Festo Unveils Major New Products at the 2025 CIIF

The 2025 China International Industry Fair (CIIF) will grandly open on September 23. Under the theme "Automation for a world in motion," Festo will present an automation extravaganza that blends cutting-edge technology with a century of craftsmanship. At this exhibition, Festo’s core focus will revolve around electrical automation, digitalization, and lifelong learning. Guided by the concept of "pneumatics and electrics integration, balancing software and hardware," Festo will comprehensively showcase integrated solutions driving the future of intelligent manufacturing. Numerous debut highlights and innovative applications will be unveiled. Meanwhile, the highly anticipated Festo bionic flying device—the BionicBee—will make its first appearance at the CIIF, perfectly embodying Festo’s creativity inspired by nature.

As Festo’s largest-scale event marking its 100th anniversary, the exhibition will feature a variety of exciting interactive experiences. We warmly invite you to visit the Festo booth and experience our innovative technological achievements up close.

Exhibition Details
Date: September 23–27
Venue: National Exhibition and Convention Center, Shanghai
Festo Booth: Hall 5.1, B105

Highlights:

Innovative solutions

Multi-Axis Synchronous Motion Control Solution

Exhibit Description:

  • Showcasing Festo’s latest high-performance edge controller CEPE, supporting multi-axis synchronous motion control with up to 32 axes synchronized. The demo features CEPE controlling ELGD electric axes, EGSS axes, and an open rotary structure for synchronized motion.
  • Demonstrating a flexible, efficient, and easy-to-maintain human-machine interface solution based on WebIQ.

Application Scenarios:
Multi-axis synchronous motion control / Industrial IoT data acquisition and monitoring

Festo Solution:

  • Festo edge controller CEPE utilizes Festo AX’s open ecosystem architecture.
  • Supports IEC61131-3 standard industrial control programming as well as higher-level programming languages such as NodeRED and Python.
  • Seamless integration with servo technology, combined with the Festo Motion Package, enables easy implementation of complex motion control solutions including multi-axis synchronization and interpolation control.

Global Premiere: Safety Brake Control (SBC)

Exhibit Description:
Festo offers a comprehensive advanced safety motion control solution, covering everything from electric cylinders at the mechanical end to full monitoring of servo systems at the control end, including the Safety Brake Control (SBC) function. Through dual-channel safety circuits and continuous self-diagnostics, the system ensures reliable locking of brakes and electric cylinder guide rails, meeting Cat 3 PL d/e safety certification. This provides industrial automation equipment with brake protection solutions that comply with the highest safety standards.

Application Scenarios:
Safety control in industrial environments, safety monitoring of automated equipment

Festo Solution:
The solution integrates a secondary encoder and guide rail locking device into the electric cylinder to monitor real-time position, speed, and other motion states. Upon detecting abnormalities, it immediately activates the guide rail locking device and initiates the servo motor’s Safety Brake Control (SBC) function. This optimizes safety control logic, reduces system complexity, and enables modular deployment. A full range of safety component products is supplied to provide a one-stop advanced safety solution.

Large-Volume Pipetting Gantry System

Application Scenarios:
The large-volume pipetting system is suitable for handling samples ranging from 100 µL to 50 mL. It enables operators to have “zero contact” with samples, effectively reducing pre-processing workload and minimizing errors caused by manual handling. This system is ideal for large-volume sample processing in industries such as life sciences, petrochemicals, food safety testing, and environmental monitoring.

Festo Solution:
The system consists of Festo’s high-performance electric cylinder ELGD, compact linear module EGSC, high-performance servo motor EMMT-AS, DC servo motor EMMT-EC, and pipetting syringe.

The gantry system, composed of the ELGD toothed-belt electric cylinder, servo motor EMMT-AS, linear module EGSC, and DC servo motor EMMT-EC, meets the demands for high-speed and high-precision positioning in sample processing while offering excellent cost performance. The precision syringe paired with the high-resolution DC servo motor EMMT-EC enables highly accurate small-volume liquid dispensing.

Festo’s next-generation electric cylinder module ELGD features innovative dual-rail guidance technology, providing rigidity in the M× direction far exceeding that of electric cylinders of the same size. Its magnetic dust-proof belt with a steering device greatly reduces surface wear, meeting higher cleanroom standards. The innovative toothed-belt design allows the ELGD to achieve high precision positioning even at high speeds, with repeat positioning accuracy up to ±0.04 mm.

Festo not only offers the high-performance servo motor EMMT-AS and servo controller CMMT-AS (featuring multi-protocol communication interfaces, full closed-loop dual encoders, master-slave synchronization, and advanced S3 safety functions), but also provides the lightweight servo motor EMMT-ST and controller CMMT-ST. The EMMT-ST uses single-turn or multi-turn absolute encoders (battery-free) and OCP single-cable connectors. Combined with the CMMT-ST controller (supporting multi-protocol communication, safe torque off STO, and weak magnetic speed increase functions), this solution delivers even higher cost efficiency.

Green Hydrogen Production Electrolyzer Control Solution

Exhibit Description:
This exhibit simulates the green hydrogen production electrolyzer process system, vividly demonstrating the basic principles of electrolysis hydrogen production and process control. It integrates Festo valve islands, process valves, intelligent positioners, and more to achieve intelligent and efficient green hydrogen production.

Application Scenarios:
Process control for alkaline hydrogen production and PEM (Proton Exchange Membrane) hydrogen production systems.

Festo Solution:

  • Customized intelligent valve island/valve island cabinet control solution that centralizes control, optimizes control logic, reduces complex field wiring, and enables modular installation;
  • Full range of process valves supplied, providing a one-stop solution.

Digital transformation

Festo AX Industrial Intelligence Digital Software

Your Needs:
How to assess the operating status of equipment, especially the reliability of critical process-related devices, to avoid losses caused by unplanned downtime, while maximizing the service life of equipment components and preventing waste. This is an important topic in automated production, alongside safety, efficiency, and digitalization.

Festo Solution:
With Festo AX Industrial Intelligence, companies can obtain real-time production data and analyze it using artificial intelligence (AI). AI enables predictive maintenance, ensures product quality (Predictive Quality), and promotes more efficient resource usage (Predictive Energy). By using Festo AX, downtime can be reduced by 25%, scrap rates lowered by 20%, and leaks decreased by up to 65%.

For more information, please click: Digital Transformation

Life-long Learning

Intelligent Electronic Education and Training Solution

Festo Solution:
Electeo is a blended learning solution that combines laboratory equipment, digital course software, and virtual instruments. It is designed to help vocational schools, technical colleges, engineering institutes, and industrial training centers develop learners' professional skills. Learners study, analyze, test, troubleshoot, and design analog and digital electronic circuits in a performance-oriented, user-friendly environment.

For more information, please click: Electricity and Electronics

BionicBee

The intricately designed BionicBee is our first product capable of large-scale, fully autonomous collective flight.

  • Weight: 34 g; Wingspan: 240 mm; Total length: 220 mm
  • Uses intelligent coordination to precisely adjust wing flapping frequency, enabling natural flight movements at multiple angles
  • Equipped with an indoor positioning system based on Ultra-Wideband (UWB) technology, enabling autonomous collective flight

For more information, please click: BionicBee

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