The Spanish subsidiary of Festo grew 30% in 2011, above the average of the group

José María Foot, general director and Ignacio Rooms, director of marketing gave to know the proposals for the automation of processes and production as well as the solutions from the components with the clean design, to the automation of high speed.

The general director of Festo gave to know the good economic figures of the group, in spite of the current situation of crisis. In 2011, the group grew 20% all over the world, whereas the Spanish subsidiary did it 30%, above the growth average of the group. Besides, it manifested the growth sustained of the subsidiary in the segment of the alimentary industry “a sector that remains stable thanks to the bet of big national companies of the world of the feeding by the automation of his processes, for what have had Festo”, sustained.

In the two last years Festo has invested more than one hundred million euros in production and as it signalled José María Foot, “no only cater components, go further, offering solutions. For Festo is very important the learning, the processes and also the people. It is our offer diferenciadora in the market”. And it is that Festo, finds in all the chain of production.

Ignacio Rooms stood out the technology of automation in assistant biónico for manipulation, products based in the movements of the nature. Festo Uses a variety of new technologies in the development of his Assistant Biónico for manipulation: Biónica, additive manufacture and Mecatrónica.

The breakdown of the Assistant Biónico for Manipulation until his individual components reveals a similar basic structure to the one of the trompa of an elephant. The articulation and the pinza complete the structure of three pieces of the system.

The heart of the Assistant Biónico for Manipulation form it products Festo that usually apply in machineries and equipment. These include controllers, pinzas, sensors and valves, that proceed all of the wide and modulate range of products Festo. Joining them of this so inventive way, and giving them intelligence through the integration of electronics equipment dealers equipment dealers and software, providing at the same time a light design and energetically efficient, is the true art of an innovative engineering.

Likewise, the manager of marketing was the attendant to show other solutions:

The porticos High-Speed in H and in T of Festo, a 30 percent faster that the systems of conventional manipulation for the industry of the packaging. They combine the dynamism of a system of manipulation with linear engine with the costs of a solution of manipulation accionada by toothed belt, that is precisely what needs for a fast transfer to the boxes for example at the end of a process of manufacture- filled- closing.

These two systems of manipulation represent true alternatives to the systems of robot with cinematic delta and Scara. Festo Delivers the systems directly for the machine, had to install and adapted to all the necessary interfaces of the machine.

Finish to launch three pneumatics actuators higiénicamente safe that offer something more than only idoneidad for the use with foods and resistance to the corrosion. The standard cylinder DSBF and the round cylinder CRDSNU are instrumented with amortiguación autorregulable PPS, whereas the cylinder guided DGRF is designed to handle pieces of work under adverse environingingmental conditions.

The round cylinders CRDSNU and the cylinders ISO DSBF of Festo offer something more than idoneidad for the industry of feeding and resistance to the corrosion: also they have the amortiguación autorregulable PPS. This does that the set up was so simple.

The amortiguación autorregulable PPS means to finish with the go and come to adjust the amortiguación correct in the pneumatics cylinders. The system of amortiguación, available like option with the round cylinders of stainless steel CRDSNU and the cylinders DSBF in ‘Clean Design' facilitates the set up and saves time.

With the pinza DHDG of Festo can manipulate fruit, bulbos or sensitive foods to the pressesure of fast and reliable form. This is possible thanks to the like this called ‘End-Ray effect' that bases in the design of the aletas of a fish.

If the bulbos of tulip and the eggs of chocolate hold with pinzas metallic conventional or functions of empty, the result is a high level of losses and damages. Something that contradicts the two fundamental aims of the technology of automation that are: speed and quality.

For the manufacturers of foods, that sometimes operate on some small margins, often this can mean a fragile balance. A way to resolve this dilemma consists in supervising the production of foods by means of systems of compact vision. These can reduce considerably the costs of investment and production.

The combination of a controller master, interfaces of sensors and diverse actuators, often result complicated and costly that demand many of the operators. Instead, the system of compact vision SBOC-Q, is an example of how can attain 100% of control of quality of a simple and affordable way.

Solutions biónicas for the automation of future

In the fair the visitors could know the AquaPenguin. According to the company, the penguins biónicos are an illustrative example of what means to learn of the nature. The utilisation of innovative technical materials and the creative combination of different principles of construction and operation allows to develop new spaces of useful design for the technicians of automation.

The engineers of Festo have created with the AirPenguin artificial penguins, to which have taught to “fly of autonomous form in a sea of air”. A group of three penguins of autonomous flight moves floating freely in a clear-cut space registered by invisible stations of broadcast of ultrasounds. The penguins can move freely inside this space. A microprocessor allows to the penguins explore said space freely.

The nature has inspired the form of the body, very efficient to move by the water, and the elegant propulsion by means of 'aletas'. The robotic penguins can manoeuvre in a minimum of space, are able to turn immediately and –unlike his biological models– even swim to backwards.

Can find the analogous application to the technician of automation in the technician of regulation of Festo: for example, in the new regulators of proportional pressesure VPPM and VPWP for the servoneumática.