Industry 4.0 and the Internet of Things (IoT) impresses Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) and end users alike. Production and the digital world come together, making factory automation more flexible, increasing energy efficiency, linking logistics processes more closely, optimising the value chain – and all this is happening in process automation too.
The Internet of Things (IoT), smart factories, cyber-physical systems and big data are driving the project of the future - solutions must be ever faster, more diverse, more flexible and more intelligent. Calls for greater availability, energy efficiency and just-in-time production are becoming louder.
Festo is playing a major role in shaping the Industry 4.0 trend, and emphasises the following aspects in particular:
Politics and standardisation: Festo is a member of the "Industry 4.0" initiative of the German Federal Government, and is involved in all key standards associations and initiatives on this topic.
Products and technologies: Festo offers complete electric and pneumatic automation solutions, from control technology to sensors and actuators.
Industry 4.0 in practice: The Scharnhausen Technology Plant
Products and solutions can be found using the tabs below.Basic and further training: Festo trains staff with an eye on the future, and ensures process optimisation and further training.
Qualification for the factory of the future
Human-machine interaction: learning from nature and the Bionic Learning Network.
