Festo announces that its Customer Solutions department (the company’s fabrication, assembly, and engineering services) is now unified throughout North America. This milestone increases Festo customization capabilities and enables North American engineering companies, system integrators, and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to bring projects to market faster with less design, project management, and engineering overhead.

Festo introduces a heavy-duty Cartesian gantry for palletizing with lift capacity of up to 440 pounds, Z-axis stroke lengths exceeding eight feet, and speed of up to five feet per second. With free online design tools; off-the-shelf servo drives, motors, and other components; and quick assembly kits, this Festo palletizing solution shortens project time and reduces engineering and assembly costs.

Festo introduces the company’s comprehensive selection of electric and pneumatic components for intralogistics motion automation – pushing and sorting, gripping and picking, and lifting and conveying.

Festo is now showing customers and prospects several new life science automation innovations including the company’s wide-range flexible pipetting. Each of the new and customizable solutions combines Festo components into dynamic subsystems. Festo collaborates with OEMs and integrators to bring proven commercial technologies to labs around the globe.

From recently completed production lines, Festo introduces the DHPL, a new generation of competitively priced long-stroke grippers that offers a host of advantages for high load and torque applications. The DHPL is interchangeable with competitive long-stroke grippers. It provides the added benefits of lighter weight, higher precision, and no maintenance. The new long-stroke gripper is ideal for stacking boxes, gripping plates and shaped parts, and ...

Festo is now represented in Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina by leading automation solutions provider CIMTEC Automation (CIMTEC), headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.

From recently completed production lines, Festo introduces the HPPF, an innovative flat parallel gripper that ranges in height from 19 mm to 41 mm among its four sizes: 8, 12, 16, and 20. The stroke ranges from a narrow 8 mm to a wide 80 mm, and gripping forces span from 60 N to 377 N. HPPF flat parallel grippers are ideal in space-constrained applications for small parts and electronics assembly, including batteries due to low copper, zinc, and nickel ...

Electeo is built to streamline electronics skills development in universities, vocational and technical schools  Turnkey for achieving a modern electronics lab with digital tools Compatible with a wide range of devices and operating systems Supports electronics concepts in mechatronics, automation, and instrumentation and control, plus more.

Visitors at the Festo booth can step into a simulated Smart Factory environment. Highlights of Festo’s product portfolio will be on display with demos guided by STEM teachers and engineers – from cobots and bionics to electronics and AI-supported systems.

From recently completed production lines, Festo introduces a new generation of competitively priced compact grippers that offer a host of advantages for precision electronics and small part assembly. The DHPC parallel gripper offers ≤ 0.01 mm repetition accuracy, while the DHWC angle and DHRC radial gripper variants offer ≤ 0.2 mm accuracy. The DHPC, DHWC, and DHRC are interchangeable with competitive grippers. They provide the added benefits of ...

The Festo Power Up initiative for food and beverage machine builders aims to spur the efficient adoption of electric automation and in the process support the development of the next generation of compact, flexible, energy efficient, and data-rich machines.

Festo Didactic North America is pleased to announce Daniel Rodriguez as its new Sales Director.

With the recent introduction of its distributed I/O solution CPX-AP-A, along with its established CPX-AP-I decentralized I/O, Festo now offers a range of electric and pneumatic automation solutions that is unmatched in North America in terms of performance, flexibility, cost savings, and engineering productivity. AP stands for Automation Platform and this backplane-based remote I/O system has been in development for a decade.

Festo introduces the CMMT MP family of multi-protocol servo drives. Every drive in this family is configurable as EtherNet/IP, EtherCAT, PROFINET, and Modbus TCP.

Festo demonstrates at The Battery Show NA 2023 automated EV battery recycling – removal of batteries from housings and recovery of precious materials from shredded lithium-ion batteries. Festo also features a compact handling system for battery modules and electric and pneumatic automation solutions. The Battery Show NA, September 12-14, Suburban Collection Showplace, Novi, Michigan, Festo Booth #1545.

Festo debuts at Pack Expo 2023 the company’s new distributed I/O solution, CPX-AP-A. With the introduction of CPX-AP-A, along with its established CPX-AP-I decentralized I/O, Festo now offers a range of electric and pneumatic automation solutions that is unmatched in North America in terms of performance, flexibility, cost savings, and engineering productivity. Festo shows CPX-AP-A plus the company’s extensive lines of integrated electric ...