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.
Can standard pneumatic applications achieve micrometer-level positioning?
Festo provides a complete controlled pneumatic solution for semiconductor processes, optimizing pneumatic systems to achieve micrometer-level positioning performance.
These applications typically face the following key challenges:
In semiconductor equipment, operations such as wafer alignment, tooling rotation, and component orientation all involve moving an object to and stopping it at a precise position. These are typical positioning applications. The key requirement is “precise stopping,” which generally requires sensors to detect the initial and target positions.
Festo has developed an advanced control algorithm that enables precise closed-loop control of pneumatic actuator motion through the integration of the VTEP valve terminal and the CPX motion controller.
Combined with precise pressure regulation, the optimized system design enables even standard pneumatic actuators to achieve micrometer-level positioning performance, meeting the demanding requirements of semiconductor manufacturing processes.
This exhibit showcases Festo’s new-generation VUVX solenoid valve. Compared with the previous-generation VUVG, the VUVX delivers significantly higher switching frequency and flow rate in the same size and specification, providing automated equipment with enhanced performance and efficiency.
The VUVX supports both individual solenoid valve and valve terminal applications. Available in sizes 10, 14, 18, and 24, it is suitable for automation applications requiring higher flow rates, faster cycle times, and lower energy consumption.
Integrating AI, PLCs, sensors, pneumatic technology, and collaborative robots, this exhibit presents a complete practical workflow for intelligent production lines—from environmental perception, data analysis, and task planning to equipment control and multi-machine coordination.
The modular equipment supports the joint commissioning of algorithms, control programs, and automation processes. It enables project-based tasks to be designed around perception, decision-making, and execution, providing a practical platform for exploring the integration of industrial AI and automation.
The solution incorporates: