Festo’s automation portfolio delivers solutions that help manufacturers increase productivity, flexibility and reliability while reducing lifecycle costs. Central to this portfolio is Festo Automation Experience, a unified automation platform that combines modern control technology and industrial intelligence to meet the needs of today’s smart production systems.

In this edition of The Road to the Indaba, the spotlight turns to one of South Africa’s leading futurists and technology strategists, and a key contributor to the Africa Automation Indaba 2026.

With ifm’s remote monitoring solution, you can visualise the condition of the submersible pumps in your sewage plant and diagnose issues before they become serious problems.

ABB is advancing its Mission to Zero programme, demonstrating how onsite renewable energy, electrification and digital energy management can deliver meaningful emissions reductions while strengthening energy resilience.

AMI’s Model 789 OEM CW and pulsed laser diode driver is a highly efficient current-regulated buck converter that will provide a programmable current to a floating laser emitter diode load.

Motivair by Schneider Electric has introduced a new, industry-leading 2,5 MW coolant distribution unit designed to cool high-density data centres reliably and at scale.

Trafo Power Solutions has designed and supplied a robust skid-mounted transformer solution for an opencast mine in Queensland.

One only has to briefly page through the annals of our industrial history to come across truly hair-raising stories of safety systems failing or underperforming with catastrophic repercussions. Fortunately, industrial safety in the last few decades has undergone some truly profound development.