Dosing, aspirating or continuous flow – with the media-separated valves VYKA, VYKB and VZDB from Festo all three operating modes are possible. The compact yet powerful valves dose and aspirate even small quantities with a high level of precision. Thanks to their impressive pressure and nominal width specifications, they are also suitable for controlling the flow in a manifold duct plate, for example.

Festo Didactic presents a new experimental set within the existing bionics educational concept “Bionics4Education”. The Bionic Swift can be used to impart relevant knowledge on the topics of bird flight, bionics and STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Maths) both in the school education environment and in the private sector.

Enthusiasm for careers in technical professions and for the right learning tools and teaching methods in the age of digitalisation - this is what participants at this year's digital Hannover Messe will experience in live sessions and virtual stand tours at Festo Didactic. The specialist for technical education and training is pulling out all the stops in its portfolio - from Bionics4Education to miniature learning factories, learning systems and ...

Festo Motion Terminal VTEM combina digitalizzazione e pneumatica. Le Motion App stanno rivoluzionando la pneumatica aumentando la flessibilità, l'efficienza energetica e accelerando i processi di produzione. Questo comporta vantaggi per la tecnologia di movimentazione, perché la piattaforma di automazione VTEM apre la porta al Pick&Place tramite la pneumatica.

The educational module "Machine Learning Vision" addresses the trends in the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning. Optical quality inspection as an application scenario is close to practice in the industrial environment. Through additional learning materials, the contents are structured in a didactic concept in which theoretical knowledge transfer alternates with practical experiments.

The pandemic that marked 2020 has distracted attention from pressing environmental issues and rising energy costs. Greater energy efficiency and sustainability require skilled people who can drive and implement these goals in multiple industries. Now, educators have the resources necessary to teach these skills with Festo Didactic's expanded range of learning solutions in the field of energy.

How can people acquire the skills needed to digitize work to take on new tasks? What must Technical Vocational and Educational Training (TVET) strategies look like to bring technology closer to learners, teachers and managers? These and other questions were discussed on November 26 during the online colloquium on Digital Technical and Vocational Education and Training (DTVET) co-organized by the Association for the Development of Education in Africa ...

If you want to be fit for Industry 4.0, you need a qualification plan. The newly developed Festo Didactic Curriculum 4.0 combines a wide variety of learning paths aimed at specific job roles in an industrial context, such as mechatronics engineers. With the Curriculum 4.0 trainees and professionals can keep up with the rapid developments in Industry 4.0 and help shape these exciting times - throughout life.

In cooperation with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), Festo Didactic, the education division of Festo SE, is striving to improve vocational and technical training in Syrian industry. This is intended to restore sustainable livelihoods in the crisis regions and accelerate their further development.

The automation experts at Festo and the small but successful trading company Lotz Hydraulik+Pneumatik GmbH based in Emmendingen have recently started working together. Companies in the Baden region will now be able to enjoy an even better supply of high-quality products and invaluable expertise.

Festo's AI solution "Intelligent pneumatic runtime monitoring" was honoured at the "AI Champions Baden-Württemberg" awards ceremony of the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Economics, Labour and Housing on 11 August.

The logistics and assembly plant in Mason close to Cincinnati/Ohio is the “North American brick” in Festo’s global production and logistics network. Now a majority of customers have available a Festo plant in a distance of a one-day-truck-drive. Let’s have a closer look to the Festo Value Production – “a five stars system of production and logistics”.

As of immediately, technicians and engineers arrive at the right ready-to-install handling system at a record-breaking tempo in the areas of project engineering and planning. They can now order new system solutions intelligently and intuitively via the new Festo Handling Guide Online – without any interruptions in the value chain because the new configuration and ordering platform is integrated into the online product catalogue from Festo.

Festo and Sahlberg have been pursuing new distribution channels since April 2020. This means that customers of the technical retailer Sahlberg can now access the automation specialist’s extensive portfolio. A variety of solutions from a single source simplify procurement for many customers, and in this way increase their competitiveness.

Machines and plants with decentralised automation – this vision is coming closer to reality thanks to the CPX automation platform from Festo. The technology leader in electrical and pneumatic automation technology is now presenting a development project with delta kinematics – without a control cabinet.

The enormous rise in the quantity of data and in the complexity of plant networks and company divisions makes it necessary to develop products that make the flow of data easy to project and to use – at production level, but also for training and developing workers’ skills.