About Festo
Global player Festo is an independent family business based in Esslingen am Neckar (Germany). The company provides pneumatic and electrical automation technology to 300,000 factory and process automation customers in more than 35 business sectors.
Festo products and services are marketed in 176 countries. With around 21,000 employees in more than 250 locations in 61 countries worldwide, Festo achieved a turnover of approximately 2.8 billion euros in 2020. Annually, approximately 8% of this turnover is invested in research and development. As a learning company, Festo invests 1.5% of its turnover in basic and follow-up training.
Your motion, our solution
Pneumatic actuators
In pneumatic cylinders, compressed air is used to exert force on a cylinder piston in order to move it in a certain direction. The movement of the piston is transmitted via the piston rod or the magnetic force lock to the workpieces to be moved. A pneumatic cylinder is an actuator that is operated with compressed air, usually to a maximum of 12 bar, to generate a linear or rotary movement. A distinction is made between single-acting and double-acting cylinders (working in one direction only or in both directions). Typical application areas for pneumatic actuators are clamping, lifting, lowering, pushing, pulling, feeding, rotating, gripping, clamping and holding, connecting, stopping, stamping, embossing and many more. Pneumatic actuators are characterized by high acceleration and deceleration. The achievable speeds are between 10 mm/s and a maximum of 3 m/s. Pneumatic actuators are robust and flexible due to the compressibility of the air.
Standard cylinders are pneumatic cylinders with standardized dimensions and mounting interfaces. With regard to these dimensions, standard cylinders are identical to a standard. There are standards for piston rod cylinders in round design (ISO 6432), in compact design (ISO 21287) and for large cylinders (ISO 15552).
Simplified Motion Series
The step to electrical automation technology is not easy. Besides extensive knowledge of electricity and software, you also need a relatively high budget. So it's no wonder that, until now, the benefits of electrical automation have been reserved for complex motion specifications. That is now changing: with the Simplified Motion Series we offer you an automation solution that bridges the gap between easy-to-install pneumatics and smart electrical automation. Make your production more efficient: simple with plug-and-work.
Electric drives and seamless connectivity
Seamless connectivity!
Mechanical, electrical and intelligent: The unique, scalable electrical automation platform combines electrical diversity and proven servo technology.
On the way to seamless automation of machines and plants,
Festo offers a unique range of solutions. We help you to connect your
and modules with one another, so that they always
at any time, mechanically, electrically and intelligently interact.
This enables you to implement numerous applications, from simple
from simple machine and control systems to the prefabrication of complex mechatronic subsystems.
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Did I miss out on that advantage?Read moreFamiliar components in a new machine? Often it can be smarter! Festo's portfolio develops annually with around 700 new products. This innovative strength lends itself extremely well to a lower cost price. With the itsme factory scan we would like to help you find smart applications that fit in with the current focal points in machine building.
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A simple combinationRead morePneumatics are still the tool of choice for simple motion and positioning tasks. However, in an increasingly digitized world, electrical automation and a continuous flow of information from the workpiece to the control system and to the cloud is becoming indispensable. With the Simplified Motion Series, Festo offers an automation solution that bridges the gap between easy-to-install pneumatics and flexible electrical automation.
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Festo Motion TerminalRead moreIn the world of manufacturing industry there is a lot of talk about digitalisation and Industry 4.0. Meanwhile, the changes are already clearly noticeable in our daily lives. We are increasingly seeing personalised or customized consumer products, and it is proving relatively easy to get the network from production, through the right logistics channels, all the way to the end consumer.
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CPX-HART moduleRead moreThe proven CPX platform has been extended with the CPX-HART analogue module! This analogue module features four channels that can be set as inputs or outputs as required. This makes it possible to combine the advantages of analogue and digital technology in terms of robustness, configurability and fault diagnosis. In addition, a device driver is available with which the CPX remote I/O can be connected to the PROFIBUS and PROFINET fieldbuses.
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Solid relationship extended with airRead moreWelding company and machine builder Leenstra has had itsme as a regular partner for the supply of electrical engineering materials for more than twenty years. Thanks to a recent machine building project, the relationship broadened to mechanical products, in particular Festo pneumatics. This involved a machine for the manufacture of concrete elements. It only makes the cooperation between Leenstra and itsme more solid.
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When time pressure rules your scheduleRead moreDesign and delivery of industrial turnkey projects, automation of operating systems; Mario Claes, owner of Etec Systems in Balen \(Belgium\), has been drawing on a continuously growing source of experience since fourteen years now. Each situation reveals unique challenges. Each solution contributes to an ever expanding range of knowledge
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Sustainable from top to bottomRead moreOn the outskirts of Hengelo-Zuid tons of waste are given a new purpose each year. Through incineration, separation and composting, energy and raw materials are extracted and find their way back to society. With the heat that is released during incineration, Twence generates enough power to provide half of all households in the Twente \(region in the Eastern Netherlands\) with electricity. In order to guarantee the continuity of all the plants, operators carry out regular inspection rounds in the installations, so good visibility is important. In switching from fluorescent lighting to LED, Twence enlisted the help of itsme.
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Shining in customisationRead moreEvery machine leaving the factory in Dokkum, Friesland \(the Netherlands\) is the result of a specific customer request. The team at De Jager RVS translates such ideas into final designs that fit in perfectly with practice. Their specialisation? Building customised machines in which stainless steel plays the leading role. This was the case when a large dairy producer asked them for a vertical transport solution. The choice of a pneumatic actuator was an easy one. In order to get everything that was connected with this critical application right in one go, they invited itsme and Festo to the design table. “You want to integrate a bit of security for yourself.”