Engineering online

Festo has launched the Festo Support Community, an online technical forum which gives customers quick and easy access to its experts, as well as enabling them to interact with each other, to find the best solutions to their automation and machine building problems.

Festo says the easy-to-use forum is an effective way to interact with and help its customers, and provide better support. After a simple registration process, customers can post technical questions online and respond to other users' queries to share best practice (existing topics, posts and replies can be viewed without registering).

The forum is split into six searchable topic areas and covers subjects such as pneumatics, electrical drives, sensors and vision and directives and standards.