Festo is an independent family-owned company and a global player in automation technology and technical education, with headquarters in Esslingen a.N. (Germany) – with over 20,000 employees at around 250 locations worldwide, a turnover of around 3.5 billion euros and an R&D rate of over 8%. As a partner in motion, Festo offers integrated and seamless pneumatic, electric and digital drive technologies across all industries – including ...

The growing pace of technological change, political disputes over trade relations and increasingly dismal prospects for the global economy are putting the manufacturing industry under pressure. The corona pandemic was and is a particular challenge, too. How can we succeed in not simply going with the flow but playing an active role in this complex scenario, especially as a medium-sized family company?

Con sistemas de producción altamente flexibles, modulares y automatizados de forma descentralizada, la industria de procesos puede reaccionar a las fluctuaciones de la demanda. Esto es aplicable al tratamiento del agua, a la industria farmacéutica, a la química fina y a la alimentaria, pero también al sector de la generación energética. Para ello son adecuados los controladores descentralizados de Festo. Para ...