Festo Customer Solutions Reduces Multi-Panel Building Costs by as Much as 50%

Summary

ISLANDIA, New York - April 9, 2024 - Festo announces that its Customer Solutions department (the company’s fabrication, assembly and engineering services) is now unified throughout North America. By utilizing one universal part number and one contact person, customers can reduce multi-control-panel purchasing costs by as much as 50% while enhancing process reliability and boosting productivity.

A unified Customer Solutions department increases Festo customization capabilities and enables North American engineering companies, system integrators and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to bring projects to market faster with less design, project management and engineering overhead.

Customer Solutions optimizes the product development cycle by providing:

• Concept generation
• Prototype development
• Streamlined product selection
• Prepackaged mechatronics design
• Assembled and tested solutions
• Streamlined procurement
• High volume build-to-print capability

Festo Customer Solutions supplies control panels

Festo Customer Solutions manages the entire multi-panel control panel acquisition process, beginning with consultation and design and ending with the delivery of assembled, commissioned and validated panels. These panels are suitable for factory and process automation as well as controls for handling systems.

Panels can include analog and/or digital I/O, electric controls for drives, motors and actuators, and automation solutions, such as multi-axis handling systems, pneumatic controls and process control valves. Panels accommodate top communications protocols. Customers install these UL rated panels on skids and machines, and in clean rooms (NEMA 4X), mechanical rooms (NEMA 4/12) and hazardous areas (NEMA 4X and Class 1 Div. 2).

Engineering firms, system integrators and OEMs improve market acceptance by partnering with a global supplier and bringing Festo’s global support into the mix. Festo reduces field service costs, boosts energy efficiency, increases uptime, prolongs the health of components through clean air, offers hot swap valve replacement capabilities and delivers the benefits of a single source supplier with a robust global supply chain.

About Festo U.S.

Festo is a leading manufacturer of pneumatic and electromechanical systems, components and controls for process and industrial automation. For more than 50 years in the U.S., Festo Corporation has continuously elevated the state of manufacturing with innovations and optimized motion control solutions that deliver higher performing, more profitable automated manufacturing and processing equipment. Through advanced technical and industrial education, Festo Didactic Learning Systems and its partners prepare workers for current and future manufacturing technologies.