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: October 12–16
Venue: National Exhibition and Convention Center, Shanghai
Festo Booth: Hall 5.1, D018
This exhibit demonstrates how safety functions can be implemented in a conveyor system through the seamless interaction of electric drive and pneumatic technologies. It provides a comprehensive safety concept for operational safety and maintenance procedures.
Suitable for a wide range of automated applications involving human–machine collaboration, such as conveying, packaging, and assembly lines. The solution achieves an optimal balance between production efficiency and operational safety.
The system is divided into three safety zones. It intelligently responds to the position of personnel to ensure reliable operation under different conditions in each zone, while distinguishing between access permissions for operators and maintenance technicians:
In addition to the advanced safety functions described above, the system also activates Prevention of Unexpected Start-up (PUS) and Safe De-energization (SEZ)/Safe Energization (SEZ), depending on the operating mode and sensor activation status. These functions eliminate hazards and ensure controlled operation.
This exhibit showcases typical applications of Festo end-of-arm tooling across multiple industries and scenarios. Collaborative robots are equipped with flexible grippers and vacuum generators featuring the Festo ISO 50 standard interface, as well as electric grippers and heavy-duty pneumatic grippers. Inspired by biomimicry, selected grippers and fingers also demonstrate Festo’s ability to draw inspiration from nature and transform it into practical industrial applications.
3 Application Scenarios
Plug-and-play end-of-arm tooling for collaborative robots, suitable for flexible gripping, palletizing, food packaging, chip handling, new energy battery handling, and laboratory automation.
Centered on the theme “Making Energy Savings Visible and Energy Consumption Controllable,” this exhibit provides an intuitive demonstration of compressed-air consumption, energy usage changes, and energy-saving results during the operation of a pneumatic system. Through a live model demonstration, visitors can clearly observe key data such as air pressure, flow rate, leakage, and standby air consumption. The exhibit also explains how pressure optimization, leakage monitoring, zoned air supply, and intelligent shut-off can reduce compressed-air waste.
Suitable for automated production lines, assembly equipment, packaging machinery, and other applications. The solution monitors air consumption, pressure, and leakage in real time, helping companies identify energy waste, optimize energy strategies, reduce compressed-air costs, and achieve efficient, green, and sustainable production.
The solution collects pressure, flow-rate, and air-consumption data in real time through an air preparation and flow-monitoring unit. Pressure regulation and zoned control modules are installed in key branches to automatically adjust the air-supply pressure according to equipment operating conditions.
Valve terminals and sensors monitor abnormal air consumption and identify leakage and standby air consumption. Smart Switch valve plates work together with the movements of the actuators to control the timing of air supply and exhaust, improving energy efficiency and productivity.
In combination with a controller or higher-level system, the solution enables data visualization and generates energy-consumption trends and alarm notifications. Through a closed-loop management process of “monitoring, analysis, optimization, and control,” it helps pneumatic systems reduce energy consumption, maintain stable operation, and achieve transparent maintenance management.
标准气动应用能实现微米级气动定位吗？
Festo 为半导体工艺提供整套受控气动解决方案，优化并实现微米级气动定位
在该类应用中，主要面临以下核心挑战：
• 设备运动速度不断提升，但仍需实现平稳、无冲击的停止
• 精准停在目标位置是必须满足的关键性能指标，精度要求达到微米级
在半导体设备中，无论是晶圆的对准、工装的翻转，还是部件的定向，凡是需要将物体移动到并停在某个精确位置的动作，都属于此类“定位”应用。其核心是“精准停止”，通常需要传感器来检测起始和目标位置。
Festo开发了一套先进的控制算法，通过集成 VTEP 阀岛与 CPX 运动控制器，能够对气动执行器的运动实现精准的闭环控制。结合精准的压力调节，即使是标准气动执行器，在优化的系统设计下，也能实现微米级的定位性能，满足半导体工艺的严苛要求。
该展品展示了Festo全新一代电磁阀 VUVX，与上一代 VUVG相比，在同规格、同尺寸的情况下，实现了切换频率及流量的大幅提升，为自动化设备带来了更高的性能和效率。
VUVX 涵盖单片电磁阀和阀组的应用，提供10/14/18/24多种规格，适合更大流量，更高节拍，更低能耗的自动化应用场景。
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