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Dr. Frank Melzer, Member of the Management Board of Festo, takes over the leadership of the steering committee of the Industry 4.0 platform for the digitalization of the German economy. He replaces SAP board member Bernd Leukert.
read more...Festo's acquisition of IT company Resolto Informatik in April 2018 is bearing fruit: AI from Resolto can now monitor the CPX-E-CEC controller and the new CMMT motor controller from Festo. Tanja Krüger, Managing Director of Resolto, explains the background.
read more...Festo is further aligning its range of products and solutions with I4.0: Production managers and plant operators can now access the 'Smartenance' app as a mobile maintenance manager. Dashboards and the IoT gateway CPX-IOT enable condition monitoring in the cloud.
read more...Labor market sensors and measurement...
Sensors and sensor systems are key technologies for digitalization, and the number of vacancies is growing. However, the industry, which is dominated by SMEs, is often based in the region and finds it difficult to recruit engineers.
read more...Festo - Business figures and acquisition
In the 2017 financial year, Festo recorded sales growth of over 12% to just under 3.1 billion euros. The company started the new financial year with an acquisition in the field of artificial intelligence (AI).
read more...Festo has given an outlook on its digitalization activities: In addition to bionics projects, the company will be presenting a self-learning workstation for human-robot collaboration at the Hannover Messe 2018.
read more...Together with partner companies, Siemens is launching the user organization 'Mindsphere World'. The aim of the association is to promote the ecosystem around Mindsphere. It also includes companies that are involved in other IoT platforms.
read more...Festo presented new concepts at SPS IPC Drives 2017 - from handling systems and drives to a new automation system.
read more...According to the motto 'Learning from nature', Festo engineers are always looking for new impulses for factory and process automation. As inspiration for future robotics concepts, the focus is on the human arm, the tentacles of the octopus and the elephant's trunk.
read more...Is 5G the piece of the puzzle between cloud technology and robotics as a service? Festo and Huawei are now cooperating to investigate the technical feasibility.
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