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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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The enormous rise in the quantity of data and in the complexity of plant networks and company divisions makes it necessary to develop products that make the flow of data easy to project and to use – at production level, but also for training and developing workers’ skills.
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Festo SE & Co. KG
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Global

Industry 4.0 – Consequences for Education and ...

The enormous rise in the quantity of data and in the complexity of plant networks and company ...
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Highly flexible and modular production plants with decentralised automation enable the process industry to react to fluctuations in demand. This is the case in water treatment, in the pharmaceutical, fine chemical and food industries and also in energy generation. Decentralised controllers from Festo are perfect for this. Festo developed the PA-Toolkit for programming these controllers to enable simple application engineering in line with the “Module Type Package” (MTP) from Namur and ZVEI.
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Festo SE & Co. KG
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Global

Simplified integration into control systems

Highly flexible and modular production plants with decentralised automation enable the process ...
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The growing pace of technological change, political disputes over trade relations and increasingly dismal prospects for the global economy are putting the manufacturing industry under pressure. The corona pandemic was and is a particular challenge, too. How can we succeed in not simply going with the flow but playing an active role in this complex scenario, especially as a medium-sized family company?
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Festo SE & Co. KG
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Global

Industrial Transformation

The growing pace of technological change, political disputes over trade relations and increasingly ...
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Digitalization influences all areas of life. Not only the working environment is changing fundamentally, but also the way people learn. Learning trends such as mobile learning, micro learning, gamification, adaptive learning and virtual reality are also shaping technical education and training.  For this reason, Festo Didactic has developed a digital learning portal; the Festo Learning Experience, in order to be prepared for the future of learning and to create individual learning experiences for teachers and learners.
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Mobile Learning with Festo LX
Festo Didactic SE
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Global

The future of digital learning

Digitalization influences all areas of life. Not only the working environment is changing ...
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Festo Didactic presents a new product for the bionics didactic concept of Bionics4Education. What is new: the orientation towards the maker movement approach and the 4Cs. The aim is inspiring learners, finding new ways and solutions, dealing creatively with provided materials, and sharing these experiences with others to prepare them for the digital world of tomorrow.
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Festo Didactic SE
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Global

Bionic Flower: a bionically inspired robot flower

Festo Didactic presents a new product for the bionics didactic concept of Bionics4Education. What is ...
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Thanks to radio-based indoor GPS with ultra-wideband technology (UWB) the BionicSwifts can fly safely and in a coordinated pattern in a defined airspace. To execute these flight manoeuvres as true to life as possible, the wings are modelled on the plumage of real birds. The agility of the artificial birds is not just due to their lightweight design and aerodynamic kinematics, but also to the use of function integration.
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Festo SE & Co. KG
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Global

Artificial feathers give flight to robotic birds

Thanks to radio-based indoor GPS with ultra-wideband technology (UWB) the BionicSwifts can fly ...
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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 benefits electronics manufacturing, as demonstrated by the use of the automation platform VTEM in wafer handling.
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Festo SE & Co. KG
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Global

Gentle and reliable wafer handling

The Festo Motion Terminal VTEM combines digitalisation and pneumatics. Quickly activated Motion Apps ...
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Leading industrial companies from the automotive, pharmaceutical and food industries have clear CO2 targets for their products. These require machine builders to make significant energy savings in new machine generations compared with previous machines. This is precisely why Festo offers an unrivalled solution in the global compressed air system market with its energy efficiency module MSE6-C2M.
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Festo SE & Co. KG
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Global

Meeting the CO2 specifications of industrial ...

Leading industrial companies from the automotive, pharmaceutical and food industries have clear CO2 ...
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Protective masks are in short supply in these times of coronavirus so why not just produce some yourself?! With a system from Mikron, this is almost within everyone’s reach. This scalable system produces 50-100 face masks per minute, depending on the version. With engineering support from Festo, Mikron managed to develop the system in just six weeks.
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Festo SE & Co. KG
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Global

Mini factories in containers help reduce mask ...

Protective masks are in short supply in these times of coronavirus so why not just produce some ...
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Walking and rolling like the flic-flac spider – the BionicWheelBot moves along the ground in astounding ways. Together with the team headed by the discoverer of the spider, Professor Ingo Rechenberg, Festo has taken a very close look at these unique forms of locomotion and has technically realised them. But no magnifying glass was needed for the flying fox: the BionicFlyingFox is an imposing figure with its wingspan of 2.28 metres and its partly autonomous aerobatics, which are made possible by a motion tracking system and machine learning.
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Festo SE & Co. KG
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Global

Unique forms of motion derived from nature

Walking and rolling like the flic-flac spider – the BionicWheelBot moves along the ground in ...
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With the maintenance software Smartenance, Festo has ushered machine and system maintenance into the digital era. Maintenance teams no longer need paper and pen, and long communication channels are a thing of the past. Festo now offers the software Smartenance with more functions and new licence packages.
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Smartenance di Festo: manutenzione digitale per operatori di sistemi, manager di produzione e tecnici di manutenzione
Festo SE & Co. KG
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Global

Now with incident management and machine logbook

With the maintenance software Smartenance, Festo has ushered machine and system maintenance into the ...
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Compact design for 30% shorter cycle times and 50% less vibration – those are the most important characteristics of the cantilever axis with toothed belt ELCC-TB from Festo. The axis fits in seamlessly with Festo's concept of complete connectivity for its electric automation technology.
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Festo SE & Co. KG
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Global

Cycle times reduced by 30 per cent

Compact design for 30% shorter cycle times and 50% less vibration – those are the most important ...
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Gripping workpieces just as a chameleon's tongue grips insects – that is the operating principle of the adaptive shape gripper DHEF from Festo. This unusual gripper can pick up, gather and set back down again objects of many different shapes without the need for manual adjustment.
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Festo SE & Co. KG
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Global

The automated chameleon tongue

Gripping workpieces just as a chameleon's tongue grips insects – that is the operating principle of ...
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