Drives & Controls (part of Manufacturing & Engineering Week) – Stand F44 – 4-6th June 2024 – NEC, Birmingham.
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How to implement predictive maintenance using artificial intelligence
Join the Festo live webinar on Tue 19 March at 10am.
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Pennine Pneumatic Services Ltd recognised as Festo Official Partner
Pennine Pneumatic Services Ltd (PPS) has joined the Festo Official Partner network. Festo Official Partners are able to combine the convenience of local stock-holding and service with access to Festo’s 33,000 standard catalogue products and global expertise in automation to ensure class-leading supply for customers.
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Artificial intelligence in machine control
It’s been a challenging few months for artificial intelligence (AI), as negative press stories about its potential misuse outweighed those advocating its power for good. Wider awareness and acceptance of AI will accelerate its uptake within automation, but we may have to use terms like deep and machine learning to avoid some of the misperceptions.
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Optimising your field-level machine architecture – watch the Festo on-demand webinar
Automation today is more dependent than ever upon machine control architecture and its software. In this webinar, Festo specialists explain the existing technology utilised for remote electrical inputs and outputs, electric drive axis and pneumatic valve manifolds. The webinar looks at where IO-Link, fieldbus and Ethernet options are typically applied and their advantages/disadvantages, as well as recent innovations which enable the technologies to be blended to suit the application.
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Optimising your field-level machine architecture – watch the Festo on-demand webinar
Automation today is more dependent than ever upon machine control architecture and its software. They determine the performance, build time and flexibility of the machine and have a massive impact on the price that the machine costs and can be built and sold for. These two mutually dependent factors are the most rapidly advancing aspects of machine design and are aptly encapsulated within the mega-trends ‘digitalisation’ and ‘flexibility’.
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New electric parallel gripper from Festo is compact, simple and precise
Modern manufacturing requires handling solutions capable of managing product diversity, shorter product life cycles and growing levels of product customisation. The HEPP electric gripper from Festo addresses this need for greater flexibility in the gripping of multiple workpieces with adaptable stroke lengths and gripping forces.
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Festo pneumatics expertise helps Cerulean achieve 90 percent energy efficiency improvements on new tube packing machine
Soaring energy prices and the need continuously to drive down costs are key considerations for manufacturers. So, when packaging machinery specialist Cerulean decided to redesign its highly successful FPS-1 tube packer, high energy efficiency and reduced total cost of ownership (TCO) became key design requirements.
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