ShanghaiJune 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The 2026 WOD Manufacturing Digitalization and Intelligence Expo is grandly held from June 3 to 5 at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre. As a global automation leader with over a century of technological heritage, Festo makes a prominent appearance (Booth E1-D01) under the theme “Embracing Digital Transformation, Connecting the Industrial Future with Intelligence,” showcasing applications such as AI-powered predictive maintenance, production maintenance management, product configuration and selection, and a digital learning portal to create an immersive smart experience zone, helping enterprises achieve intelligent upgrades across the entire production process and injecting new momentum into sustainable development.
Festo AX Empowers Full-Scenario Industrial Digitalization
In the era of accelerated global manufacturing shifting toward intelligence, digital transformation has become a core engine for enterprises to enhance competitiveness. At this expo, Festo demonstrates the outstanding capabilities of the Festo AX software across various application scenarios, including real-time energy consumption monitoring and leak prediction, “plug-and-play” predictive maintenance services with one-click deployment, and full compatibility with mainstream market products. Additionally, Festo’s energy management digital platform, deeply integrating IoT, edge computing, and AI analysis technologies, helps customers achieve energy efficiency leaps from the equipment level to the production line and factory level, simultaneously meeting the dual goals of cost reduction, efficiency improvement, and green transformation.
Compared to last year, in response to increasingly complex operating conditions and stringent production requirements, Festo also showcases the vacuum predictive maintenance software covering application scenarios for factory vacuum and vacuum generators. This software can detect anomalies such as suction cup wear, loose piping, and vacuum generator damage in advance, significantly reducing the risk of dropped parts, manual inspections, and unplanned downtime.
Festo AX Smartenance is a CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System) software that integrates repair, maintenance management, and machine logs into a single solution. Through a web application for maintenance or production managers and a mobile application for maintenance engineers and machine operators, all relevant machine information can be accessed anytime, anywhere.
In terms of application, Festo supports customized development, enabling seamless connectivity of data collected from the cloud, whether for diverse equipment data integration, powerful and intelligent data analysis, or flexible and intuitive data presentation. As an automation industry expert, Festo is committed to building deep partnerships with customers, turning every production link into a value-added point.
Intelligent Design and Product Configuration Enable Precise Selection
To help customers easily and safely design solutions, accurately select components, and perform various necessary calculations, Festo brings its self-developed digital drawing software FluidDraw, FluidSim, and product configurator Configon to this expo. Using FluidDraw, users can quickly create precise pneumatic, hydraulic, and electrical circuit diagrams, fully compliant with industry standards and the latest regulations. FluidSim, provided by Festo’s Teaching and Training Department, is a pneumatic/hydraulic simulation software for dynamically simulating, validating, and teaching pneumatic, electrical, or hydraulic systems on a computer. Additionally, by integrating data, users can create custom databases to obtain detailed Festo product data and component information, achieving intelligent management and significantly improving work efficiency. Configon is an installation-free product configurator that, in practice, allows users to easily and error-free configure complex products in a 2D/3D environment based on drawn schematics, greatly optimizing the entire process from planning and quoting to production.
Digital Learning Portal Cultivates High-Quality Skilled Talent
To help educators more easily establish teaching content aligned with industrial application development, Festo launches Festo Learning Experience — an online portal for learners and teachers to access and create personalized learning plans. The platform’s courses cover multiple industrial fields, including high-quality standardized learning resources from Festo’s Teaching and Training division and professional knowledge accumulated in the industry, supporting the cultivation of high-quality skilled talent with both theoretical foundations and practical capabilities.
Festo consistently leads industrial intelligent development with a forward-looking vision and innovative spirit. At this expo, Festo showcases its product philosophy of “integrating pneumatics and electronics, balancing software and hardware,” leveraging digital software and solutions, and using AI and digital technologies to drive partners’ transformation from traditional manufacturing to smart manufacturing, working together with customers to explore and interpret the innovative value in the automation field.
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