Case Study: Festo
FESTO SE & Co. KG
Global leader in industrial automation technology, providing pneumatic and electric automation solutions, control systems, and technical education worldwide.
From Repetitive Engineering Work to Faster Custom Products
How Festo improved quality, increased productivity, and accelerated delivery with Creo automation.
The Challenge
As demand for customized products increased, Festo's engineering team found itself spending too much time on repetitive, non-value-added tasks. Complex design rules were difficult to teach to new engineers, and manual processes made it challenging to maintain consistency across projects.
Festo had explored automation in the past, but previous solutions required significant maintenance and often focused more on the automation itself than on improving the product development process.
The company needed a way to:
- Reduce repetitive engineering work
- Improve design quality and consistency
- Capture complex product and process rules
- Accelerate custom design cycles
- Deliver specialized products faster
The Solution
Festo partnered with SIGMAXIM to implement SmartAssembly for Creo Parametric.
By automating repetitive engineering processes and embedding critical design and process rules directly into the workflow, SmartAssembly eliminated manual tasks that added little value while ensuring consistent, repeatable results.
The solution allowed Festo to automate complex engineering activities, improve accuracy, and create a scalable automation framework without the ongoing maintenance burden commonly associated with traditional automation projects.
The Results
The impact was immediate:
- Reduced a 3-hour engineering process to just 30 minutes
- Achieved a 6X improvement in productivity
- Improved design quality and consistency
- Enabled more product iterations without increasing engineering effort
- Accelerated delivery of highly customized products
- Captured critical engineering knowledge and process rules
With automation handling routine work, engineers could focus on higher-value activities while customers benefited from faster turnaround times and more specialized product offerings.
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