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Festo announced the promotion of Jean-Francois Paquette to Canada Sales Director, North American Sales. In his new position, Montreal-based Paquette will focus on leading the sales objectives and planning strategy for the Canadian sales organization, setting and meeting revenue and profitability targets for Canada as part of the North American region goals.
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Festo SE & Co. KG
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Canada

Festo appoints Director of Sales for Canada

Festo announced the promotion of Jean-Francois Paquette to Canada Sales Director, North American ...
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Precisely gluing smartphone displays, applying thermal paste or gluing micro cameras in place are just a selection of the adhesive processes that represent the dosing and dispensing competencies of ViscoTec. Now the company has brought out cartridge applicator units designed for exact and clean feeding of adhesives, pastes and silicones of different viscosities, supported by a pneumatic control module supplied by Festo right to the ViscoTec assembly line as a ready-to-install module.
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Festo SE & Co. KG
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Global

High-precision dosing with different viscosities

Precisely gluing smartphone displays, applying thermal paste or gluing micro cameras in place are ...
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Product dimensional inspection skills are key for manufacturing excellence and quality control in a globalized, competitive world. To ensure strict product compliance with design specifications, expertise in product measurement, interpretation of technical drawings, and statistical techniques should become second nature so that workers can correctly apply these skills as soon as they hit the shop floor.  
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Festo Didactic
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Global

Strengthening dimensional metrology skills to ...

Product dimensional inspection skills are key for manufacturing excellence and quality control in a ...
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Recognising digital trends quickly and implementing them with maximum benefit for customers is becoming increasingly important for business success. Festo, a global player in automation and technical education, has opened its new Digital Sales Hub in one of the trend hotspots, Barcelona. With its dynamic environment, the start-up metropolis offers best conditions for this.
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Festo SE & Co. KG
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Global

Festo opens Digital Sales Hub in Barcelona

Recognising digital trends quickly and implementing them with maximum benefit for customers is ...
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For the first time, apprentices in the job profiles of Mechatronics and Industry 4.0 met for the German Championships of WorldSkills Germany. These took place at the Festo Lernzentrum Saar in St. Ingbert at the beginning of October. The respective winning teams will represent Germany at the upcoming vocational championships WorldSkills 2022 and EuroSkills 2023.
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WorldSkills
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Global

Ready for the Professional World

For the first time, apprentices in the job profiles of Mechatronics and Industry 4.0 met for the ...
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Choosing the right drive technology in automation saves money and, at the same time, also protects the climate. So how do users find the right technology that enables them to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the long term? The new CO₂ & TCO Guide from Festo supports machine and system manufacturers to make the choice.
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Festo SE & Co. KG
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Global

Selection tool saves money and reduces CO₂ ...

Choosing the right drive technology in automation saves money and, at the same time, also protects ...
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Precise, energy-saving, silent and fast – for the first time, piezo technology makes gas handling in medical technology and laboratory automation truly efficient. What are the differences compared with proportional solenoid valves? How can specialists in medical technology and laboratory automation easily integrate piezo components into their systems and devices? Festo, the automation specialists, will provide clear answers to these and many more questions in the life science webinar. When? On Wednesday, 6 October 2021 from 3:30 to 4:30 pm...
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Festo SE & Co. KG
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Global

How piezo technology more efficiently regulates ...

Precise, energy-saving, silent and fast – for the first time, piezo technology makes gas handling in ...
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The Center of Vocational Excellence in Mechatronics at Festo in Esslingen, Germany, is now the official national training center for the German mechatronics team at the WorldSkills championships. "We do not only qualify our own apprentices, but also apprentices who will make up the national mechatronics team at the next WorldSkills Shanghai 2022," says Stefan Dietl, Head of Training at Festo.  
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Festo SE & Co. KG
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Global

German Center of Vocational Excellence in ...

The Center of Vocational Excellence in Mechatronics at Festo in Esslingen, Germany, is now the ...
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Over 60 competition skills, participants from 60 nations, up to 300,000 spectators... it sounds like the Olympic Games, but it's called WorldSkills, the World Championships for Vocational Training. “Global Industry Partners" (GIP), for whom the topic of professional vocational training is not just lip service, play a major role in the vocational competitions. Festo is one of the exclusive partners in the skills of Industry 4.0, Mechatronics and Water Technology.
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Festo Didactic
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Global

Partnership in Technical Vocational Training ...

Over 60 competition skills, participants from 60 nations, up to 300,000 spectators... it sounds like ...
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The VFOE allows machinery and plant manufacturers to regulate the speed of pneumatic cylinders in their machines and plants to suit their specific needs and expectations. This compact one-way flow control valve from the Festo Core Range has proven itself to be a cost-effective solution for standard applications.
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Festo SE & Co. KG
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Global

Fast delivery – easy assembly

The VFOE allows machinery and plant manufacturers to regulate the speed of pneumatic cylinders in ...
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The preconfigured fail-safe circuit in the ready-to-install control cabinet is a safe and low-cost alternative when it comes to fail-safe technology. It replaces a single-acting actuator and guarantees that the actuator assumes a predefined safety position in the event of a pressure and/or power failure.
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Festo SE & Co. KG
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Global

Safety in fail-safe mode

The preconfigured fail-safe circuit in the ready-to-install control cabinet is a safe and low-cost ...
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A leading car manufacturer has been relying on the pinpoint accuracy and efficiency of servo-pneumatic welding guns from Festo for many years. So much so that they have now installed more than 2,500 welding gun robots with this technology in the premium brand’s body shops. This car manufacturer has now been able to reduce downtimes by 25 percent thanks to a predictive maintenance system from Festo which is ready for artificial intelligence.
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Festo SE & Co. KG
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Global

Servo-pneumatic welding guns from Festo reduce ...

A leading car manufacturer has been relying on the pinpoint accuracy and efficiency of servo ...
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Production, warehouse, shipping - where goods are produced, stored, sorted or packed, picking also takes place. This means that several individual goods are removed from storage units such as boxes or cartons and reassembled. With the FLAIROP (Federated Learning for Robot Picking) project Festo and researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), together with partners from Canada, want to make picking robots smarter using distributed AI methods. To do this, they are investigating how to use training data from multiple stations,...
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Festo SE & Co. KG
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Global

Better gripping with intelligent picking robots

Production, warehouse, shipping - where goods are produced, stored, sorted or packed, picking also ...
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Pneumatic drives from the Festo core product range have to meet the high demand of offering excellent value for money with the usual high quality for every function. From the compact cylinder ADN-S to the round cylinder DSNU or the mini slide DGST, these drives solve the required motion tasks in the majority of application scenarios, while their sturdiness ensures reliable machines and systems.
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Festo SE & Co. KG
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Global

Robust and multi-talented

Pneumatic drives from the Festo core product range have to meet the high demand of offering ...
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The compact and low-cost spindle axes ELGT from Festo with integrated double guide are perfect for combining into 2D and 3D cantilever systems. Developed for applications in the electronics industry, in desktop applications and in battery manufacturing, they are open to servo motors from Festo as well as many other providers, especially those based in Asia.
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Festo SE & Co. KG
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Global

Low cost and open to many suppliers

The compact and low-cost spindle axes ELGT from Festo with integrated double guide are perfect for ...
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Industry experts are forecasting a golden era for additive manufacturing, with annual growth rates of 24% anticipated into 2024. The automation of 3D printing processes offers further growth potential, for example in feeding or depowdering the components. When it comes to the depowdering of laser-melted metal parts, Solukon is the world's leading supplier. It is working together with Festo, the global player in industrial automation technology, to establish whether it is possible to push the level of automation for depowdering even further...
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Solukon Maschinenbau GmbH
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Global

Automating depowdering in 3D printing

Industry experts are forecasting a golden era for additive manufacturing, with annual growth rates ...
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