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Editorial
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Panorama
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Festo worldwide
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trends in automation
Issue 28
Photo: © NASA, ESA, and
the Hubble Heritage Team
In focus
Dimensions
Since 1990, the Hubble
Telescope has been providing incredible images
from the depths of outer space. What looks small
in a colour photo takes on truly vast proportions
in reality. In this issue of trends in automation
you’ll find out how the great and the small
interact with one another. Ever more compact
systems are delivering higher productivity.
Extremely small components are creating space
for new possibilities.
Inspiration
Compass
Magic moments:
curtain up
for the Ehrlich Brothers.
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The art of illusion
Illusionists Andreas and Chris Ehrlich
make extensive use of automation in
their spectacular shows. They talk to us
about how they transform technology
into emotion.
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Motion without contact
SupraMotion 3.0: for the first time ever,
the SupraCycle exhibit shows the active
transfer of a suspended permanent
magnet from one superconductor module
to another using superconductivity.
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Dealing with difficult people
Gary Wyles, Managing Director of Festo
Didactic Training & Consulting, discusses
confronting poor behaviour by difficult
employees.
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SupraCycle:
new future concept for
superconductivity.
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