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Creating added value for customers through innovation has been the driving force behind the family-owned company from the very beginning and remains the key to Festo's success today. With its constant determination to make people's work easier and thus increase efficiency, Festo has shaped an entire era of industrial production. Today, the company is a global player and a front runner in automation technology, as well as a world leader in technical education and training. Festo's anniversary is being celebrated with employees, customers, and...
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Festo SE & Co. KG
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Belgium
Ireland
Netherlands
United Kingdom

Festo Celebrates its Centenary – 100 Years in ...

Creating added value for customers through innovation has been the driving force behind the family ...
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Festo introduces its new flagship valve terminal, the VTUX. The VTUX can serve as I/O, remote I/O, and decentralized I/O. These compact and rugged IP65/67-rated terminals can be located anywhere on a machine that boosts operational performance and original equipment manufacturer (OEM) installation productivity. VTUX modularity results in less inventory and lower overhead costs. Slated to replace Festo’s legacy terminals, the VTUX will be the company’s star for years. 
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Festo SE & Co. KG
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Canada
USA

Festo Introduces the VTUX, the Company’s new ...

Festo introduces its new flagship valve terminal, the VTUX. The VTUX can serve as I/O, remote I/O ...
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Safe, thorough, and fast inspection of charged electric vehicle (EV) battery cells is essential for lowering production cost and ensuring the quality of EV batteries. Harris Hill Automation, Poland, Maine, USA, a young, nimble, and customer-focused machine builder, recently designed and built a handling system to feed battery cells into and out of their OEM customer’s proprietary quality inspection system. The Harris Hill Automation solution handles and tracks and traces batteries, while increasing production throughput twentyfold.
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Festo SE & Co. KG
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Canada
USA

A New Automated Handling System Dramatically ...

Safe, thorough, and fast inspection of charged electric vehicle (EV) battery cells is essential for ...
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Users today face the challenge of having to integrate different topics such as control and motion, AI, data integration and evaluation, predictive maintenance and much more into their applications at the same time, with short development cycles and ever new requirements. Festo AX Controls presents an automation portfolio that takes these requirements into account. The motto "from the workpiece to the cloud" is taken further here, and Festo AX Controls combines many software modules such as operating system, motion, visualization, high-level...
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AX Controls
Festo SE & Co. KG
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Global

More customer success through seamless data ...

Users today face the challenge of having to integrate different topics such as control and motion ...
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On the shopfloor, machines not only deliver products, but also large amounts of data that are converted into information using artificial intelligence in such a way that they show humans specific optimization potential . Initial successes are visible: in hundreds of customer applications, solutions from the Festo AX Industrial Intelligence portfolio have reduced unplanned downtimes by up to 25 % and cut waste by 20 %.
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AX Intelligence
Festo SE & Co. KG
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Global

Added value from data reduces downtime and waste

On the shopfloor, machines not only deliver products, but also large amounts of data that are ...
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With the personalized MyFesto dashboard at www.festo.com, Festo customers have a central overview of their current offers and service requests and can access all data on Festo products from their projects on MyFesto Projects. In future, Festo users will have it even easier: the System Configurator will give them a central point of access to the entire world of Festo engineering tools.
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My Festo
Festo SE & Co. KG
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Global

Taking customers by the hand along the value ...

With the personalized MyFesto dashboard at www.festo.com, Festo customers have a central overview of ...
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Innovative guide technology, high rigidity and guide load capacity for more load in the same installation space - these are the features of the new ELGD axis family from Festo. In addition, powerful drive elements offer high feed forces and accelerations for shorter cycle times, a long service life and less downtime. A stainless steel cover strip is friction-free on the outside and does not allow any particles to form there. This makes the drives in the axis family ideal for use in cleanrooms.
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ELGD Toothed Belt
Festo SE & Co. KG
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Global

Precise and dynamic

Innovative guide technology, high rigidity and guide load capacity for more load in the same ...
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Fresh on the market, the Festo AX Controls automation portfolio is showing its open side: voraus robotik, an innovative software company from Hanover, is integrating its automation software into Festo AX Controls. With the software voraus.core, manufacturers, integrators and end users can easily create and execute solutions for a wide range of applications and optimize and monitor their entire automation.
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vorausrobotik
Festo SE & Co. KG
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Global

Festo AX Controls automation portfolio in use

Fresh on the market, the Festo AX Controls automation portfolio is showing its open side: voraus ...
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Festo introduces its new flagship valve terminal, the VTUX. The VTUX can serve as I/O, remote I/O, and decentralized I/O. These compact and rugged IP65/67-rated terminals can be located anywhere on a machine that boosts operational performance and original equipment manufacturer (OEM) installation productivity. VTUX modularity results in less inventory and lower overhead costs. The VTUX will be the company’s star for years. The new VTUX is on display at the Festo Pack Expo Booth # N-5927, McCormick Place, Chicago, November 4-6.
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Festo SE & Co. KG
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Canada
USA

Festo Introduces at Pack Expo the VTUX, the ...

Festo introduces its new flagship valve terminal, the VTUX. The VTUX can serve as I/O, remote I/O ...
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Festo has expanded its vacuum generation solutions to include for the first time a multistage generator and a multistage cartridge. These new vacuum components offer exceptional performance on porous materials, such as paper and corrugated board. The new OVPN is on display at the Festo Pack Expo Booth # N-5927, McCormick Place, Chicago, November 4-6.
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Festo SE & Co. KG
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Canada
USA

Festo Introduces at Pack Expo Multistage Pneumatic ...

Festo has expanded its vacuum generation solutions to include for the first time a multistage ...
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Festo Didactic’s demonstration focuses on hands-on learning systems for meeting the growing needs of manufacturers seeking to upskill their workforce. Didactic is promoting the importance of workforce development and technical education in the packaging and processing industries.
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Festo SE & Co. KG
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Canada
USA

Festo Didactic Showcases Advanced Workforce ...

Festo Didactic’s demonstration focuses on hands-on learning systems for meeting the growing needs of ...
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