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The challenge Festo Didactic is a world-leading provider of equipment and solutions for technical education, with a product and service portfolio spanning all areas of technology in factory and process automation – from pneumatics and hydraulics to electrical engineering and mechatronics.

Technical education is critical for companies and countries to succeed in a future shaped by rapid technological advances that are changing factory and plant floors around the world.

Festo Didactic possesses exceptional expertise in designing tailored training equipment, curriculum, programs and

support materials for teaching students and workers how to operate and maintain the machinery of tomorrow’s industrial workplace.

To provide a contemporary educational option for Industry 4.0, Festo decided to partner with Siemens – a leader in digitalization, connectivity and industrial technologies. Together, Siemens and Festo are able to focus on innovative software and control systems that enable Industry 4.0 and The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).

In analyzing the available options, it didn’t take long to recognize that Siemens was a trusted partner.

Customer: Festo Didactic is the educational arm of Festo, a worldwide leader in automation technology, headquar-tered in Germany with more than 18,000 employees serving 300,000 customers in 176 countries. Festo Didactic was founded in 1965; today, its educational solutions are delivered in over 40 languages to more than 42,000 clients.

Festo Didactic and Siemens are preparing workers for Industry 4.0 by leveraging their joint expertise in: • Factory Automation• Process Automation• Integrated Drive Systems• Industrial Controls

The Festo Didactic-Siemens partnership is delivering profound results.

Companies and countries are benefiting from improved productivity, efficiency and competitiveness.

Developing the skills needed for a new era of factory and process automation

Partnership between Siemens and Festo Didactic empowers people to thrive in the Industry 4.0 workplace

Success story

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The value Thomas Lichtenberger says Siemens is unmatched as a partner, thanks, not only to its ability to meet Festo Didactic’s requirement to work with a full-line technology provider, but also the fact that it’s a pleasure to team up with a group of reliable, responsive and friendly professionals whose ability “to see the big picture” stands out.

“There are many companies out there that have great products and individual components,” Lichtenberger says. “But Siemens always takes a holistic view that supports the long-term competitiveness of our customers in a global context. Festo and Siemens see the future of Industry 4.0 – and how important it will be to society. It makes our partnership the ‘go-to’ source for technical education on automation.”

Thomas Lichtenberger sums it up: “When two great companies join forces and both have strong products – and the organizations share similar values, philosophies, and attitudes – the outcome can only be brilliant.”

The solution In 2014, Festo Didactic complemented its educational portfolio with the acquisition of Lab-Volt. With this new integrated product line, Festo Didactic widened its array of equipment, curriculum, and e-learning tools for its global customer base.

The two organizations brought their teams together to collaborate on creating impactful, forward-looking educational solutions to enable today’s students and workers to make a successful transition into the industrial workplace of tomorrow. “We focus on hands-on learning, to bring the factory of the future into the classroom,” says Thomas Lichtenberger, CEO, Festo Didactic Inc. He notes that the two sides collaborate on individual educational offerings. Whether it’s training related to the manufacture of wind turbines or instrumentation involved in the production of pharmaceuticals, the ingenuity and respective strengths of both organizations are brought together to create comprehensive, scalable and modular educational solutions.

“Siemens always takes a holistic view that supports the long-term competitiveness of our customers in a global context.”

– Thomas Lichtenberger, CEO Festo Didactic Inc.

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