Canadian PROCESS EQUIPMENT & CONTROL NEWS
Oracle and Festo are joining forces to help educators create new opportunities and solve tough challenges at the Oracle Industry Lab in Chicago. The facility is said to provide hands-on, simulated industry settings for customers to experiment, learn, and bring transformative technologies to life.
The Productivity Master platform from Festo is designed to show how digital manufacturing can offer customers individualized products created by a fully automated process, from order placement to delivery.
Safety, Security and Connectivity provided the theme of this year’s German Technology Day (GTD) event, organized by seven Canadian companies with German roots including Bosch-Rexroth, EPLAN, Festo, Murrelektronik, PILZ, Rittal, and WAGO.
Rittal System Ltd., a provider of electrical enclosures, climate control, power distribution and IT Infrastructure solutions and software, has won an Electro-Federation Canada Marketing Excellence Award for the fourth year.
Mississauga, ON-based Festo promoted Jean-Francois Paquette to Canada sales director. In his new position, the Montreal-based Paquette will focus on leading the sales objectives and planning strategy for the Canadian sales organization, setting and meeting revenue and profitability targets for Canada as part of the North American region goals.
The first four companies in the inaugural Healthcare Robotics Startup Catalyst program have been selected by Festo and MassRobotics. The Healthcare Robotics Startup Catalyst is a new program for the global robotics startup community to advance healthcare developments by providing promising companies with investor and customer introductions, access to subject-matter experts, and a range of technical and marketing support resources.
Festo has introduced two apps that when used in combination are said to improve the efficiency, flexibility, and energy savings of nitrogen gas dosing on filling lines. These and other apps for the company’s intelligent Motion Terminal provide machine builders with the ability to not only shorten time to market and reduce components, but also to develop distinctive solutions for their customers.
Bosch Rexroth, EPLAN, Festo, Murrelektronik, PILZ, Rittal and WAGO, seven companies in automation and advanced manufacturing, based in Canada with their headquarters in Germany, are hosting Canada’s third series of German Technology Days.
Festo has announced the KVZA Butterfly-Valve Configurator, an online configuration tool designed to lower overhead by speeding up and simplifying procurement of manual and automated butterfly valves. In only minutes with the configurator, the company says, engineers will have the price, estimated delivery date, data sheet, bill of material, 2D CAD data, 3D CAD models, and certificates of the optimum butterfly valve for the application.
Production, warehouse, shipping — where goods are produced, stored, sorted or packed, picking also takes place. This means that several individual goods are removed from storage units such as boxes or cartons and reassembled. With the FLAIROP (Federated Learning for Robot Picking) project Festo and researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), together with partners from Canada, want to make picking robots smarter using distributed AI methods. To do this, they are investigating how to use training data from multiple stations, from multiple plants, or even companies without requiring participants to hand over sensitive company data.
