ifm electronic gmbh — 2 prefixes (MA-L)

ifm electronic gmbh is a German industrial-automation and sensor manufacturer, founded in 1969 and headquartered in Essen, Germany, with production sites across the Bodensee region including Tettnang, Baden-Württemberg. It remains family-owned, employs roughly 6,500 people worldwide, and reports serving around 150,000 customers while shipping over 9 million sensors per year — substance well beyond a bare registry listing. The IEEE registry carries two separate MA-L (24-bit) OUI blocks under name variants of the company: 00:02:01, registered to "IFM Electronic gmbh" at a Bechlingen address, and 74:73:1D, registered to "ifm electronic gmbh" at its ifm-Straße site in Tettnang. No MA-M or MA-S blocks exist under the ifm name. ifm's connected-device portfolio centers on IO-Link masters with EtherNet/IP and PROFINET gateway support (the AL1121/AL1122/AL1324/AL1420 families), alongside industrial sensors, machine-safety technology, and condition-monitoring systems — though no source ties either specific OUI prefix to a named product model. IEEE's public OUI data publishes no assignment date for either block; a third-party lookup tool shows scrape dates that are database artifacts, not IEEE facts, and are not recorded here as registration dates.

IEEE assignment

two MA-L prefixes — 00:02:01 → "IFM Electronic gmbh" (Bechlingen 34, DE) and 74:73:1D → "ifm electronic gmbh" (ifm-Straße 1, Tettnang, BW, DE 88069) [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry (lines 13812, 24883)

Registry / block size

MA-L (24-bit OUI) for both blocks; no MA-M or MA-S block registered under any "ifm" name variant [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-M registry, the IEEE MA-S registry (no matches)

HQ / country

Essen, Germany (corporate HQ); registered site addresses at Bechlingen and Tettnang, Baden-Württemberg — both in ifm's known manufacturing cluster [Likely] — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ifm_group, https://www.ifm.com/locations/de

Company status

active; founded 1969, family-owned, ~6,500 employees, ~150,000 customers, >9M sensors/year shipped [Likely] — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ifm_group, https://www.bccresearch.com/company-index/profile/ifm-electronic-gmbh

Device types

IO-Link masters with EtherNet/IP and PROFINET gateway support (AL1121/AL1122/AL1324/AL1420 family), industrial sensors, machine-safety technology, condition-monitoring systems — general portfolio, not tied to either specific prefix

[Likely] — https://www.ifm.com/us/en/category/245_010_010, https://www.ifm.com/us/en/product/AL1122

Registration dates

Unknown per IEEE — the IEEE MA-L registry publishes no assignment/registration-date field for either block. A third-party site (maclookup.app) shows 2000-11-09 for 00:02:01 and 2020-09-01 for 74:73:1D; these are database-scrape artifacts, not IEEE facts, and are not recorded here as IEEE registration dates

[Confirmed absence of IEEE date] — the IEEE MA-L registry, https://maclookup.app/vendors/ifm-electronic-gmbh

Security context

Unknown — no CVE or advisory naming ifm electronic found via general web search; ifm.com's cybersecurity page returned HTTP 403 on fetch (content unverified), so a clean record cannot be confirmed [Unknown]

Slug/prefix ambiguity

the entry slug "vendor-ifm-electronic" covers both OUI blocks (00:02:01 and 74:73:1D) as a consolidated vendor entry, consistent with the two-block reality; no prior master row or file existed to indicate a narrower scope

[Confirmed] — this site's own enrichment records, this site's own enrichment records

Related vendors

none found (no MA-M/MA-S sub-blocks; no subsidiary OUI identified)