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Why Smart Manufacturing?
Increasing product variety, volatile markets, and growing efficiency demands are intensifying the pressure to transform manufacturing. At the same time, artificial intelligence, data-driven optimization, and assistance systems are opening up new potential.
Festo’s Innovation Circle Smart Manufacturing aims to systematically advance production and create a scalable, AI-ready infrastructure for intelligent and economically superior processes.
smart manufacturing with festo
AI-ready manufacturing for adaptive processes
What it’s about:
Technology is consistently approached from an operational value perspective: AI must deliver measurable productivity gains and be established as a scalable standard.
Together with start-ups, research partners, and industry experts, concrete use cases are developed, validated in real production environments, and translated into sustainable improvements.
Focus topics:
Three fields of action are at the core:
What we aim to achieve:
A learning, adaptive production environment emerges as the foundation of operational excellence and as a starting point for future product and solution innovations.
At the same time, an open innovation ecosystem is emerging around the Innovation Circle, which specifically fosters exchange between research, start-ups, and industry.
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Shaping smart manufacturing with Festo
As a global leader in industrial automation and technical education, Festo stands for intelligent systems, sustainable solutions and a strong commitment to empowering people through technology.
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Growth areas and innovation circles
The Innovation Circle Smart Manufacturing with Festo is anchored in the “Industry” growth area. Additional innovation circles are aligned with the eight growth areas.
Growth areas
Across eight growth areas, we cluster the key challenges of tomorrow. As a thematic framework of the NXTGN innovation platform, the growth areas help connect science, industry, and start-ups in a targeted way with topic-specific networks.
Innovation Circles
Building on the eight growth areas, the Innovation Circles create a concrete framework for company-driven collaboration. As anchor partners, selected companies contribute a strategic growth area and jointly shape topic-specific innovation ecosystems together with start-ups and academia.
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Do you have questions about the Innovation Circle Smart Manufacturing or would you like to get involved? Feel free to contact us!
Nikolai Krischke
Innovation Circle Manager NXTGN
Katrin Stoiber
Technology Innovation Manager
