Ergonomics improves efficiency thanks to a servo-pneumatic balancer that enables employees in assembly and logistics to lift and move loads effortlessly, using just two fingers. At the heart of the balancer is the powerful and reliable drive solution YHBP from Festo with automatic weight detection and safety Performance Level d – perfect for the automotive and packaging industries.

Opening sample vessels and pipetting liquid samples in the same workspace saves space in laboratories. This can now be achieved with the three-dimensional gantry EXCL from Festo, which has a small footprint for table-top devices and PCB-based motion control.

Seeds are the new gold. Why is that? Plant-based foods can feed an ever-growing world population. But climate change, pests and diseases threaten plant breeding. To help develop resistant seeds and make them available to agriculture, plant breeders need vast amounts of DNA. That is precisely why Synchron Lab has developed the "DNA factory", which is automated with handling gantries, electric axes, pneumatic grippers and sensors from Festo.

Karsten Europe verzorgt de distributie van druiven uit Afrika en controleert de kwaliteit van dit kwetsbare product sinds kort volledig automatisch via een vision/AI-systeem van Gearbox. Naast geavanceerde hard- en software bevindt zich in het hart van deze machine ook de Simplified Motion Series van Festo waarmee producten die niet voldoen aan de ingestelde kwaliteitsstaandaarden beheerst naar een parallelbaan worden geduwd. Gearbox koos bewust voor de eenvoudige elektrische automatiseringsoplossing omdat hiervoor geen perslucht is vereist én...