Legal form:
Limited partnership
Registered office: Esslingen a. N.
Registry court Stuttgart
HRA 211583
Value added tax id. number:
DE 145 339 206
General partner:
Festo Management
Aktiengesellschaft
Registered office: Vienna/Austria
Commercial registry court:
Commercial court Vienna
Register no. FN 303027 d
Management Board:
Dipl.-Ing. Gerhard Borho
Dipl.-Ing. Dr. h.c. Oliver D. Jung (Chairman)
Dr. Ansgar Kriwet
Dr. Frank Melzer
Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Frank Notz
Chairman of the Supervisory Board:
Dr. Friedrich Eichiner
Festo AG & Co. KG

Ruiter Straße 82
73734 Esslingen
GERMANY
Phone +49 711 347-50917
Fax +49 711 34754-50917
elke.schwarzenberger@festo.com
www.festo.com

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Press release 02/2020 Safety Guideline	
	
Guideline for functional safety	
Achieving safety targets with the new brochure from Festo	
	
For all the latest information on safety issues in factory and process automation, look no further than the brochure "Guideline for functional safety” from Festo. The 140-page document explains how production and design engineers can best realise safe machines in factory automation or safe systems in process industries, and how they can successfully implement safety requirements.	

Machines have to be designed in a way that protects people, animals, property and the environment from harm. The objective is to prevent damage of any type. Using safety-related pneumatic and electric components from Festo provides you with the security that safety measures are implemented in line with the EC Machinery Directive.

The "Guidelines for machine and system safety" brochure covers the core questions about safety-related pneumatics and electrical engineering. It provides answers to questions such as 
• Why use safety-related pneumatic and electric components at all?
• How can I identify the risk posed by a machine or interlinked machine to the operator or 
   user?
• Which directives and standards apply?
• Which protective measure are based on these?
• What are the most common protective measures?

This informative guideline can be downloaded free of charge at www.festo.com/safety.

Please refer to:	Festo press photo Safety guideline	
		
Caption:	On the safe side – with Festo’s free of charge brochure “Guideline for functional safety”. (Photo: Festo AG & Co. KG)	

About Festo:
Festo AG is a global player and an independent family-owned company with headquarters in Esslingen am Neckar, Germany. The company supplies pneumatic and electrical automation technology to 300,000 customers of factory and process automation in over 35 industries. The products and services are available in 176 countries. With about 21,200 employees in over 250 branch offices in 61 countries worldwide, Festo achieved a turnover of around €3.2 billion in 2018. Each year around    8 % of this turnover is invested in research and development. 

In this learning company, 1.5 % of turnover is invested in basic and further training. Yet training services are not only provided for Festo's own staff – Festo Didactic SE also supplies basic and further training programmes in the field of automation technology for customers, students and trainees.

Further information:
Press text and photos are also available online at www.festo.com/press.
Or mobile at http://m.festo.com/press.

For queries please contact:
Festo AG & Co. KG
Christopher Haug, Customer Magazine and Technical Press
phone: +49 711-347 4032, E-Mail: christopher.haug@festo.com

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