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Festo’s Seamless Connectivity: Electromechanics for All Linear Movements

September 13, 2024

In numerous industrial applications, such as assembly technology, testing systems and packaging technology, the basic movement is linear. Festo, with over 30 years of market experience in Electric Automation, offers a high-performance mechanical portfolio for a wide range of applications with the new ELGD axis family and its ball screw axis and toothed belt axis as well as various profile variants and a variety of other special features.

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New Festo Canada Program Helps End Users Find System Integrators for Automation Projects 
Festo’s Seamless Connectivity: Electromechanics for All Linear Movements

For end users wanting to incorporate more automation in their operations but lacking the in-house capability to make it happen, Festo Canada has a solution to overcome that barrier. The company’s new Certified System Integrator Program will match an end user with highly skilled system integrators, providing the validated know-how and expertise to turn the aspirational into the realizable. 

Advanced automation solutions offer great productivity-enhancing possibilities. Yet, the latest in componentry and control system concepts can make a project more daunting for many end users to implement. The right system integrator can not only do the job, but also give an end user the confidence, both from a technical and financial perspective, to proceed. 

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Weidmüller’s scalable engineering software, u-control 2000, adapts individually to your requirements. And, the u-control is powerful, compact and fully compatible with Weidmüller’s I/O system u-remote. This article looks at what makes u-control the heart of your automation.

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