Si algo nos ha enseñado la pandemia de coronavirus es la gran necesidad que tienen los laboratorios de conseguir un alto flujo de muestras. Cumplir con este requisito ya no es posible, incluso contando con personal de laboratorio altamente cualificado. Los procesos de laboratorio ya no podían prescindir de la automatización. Por esa razón, la empresa neerlandesa MolGen ha desarrollado PurePrep TTR, una solución capaz ...

At the Hannover Messe 2023, Festo is presenting the next step on the road to the industrialisation of biological transformation: BionicCellFactory. With automation technology from Festo, biomass can be cultivated on a large scale in a highly efficient, resource-conserving way. Everything that we currently produce from crude oil creating immense CO2 emissions can also be obtained sustainably from algae. With the BionicCellFactory, Festo is demonstrating ...

Digitalisation and artificial intelligence (AI) are megatrends that can also offer great potential for savings in tyre production. Machine learning algorithms can be implemented in a decentralised manner, for example on the edge, i.e. on the actual module to be monitored. An example is Festo AX. This AI software uses these algorithms to detect anomalies on tyre building machines or in curing presses.

The twin cylinder DGTZ from Festo is short, flat and extremely versatile. The versatility is ensured by the mounting options on four sides of this rigid and thus non-rotating twin cylinder that is also maintenance-free.

BZEE and Festo Didactic renew their longstanding collaboration to offer guidance and learning resources to support training providers in the tuition of skilled wind turbine technicians in order to accelerate the transition to renewable energy.

The term "sustainability" all too often turns into mere lip service. Not so at Wellspect. This world leader in manufacturing solutions for medical continence care has made sustainability an integral part of its corporate strategy and is committed to putting it into practice. No wonder the company’s plant in Mölndal near Gothenburg, Sweden, relies on Festo Energy Saving Services which save Wellspect €37,000 a year in energy costs.

Fast MDx demuestra cómo es posible identificar muchos agentes patógenos a una velocidad insuperable sin necesidad de recurrir a costosos laboratorios bioseguros. La empresa británica ha desarrollado un sistema de tests en el punto de atención del paciente que reduce el típico tiempo de espera de 24 a 48 horas a tan solo dos horas. La técnica de automatización de Festo es parte del sistema.

Gracias a su sostenibilidad, los embalajes de cartón sustituyen cada vez más a los de plástico. Para ello, un paso importante en la producción de cajas plegables es el encolado de los recortes de cartón. El especialista y líder de mercado en este tipo de aplicaciones es la empresa Baumer hhs, con la bomba de doble émbolo DPP, la cual se sirve de la válvula proporcional VPPM de Festo.

On 17 November, the time had come: the winning trophies were presented to the six winning teams by the fourth generation of the Stoll family and several Festo board members during the festivities at the Festo Training Centre in Esslingen/Berkheim.

The future belongs to human-robot cooperation. System builder BEC developed such a collaborative solution for Siemens Healthineers. It inserts coils weighing several tonnes precisely into the magnets of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines. Electric cylinders from Festo, which ensure the coils are securely gripped, play a crucial role here.  

The Operation Unit "Modular Valves" at the Festo plant in Scharnhausen, Germany, is one of the winners of the "Lean and Green Management Award 2022". The jury awarded the special "Lean Excellence" prize to the lean processes and cleanly applied standards. Efficient and resource-saving production is also an important building block in the sustainability strategy of Festo.

After the cancellation of WorldSkills 2022 in Shanghai due to COVID-19 restrictions in China, new opportunities came up for the WorldSkills competition: The WorldSkills Competition 2022 Special Edition will be held decentralized in 15 countries. Germany benefits directly from this: 9 of 62 competitions will take place in Germany, three of them in Stuttgart, at the beginning of October parallel to the Motek and Vision industrial trade fairs. This gives ...

The decentralised IO system CPX-AP-I allows compact and lightweight I/O modules as well as the decentralised valve terminals from Festo to be integrated into major host systems in a flexible and scalable way. Another advantage of CPX-AP-I is its seamless connectivity from the field level right through to the cloud, providing access to features such as predictive maintenance. This makes digitalisation incredibly easy.

Thanks to high-pressure pneumatics, stretch blow moulding machines achieve an output per blow moulding station of between 1,000 and nearly 3,000 PET bottles per hour. The key to this success is precise control using valves and valve blocks and the proper compressed air preparation. These are supplied by Festo, along with global services, from design engineering tools to operation. At drinktec in Munich in September 2022, innovative digitalisation ...

Every day, sensors in production plants collect huge amounts of data. However, companies seldom realise how valuable the correct evaluation of large amounts of data is. This creates data graves whose potential remains undiscovered. The Heubach Group had a similar experience. However, with Festo AX artificial intelligence, it was proven that benefits for maintenance, engineering and productivity can be achieved from central PID data.

Las algas son pequeñas salvadoras del clima. Incluso durante su fotosíntesis natural en el exterior, son extremadamente eficientes y fijan diez veces más dióxido de carbono (CO₂) que las plantas terrestres. En biorreactores con los sensores, la tecnología de control y la automatización adecuados, la eficiencia de las algas puede aumentar hasta cien veces la de las plantas terrestres. Por lo tanto, tienen un ...