trends in automation
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Intelligent
automation technology
makes food production safer –
and lowers manufacturing costs.
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Modular design
of the valve range VUVG with a great
advantage to Gerhard Schubert’s designers.
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Synergies
The taste of success
Festo Training and Consulting wins
Company of the Year Award at the Food
Processing Awards, as judged by the
magazine’s readers.
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Modern infusions
Sophisticated valve terminal technology
in ready-to-install control cabinets speeds
up processes and reduces overheads in
Europe’s most modern factory producing
infusion solutions.
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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.
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Fast filling
The faster convenience food meals are
filled, the more taste they retain.
Servo-pneumatics and sensors from Festo
set the pace.
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Automatic tool changer
Gerhard Schubert GmbH’s tool changer
works fully automatically. The central
component is the valve range VUVG from
Festo.
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Impulse
Engaging Automation
The role of employee engagement in
successful automation projects.
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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.
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Further related articles:
Clean results, no need
for tricks
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The taste of success
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Fast filling
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