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The educational module "Machine Learning Vision" addresses the trends in the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning. Optical quality inspection as an application scenario is close to practice in the industrial environment. Through additional learning materials, the contents are structured in a didactic concept in which theoretical knowledge transfer alternates with practical experiments.
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Festo Didactic SE
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Global

Practice-oriented introduction to artificial ...

The educational module "Machine Learning Vision" addresses the trends in the field of artificial ...
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Diabetes is on the rise worldwide with around 10 million people being diagnosed with the disease every year. This pushes up the demand for insulin pens for self-injection. Syntegon's Danish subsidiary has developed an automated system for assembling these pens using the Festo automation platform.
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Festo SE & Co. KG
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Global

The fast way to a safe insulin pen

Diabetes is on the rise worldwide with around 10 million people being diagnosed with the disease ...
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The Productivity Master, a modular demonstration system for personalised USB memory sticks from Festo, is showing how automation technology will evolve along the value chain when combined with digitalisation. Thanks to seamless connectivity, everything fits perfectly, from the mechanical and electric systems to the intelligence. The Festo automation platform provides an integrated and practical system to link all Festo engineering tools, components and solutions in hardware and software.
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Productivity Master
Festo SE & Co. KG
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Global

Productivity Master points the way to ...

The Productivity Master, a modular demonstration system for personalised USB memory sticks from ...
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The essence of any mechanical switching device is an accurate response. That is exactly why it is designed to respond with precision. And why it can be installed, without backlash, in just a few steps. The manually and mechanically actuated valves from the VHEF and VMEF series from Festo follow precisely these mechanical principles.
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Festo SE & Co. KG
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Global

Precise and robust

The essence of any mechanical switching device is an accurate response. That is exactly why it is ...
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The pandemic that marked 2020 has distracted attention from pressing environmental issues and rising energy costs. Greater energy efficiency and sustainability require skilled people who can drive and implement these goals in multiple industries. Now, educators have the resources necessary to teach these skills with Festo Didactic's expanded range of learning solutions in the field of energy.
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Festo SE & Co. KG
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Global

An electric future powered by qualified employees

The pandemic that marked 2020 has distracted attention from pressing environmental issues and rising ...
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How can people acquire the skills needed to digitize work to take on new tasks? What must Technical Vocational and Educational Training (TVET) strategies look like to bring technology closer to learners, teachers and managers? These and other questions were discussed on November 26 during the online colloquium on Digital Technical and Vocational Education and Training (DTVET) co-organized by the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) and Festo Didactic. Conclusion: Digital learning tools will be the key to unlock African...
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Festo Didactic SE
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Global

Virtual Colloquium DTVET

How can people acquire the skills needed to digitize work to take on new tasks? What must Technical ...
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The Festo Motion Terminal VTEM combines digitalisation and pneumatics. Quickly activated Motion Apps are revolutionising pneumatics by increasing flexibility and energy efficiency, and accelerating production processes. This also has benefits for handling technology, because the automation platform VTEM opens the door for positioning using pneumatics.
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Festo SE & Co. KG
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Global

Highly flexible pick & place with digitised ...

The Festo Motion Terminal VTEM combines digitalisation and pneumatics. Quickly activated Motion Apps ...
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If you want to be fit for Industry 4.0, you need a qualification plan. The newly developed Festo Didactic Curriculum 4.0 combines a wide variety of learning paths aimed at specific job roles in an industrial context, such as mechatronics engineers. With the Curriculum 4.0 trainees and professionals can keep up with the rapid developments in Industry 4.0 and help shape these exciting times - throughout life.
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Festo SE & Co. KG
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Global

Lifelong learning with the Curriculum 4.0

If you want to be fit for Industry 4.0, you need a qualification plan. The newly developed Festo ...
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In cooperation with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), Festo Didactic, the education division of Festo SE, is striving to improve vocational and technical training in Syrian industry. This is intended to restore sustainable livelihoods in the crisis regions and accelerate their further development.
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Festo Didactic SE
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Global

Festo Didactic provides support for equipping ...

In cooperation with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), Festo Didactic ...
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The electric standard gripper EHPS from Festo is the electric version of the pneumatic standard gripper DHPS. The EHPS can be used wherever pneumatics is not permissible. The concept of the electric standard gripper is based on simplicity and low complexity – all the electronics are integrated in the gripper, which means that an external motor controller is not required.
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Festo SE & Co. KG
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Global

Reliable gripping without air

The electric standard gripper EHPS from Festo is the electric version of the pneumatic standard ...
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The patented Nereda process from Royal HaskoningDHV offers wastewater treatment plants that take up 75% less space than conventional plants, require just 50% of the energy and are also odour-free, while delivering excellent purification performance. Pneumatic automation technology from Festo ensures reliable and exact process sequences, while experts from Festo provide support with planning the plant.
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Festo SE & Co. KG
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Global

Nereda® technology for footprint and energy ...

The patented Nereda process from Royal HaskoningDHV offers wastewater treatment plants that take up ...
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The logistics and assembly plant in Mason close to Cincinnati/Ohio is the “North American brick” in Festo’s global production and logistics network. Now a majority of customers have available a Festo plant in a distance of a one-day-truck-drive. Let’s have a closer look to the Festo Value Production – “a five stars system of production and logistics”.
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Festo SE & Co. KG
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Global

A global five stars system of production and ...

The logistics and assembly plant in Mason close to Cincinnati/Ohio is the “North American brick” in ...
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As of immediately, technicians and engineers arrive at the right ready-to-install handling system at a record-breaking tempo in the areas of project engineering and planning. They can now order new system solutions intelligently and intuitively via the new Festo Handling Guide Online – without any interruptions in the value chain because the new configuration and ordering platform is integrated into the online product catalogue from Festo.
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Festo SE & Co. KG
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Global

The right handling system in just 20 minutes

As of immediately, technicians and engineers arrive at the right ready-to-install handling system at ...
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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.
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Festo SE & Co. KG
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Global

Great strides into the digital future

Digitalisation and artificial intelligence (AI) are mega trends that are also opening up the ...
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