Spotlight on Festo Canada: Shop Lab Automation Parts at E.B. Horsman & Son

When it comes to electrical products, we offer much more than the basics. That’s why we partner with innovative suppliers like Festo Canada to provide a unique line of life sciences products that support laboratory automation systems and microliquid handling solutions.

As a global leader in developing lab automation systems, Festo Canada’s mission is to advance human health through automation. Founded in Germany in 1925, the company has a long history of providing reliable and high-quality automation solutions to a wide range of industries. 

For the life sciences sector in particular, Festo Canada offers a wide range of products and solutions for designing, configuring, and automating complex lab workflows, and for transporting samples and specimens.

Lab automation combines technology with automated processes to streamline workflows. The goal of lab automation is to increase efficiency, productivity, and accuracy while reducing the potential for human error.Lab automation systems range from simple, standalone devices to complex, fully integrated systems that manage multiple processes simultaneously. The latter includes robotic liquid handling systems, high-throughput screening platforms, and laboratory information-management systems.

Laboratory automation can make your life simpler in a few key ways: 

• Improved efficiency: Automated systems can perform tasks faster and more accurately, saving time and reducing the risk of errors.
• Increased throughput: Automated systems work around the clock, increasing the number of samples processed during a specific time period.
• Standardization: Automated systems perform tasks consistently and precisely, improving the quality of results.
• Improved data management: Automating data collection and analysis reduces the risk of errors, and improves the data’s accuracy and reliability.
• Cost savings: Although the initial cost of investing in automation can be high, lab automation saves you dollars in the long-term. The ongoing costs of maintaining and operating these systems can be much lower than hiring and training staff.

Festo Canada is an outstanding leader in the life sciences field, offering more than 30,000 products for a wide range of industries. 

With Festo Canada’s products, you can:

• Customize your solutions: Festo Canada’s laboratory automation systems products are easy to customize to meet the specific needs of individual labs. 
• Improve your workflows: Automating repetitive and time-consuming tasks can help improve the efficiency of lab workflows. This increases throughput, reduces time needed to complete experiments and tests, and frees up staff to focus on more complex tasks.
• Enhance your accuracy and precision: Festo Canada’s products help ensure that lab results are accurate and reliable.
• Reduce your project costs: Leveraging a global supply chain passes economies of scale on to you.
• Reduce risk: All Festo Canada products must pass qualification tests before they hit the market.
• Maintain quality: Each Festo Canada product undergoes 100% end-line testing and must meet ISO standards before you receive it.
• Access ongoing expertise and support: The company’s team of experts provides guidance and support throughout the entire process, from design and installation to training and maintenance.
• Support the environment: Committed to sustainability, the company offers lab automation solutions that reduce energy consumption and minimize waste.

Festo Canada offers a wide range of laboratory automation systems products for life sciences. Here are a few of their leading systems:

• Automation System CPX-AP-I: This reliable and easy-to-maintain modular control system features a compact design and is highly customizable, making it ideal for use in complex lab workflows.
• Electric Linear Guided Slide (ELGS): High-precision, compact, and ideal for use in laboratory automation systems. The ELGS is also highly reliable and easy to maintain, reducing downtime and ensuring efficiency.
• Handling Guide Online: This powerful software tool designs and configures complex laboratory automation workflows. It provides real-time feedback on the system’s performance, and is highly customizable.

Festo Canada also offers microliquid handling solutions, including automated liquid handling systems, and components designed to improve accuracy, precision, and throughput of lab workflows.

E.B. Horsman & Son carries a wide range of Festo Canada’s lab automation parts, including valves, sensors, fittings, tubing, control units, cables, and more. You can also learn about the importance of clean, compressed air in the Festo Guide to Air Compressor Regulators on our website.

Have questions? Our Automation, Industrial Controls, and Motion team can help. Contact us today to get the Festo lab automation parts you need!