Fast, reliable and efficient – the Festo Design Tool 3D Online configuration software reduces the risk of errors when designing and ordering system modules. The software is now available online, and no longer needs to be downloaded and installed locally. The online version is another module offered by Festo to support its customers entering the digital age.

Fast and straightforward format changes on just one machine are at the top of the wish list of many packaging machine manufacturers and their customers. Innovations from Festo make these wishes come true. Enter the brand new Festo Motion Terminal and the Multi-Carrier-System® MCS.

Food production is at the intersection of factory and process automation. Festo offers smart automation solutions for food applications, covering the complete production process – with the perfect ingredients for producing the best beverages and foodstuffs. The place to be – stand 320 in hall B3 at drinktec 2017 in Munich.

Experiencing films with all the senses – this is what cinema audiences can do in one of the world’s 18,000 MediaMation cinema seats. With this concept, the whole body participates in the movie. The movements are controlled by a Festo Motion Terminal VTEM. This provides a unique way of combining digitisation and pneumatics.

At the Digital Summit on 28 and 29 October, the GAIA-X project for setting up a networked, open data infrastructure as the "cradle of an open, digital AI ecosystem" was presented by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. Festo supports the development of such a data infrastructure for Europe.

Nature impressively teaches us what the ideal propulsion systems for certain types of movement in water look like. For the BionicFinWave, which Festo is presenting for the first time at the Achema 2018, the bionics team was inspired by the undulating fin movements executed by marine animals such as the polyclad or the cuttlefish. With this form of propulsion, the underwater robot manoeuvres itself autonomously through a system of acrylic glass tubing. ...

The requirements placed on the cleaning of production facilities and their purity are increasing – particularly in future-oriented fields such as medical technology, laboratory automation or biotechnology. Thanks to superconductor technology, these demands could easily be fulfilled in future. At the Hannover Messe 2019 trade fair, Festo is once more showcasing two new concepts in this field: with the SupraMultitool, ...