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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.

Electromobility is on a growth course worldwide. It’s not just the streetscape that’s changing, the automotive industry markets are also undergoing a fundamental change. Corporations globally are investing heavily in battery production. Modern automation solutions play a leading role in this change.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The VTSA is ideal for maximum pneumatic and electrical function integration. Especially innovative is the mix of 5 valve sizes on one valve terminal, without the need for an adapter plate up to size 2! The VTSA is fully compliant with ISO 15407-2 and ISO 5599-2 – yet is easy to integrate. It can be used as a complete installation solution for large-scale machine concepts. And is also available as a fl ow-optimised version VTSA-F.

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.

Automation solutions for the automotive

and Tier 1 supplier industry

From battery cells and battery modules to installation in electric vehicles, we have the ideal automation solution for every production situation. See for yourself!

Production in the fast lane: Virtually fully automated body shop

Systems, solutions and expertise for the automotive and Tier1 supplier industry

High speed with electric and pneumatic systems in the production of special metallic tubes

High speed with electric and pneumatic systems in the production of special metallic tubes

Sample application

Automation solutions from Festo for assembling LED headlights

Welding system for joining automotive door panels and interior parts

System for selective soldering of sensors directly in the protective housing

Selective soldering of sensors in the protective housing

When it comes to your servopneumatic welding guns, take advantage of the numerous services included in your “all-inclusive trouble-free”package. These services guarantee simple commissioning, efficient operation and rapid fault elimination

Ideal for monitoring cooling circuits, for example in welding guns in the automotive industry or in front-end applications in the semiconductor and electronics industries. The new fl ow sensor SFAW measures the fl ow rate, consumption and temperature of liquid media within the ranges of 1.8 … 32 l/min and 5 … 100 l/min.

Accurate and extremely productive:

Less maintenance, increased output, more process reliability:

that is why NSM Magnettechnik GmbH counts on the standard cylinder DSBC.

Workers don't have to worry anymore about the stresses and strains of fitting clips manually. The clip fix tool AGTC does away with strenuous manual work and gives workers a break, for example in automotive assembly when inner door panels need to be attached or something is needed to hold cables in place. This great ergonomic burden has often led to workers needing time off in the past.

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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