On July 29th, Festo and the Fraunhofer IPA were honoured for their developed App "Virus Fighters Handbook" at the Award Ceremony of the Give a Breath Challenge in Munich, an ideas competition organised by Munich Re and the Fraunhofer Society to combat the corona crisis.

Digitalisation and artificial intelligence (AI) are mega trends that are also opening up the potential for savings in all phases of a plant's lifecycle in process automation. A digital field device, the Festo Motion Terminal VTEM, is already available. Festo Dashboards also visualise plant conditions and even artificial intelligence is no longer far removed from becoming a reality in process automation.