Cover story - Fresh on the table - Hygienic manufacturing filling and packaging
Synergies
The taste of success
Festo Training & Consulting wins Company of the Year Award for the Food Processing Awards, as judged by the magazine's readers.
Modern infusions
Sophisticated valve terminal technology in ready-to-install cotnrol cabinets speeds up processes and reduces overheads in Europe's most modern factory producing infusion solutions.
Managing the complexity of many variants
The special machine builder BDG is able, thanks to modular test and production systems, to react quickly to customers' wishes and market demand.
Fast Filling
The faster convenience food meals are filled, the more taste they retain.
Servo-pneumatics and sensors from Festo set the pace.
Automatic tool changer
Gerhaard Schubert GmbH's tool changer works fully automatically. The central component is the valve range VUVG from Festo.
Compass
Capturing the taste
Who eats the most ice cream each year? Are Australian men the liveliest in the world? And why are coconuts so ingenious as an example of packaging?
Festo wins Future award
The development of the Bionic Handling Assistant was singled out at the end of last year with the award of the "Nobel Prize for Technology".
Impulse
Cover story - Fresh on the table
The food industry uses automation technology to make the manufacture, filling and packaging of food safer - and efficient solutions from Festo play their part in achieving this.
Clean results no need for tricks
Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Hofmann, Head of the Hygienic Design Academy and an
expert assessor for the Technical University of Munich, explains what food manufacturers
and machine and installation builders can do to make food safer..
Engaging automation
The role of employee engagement in successful automation projects.