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Farnell stocks Festo for global delivery

Farnell is now stocking a wide range of pneumatic and electrical automation products from Festo for global delivery. Farnell provides access to the full range of Festo products, greatly expanding its pneumatics range and industrial automation and control portfolio. 2,500 Festo’s SKUs available to customers globally and an additional 19,000 …

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Torus and Festo design total handling solution for new TQ-Lab plastic packaging testing station

Torus Technology Group has partnered with Festo to create a purpose-designed integrated handling solution for its new TQ-Lab modular plastics packaging testing station. Torus offers a range of custom designed automated inspection & testing systems that enable customers to control high speed processes, reduce costs and maintain quality in demanding …

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Festo technology aids restoration of Notre-Dame Cathedral

Rapid leaps in innovation characterise the development of additive manufacturing processes. Rotterdam-based company Concr3de has been working on a 3D printer for stone for more than five years, developing an inkjet technique to participate in the reconstruction of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. They achieved this aim using automation technology from …

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Solve machine setting issues using the latest cylinder sensor technology

The latest technological advances in solid-state cylinder technology enable maintenance or service engineers to solve multiple pneumatic or electric drive issues with a single device, according to industrial automation specialists Festo. Modern automation machinery uses positional feedback to trigger sequential movements. In pneumatic applications, this takes the form of cylinder …

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Farnell to exhibit with Festo and Omega at Manufacturing Expo 2022

Farnell, an Avnet company and global distributor of electronic components, products and solutions, today announced its participation at this year’s Manufacturing Expo, taking place at the NEC in Birmingham on June 8-9. As a major sponsor, Farnell will showcase its growing industrial automation and control product range of more than 80,000 …

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Farnell adds Festo to expand automation technology range

Farnell, an Avnet Company and global distributor of electronic components, products and solutions, is now stocking a wide range of pneumatic automation products from Festo. Festo is the performance leader in a range of industries including electronic equipment manufacturing, light assembly, automotive, life sciences, pharmaceutical and food processing and packaging. …

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Mini factories in containers help reduce face mask shortages

Protective masks have been in short supply in these times of coronavirus. An innovative containerised production facility that enables businesses and healthcare organisations to produce their own masks to order could solve the problem. Developed in just six weeks by Mikron with engineering support from Festo, the mini factory uses …

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Festo BionicOpter is a robot record breaker

A bionic dragonfly from Festo has been recognised as a record breaker in the latest edition of the Guinness World Records, published by Ravensberger on 5 September 2019. The chapter “Robots” presents the most amazing records from the world of super robots and artificial intelligence. The BionicOpter, an ultra-light flying object based on …

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