Supporting Life Science and Medical Device Development

Innovation in healthcare, lab tech, and automation rarely follows a linear path. Your customers expect intuitive, reliable products, and what’s inside matters. In both life science product development and medical device development, effective automation system design and the strategic use of automation and modular components are essential for building reliable, scalable systems. With the right partner, you can shorten design cycles, reduce regulatory risk, simplify validation, and achieve predictable scalability.

Support That Fits Into Your Engineering Process

Festo works with design and product development firms that serve diagnostics, medtech, biotech, and pharma.
Our engineering team specializes in modular mechatronic subsystems, from custom fluidic control to precision motion assemblies.
Our automation and modular components can be seamlessly integrated into your customer solution thanks to standardized interfaces and easily controlled via your existing scheduler software.
Pre-built modules help save time, cut costs, and stay competitive when you need to adapt quickly to changing needs.
For your customer, it makes production and maintenance faster and easier, reducing assembly time and improving efficiency with plug-and-play functionality.

With over a century of innovation experience, we have co-developed tailored solutions for automation and precise liquid and gas handling solutions. These include specialized valves, proportional pneumatic controls, and mechatronic assemblies that reduce system complexity, space requirements, and installation time.

Performance in Practice: Improving Throughput, Repeatability and Compliance

These capabilities translate into real-world results. We transformed a manual quality control process into a fully automated sample inspection system:

The automated sample pickup reduced 90% processing time and boosted reproducibility.
Advanced liquid handling components (media-separated valves and bonded manifolds) ensured precise, contamination-free control while reducing footprint and simplifying wiring.
Built to ISO 13485-certified standards, this solution delivered faster, more consistent results.

Our approach is structured, transparent, and tailored to your needs—whether adapting proven components or creating fully customized solutions.

Here’s how Festo works with you to turn technical challenges into reliable, scalable solutions.

Engineering support, step by step

Share your application and the challenges you are encountering: time constraints, design objectives...? Reach out to discuss your goals and what is getting in the way of achieving them.
Festo reviews your requirements. After reviewing your project intake, we’ll assemble the right team and return with tailored strategies to meet your application needs.
Planning session: Once we confirm your challenges and process flow with you, our engineering and product teams will present a solution proposal with the right Festo products and engineering to complement your resources and help you achieve your goals.
Co-development: we execute on our commitment by leveraging our global engineering team, testing and/or manufacturing capabilities as you need them. We follow up on our progress with regular design reviews with your team, adjusting if your needs change.
From simulation through production: we support your motion and fluid handling projects with scalable, integrated solutions.
Delivery: whether is prototype or production, your product is shipped fully tested, documented, and ready to integrate into your system.

Supporting your Compliance and Performance Goals

After we align on the right solution and development steps, we focus on supporting your need for precision, reliability, and adherence to regulatory standards. Our processes follow ISO 9001 and ISO 13485-certified quality management practices and integrate In Vitro Diagnostic Device Regulation (IVDR) requirements.

Beyond meeting medical device standards and delivering industrial-grade performance, we support you with advanced capabilities:

Manufacturing competence in over 20 countries: Rapid prototyping, custom manifolds, cleanroom assembly, validation, and final testing to deliver fully qualified assemblies using FDA-approved materials and compliant with global standards (FDA, RoHS, CE, ATEX).
Full lifecycle support: From prototyping and testing to scale-up and production, we help enable performance, compliance, scalability, and speed to market. We deliver reliable, future-proof systems built from proven Festo components that follow industry standards, ensuring long-term product durability and extended operational life.

As a global company, we leverage our international network of engineering and manufacturing resources to meet project deadlines as well as provide you with our support worldwide.

We’re more than just “a supplier”, we’re your design partner. Ready to streamline your design process?