2025/02/18
ID: 4950

The Festo Incredible Machine celebrates its premiere at the Hannover Messe

Anniversary exhibit shows fascinating journey of movements in automation technology

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.

In a laboratory on the Festo campus in Esslingen, a completely new type of application is currently being created to mark the company's 100th anniversary. Many materials and technical devices are being brought into this laboratory and a large team from different departments of the company is working together on an impressive "anniversary exhibit".

 

The application will demonstrate Festo's diverse skills and extensive expertise in the field of automation technology as well as its innovative spirit to make the impossible possible. After all, inventiveness and a pioneering spirit have been part of the company's DNA from the very beginning. Just as the flap of a butterfly's wings can trigger a chain of movements, sometimes a small impulse brings about significant industrial changes.

 

From a Small Impulse to the Entire World of Motion

The eMotionButterfly from Festo sets the machine in motion. This impulse starts a fascinating journey of movements within the machine: into a world of industrial automation in which standing still is not an option, characterized by innovation and progress.

With the "Incredible Machine", Festo is looking back at its history, but above all it is looking forward to the future and demonstrating its fascination with motion technologies – whether pneumatic, electric, digital or a combination.

 

The details of this large machine are still a secret: it will celebrate its premiere at the Hannover Messe 2025. And this is just the beginning, the momentum continues: with the motto "Automation for a world in motion", the family-owned company will successfully start the next 100 years of automation technology, together with its customers and partners.

Festo est à la fois un acteur mondial et une entreprise familiale indépendante basée à Esslingen am Neckar en Allemagne. Depuis ses débuts, Festo établit des normes en matière de technologie d'automatisation industrielle et de formation technique, contribuant ainsi au développement durable de l'environnement, de l'économie et de la société. La société fournit une technologie d'automatisation pneumatique et électrique à 300 000 clients d'automatisation d'usine et de processus dans plus de 35 industries. Le secteur LifeTech, avec la technologie médicale et l'automatisation des laboratoires, devient de plus en plus important. Les produits et services sont disponibles dans 176 pays du monde. Dans le monde entier, environ 20 600 employés dans environ 60 pays avec plus de 250 succursales ont généré un chiffre d'affaires d'environ 3,65 milliards d'euros en 2023. Sur ce total, environ 7 % sont investis chaque année dans la recherche et le développement. Dans l'entreprise apprenante, les mesures de formation et de développement représentent 1,5 % du chiffre d'affaires. Festo Didactic SE est l'un des principaux fournisseurs d'enseignement et de formation techniques et propose à ses clients du monde entier des solutions complètes d'apprentissage numérique et physique dans l'environnement industriel.

© Festo SE & Co. KG
Festo Incredible Machine - butterfly
A small impulse, like the flap of a butterfly's wings, can lead to great things: the Festo Incredible Machine on its 100th anniversary.
© Festo SE & Co. KG
Festo Incredible Machine - drawing
Drawing of the Festo Incredible Machine for the 100th anniversary

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