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Life Tech – technologies for the life sciences

Smart solutions for laboratory and medical devices

Growing and ageing populations, increasing risk of illness and global mobility call for cost-effective healthcare solutions. The demand for suitable preventative healthcare and diagnostic procedures is also on the rise. The LifeTech division at Festo provides forward-looking answers – with innovative solutions for medical technology and laboratory automation. We support manufacturers of laboratory and medical devices with solutions that deliver precise and reproducible results.

Life sciences: woman with laboratory tablet

Technological developments such as miniaturisation, integration and the dispensing of ever smaller quantities of liquid are opening up new opportunities in the life sciences sector. Festo is supporting these trends with increasingly compact components, highly integrated modules and a focus on micro-fluid products for regulating gases and liquids.

We offer standardised components for laboratory and medical devices and also work with you to develop customised automation solutions that meet your requirements and are cost-effective, extremely compact and of the highest quality.

A focus on the life sciences

Medical technology: precisely regulating gases

Medical technology: precisely regulating gases

Components for medical devices: valves with piezo technology are extremely compact and regulate the pressure and flow of medical gases and liquids with excellent energy efficiency

Medical technology
Laboratory automation: sample handling kinematics

Laboratory automation: sample handling kinematics

Products and ready-to-install complete solutions for automated sample preparation: from identifying and positioning sample carriers to opening and closing sample vials.

Laboratory automation
Liquid handling with modular dosing system

Liquid handling with modular dosing system

Reliable, precise and compact: our dispense head consists of a manifold duct plate, dosing valves and nozzles that can be perfectly adapted to specific requirements.

Liquid handling
In vitro diagnostics

In vitro diagnostics

With ready-to-install catalogue components that comply with the industry standard, you can speed up the process of transferring your new assays into market-ready lab-on-a-chip systems.

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Biotech, pharmaceutical and cosmetics automation

Biotech, pharmaceutical and cosmetics automation

Make your systems more flexible, from active ingredient production and pharmaceuticals to packaging.

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Satisfied customers with automation from Festo

Laboratory assistant looks at plant leaf in Petri dish

In practice

40,000 DNA extractions daily

It's great when things run quickly: 20 minutes per extraction process and a new plate every 2.5 minutes – the Dutch company Synchron Lab Automation, in cooperation with Festo, has developed a small automated factory for DNA extraction. As a result, customers in the seed industry can collect DNA from up to 40,000 samples per day.

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Mobile oxygen system devices improve the mental and physical ability of patients as well as their quality of life

In practice

Improved quality of life

Around 600 million people worldwide are afflicted with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Mobile oxygen system devices improve the mental and physical ability of patients as well as their quality of life. Japanese company Musashi Medical Laboratory supplies easy-to-operate regulators in smartphone format for these oxygen system devices, thus significantly improving comfort and handling for patients. Compact piezo valves from Festo provide for quiet oxygen supply.

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Festo: Fully Automated DNA Extraction

In practice

Fully Automated DNA Extraction

In plant breeding, countless DNA samples are examined in the laboratory every day. Breeders face the technical challenge of testing DNA quickly and accurately. An automated machining jig supports the automated laboratory in the preparation of samples for analysis.

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