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Festo Pressebild Head Office Head Office of Festo in Esslingen a.N., Germany. (Photo: Festo AG & Co. KG)

Festo Pressebild process automation Festo supports its customers in all project phases, from engineering right through to operation and maintenance. (Photo: Festo AG & Co. KG)

Festo Press Image SIL and explosion protection Festo supplies products and solutions for safety-related applications. (Foto: Festo AG & Co. KG)

Festo Press Image CP Factory Qualification for Industry 4.0: Festo Didactic offers a cyber-physical learning and research platform in the form of the CP Factory. This platform models the stations in a real production plant. (Photo: Festo Didactic SE)

AZO CleanDock 1 The AZO CleanDock – controlled by the automation platform CPX. (Photo: Festo AG & Co. KG)

AZO CleanDock 2 The passive section is docked to the active section using pneumatic linear drives from Festo. (Photo: Festo AG & Co. KG)

AZO CleanDock 3 The pneumatic drives are controlled by the modular, electrical terminal CPX with integrated controller CEC and valve terminal MPA. (Photo: Festo AG & Co. KG)

Multi-Carrier-System MCS 1 Seamless integration: the Multi-Carrier-System (MCS®) in the Bosch Rexroth transfer system TS 2plus. (Photo: Festo AG & Co. KG)

Multi-Carrier-System MCS 2 Seamless integration: the Multi-Carrier-System (MCS®) in the Bosch Rexroth transfer system TS 2plus. (Photo: Festo AG & Co. KG)

Multi-Carrier-System MCS 3 Seamless integration: the Multi-Carrier-System (MCS®) in the Bosch Rexroth transfer system TS 2plus. (Photo: Festo AG & Co. KG)

Multi-Carrier-System MCS 4 Seamless transition from the Bosch Rexroth transfer system TS 2plus to the Multi-Carrier-System (MCS®). (Photo: Festo AG & Co. KG

Multi-Carrier-System MCS 5 Standard carrier TS 2plus on the Multi-Carrier-System (MCS®). (Photo: Festo AG & Co. KG)

Multi-Carrier-System MCS 6 Standard carrier TS 2plus on the Multi-Carrier-System (MCS®). (Photo: Festo AG & Co. KG)

Festo Press Image BionicSoftHand_1 The BionicSoftHand should rotate a 12-sided cube so that a previously defined side points upwards at the end.

Festo Press Image BionicSoftHand_2 The BionicSoftHand is operated pneumatically for the safe and direct interaction with people.

Festo Press Image BionicSoftArm_1 The pneumatic lightweight robot BionicSoftArm is flexible from the start and is suitable for direct human-robot collaboration.

Festo Press Image BionicSoftArm_2 The BionicSoftArm as a classic SCARA application with a pick-and-place task: it can work in the tightest of spaces around obstacles.

Festo Press Image BionicFinWave_1 The fins of the BionicFinWave are cast out of silicone and do not require struts or support elements.

Festo Press Image BionicFinWave_2, BionicFinWave_3 The underwater robot manoeuvres itself independently through a pipe system made of acrylic glass.

Festo Press Image BionicFinWave_2, BionicFinWave_3 The underwater robot manoeuvres itself independently through a pipe system made of acrylic glass.

Adaptive Shape Gripper 1 The adaptive shape gripper DHEF grips formless, round and sensitive objects – as the tongue of a chameleon does. (Photo: Festo AG & Co. KG)

Adaptive Shape Gripper 2 The adaptive shape gripper DHEF grips formless, round and sensitive objects – as the tongue of a chameleon does. (Photo: Festo AG & Co. KG)

Stefanie Seiler and Nenja Rieskamp These two Festo colleagues developed the adaptive form gripper DHEF from a bionic prototype to a catalogue product: Stefanie Seiler (Product Management, on the left) und Nenja Rieskamp (Product Development) (Photo: Festo AG & Co. KG)

Productivity Master Thanks to software, everything fits perfectly, from the mechanical and electric systems to the intelligence. The Productivity Master, a modular demonstration system for personalised USB memory sticks from Festo, is showing how automation technology will evolve along the value chain when combined with digitalisation. (Photo: Festo AG & Co. KG)

Handling Guide Online Monitor With the Handling Guide Online, machine and equipment manufacturers could reduce their time-to-market for integrated handling systems by up to 70%. (Photo: Festo AG & Co. KG)

CPX-IoT-Gateway Secure connection to the Festo Cloud and exclusive access to individual digitalisation with the IoT gateway CPX-IoT. (photo: Festo AG & Co. KG)

Dr Michael Hoffmeister "We support our customers with digital solutions at every step of the value chain and thus also guide them along their individual digital customer journey," emphasises Dr Michael Hoffmeister, Executive Expert Digital Business at Festo. (photo: Festo AG & Co. KG)

Dashboard Preconfigured dashboards from Festo with the IoT gateway CPX-IoT, it is possible to have preconfigured dashboards for each Festo component – with additional customisation. The dashboard is viewed in the web browser and includes diagrams and traffic lights. (photo: Festo AG & Co. KG)

Smartenance Key Visual Smartenance makes time-consuming preventive system maintenance obsolete. (Photo: Festo AG & Co. KG)

Smartenance PC Tablet Phone Smartenance makes time-consuming preventive system maintenance obsolete. (Photo: Festo AG & Co. KG)