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Electric Automation Test Bench from Festo

June 6, 2025

Electric Automation Test Bench from Festo

Get Hands-On with Key Electric Automation Technologies from Festo! The Electric Automation Test Bench is a portable and convenient solution for learning, demonstrating, testing, validating, and integrating electric automation components from Festo. Designed for system integrators and industrial users, it provides a versatile platform to train on Festo products while reducing the technological risks associated with integrating new electric automation components.

Highlights of Festo’s electric automation test bench:

  • Turnkey, ready-to-operate system
  • Multi-protocol ready (EtherCAT, Profinet, EtherNet/IP, Modbus TCP)
  • Easily transportable
  • Ready to connect to third-party PLC

More Information

Contact services.didactic@festo.com for details.

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The year was 1975. Newly created Festo Canada joined an industrial eco-system feeling the stirrings of accelerating technological change, a transformation that would become known as Industry 3.0. PLCs, articulated robots, computer numerical control systems were beginning to proliferate. The first US patent for Ethernet was filed that year. (That was also the year Festo launched the world’s first standard pneumatic cylinder series).

So much more was to follow, leading up to Industry 4.0 as we are experiencing today – digitalization, the Industrial internet of Things, cloud computing – and beyond, as industry begins widespread adoption of artificial intelligence and machine learning, with a growing emphasis on sustainability.

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