Industrial automation specialist Festo is making it easier for manufacturers to harness the power of digital automation and artificial intelligence (AI) to optimise process efficiency. Festo AX is a suite of AI-based software solutions enabling customers to increase efficiency in their production processes.

Controlled Pneumatics is the rapidly evolving compressed air technology from Festo that is opening new applications for pneumatics. The technology delivers more precision and control than ever, while having the potential to dramatically reduce energy use. This is clearly demonstrated in the VTEP: the first proportional valve terminal on the market, offering high precision, fast response times, and dynamic control.

The new SFAM, from industrial automation specialist Festo, is a pressure and flow sensor combined in one compact unit. Equipped with IO-Link®, the SFAM sensor enables data-driven insights and reduces the number of components required, so system designers and machine builders can save time, space and cost. It also simplifies stocking and provides greater design flexibility.

Industrial automation specialist Festo and systems integrator QM systems have collaborated on the evolution of a new automated laboratory system that fills, caps and labels test vials at speeds of up to 3000 vials per hour.

Machine builders and systems installers are under pressure to deliver high performance automation solutions that are quicker to deploy and offer a low total cost of ownership. Industrial automation specialist Festo has developed its new ELGD mechanical axis series to meet these demands. Specifically designed for tooth belt and ball screw mechanical axes in cartesian handling systems, the ELGD series features a simplified design that delivers ...

In een nieuwe installatie voor het mixen van chocolade paaseitjes heeft Mondelez in Herentals resoluut voor elektrische aandrijvingen gekozen. De belangrijkste redenen hiervoor zijn een lager energieverbruik, een hogere veiligheid en meer flexibiliteit in het aansturen van snelheden en posities. Een ingenieus systeem van transportbanden zorgt ervoor dat iedereen bij Pasen een leuke mix van smaken in zijn pakje met chocolade eitjes vindt.

Modern manufacturing requires handling solutions capable of managing product diversity, shorter product life cycles and growing levels of product customisation. The HEPP electric gripper from Festo addresses this need for greater flexibility in the gripping of multiple workpieces with adaptable stroke lengths and gripping forces.

Soaring energy prices and the need to continuously drive down costs are key considerations for manufacturers. So, when packaging machinery specialist Cerulean decided to redesign its highly successful FPS-1 tube packer, high energy efficiency and reduced total cost of ownership (TCO) became key design requirements.

Machinebouwers hoeven dankzij de CMMT-ST-MP van Festo niet langer te kiezen tussen een stappenmotor- of servomotorregelaar. Deze nieuwe, ‘extra lage-spanning’, servoregelaar is namelijk geschikt voor  positioneertoepassingen zowel in gesloten  in open regelkring (m.a.w. met of zonder encoder). Omdat servomotorregelaars voorheen alleen closed-loop werden gebruikt, wordt hiermee het gat tussen stappenmotor- en servomotorbesturingen ...

The recent pandemic taught us that rapid and reliable tests at low cost are key to future prevention and control of transmissible diseases. High throughput testing for many upper respiratory tract pathogens is now possible, using automation technology.

Torus Technology Group has partnered with Festo to create a purpose-designed integrated handling solution for its new TQ-Lab modular plastics packaging testing station.

Met de nieuwe Electric Motion Sizing tool van Festo is het zoeken naar de optimale oplossing voor uw motiontoepassing een stuk eenvoudiger geworden.

Rapid leaps in innovation characterise the development of additive manufacturing processes. Rotterdam-based company Concr3de has been working on a 3D printer for stone for more than five years, developing an inkjet technique to participate in the reconstruction of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. They achieved this aim using automation technology from Festo.

Samenwerking tussen verpakkingsfabrikant Frugalpac, machinebouwer PCE Automation en automatiseringsspecialist Festo versnelt productie van revolutionaire recyclebare kartonnen wijn- en sterkedrankfle.

Algae are small climate savers. Even in their natural state they are extremely efficient photosynthesizers and absorb ten times more carbon dioxide (CO₂) than land plants. In bioreactors equipped with appropriate sensors, control technology and automation, the efficiency of algae can be increased to a hundred times that of land plants. This shows that they have a significant potential for a climate-neutral circular economy. With the PhotoBionicCell ...

The latest technological advances in solid-state cylinder technology enable maintenance or service engineers to solve multiple pneumatic or electric drive issues with a single device, according to industrial automation specialists Festo.