Canadian PROCESS EQUIPMENT & CONTROL NEWS
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.
Festo has introduced an application-specific pneumatic cylinder for cheese presses that improves consistency and quality in both large operations and low-volume artisanal cheese making. The stainless-steel outer body of the Festo CRD cylinder is said to represent the latest in sanitary innovation.
With the number of diabetics in the world rising by about 10 million a year, there is steady demand growth for the insulin pens that help people manage their lives. That prompted OEM systems builder Syntegon Technology to develop a new flexible production line concept for assembling these auto-injectors that leverages Festo automation and especially the YJKP servo press kit.Read More
The VTEM Motion Terminal from Festo employs digital pneumatics said to be capable of delivering sweeping upgrades to common automation processes like pick and place, dosing and parts handling.
