Swimming like the natural model The longitudinal fins of the polyclad and the cuttlefish extend from the head to the tail along their backs, their undersides or the two sides of their torsos. To ...
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Festo recently hosted its second highly successful series of Automation Expo seminars and exhibitions that focused on higher productivity through digitalisation in automation. They were held at venues ...
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Students from various institutions were hosted at Festo’s Johannesburg offices for a week and ongoing technical support was provided to all participants.
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As a company that continuously strives to exceed customer expectations, Festo will host its second Automation Expo focussing on higher productivity through digitalisation in the area of automation.
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Festo’s pneumatic robot hand BionicSoftHand, combined with the BionicSoftArm, a pneumatic lightweight robot, shows that future concepts are suitable for human-robot collaboration.
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Festo has for years been developing research platforms where the basic technical principles are derived from nature.
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In celebration of 45 years of successful growth and development in this country, managing director of Festo South Africa, Brett Wallace paints a picture of the company’s rich history, global heritage and ongoing pursuit of new improved automation solutions for Africa.
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Festo not only implements IIoT functions and services into its product portfolio, but also adds training and consulting, for students as well as professionals, using the latest ideas in its Technology Factory at Scharnhausen, Germany.
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Festo Didactic has launched the Festo Industry 4.0 Academy. The vision of the academy is to be the hub where managers, engineers, technicians and operational staff can be capacitated to face the challenges ...
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The following courses are available from Festo Didactic:    Pneumatics (1) Basic PN111: Cape Town: September 5-7, October 17-19, November 28-30 Johannesburg: September 12-14, October 10-12, November ...
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The answer to simplified pneumatics lies within the Festo Core Product Range and its easy to identify ‘Stars in Pneumatics‘.
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By means of intelligent workplaces capable of learning, such as the BionicWorkplace, and the use of multifunctional tools, collaboration between humans and machines will be even more intuitive, simple and efficient in future.
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