Here’s a quick rundown of three popular online tools — the Quick Search Plus, Festo Automation Suite and Festo Maintenance Tool (FMT) — that streamline the commissioning, maintenance and product selection processes for our valves and actuators.
Facilitating the product selection process, our Quick Search Plus Application lets you access the complete Festo online catalog so you can find the right product quickly and easily. Here are some of the things you can do:
The Festo Automation Suite offers a single software platform for parameterizing, programming and maintaining a complete drive system — from the mechanical components to the controller. Because the software already contains the functionalities of each Festo component, you can use this tool to commission your system quickly and efficiently. You can also customize your experience using various plug-ins and extensions. In addition, the Festo Automation Suite:
The Festo Maintenance Tool
The CPX-FMT is a helpful online tool for commissioning, configuring and diagnosing Festo CPX valve terminals. If you use industrial Ethernet fieldbuses — such as Ethernet/IP, PROFINET or Modbus TCP — this maintenance tool can communicate directly with the CPX terminal. If you use classic fieldbuses, on the other hand, the CPX-FMT software can connect to the CPX terminal via a simple USB adapter.
Additional features of the CPX-FMT include the following:
The Quick Search Plus, Festo Automation Suite and CPX-FMT are just three examples of the online tools we offer for our pneumatic and electric systems. We also provide digital tools for gripper selection, vacuum sizing, 3D computer-aided design (CAD) configuration, electric motion sizing and much more.