Festo
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| Type | KG |
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| Founded | Esslingen am Neckar, Germany (1925) |
| Founder(s) | Gottlieb Stoll |
| Number of locations | Sankt Ingbert |
| Key people | Eberhard Veit |
| Revenue | €1.8 billion (2010) |
| Employees | 14,600 (2010) |
| Website | www.festo.com |
Festo is a German industrial control and automation company based in Esslingen am Neckar, Germany.[1] Festo is an engineering-driven company that sells pneumatic and electric transducers primarily to the automation industry.
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[edit] History
Festo was founded in 1925 by Gottlieb Stoll and Albert Fezer. Initially it manufactured wood cutting tools and later diversified into the automation industry. In 2000 its portable power tool activities were spun off into an independent company, Festool.
[edit] Products
Festo also offers Engineering Services via its Customer Solutions department. These "solutions" range from simple assemblies and kits, to full automation solutions utilizing Festo and third party components. Typical tasks include custom machine design and process automation.
Festo has links with universities, institutes and development companies through their Bionic Learning Network program.[2] They are using this to explore ideas and initiatives which go beyond the core business of automation and didactics and may lead to future products and product areas, currently these projects involve their new line of pneumatic actuators. Some of these projects are the Aqua Jelly,[3] AquaPenguin,[4][5] the Aqua Ray,[6] Airic’s arm,[7] the Airacuda,[8] and SmartBird.[9][10]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Company Profile, Goliath
- ^ Bionic Learning Network, Festo.com
- ^ Aqua Jelly
- ^ AquaPenguin, Festo.com
- ^ "Festo's robotic penguins are bionic, cuter than Man from Atlantis". Dvice.com. http://dvice.com/archives/2009/04/festos-robotic.php. Retrieved 2009-04-26.
- ^ Aqua Ray
- ^ Airic’s_arm
- ^ Airacuda
- ^ Smartbird
- ^ short talk and Video of Smartbird flying
