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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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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.

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.

The measure of a system’s value creation is its overall equipment effectiveness (OEE). This is determined by three factors: Availability – Performance – Quality

Looking at overall equipment effectiveness provides a clear indication of whether you can maximise productivity and thus make system operation even more economical.

With the innovative Multi-Carrier-System MCS, a joint development by Festo and Siemens, you are on the right track. The modular transport system can be integrated as appropriate into existing intralogistics and thus complement and in some cases replace classic transport solutions.

ELGA – the perfect solution whenever you need a protected guide.

The complete series of linear axes with internal guides comes

in many variants with toothed belt or spindle drive for impressive

dynamic response, speed and power, while the different guides

ensure it can be used in a multitude of applications. The ELGA is

available as an individual axis or as a complete solution for

standard handling systems.

Flexibility in packaging with the Multi-Carrier-System (MCS®):

Top loader example

Flexibility in packaging with the Multi-Carrier-System (MCS®):

Side loader example

Smaller packaging machines thanks to CPX/MPA

"Breakthrough Generation" - compact packaging machine

Sample application

Sample application

We provide you with flexible automation solutions for your loading requirements, whether electric, pneumatic or a combination of both. With all components from a single source – from suction grippers and electric axis systems right up to CODESYS controllers. That allows you to implement dynamic loading processes with fast format changeovers, for example. And we provide you with additional support, from engineering to commissioning and operation.

Our multi-part static system presentation comprehensively shows

• how Festo products can be connected to and integrated in various fieldbus and Ethernet protocols around the world

• how the communication hierarchies are related to one another

• and which networking and installation concepts Festo supports: for fluid and motion control for factory and process automation (FA/PA)

The new Multi-Carrier-System makes your production processes significantly more flexible. This configurable transport system can be freely integrated into your existing intralogistics and precisely synchronised with the process. It supplements traditional materials handling solutions exactly where it is needed in the process. The other conveyors remain unchanged. The integrated control concept allows control of the transport motions and motion control functions and the coordination of additional machine modules. The result is maximum machine flexibility.

Find smart solutions for your packaging tasks – with our support.

Gentle and quick, clean and safe, variable and flexible: these are the criteria you demand from efficient end line packaging, right through to the tertiary stage. You need your customers’ products or your own products to reach the market safely – and you need end line packaging that keeps pace with production. We support you at every level of end line packaging, so you can utilise its full potential.

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.

With this issue of Highlights 2019, you are holding a kind of compass

in your hand. It will show you where the path with Festo might take

you this year.

You will see the first results in our core product range. Numerous new

components like the mini slide DGST or the compact cylinder ADN-S

are useful additions to the portfolio.

A central theme for us is connectivity at all possible levels:

mechanical, electrical and software.