The "plug & work" principle
You can quickly and efficiently integrate pre-assembled modules into your system as subsystems, regardless of whether you need valve blocks, components for compressed air preparation, cylinder-valve combinations, etc. The assembly is tested and ready to install on delivery, and includes documentation, mounting components and all the connections. You provide the specifications and we take care of everything for you, from design to system assembly, with our full service for machine building.
Easily configure modules yourself
Festo Design Tool 3D
With the 3D product configurator, you can create modules quickly, accurately and intuitively in your CAD format using Festo products. This ensures that components and accessories all match. You can then order the created module with a single order code, either completely pre-assembled or as individual parts in one box, including documentation. This significantly shortens your parts list. Downstream processes such as product orders, logistics and assembly become much simpler.
Configurator for process valve units
Whether you're looking for a manually operated process valve, a unit with a pilot valve and sensor box or with a positioner, the configurator will find the right solution in just a few steps, with correctly configured CAD data and documentation that you can download straightaway. That's how you get a perfectly compatible and ready-to-install module. This reduces the time needed for assembly.
Need an automated process valve?
Do you need an automated ball valve or butterfly valve for your automation processes? Click on the links below to configure a ready-to-install module quickly and easily:
Configure a butterfly valve unit now!
Configure a ball valve unit now!
Already have the process valve?
You can also select an actuator unit without angle seat fitting for automating existing process valves. Just enter the required parameters in the configurator’s input menu and the configurator suggests the right actuator units for you.
Tried-and-tested examples of application-specific assemblies
Customised service units
If your individual requirements go beyond the configuration options in our catalogue, we can also provide you with customised service units.
Protective box for compressed air preparation
The flat and rugged housing protects service unit components from contamination and mechanical damage, and not just in the food and beverage industry.
The connection point for compressed air tubing and electrical cables is located in the base of the box.
Additional information on the protective box for compressed air preparation
Combination of pneumatics and electrics
Festo modules can combine pneumatic and electric components to create a wide variety of functional units, for example service units with valve terminals and sensors.
Function blocks
Function blocks with drilled ducts are useful wherever only a small number of pneumatic components need to be installed in a small installation space. With this design, all compressed air connections are integrated into the housing. Compressed air tubing and screw fittings for connections are no longer required in the module.
Integrate functions with cartridge solutions
In addition, functional elements such as vacuum or valve cartridges can also be integrated into the duct structure. Cartridges are highly compact and can be installed (almost) anywhere.
Actuator solutions
Actuator solutions for crust breaking in aluminium smelters
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More information on automation solutions for electrolytic furnaces in primary aluminium plants
Actuator solutions for controlling air flaps
The ready-to-install actuator units are suitable for all industrial segments in which process operations are powered by gas, oil, coal or biomass and the air supply must be controlled with the utmost precision and reliability.
More information on actuator solutions for controlling air flaps
Hall and robot installation plates
Reliable, efficient and customised – ready-to-install complete solutions for controlling and monitoring the compressed air and cooling water supply of robots in the automotive industry.
Gripper systems / Robot grippers (EOAT)
Application-specific gripper systems, which are mounted as a front unit on the robot arm, pick up the workpiece securely and hold it even in the event of an emergency stop.
Customised modules on request
Do you need a complex module that is customised, designed and built for your application? Take advantage of the many years of experience and expertise of our specialists and describe your project requirements to us. If required, our specialists can also integrate third-party components and mount the module on a support plate.
Success stories of satisfied customers
Medical technology with small-scale valve technology
Together with BYTEC Medizintechnik GmbH, Festo developed a compact valve control block consisting of proportional, piezo and quick-acting valves for the QUBE pro system for eye surgery. Using so-called integration technology, a manifold duct plate was created which integrates all the pneumatic connections for a protected, tubeless supply. This allowed for various upstream volumes and silencers to be "integrated" as well, saving 50% on size.
Harald Pauls, developer of the QUBE: "Approaching the technical limits can only be done by searching for new solutions and by collaborating as partners." This means involving specialists from a great variety of disciplines, such as physicians, physicists and chemists. "And it is important for us to have automation technology suppliers who can bring a product like the QUBE pro to series production together with us, step by step, interactively and with short reaction times," says Pauls.
Sewing at top speed
In the multi-needle sewing machines from sewing machine factory Emil Stutznäcker GmbH + Co. KG , the new cylinder/valve combination with ASI bus technology and integrated AND gate enables fast, fully automatic changeover of the needle configuration. The elaborate tubing of the past is now replaced by a single ribbon cable. The cylinder/valve combinations are simply linked with pin connectors, and automatically integrated into the master/slave system of the ASI bus.