Oliver Jung (61) will leave his position as Chairman of the Management Board of Festo SE & Co. KG as planned on expiry of his current mandate. The Supervisory Board has appointed Thomas Böck (52) as his successor. Mr. Böck will join the family-owned company as the new Chairman of the Management Board on 1 January 2024.

Machine builders no longer need to choose between a stepper or servo drive, thanks to the CMMT-ST from Festo. This new extra low voltage servo drive is capable of open or closed loop positioning, which effectively bridges the gap between stepper and servo drives. This means the user can tailor the CMMT-ST to suit the needs of the application and reap the benefits of both control formats.

The FLAIROP (Federated Learning for Robot Picking) research project, which was sponsored by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, was concluded at Festo in Esslingen-Berkheim. At the event, all project participants – as well as interested public – were on site or presented their results live from Canada.

"The shortage of skilled workers is a challenge for companies in Europe. We need to invest much more in education and training. That is why I propose to make 2023 the European Year of Skills," said EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. The highlight of this Year of Skills will be the 8th EuroSkills competition of professions in September in Gdańsk, Poland. Mechatronics is one of the most attractive and promising skills, and it will be ...

According to estimates, by 2025 some 600,000 tons of used batteries from electric passenger cars need to be recycled. Since batteries are energy storage devices made from valuable raw materials, this inevitably raises the question of sustainability. Festo therefore offers modular automation concepts not only for cell producing, assembling battery modules and packs, and platform integration, but also for disassembling and recycling or separating the ...

El éxito y la reputación de los fabricantes de vehículos eléctricos depende del funcionamiento seguro y correcto de las baterías. De ahí que HAHN Automation Group haya desarrollado un comprobador de batería que realiza una prueba 100% automatizada de los acumuladores de energía portátiles. Como elemento central: un pórtico de 3 ejes para la comprobación visual y de ...

Standardisation is a recipe for success for a fruitful collaboration between packaging machine manufacturers and automation specialists. The strategic partnership between Syntegon and Festo is a great example of this. Thanks to this cooperation, Syntegon was able to simplify its processes and manage the challenges posed by the pandemic and the supply chain crisis more effectively.

The Festo Group achieved double-digit growth for another year in a row. Sales rose by 13.4% to €3.81 billion in 2022 (previous year €3.36 billion). Festo intends to continue growing in 2023. Innovative automation is the enabler for the industrial transformation towards renewable energies, sustainable production, hydrogen and circular economy.

El software GripperAI de Festo permite un "agarre a ciegas en la caja" y con ello la creación de soluciones de manipulación autónomas con prácticamente cualquier robot, cobot o pórtico cartesiano. Para este propósito, la empresa ibk Ingenieur Consult GmbH ofrece  una celda de robot configurable en línea como modelo básico. Esta podría convertirse en la solución ...

En el curso de la digitalización, Festo, como fabricante líder a nivel mundial de técnicas de automatización y formación técnica, se orienta hacia la producción inteligente del futuro con sus productos y servicios. La empresa también apuesta por la inteligencia artificial y el aprendizaje automático. Desde hace más de 60 años, la empresa familiar independiente fundada en 1925 ...

Tiempos de comercialización más rápidos, ingeniería más eficiente, mayor funcionalidad y calidad: estas son las ventajas que ofrece un gemelo digital a los fabricantes de máquinas y sistemas. Festo está trabajando intensamente para equipar sus componentes de automatización con un gemelo digital, una representación digital en forma de capas de administración. La empresa se ha asociado ...

On site and hands-on: At the Hannover Messe, visitors on the Festo booth can use all their senses experience comprehensive learning environments. Highlights of the product portfolio in the field of education and training will be on display – from the digital learning portal Festo LX and virtual reality learning to product innovations in the field of learning systems with cobots, AI and the digital twin.

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.