Posted to News on 31st Mar 2016, 14:55
Festo to showcase Industry 4.0 products at Hannover Fair 2016
Alongside the spectacle of its Bionic Concepts, Festo will be demonstrating practical examples of its products and technologies at Hannover Fair, in line with the theme of this year's show, "Integrated Industry - Discover Solutions!'. These exciting new developments include the simplicity of a new range of individual valves to highly intelligent handling platforms. The company will also be discussing interesting insights on Industry 4.0 topics, such as workforce development for automation, on its Stands D07 in Hall 15 and A38 in Hall 17 during the show, which runs from the 25-29th April 2016.
The new SupraMotion superconductor technologies extend the spectrum of storage and movement possibilities to date: SupraJunction, SupraGripper and SupraTube. These products are generating interesting applications in the packaging industry, laboratory automation, medical technology and food and pharmaceutical industries.
Festo will also be introducing its modular handling platform for small-scale handling applications, which is a ready-to-operate system allowing automation users to considerably reduce costs and time to market. It is particularly suited to electronics and light assembly as well as for laboratory automation, enabling precise curved travel paths to be created for transporting work pieces or tools. Predefined function modules from a software library and intuitive application programming using the sequencer simplify programming and commissioning.
In the Festo Didactic area visitors will be able to learn how the company supports customers through practical training in the use of new technologies. The highlight is a new cyber-physical research and learning platform called the "CP Factory'. Steve Sands, product manager at Festo says: "Festo takes a holistic view on the fourth industrial revolution, in addition to developing technology, it is looking at the interaction between humans and machinery and the critical issues of training and qualification."
The CP Factory replicates the workstations of a real production facility and enables personnel to learn how to programme facilities, set up networks and optimise many other aspects such as energy-efficiency and data management. This comprehensive, modular and expandable factory model for Industry 4.0 integrates all the relevant technologies from mechatronics and automation.
For more information visit Festo's Stands D07 in Hall 15 and A38 in Hall 17 at Hannover Fair or go to www.festo.co.uk.
