Event dates
Spotlight Semicon on 05.11.2025
Spotlight Semicon on 05.11.2025 9:00 am - 3:30 pm at the Festo Experience Center Chemnitz
Driving innovative automation for semiconductor industry
Maintaining what is good and making it even better – that is our intention with our Spotlight Semicon at the Festo Experience Center in Chemnitz.
Technological development in the semiconductor industry is in full swing, and we have also prepared some new highlights for you. We cordially invite you to our Spotlight Semicon to share exciting innovations, successful implementations, and demonstrations with you.
This Spotlight event will once again provide ample opportunity for specialists in the semiconductor industry to exchange ideas.
Last year, this led to new collaborations among participants, and we look forward to laying further foundations for future success.
The following topics await you:
Keynotes – gain valuable insights into the semiconductor industry, both in Saxony and globally.
Experts from Fraunhofer ENAS, Plasmotion, Sitec, and Festo will introduce themselves and share the latest trends, challenges, and innovations.
Marketplaces – inspiring topics await you:
- Networking & AI – Smart automation learns too!
- Wafer clamping
- Current semiconductor applications
Secure your place.
Beginners' seminar FluidDraw on 11.11.2025
Beginners' seminar FluidDraw on 11.11.2025 from 9:00 - 16:00 at the FEC Chemnitz
Get your circuit diagram safely and error-free with just a few clicks!
Get to know the many useful functions of the FluidDraw schematic version.
What awaits you:
- General handling of the software Use equipment labeling
- Define product properties for symbols Creating parts lists
- Live demo: efficient circuit diagram creation
- And much more
Participation fee: 290 p. P. (Invoice will be issued subsequently)
Seminar places: 10 participants
Time: 9 a.m. – 4 p.m
No previous knowledge is required for the beginners' seminar.
Your physical well-being is taken care of.
Advanced seminar FluidDraw on 12.11.2025
Advanced seminar FluidDraw on 12.11.2025 from 9:00 - 16:00 at the FEC Chemnitz
Create your circuit diagram safely and error-free with just a few clicks!
Deepen your knowledge of the circuit diagram version FluidDraw.
What you can expect:
- Create advanced evaluations
- Create your own drawing frames and project templates
- Create symbols and symbol combinations for configurable symbols
- Create and use your own translation database and product database
- Assign key combinations
- And much more
Participation fee: 290.- p. p. (invoice will be issued afterwards)
Seminar places: 10 participants
Time: 9 a.m. – 4 p.m
Basic knowledge of the general handling of the software is required for the advanced seminar.
Your physical well-being will be taken care of.
Trends in Qualification Live on 13.11.2025
Trends in Qualification Live - on 13.11.2025 9:00 a.m. - 02:00 p.m. at FEC Chemnitz
Let yourself be inspired by new impulses for the education of the future at our free event series. Experience exciting keynotes, creative marketplaces, and successful best-practice examples.
Program:
- The 360-Degree Learning Concept: Learning Spaces in New Dimensions
- Machine Learning in Basic Training: Understanding, Training, and Applying AI Models in the Bandler System
- FluidSIM: Combining Creativity and Efficiency in Fluid Technology and Electrical Engineering
- Practical Learning Made Easy: The Comprehensive Learning Concept for Electrical Engineering
Automation Excellence on 17.09.2025
Automation Excellence Workshop - on 17.09.2025 8:30 a.m. - 15:30 p.m. at FEC Chemnitz | Your programme:
- Presentation of the Festo Experience Center with live demonstrations of the exhibits
- Learn the basics of the pneumatic control chain in four parts (45min theory and 45min practice each)
- Actuator technology: correct dimensioning of cylinders and accessories
- Selection and configuration of valves and valve terminals
- Maintenance units: Safe processes through correct compressed air preparation and configuration of the maintenance unit
- Supporting tools from design to ordering
- Time for your topics and questions
The event will take place from 8:30 - 15:30. Your physical well-being will be taken care of.
Who is this workshop for?
- Designers, engineers, technicians who want to expand their knowledge in pneumatics
- Anyone who is interested in pneumatics and uses or employs it in their work environment
Automation Excellence on 17.09.2025
Automation Excellence Workshop - on 17.09.2025 8:30 a.m. - 15:30 p.m. at FEC Chemnitz | Your programme:
- Presentation of the Festo Experience Center with live demonstrations of the exhibits
- Learn the basics of the pneumatic control chain in four parts (45min theory and 45min practice each)
- Actuator technology: correct dimensioning of cylinders and accessories
- Selection and configuration of valves and valve terminals
- Maintenance units: Safe processes through correct compressed air preparation and configuration of the maintenance unit
- Supporting tools from design to ordering
- Time for your topics and questions
The event will take place from 8:30 - 15:30. Your physical well-being will be taken care of.
Who is this workshop for?
- Designers, engineers, technicians who want to expand their knowledge in pneumatics
- Anyone who is interested in pneumatics and uses or employs it in their work environment
Workshop Automation Excellence Electric Automation with CMMT on 13. and 14.01.2026
Workshop Automation Excellence Electric Automation with CMMT - on 13. and 14.01.2026 9.00 - 15.00 at the FEC Chemnitz | Your program:
At this workshop, you will cover the following topics in theory and practice together with our experts in electric drive technology:
- Presentation of the Festo Experience Center with live demonstrations of the exhibits
- Theory and practice for commissioning motor controllers
- Design of electric drive systems
- Integration and control via Siemens PLC
- Practical exercises in small groups
- Knowledge of tools such as Electric Motion Sizing, FESTO Automation Suite, SIEMENS TIA Portal
- Time for your topics and questions
Who is this workshop for?
- Designers, engineers, technicians, programmers, commissioning engineers who want to expand their knowledge of Electric Automation
- Anyone who is interested in Electric Automation and CMMT and uses them in their work environment
Your physical well-being will be catered for.
Registration will be available here shortly.
Spotlight Safety on 10.06.2026
Spotlight Safety at the FEC Chemnitz on 10.06.2026
Safety first! We would like to offer you our Spotlight Safety event again in 2026.
You will soon find out more about our event here.
We look forward to seeing you!
Events at the Festo Experience Center: New solutions and real results
Our exciting and regular events such as innovative workshops, informative forums, spotlight events and much more will help you to further improve your automation know-how.