Progress in motion

How do we meet the great challenges of our time? Supplying the world's population and at the same time protecting our natural resources seem to create an irresolvable conflict. It is our view that automation technology and technical education are enabling factors that can drive the industrial transformation towards CO₂-neutral, sustainable production. We can all work together and make an active contribution.

Below you can find more information on our main topics

Assist people at work

Making work easier

Which systems and solutions help make the workplace more ergonomic and relieve people of physically and mentally stressful activities? How can we enable people to work safely and effectively with machines?

On the one hand, the focus is on intelligent and intuitive handling systems that can work safely hand in hand with people and provide relief, particularly in a working environment with heavy-duty and tiring tasks. On the other hand, digitalisation offers great potential to supplement human capabilities and increase productivity. By using software tools and AI methods, complex evaluations of large volumes of data can be carried out in order to generate information that supports people in their decision-making processes.

What you will discover at our stand:

  • How AI-supported image recognition systems make work easier
  • How pneumatic and electrical safety functions reduce the risk of accidents

Improve health

Improve health

How can we manage the increasing demands on healthcare as a result of population growth and demographic change? What technical expertise is required to ensure safety, quality and efficiency in the life science sector?

A growing and ageing world population requires more medical diagnostics and treatment. Today's efficacy of medicine is made possible thanks to technical innovations. As a result, people can reach a higher age with a better quality of life. Larger sample volumes require an increase in capacity and an acceleration of laboratory services such as in vitro diagnostics. Automation technology not only speeds up laboratory processes, it also ensures high quality and safety standards. Our valves ensure medical gases are dosed and controlled extremely precisely when supplying patients.

What you will discover at our stand:

  • Innovative laboratory automation for quick and reliable analyses of samples
  • Contactless weighing and filling with Supra Motion for efficient processes in cleanrooms
  • High-precision control of extremely small liquid flows
  • Safe handling of medical gases with piezo technology

Lifelong learning

Lifelong learning

How do we empower people to use cutting-edge technologies and drive the development of new ones? In addition to high-quality automation solutions, qualified specialists are the key to success when it comes to increasing productivity, competitiveness and progress.

Driven by innovations and social changes as well as the focus on sustainable management, new job profiles are emerging and existing professions are changing or being complemented.

As a global leader in the field of technical basic and further training, Festo Didactic is the ideal partner for developing the technical skills for companies, educational institutes, governments and state organisations worldwide. With state-of-the-art technical education solutions for innovative technologies, we support you in preparing current and future generations for the demands of industry. This also makes an important contribution to UN Sustainable Development Goal 4 – Quality education.

What you will discover at our stand:

  • A wide range of courses and training programmes that will enable your specialists to increase their and your company's innovative strength and productivity
  • How your junior staff and specialists can acquire important skills for automation technology, electrical engineering and artificial intelligence so that these are specific to industry needs and job profiles
  • Digital learning opportunities for theory and practice in an immersive, interactive and safe environment

Industrial transformation

Industrial transformation

How do we support the implementation of Industry 4.0 and structural change in many sectors? How can we give people confidence in dealing with new technologies?

1. The battery cycle

The automotive industry is in a state of upheaval as it moves away from the combustion engine and towards regenerative systems. This has massive implications for production environments, processes and supply chains. Industry 4.0 and virtualisation are the key to mastering the increasing complexity and achieving greater flexibility and productivity.

What you will discover at our stand:

  • How automation solutions make the entire battery production process, including assembly, disassembly and recycling of battery cells, more efficient and safer
  • Suitable training courses on the fundamentals of battery cycle management, battery cell production, safety aspects and the entire product lifecycle of batteries


2. Open architecture

We are the only automation company to offer an open architecture for controlling electric and pneumatic systems in a single solution. Thanks to an automation environment in which all components fit together seamlessly, we can support you with the perfect design and the optimum mix of technology.

What you will discover at our stand:

  • How to shorten commissioning times with seamless connectivity from the workpiece to the cloud
  • The advantages of combining centralised and decentralised system architectures
  • How to combine the parameterisation, programming and maintenance of Festo components in one programme


3. Digitalisation and artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence helps us to generate valuable information from all the machine data that can be gathered, thus contributing to quality assurance, energy efficiency and predictive maintenance. The use of data in and around a machine to optimise performance and efficiency is becoming the standard for automation concepts in all industrial segments.

What you will discover at our stand:

  • AI-supported solution packages for complex applications such as gripping, packaging, filling, gluing, welding or riveting
  • Comprehensive solutions for the semiconductor industry
  • The precise and energy-efficient pressure and flow control of inert gases using Controlled Pneumatics with innovative piezo technology

Ecological innovations

Ecological innovations

How can we save energy and reduce CO₂ emissions? How can we reduce our material consumption, recycle more and use alternative materials, such as green hydrogen? How do we train people so that they can drive forward the use of innovative solutions to address the world's environmental challenges?

The challenges of climate change are encouraging us to develop new automation concepts at full speed. That is how we will be making an important contribution to achieving a circular economy. While doing so, we pay particular attention to biology as an action topic for automation. It can be used to make a biological cell into the smallest factory of the future.

What you will discover at our stand:

  • How green hydrogen can be produced sustainably and transported safely
  • How you can automate the production of green hydrogen with products from Festo
  • How climate-neutral end products are created from valuable biological materials
  • How consistent automation can be sustainable, economical, simple and flexible
  • How we are using technical education to drive the development of new job profiles
  • How we empower people to use and develop innovative solutions to environmental challenges