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Festo AX Controls – The automation platform

Increase your productivity with end-to-end data usage from mechanics to commissioning and programming to AI optimization:

Are you struggling with long and complicated engineering, programming and commissioning phases? In addition to a wide variety of data from different manufacturers and tools? With Festo AX Controls and our portfolio for electrical automation, we offer you a complete system solution from a single source for the first time. With end-to-end software for end-to-end data usage – real-time capable, flexible, expandable and secure. Discover all your automation options with Festo AX Controls now

1. Festo AX OS open-source operating system

  • Seamless and secure connection of the IT and OT worlds and the cloud
  • Deterministic real-time control in standard programming according to IEC 61131-3 (e.g. CODESYS) and high-level languages such as C/C++, C# and Python®
  • Remote monitoring, data analysis and a wide range of IoT functions
  • Easily expandable and scalable.

2. Festo AX Motion: Multi-core software architecture

  • Seamless automation of machines
  • Maximum system speed
  • Simple operation
  • Maximum flexibility and adaptability
  • Motion control in submodules and complete machines

3. Festo AX Application Framework

  • Includes application software, software infrastructure and editor (easy-to-use engineering tool)
  • Intuitive creation and automatic generation of machine projects and software
  • Open application SDK (software developer kit) for new, self-developed functionalities

4. Festo AX machine visualization

  • Based on WebIQ, the advanced, web-based HMI/SCADA system
  • Offers maximum flexibility and customizability
  • State-of-the-art technology with a user-friendly development environment
  • For customized web HMIs with open standards such as HTML5, CSS and JavaScript for a wide range of devices
  • Optimum performance with Festo HMIs such as CDPX

5. Festo AX Ecosystem

  • Includes a variety of apps such as Python, Node-RED or AX Industrial Intelligence AI apps
  • Software, libraries and tools from third-party providers can be easily integrated
  • Enables web-based engineering
  • Software development kit for the creation of containerized apps and Linux services
  • Constantly growing range in the Festo online store

6. Automation Suite

  • Commission drive packages quickly and easily
  • A program with all the necessary information and tools
  • Basic functions of every Festo component are already integrated
  • Parameterization, programming and maintenance combined in one program
  • The software visualizes machine topology in an easy-to-understand way

Discover all your automation options with Festo AX Controls

Festo AX Controls brochure

Get your free, detailed information material now and find out how you can use all your machine and system data consistently with Festo AX Controls, in addition to customizing and expanding your automation options, which will allow you to increase your productivity and ROI in the long term!

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Festo Edge Industrial PC CEPE: The new hardware in detail

Get your free, detailed information material on the new Festo Edge Industrial PC CEPE now. It is the central basis for high-performance motion applications, the appropriate platform for PLCnext and the Festo AX Controls automation software – and therefore the perfect hardware for all your automation requirements!

Festo Edge Industrial PC CEPE: The new hardware in detail
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