The place your team spirit can call home

Research and development are of central importance at Festo. That's why we also invest around 8% of our turnover in it every year.

In the area of research, we lay the foundations for our innovative products and work on new technologies. Research fields here are, for example: Digital Engineering, Artificial Intelligence as well as Robotics and Control Engineering. Bionics also provides us with new approaches. We learn from nature and transfer its modes of operation to technical applications.

Our development departments in the individual business units are developing tomorrow's automation technology close to the product. In addition to pneumatic development, our developers work in the areas of Electric Automation, LifeTech, Process Automation or Robotics, depending on the product focus. In addition to development, our products are also tested thoroughly.

Production

In our production network, expertise meets an innovative working environment. The complexity of our products requires a high standard in production, which is why we are working on the factory of the future. This involves merging the product development and production processes and, of course, "Industry 4.0". In order to meet the demands of our customers with our production also in the future, we create a working environment with the highest demands on production standards, safety, productivity increase as well as possibilities for further development. In our production, the customer's idea becomes reality.

Logistics

Products for all Festo production plants and numerous external suppliers are handled at the locations of our global logistics network. In this way, we ensure the worldwide supply of our customers.
Our daily business is the handling of the entire Festo product range and customer-specific solutions. We focus on the continuous optimization of our value chains on the basis of lean methods.
At the heart of our processes are highly automated warehouses and picking systems (miniload, high-bay warehouse, sorter, automatic packaging system) with up to 270,000 container and 10,000 pallet storage locations at one location. At individual locations, up to 50,000 items are traded daily and up to 20,000 parcels are shipped to our end customers and to the Festo logistics network. With expertise, we are responsible for other topics such as the planning of global value flows, the continuous further development of logistics processes and their digitalisation, and the management of cross-border flows of goods in customs law.

Quality Management

Our Quality Management department is responsible for ensuring quality. This is characterized both by high-quality products and processes and by the people behind them. Our goal: customer satisfaction with zero failures through intuitive, dynamic and flexible processes. We want to provide our customers with suitable solutions for complex problems and tasks. To achieve this, the quality of the processes and the products as well as the attitude of the employees must interact optimally. Holistic corporate quality is our ambition. Responsibility for implementation lies with each individual.

Success is the fuel of our customers. The more successful we make our customers, the more successful we ourselves will be. To achieve this, we put on our customers' glasses, feel out what moves them and where they want to go. This enables us to offer them the perfect solution. Perhaps even one that they themselves would never have thought possible. Understanding customers' needs is the key to sales success.

Experience, global team spirit, a constant search for simplification and improvement, and innovation drive our employees in sales. This passion and experience , which we offer our customers beyond price and conditions, is the great added value.

With the Festo Experience Centers, we create meeting places for our customers and employees with cross-border potential. Here, we develop individual customer applications through joint team selling and accompany the development process from start to finish - from the calculation of customer requirements to commissioning. Helping customers succeed through excellent solutions and making their goals and dreams come true are the characteristics of Festo's sales teams.

In addition, our key customers are supported by our experienced key account managers. They take comprehensive care of the customer's specific concerns, win projects and represent these interests within the company. The key account managers form the customer's interface to the company and ensure coordinated customer contact.

We are the experts in automation technology - and we like to share our knowledge. Festo Didactic is the world's leading solution provider for technical education and training with a strong industrial DNA. With a state-of-the-art didactic approach, our Didactic employees ensure the employability and productivity of our customers. Learning environments are developed for education and industry. Industrial people development is a key success factor for companies. That is why our Didactic experts help with the retraining and further qualification of employees. The product and service portfolio offers customers holistic training solutions for key technology fields such as factory automation, process automation, pneumatics and hydraulics, electrical engineering and electronics, energy technology, environmental technology and renewable energies, communications and radar technology, building systems technology or heating, air conditioning and ventilation technology. In the team-oriented and practical training on physical learning systems with industrial components, learners acquire technical knowledge and soft skills. They can also learn independent of location and time through digital online learning opportunities.

In the department of Controlling, Accounting and Finance, our employees ensure that everything runs smoothly from a commercial point of view. Depending on the focus, the tasks can be very different.

In Controlling, we support employees with operational responsibility in decision-making. Budgets and resources are planned together with the department and compliance with them is monitored. For example, target and actual data are compared, profitability calculations are carried out and results are analyzed. Recommendations are also made in the individual areas as to how economic targets can be better achieved. In addition, our employees calculate contribution margins, transfer prices, define key figures or prepare forecasts and contribute to profit and loss statements.

Our Accounting department deals with receivables, liabilities, fixed assets and current costs. In this way, we maintain an overview of the entire financial accounting.

In Finance, our employees support the various business units with their expert knowledge of financial planning and management. For example, they support investment decisions, carry out make-or-buy analyses and develop financial portfolios. This knowledge is thus incorporated into both the operational and strategic planning processes.

Our purchasing department is responsible for the holistic category management of reliable suppliers who deliver at the highest quality, always on time and at the best price. At the interface of business administration and technology - in the Global Purchasing Network - you will be responsible for supplying our company with production materials, merchandise, capital goods and services. Procurement market, price and competition analyses are carried out in order to be able to supply efficiently and sustainably. Sustainable supplier development supports the achievement of long-term goals. Our network consists of the Global Purchasing Headquarters in Germany and the international Festo Purchasing Units in the national companies and regions - plenty of room for an interface function in purchasing at Festo.

Our marketing team ensures that the Festo brand, the associated portfolio and our services are optimally presented in all media channels. Our marketing employees develop campaigns to market our innovative products and solutions visibly and attractively offline, at trade fairs and in print, as well as online via social media. But there is much more to do beyond that. For example, the definition, analysis, development and management of sales channels, the competitive alignment of our product portfolio, pricing, the management of channels to the customer or the steering of sales processes.

The heart of our external communication is Festo's website, which presents itself in a functional and visually state-of-the-art design. Here, our customers find a comprehensive range of services that supports them through all phases of the most diverse customer journeys. From editorial information and engineering tools to store and after-sales functionalities. We use extensive analytics and regular customer surveys to ensure that content and functions are constantly focused on the customer. In this way, we ensure that we are always close to our customers, even digitally.

Corporate Communication is responsible for authentic internal and external corporate communications and image-building brand communication. The focus is on innovation, technology, education, knowledge and sustainability. In external communications, we focus on press releases and conferences, media reports (TV, radio, print), social media, and much more. Internally, we use online and print formats to provide informative and emotionally connecting information to our employees worldwide.

In Human Resources, we focus on our employees: from recruiting and onboarding to individual support and personal development. With passion and expertise, we are responsible for topics such as talent management and leadership development, design change processes, manage and support strategic projects, develop innovative learning opportunities and implement creative work concepts - on the way to the workplace of the future. Because we know: People are the key factor for our success.