Festo Experience: The virtual trade show for North America

Festo Experience – Automation for Tomorrow: An online North American trade fair as productive as any of the top international tradeshows is scheduled for August 5 and 6.

Mississauga, ON, July 2020 – Covid-19 is making Canadian businesses even more aware of the advantages of advanced automation and other productivity enhancing solutions.

Nice-to-have concepts are becoming must-haves to remain competitive. To help business identify the right automation solutions for their operations, Festo is presenting the Festo Experience – Automation for Tomorrow on August 5 – 6, 2020, a virtual tradeshow and learning conference geared to operating in the North American environment. It’s LIVE, FREE, fully interactive and easy to navigate. Registration is open now at www.festoexperience.vfairs.com

Attendees can explore 16 Festo North America booths from all of our industry categories, including Electronics and Assembly, Life Sciences, Packaging, Automotive, Process Automation and Food Processing. They can talk live with Festo team members from each category, plus access digital brochures, whitepapers and product animations. In addition, they will be able to connect with other North American business leaders in the virtual Networking Lounge. The event will be open from 10 am – 6 pm EDT each day.

Once they login, attendees will see the Festo Experience tradeshow lobby. The lobby features an information desk, entrances to the exhibit halls, the auditorium for live and on-demand presentations, and a networking lounge. No special software is required.

The show’s booth contents and seminars cover Festo’s full range of electric, pneumatic and process automation products, smart factory technologies and innovative engineering tools. Live seminars, presented under the global topic “Automation for Tomorrow; Realize Your Vision for intelligent Automation”, will include:

• How to Select a Robot (Aug 5, 1 pm EDT)
• Influence of Digitalization for Motion in Manufacturing (Aug 5, 2:30 pm EDT)
• Trends in End-of-Arm Tooling (Aug 6, 1 pm EDT)
• Festo core products (On demand)

Topics of particular interest for food and beverage operators and OEMs include:

• FSMA and Festo: Perspectives on compliance with updated cGMP for equipment design (Aug 5, 4:30 pm EDT).
• Energy Conservation for Pharma (Aug 6, 2:30 pm EDT)

There also will be seminars hosted by leading Festo experts showcasing the company’s industry-leading core product range and the revolutionary Festo Motion Terminal VTEM (anytime, on demand), as well as a Process Automation Product Overview (Aug 6, 11 am EDT).

Festo at a glance

Festo, the world’s leading supplier of automation technology and technical education, is deploying its products and services to meet the challenges of digitization and smart production. Founded in 1925, the family owned company based in Esslingen, Germany supports a wide range of needs for advanced solutions in factory and process automation. In Canada, Festo has been supporting Canadian industry for over 40 years, continuously elevating the state of manufacturing in this country with innovative products, optimized motion control solutions and unrivalled support. Globally, some 300,000 customers put their trust in the company’s pneumatic and electric drive products and technology. In addition, Festo Didactic provides state-of-the-art training equipment and educational programs for industrial companies and educational institutions. The Festo Group registered sales of around €3.2 billion in the 2018 financial year and is represented worldwide at 250 locations with a total of 20,200 employees. About 8% of its annual turnover is invested in research and development.

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