Monday, March 31, 2025, 1.30 - 2.30 p.m. at the Festo stand in Hall 7, Stand A32

A major manufacturer of hard disk drives (HDDs) has achieved ‘lights out’ operation in its production facility using a unique modular automated storage and retrieval system (ASRS) featuring Festo robotic handling technology. The ASRS was architected and designed by DPB Automation, with the controls and safety solution designed by RH Electrical Engineering, and software developed by Lumico.

To mark the company's 100th anniversary, the automation specialist Festo has designed an extraordinary machine that will be presented for the first time at the Hannover Messe 2025. Based on the principle of a Rube Goldberg machine, it does not manufacture a specific product but tells the story of motion in automation technology that has significantly influenced the family-owned company.

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 ...

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 ...

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 %.

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.

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 new, optimized EMMB-ST and EMMT-ST stepper motor family in conjunction with the CMMT-ST-MP servo drive controller offers users a coordinated servo system at an attractive price.

The powerful, compact and versatile HEPP electric gripper is suitable for a wide range of workpieces in electrical systems or applications without compressed air. It is optimized for electronics and small parts production, laboratory automation and special machine construction.

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.

Generating energy sustainably is one of the great challenges of our time - and green hydrogen is a building block of the solution. Hydrogen will play a key role in the future energy landscape and in the decarbonization of energy-intensive industries. Festo offers comprehensive automation solutions along the entire hydrogen value chain - on show at Hydrogen Expo in Hamburg from October 23 to 24, 2024 (booth 1I20, hall A1).

Industrial automation specialist Festo is making it easier for manufacturers to harness the power of digital automation and artificial intelligence (AI) to optimise process efficiency. Festo AX is a suite of AI-based software solutions enabling customers to increase efficiency in their production processes.

Wherever inert gases need to be precisely controlled, the mass flow controller VEFC from Festo is the right choice. Thanks to piezo technology, it is compact and flexible, and offers an excellent price/performance ratio. It is especially suitable for use in electronics manufacturing, food production, and anywhere in machine building where shielding gas is required.

Controlled Pneumatics is the rapidly evolving compressed air technology from Festo that is opening new applications for pneumatics. The technology delivers more precision and control than ever, while having the potential to dramatically reduce energy use. This is clearly demonstrated in the VTEP: the first proportional valve terminal on the market, offering high precision, fast response times, and dynamic control.

The Olympic Games in Paris are over – now another French metropolis is taking center stage: Lyon will host the 47th WorldSkills from September 10 to 15, 2024. The WorldSkills Championships will bring together more than 1,500 young people from over 65 countries and regions to compete in 62 competitions.