWISS TOOLS: History". PB Swiss Tools. 2014-01-28. Retrieved 26 September 2017.
  2. Catalog 2014, Switzerland: PB Swiss Tools GmbH, 2014
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