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Its ability to move high payloads of up to 200 kg extremely dynamically, precisely and easily makes the EHMH very suitable for handling systems. It can be used, for example, for palletising and stacking in the packaging and automotive industries or unloading and loading machine tools. The rack and pinion technology contributes to its long service life.

Respond to failures? Or predict them? A predictive maintenance
strategy will make your welding guns more productive. Because
welding guns need to work with precision, reliability and efficiency
to be economical. Change is worth it. As an add-on to the Festo drive
solutions for welding guns, the Festo Welding Gun Maintenance
System monitors all welding guns in the factory. The software solution
helps you to detect process anomalies in good time, optimise
maintenance and save energy – thanks to Industry 4.0.

People who continuously move loads need technical and ergonomic support. With servo-pneumatic balancers, heavy loads can be moved at the touch of a finger. At the heart of the balancer is Festo’s safe and powerful drive solution YHBP. It offers extremely fast, automatic weight detection and safety up to Performance Level d, perfect for the automotive, electronics, food and packaging industries.

Wherever you produce your batteries, Festo is there for you, with the appropriate expertise, the right products and the best service. We have proven ourselves many times over in a multitude of projects for leading battery manufacturers. As a single source supplier for all tasks, we offer an extensive range of copper-free, zinc-free and dry-room-compatible components for battery production.

Product overview of copper-, zinc- and nickel-free products with detailed ordering information and part numbers.

Production in the fast lane: Virtually fully automated body shop

Reliable, efficient and optimally tailored to your application: ready-to-install

complete solutions pay off, whether they are used to control and monitor the compressed air and cooling water supply of entire welding lines or individual welding robots. Both in body shop and the assembly process.

In tire production, every second and every kilowatt counts. Discover how you can become faster and more efficient in all areas with solutions from Festo, including through clever retrofitting.

Welding requires a high level of precision and quality, something our drive

solutions for welding guns are specifically designed for. You decide which is best for you – the X gun or the C gun, servo-pneumatic or electric.

Electrification in the automotive industry is gathering pace and redefining mobility. The use of energy-efficient drive solutions is opening up more and more opportunities for future-oriented, green and economical vehicle concepts.

The trend for electric vehicles is clear. However, their success depends on high-performance and cost-effective batteries. In the UK, the pilot project AMPLiFII at WMG is laying the foundations of a new generation of traction batteries. The project includes innovative automation technology from Horizon Instruments with a Festo pick and place solution.

Give your production a decisive efficiency boost – and achieve potential savings at the same time.

Many concepts from the past have been overtaken by the fourth industrial revolution: business models, partnerships, customer interfaces, value chains, and even the traditional automation pyramid – all are undergoing huge change. As an innovator and trendsetter in fieldbus technology, Festo will make a major contribution to reshaping the future with new concepts for Industry 4.0.

Machine vision systems from Festo make a decisive contribution to ensuring that the input and output are right. They monitor and stabilise processes, whether they’re reading codes or detecting positions for handling tasks. In some cases they even control the process itself. And they inspect quality from when the goods come in to when they are finished.

That makes your work easier. It makes your machines and systems more productive and flexible. And it further optimises the use of materials.

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With the innovative Multi-Carrier-System MCS®, a joint development by Festo and Siemens, you are on the right track. Thanks to the modular design of the transport system, it can be combined with conventional transport solutions, adding the functionality of the MCS® where needed in the process.

Brochure green carbody project

For years, Festo has been developing process automation solutions for a broad range of industry sectors. By transferring our experience from one industry to another, we take advantage of valuable synergies and create economies of scale.

To prevent paint defects caused by paint-wetting impairment
substances (LABS) in production, car manufacturers have long been
implementing their own test instructions and standards. The VDMA
Specification 24364, a cross-company set of rules, is now available
for the first time and describes requirements for testing, classification
and identification. Festo supports this initiative with an appropriate
classification of its products.

Welding system for joining automotive door panels and interior parts

Implementing new trends such as cloud computing, IoT and big data can open up huge savings potential for maintenance in car body manufacture. This white paper uses the example of the servo-pneumatic welding gun to look at how challenges can be overcome and how substantial productivity gains can be achieved with predictive maintenance.

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• Concept and basic architecture
• Step-by-step plan to minimise complexity and risks
• Data analytics and data transparency
• Condition monitoring and AI models
• Business case and data sovereignty