Festo

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For the landmark patent-law case, see Festo Corp. v. Shoketsu Kinzoku Kogyo Kabushiki Co..
Festo AG & Co. KG
Type KG
Founded Esslingen am Neckar, Germany (1925 (1925))
Founder(s) Gottlieb Stoll
Number of locations Sankt Ingbert
Key people Eberhard Veit (CEO)
Revenue €2.1 billion (2011)
Employees 15,500 (2011)
Website www.festo.com

Festo is a privately owned German industrial control and automation company based in Esslingen am Neckar, Germany.[1] Festo is an engineering-driven company that sells pneumatic and electric transducers primarily to the automation industry.

History

Festo was founded in 1925 by Gottlieb Stoll and Albert Fezer. Initially it manufactured wood cutting tools and later diversified into the automation industry. In 2000 its portable power tool activities were spun off into an independent company, Festool. In 2002, Festo went to the United States Supreme Court to defend a change to a patent application in Festo Corp. v. Shoketsu Kinzoku Kogyo Kabushiki Co..

Products

Festo also offers Engineering Services via its Customer Solutions department. These solutions range from simple assemblies and kits, to full automation solutions utilizing Festo and third party components. Typical tasks include custom machine design and process automation.[citation needed]

Festo has links with universities, institutes and development companies through their Bionic Learning Network program.[2] They are using this to explore ideas and initiatives which go beyond the core business of automation and didactics and may lead to future products and product areas, currently these projects involve their new line of pneumatic actuators. Some of these projects are the Aqua Jelly,[3] AquaPenguin,[4][5] the Aqua Ray,[6] Airic’s arm,[7] the Airacuda,[8] and SmartBird.[9][10]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Company Profile, Goliath
  2. ↑ Bionic Learning Network, Festo.com
  3. ↑ Aqua Jelly
  4. ↑ AquaPenguin, Festo.com
  5. ↑ "Festo's robotic penguins are bionic, cuter than Man from Atlantis". Dvice.com. Retrieved 2009-04-26. 
  6. ↑ Aqua Ray
  7. ↑ Airic’s_arm
  8. ↑ Airacuda
  9. ↑ Smartbird
  10. ↑ short talk and Video of Smartbird flying

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