Collaboration Festo

CDAM and Festo have started a new collaboration. Festo is a multinational in industrial control and motion systems and is producing and selling pneumatic and electrical control and drive technology for factory or process automation. Festo will be supporting CDAM in its research to implement product design and adapt the design process to the industry 4.0.

A graduate will research the needs and possibilities for transcended manufacturing. With the support of Festo the graduate will develop and prototype a Hybrid CNC system which is able to use additive and subtractive fabrication methods to cater to the needs of transcended manufacturing and the new Industry 4.0 factory.

Next to that at the faculty soft grippers and the application of soft grippers in robotics is researched. Both directions have overlapping applications with Festo. Their knowledge and support in regard to gripping technologies is a significant contribution to this research.