The increasing awareness of climate protection, but also high energy prices and rising cost pressure make energy efficiency a core corporate task. In addition, environmentally friendly and CO2-neutral production is increasingly becoming a competitive factor.
Festo aims to establish artificial intelligence (AI) as a key technology and core competence and to use it consistently for its customers’ automation solutions. To this end, Festo offers intelligent solutions and services, with a focus on Predictive Maintenance, Predictive Quality and Predictive Energy.
In the 2020 financial year, the Festo Group had to cope with a 7.5% decline in turnover due to the pandemic, but was able to close with an overall operating result above the previous year. The workforce was also guided through the crisis in a stable manner.
With the number of diabetics in the world rising by about 10 million a year, there is steady demand growth for the insulin pens that help people manage their lives.
When Colin Cartwright started as a controls engineer more than 30 years ago, choosing a sensor cable was relatively easy because there weren’t very many options to choose from. It was 1990 and if a sensor had a connector (many were still widely available with screw terminals at that time), it was either a 7/8 Mini connector or a M12 connector.
Piezoelectric motors have long been used for ultra-precise expensive motion solutions in niche industries but the latest innovations in piezo technology enable these devices to be suitable for mainstream motion solutions.
2020 will probably go down in history as being the year of ultimate challenges, but the HVAC industry experienced and kept up with those rapid changes on a daily basis. Despite the crisis, an AHR Expo and ASHRAE Journal survey showed 88% HVAC industry respondents reporting “good” or “excellent” business with a possible 5-10 percent growth.
E.B. Horsman & Son (EBH) was recently delighted to share the news that IPEX Inc received the E.B. Horsman & Son Supplier Partner of the Year award for the second year in a row.
In the logistics industry, it’s always a race to be the fastest company to get deliveries out the door while also maintaining a standard of impeccable accuracy at the lowest possibl cost.
ABB robots are supporting Nestlé to improve the productivity of pallet loading in its chocolate manufacturing facilities in Brazil by 53 percent, using a new ABB palletizing robot solution.
Founded in 1989, For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) is probably best known for its annual Robotics Competition, where competition teams design, program and build a robot starting with a standard kit of parts and common set of rules to play on a themed course.
In this blog post, which is the third in Festo’s series on functional safety, we’re exploring the ways test pulses can affect solenoid valves. It is important to note that this topic pertains to an individually wired solenoid and does not apply to valve terminals utilizing bus communication, which have a varying number of solenoids that can be active at varying moments.
Certified Electrical Safety Engineer (CESE) is an internationally recognized professional certification offered in partnership with SGS-TÜV Saar, the worldwide leading company for safety testing, auditing, verification, and certification. By passing the certification exam, you will confirm your expertise as a machine safety professional.
In the popular imagination, robots are large, dumb machines for doing dull, muscular, repetitive tasks with precision and accuracy. That’s only part of today’s robotics world. Robots now come in many sizes and configurations, with two to seven axes.
There are plenty of burning questions in the manufacturing industry. “How do we increase flexibility?” “How can we ensure consistent quality and accuracy throughout?” “What’s the best way to minimize the impact of recalls?” And the the big one: “What will the factory of the future look like?”
Sensing technology has a major presence in manufacturing machinery. It provides the foundation for maintaining consistent quality and detecting any lapses in machine performance. If subtle changes in the physical properties of a machine can cause it to fail, then the sensors responsible for detecting those changes can save manufacturers lengthy downtime and repair costs.