Highly flexible and modular production plants with decentralised automation enable the process industry to react to fluctuations in demand. This is the case in water treatment, in the pharmaceutical, fine chemical and food industries and also in energy generation. Decentralised controllers from Festo are perfect for this. Festo developed the PA-Toolkit for programming these controllers to enable simple application engineering in line with the ...

Les masques de protection sont rares en ces temps de coronavirus, alors pourquoi ne pas en produire vous-même ?! Avec un système de la société Mikron, c'est presque à la portée de tous. Ce système évolutif produit 50 à 100 masques par minute, selon la version. Avec le soutien technique de Festo, Mikron a réussi à développer le système en seulement six semaines.

The implementation of Industry 4.0 is an ongoing process that involves challenges, but also offers great potential for the automation industry – Festo recognised this at an early stage. The key elements of industrial digitalisation are the individual components, which communicate with each other within the overall system and can control and regulate themselves. The tasks of the human employee are also changing from merely operating machines to ...