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Partner for Capacity Developmentin environmental technologies

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Green Economy – Sustainable and profitable growth

In order to ensure the supply with necessary means of liveli-hood for all mankind, our actions today and the treatment of the environment needs to be recon-sidered.

While growth and prosperity in the past entailed the increased consumption of natural resources, the so-called Green Economy will enable a sustaina-ble and environmentally friendly growth decoupled of environ-mental consumption.

The objectives of a GreenEconomy are: •Reducing environmental

pollution and greenhouse gas emissions

•Using raw materials and energymoreefficiently

•Promoting social progress while preserving the „natural capital“

More than 16,000 people world-wide are working towards inno-vative solutions for various seg-ments.Thisreflectsourphiloso-phy of full partnership and close proximity to more than 300,000 customers in over 200 indust-ries, realised via 250 Festo loca-tions and 59 national Festocompanies.

The focus of all activities is onpeople and technology. From itsfoundation, Festo has seen itselfas a strong partner and an integ-ral component of societies and business worldwide.

With Festo Didactic, Festo hassuccessfully been supportingthe capacity development formorethan45yearsinthefieldof professional, industry-orien-tedqualificationsolutionsforprocess and factory automation, industrial training and vocatio-nal education.

Festo – global player in automation and didactic

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Green Industry – New paths for economy and education

Industries as growth engines

With their innovativeness and broad value chains industries keep being the backbone for economic growth and prosperity.

Since industries face increasing raw material and energy short-ages, a fundamental change towards a “green” industry is unavoidable to ensure sustaina-ble growth.

Twosignificanttrendsofdevel-opment can be distinguished:

On the one hand, the “greening” of existing industries will lead in the long term to an improvement in their environmental “perfor-mance” regardless of industry, size or location.

On the other hand, new, “green” industries are created by newly developed technologies and ser-vices. These devote explicitly to environmental issues opening and serving completely new markets.

Developing skills at an early stage

Both trends result in the need of well-trained employees and spe-cialists who design professional situations according to the guidelines of the Green Industry-concept. Sensitizing key actors in time is one of the key factors to ensure a fundamental change of thinking and thus a resource-saving, environmentally friendly growth.

“Greening of Industries”Example: e-mobility

In addition to the classical tasks of a motor vehicle mechatronics (such as maintaining mecha-tronic components), competen-cies in high-voltage technology and electrochemistry increas-ingly must be built to ensure the operation safety of modern elec-tric vehicles.

“Creating Green Industries”Example: water/waste water treatment

The profession “Aquatronics” deals incisively with the increas-ingly important issue of munici-pal and industrial water and wastewater treatment, which in most parts of the world is still in the development stage or not existing.

Greeningof Industries

CreatingGreen Industries

Resource Productivity Environmental Technologies

Pollution Prevention Environmental Services

Safe Chemical Management

Green Industry

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EDS® – Environmental Discovery SystemsLearning systems for the environmental sector

Discovering environmental technology

With laboratories on:•Renewable Energies•Water/waste water treatment•E-Mobility and •Resource-efficientproductionEDS® devotes to key challenges

of sustainable economic growth. In combination with the basic learning systems offered by Festo Didactic EDS® provides a comprehensive range of skills development in the core themes of Green Industry.

Prized quality

•Learning system and components of Festo Didactic meet the requirements of all relevant standards and guidelines such as DIN/ISO and VDE.

•FestoDidacticisDINENISO9001qualitycertified.•Festo Didactic mainly uses industrial components..

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EDS® Renewable EnergiesFuture of energy supply

Energy revolution in education

Environmentally friendly and sustai-nable energy supply from renewable energy sources is not a vision of the future, but reality.

For the CO2-neutral production of electricity and heat many applica-tions exist – for the capacity-building in this subject, the practice-relevant systems of photovoltaic, solar heat and wind power are especially inte-resting.

Photovoltaics

The production of electricity on a direct path from the sun is the most popular and widely used type of renewable energy.

EDS® addresses solar modules, memory, island and grid-inverter as well the corresponding electrical loads. Characteristics, interconnec-tion and system structure are analy-zed and evaluated.

Considering energy holistically

With EDS® Renewable Energies, the user develops an understanding of how solar and wind power can be used for industrial and private requi-rements.

In addition to a profound understan-ding of components and the system, current challenges such as energy storage and infeed in grids are addressed.

Solar thermal power

In buildings, a large part of energy is required for the (water) heating. Modern solar thermal systems are ideally suited for this task.

EDS®clarifieswhichcomponentsarerequired and illustrates operation, commissioning and maintenance of these systems.

Ideal for any application

Compact, simple solid bodies for demonstration purposes:

Thesimpleconfigurationandshortset-uptimesensureaflexibleandefficientclasspreparationandcon-duction.

Wind power

Wind power holds another big part in the generation of electricity from renewable sources. Location factors and network integration, however, makespecificdemandsonthistypeof energy.

EDS® considers physical principles, types and working principles and indirect challenges such as grid sta-bility and error handling.

Flexible and modular systems for exciting experiments:

With the modular structures the users‘ understanding of simple com-ponents to complex systems grows step by step.

Tec2Screen®

Connected Learning with the inter-active learning companion:Tec2Screen® takes e-learning tothe laboratory.

Theoretical content and practical exercises are optimally combined. Data acquisition, visualization and analysis are always transparent through the clear connection to the measuring point – all in one system!

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EDS® Water ManagementCore processes of water technology

Drinking water and chlorine

The use of chlorine for the disinfec-tion of drinking water is a worldwide standard – but it depends on the cor-rect dosage, as an overdose not only costs money, but also strains the environment and consumer.

The chlorine measurement and dosing devices of EDS® Water Management show, how the use of chlorine is optimized.

Oxygen and energy

The oxygenation of water is an energy-intensive, but indispensable process. To ensure an optimal oxyge-nation, it is necessary to initially take measurements of oxygen in order to avoid unnecessary energy expen-diture.

EDS® Water Management provides an ideal platform for the regulation of oxygenation.

Controlling the costs

If the purchase price is the key ele-mentforadecision,theefficiencyisoften considered secondary. Howe-ver,thelowerlevelofefficiencyusu-ally results in higher operating costs wasting more money and resources in the long run.

EDS® Water Management illustrates how the process of water/waste water treatment must be designed to be resource-optimal.

Engineering and construction

The right engineering in plant design and construction is the basis for an economical and environmentally friendly life cycle management.

EDS® Water Management provides all relevant planning documents such as electrical and pneumatic schematics, flowdiagrams,datasheetsandmanuals. All documents are in accordance with the European stan-dard.

Developing structures

From components to systems, from lonefighterstoteamplayers:Notonly the subjects of planning and constructing wastewater treatment plants are diverse; the actual oper-ation presents many challenges as well, as – in addition to the adminis-trative and technical management of the plant – the distribution of com-petencies often varies between per-sonal union to complex personnel braids with distributed expertise.

Worldwide, the primary objectiveis to develop a common understand-ing about the importance of water/waste water treatment.

Learning-by-Doing

The growing complexity of cleaning and analysis processes requires well-trained personnel with a deep under-standing of the system. Training-on-the-job in the real systems is often impossible, as the plant is usually distributed over hundreds of meters and as the cymbals and pipes are not visible to the learner. In addition, incorrect operation may cause fatal consequences to the plant and the environment.

EDS® Water Management offers an ideal and realistic learning environ-ment at laboratory scale.

Mobile laboratory, short distances

A mouse click in the real control room must be carefully considered: switching a signal might – invisible to the operator – change the functio-ning of a component; the effect of the click may have a delay and show its consequences after hours with serious consequences.

With EDS® Water Management, reac-tions are faster and more managea-ble and therefore ideally suited for the learning process.

EDS® Water Management consistsof four learning stations: From cont-rolling the water level control to complex Oxygen control, it maps the world of process control, measure-ment and control technology. To get started, each of the stations can be put into operation individually.

Per station three learning groups with two people working at the same time can be formed. Teamwork is given easily, as the users are encou-raged to jointly coordinate a cont-rolledwaterflow.

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Mobility of tomorrow

Eversincetheignitionofthefirstgasoline engine, the desire for indi-vidual mobility is one of the high-est goods for people all around the world.

While transport in the last century meant using fossil resources, electric mobility ideally enables a zero-emis-sionandefficienttransportationthatnot only helps to relieve the environ-ment but also to improve the qual-ity of life.

More than from A to B

While the expansion of electric mobility proceeds, challenges in energy storage and deployment as well as in the development of an intelligent network structure are more and more revealed.EDS® delivers concepts, how tomeet these challenges.

Modular concept

EDS® E-Mobility follows consistently the modular principle and is individ-ually equipped and expandable.Thebasicconfigurationconsistsoffour learning systems with different levels of competence. In addition, numerous supplements for different learning areas are available.

Thefirststagecoversthebasicsofautomotive electrics and electronics.

The second stage discusses acci-dent prevention and safe handling of high-voltage vehicles.

In the third stage diagnostic skills and technical hybrid or electric vehi-cle concepts are shown with the PC-controlled diagnostic trainer.

The universal pinbox-system deep-ens the knowledge for the workshop and service practice.

Developing basics

With the increased spreading ofelectric vehicles, the diagnosis ofelectrical systems is increasingly important to car workshops.

Basis for a successful diagnosis is the competence to recognize the diverse and networked vehicle sys-tems, how basic electrical laws apply and how they interact in a subsystem.

The tasks to hybrid and electric vehi-cles reduce these parts and complete systems to simple circuits to illus-trate the basic laws for the learner.

Safety at electric vehicles

Almost every car manufacturer today has a high-voltage vehicle in its vehi-cle program. Therefore, in order to ensure the operational safety of elec-tric vehicles, it is essential to know the different manufacturer’s instruc-tions and methods.

EDS® E-Mobility shows how risks on high-voltage components are recog-nized vendor-independently and how accident prevention regulations and safety rules are applied effectively.

Training in Diagnostics

Prerequisite for a reliable diagnosis is the knowledge of the components and the competence to verify their operability.

EDS®E-Mobilityissignificantlycon-tributing to the understanding of service practice by its practice-related information and the measur-able values for intact and defective vehicle.

Direct connection

Today, on-board diagnostics is standard in modern vehicle systems. The workshop practice, however, shows that the detected faults in the fault memory are often only vaguely formulated.

With its direct connection to the control unit EDS® E-Mobility has an on-boardinterfacefortheflexible,universal testing of all modern elec-tronic systems in real vehicles.

EDS® E-MobilityProgress with new power

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EDS® Green FactoryEnergy-efficientindustrialproduction

Green technologies combined

Modern, sustainable business facto-ries increasingly produce their requi-red energy themselves using envi-ronmentally friendly technologies such as wind power, solar energy or heat recovery.

Inaddition,energy-efficientproduc-tion and new energy management practices help to reduce the energy consumption.

Energy in focus

The learning factory EDS® Green Fac-tory covers the complete range of energy in production systems.

The core of the learning environ-ment –a modular, hybrid production system with characteristics of energy-efficientautomationtechno-logy – is complemented by a new intelligent power system for electri-city, heat and compressed air. Lear-ningmodulesforefficientenergygeneration, storage, distribution and utilization expand the range of com-petencies.

New content, proven platforms

Popular learning modules from Festo Didactic and components especially developed for EDS® Green Factory form the basis for the new learning environment.

The combination possibilities of the modules also allow – additional to the typical challenges of factory and process automation – energetic con-siderationssuchasdegreesofeffici-encyorenergyflows.

Promising trends and technologies are part of the learning opportuni-ties:fromhighlyefficientcom-pressed air production to Robotino® as autonomous guided vehicle to new ways of saving and storing elec-trical energy.

EDS® Green Factory provides a com-prehensive learning laboratory for exploring and optimizing future scenarios of energy management.

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Tec2Screen®

Connected Learning with the inter-active learning companion:Tec2Screen® takes e-learning to the laboratory.

Theoretical content and practical exercises are optimally combined. Data acquisition, visualization and analysis are always transparent through the clear connection to the measuring point – all in one system!

From module to system

Each module of the EDS® Green Fac-tory can be independently used for teaching or for operation in the over-all system. Thus, a deep understan-ding of the single component and its function in the system is ensured.

Smart Factory Energy Grid

Networks of smart grid can be practi-callyexperiencedandconfiguredinapower grid of the EDS® Green Fac-tory.

Internalenergyflowsandproductionplanning in the control system are linked and visualized in an intelligent way –requirements of external share-holders (e. g. network operators) can be considered in the energy manage-ment.

Outdoor Lab

EDS® Green Energy Outdoor Labgoes one step further: real renewable energy sources (wind, sun, etc.) are integrated into the learning scena-rios; this ensures a realistic learning process.

The Outdoor Lab can also be used in each training centre regardless of the EDS® Green Factory for demonstra-tive and impressive learning units.

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