Controlled Pneumatics is the revolutionary compressed air technology from Festo that is opening up new perspectives for pneumatics. Thanks to this technology, the pressure control of the compact proportional valve terminal VTEP is extremely sensitive, down to less than 1 mbar. This is perfect for applications such as wafer polishing or patch clamping in life science. In addition, Controlled Pneumatics uses high-precision piezo valves to reduce compressed air consumption by up to 50%.

According to estimates, by 2025 some 600,000 tons of used batteries from electric passenger cars need to be recycled. Since batteries are energy storage devices made from valuable raw materials, this inevitably raises the question of sustainability. Festo therefore offers modular automation concepts not only for cell producing, assembling battery modules and packs, and platform integration, but also for disassembling and recycling or separating the materials.

The success and reputation of electric vehicle manufacturers depend on the safe and flawless functioning of batteries. HAHN Automation Group has therefore developed a battery tester that carries out a complete test of the mobile energy storage units fully automatically. A 3-axis gantry for optical and leak tests, consisting of electric drives from Festo, takes centre stage.

Festo, specialist op het gebied van industriële automatisering, heeft een nieuwe elektromechanische aandrijving met vrijdragende as geïntroduceerd, die is ontworpen om te voldoen aan de veeleisende specificaties van moderne productiefaciliteiten. De nieuwe ELGT-aandrijving combineert precisie met een hoge belastbaarheid en stijfheid, waardoor hij ideaal is voor toepassing bij de productie van kleine onderdelen en Li-ion batterijen.