Il 29 luglio, Festo e l'IPA Fraunhofer sono state premiate per lo sviluppo dell’App "Virus Fighters Handbook" alla cerimonia della Give a Breath Challenge a Monaco di Baviera, un concorso di idee organizzato da Munich Re e dalla Fraunhofer Society per combattere la crisi del corona virus.

The servopneumatic balancer kit YHBP from Festo offers ever greater flexibility thanks to its ability to support greater loads and stroke lengths. In addition, it’s becoming ever easier to install, since its control components are now available as a ready-to-install solution pre-assembled in the control cabinet or on a mounting plate.

Travel bans, limits on contact with others, quarantine rules – in times of a pandemic, service technicians and fitters are often unable to travel around the world to customers to commission their machines and plants on site. That is why customers can now conveniently book remote commissioning for axis systems at Festo. This makes commissioning online very quick and easy.

At the Hannover Messe, Dr Frank Melzer, Member of the Management Board for Product and Technology Management, handed over his chairmanship of the steering committee, the central steering body of the Plattform Industrie 4.0, in rotation. Festo remains represented on the platform's chairing committee and continues to be committed to the digital transformation of industry. Digital twins for Industrie 4.0, sovereign data infrastructure and ecologically ...