Your Authorized Festo Distributor
Automation for a world in motion
As a trusted Festo distributor, Power/mation brings world-class industrial automation technologies to manufacturers across Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, and the greater Upper Midwest. From precision pneumatics to advanced electric motion systems, our team helps you apply Festo’s automation expertise to your toughest production challenges. Whether you’re filling beverages, automating pharmaceutical dosing, improving quality, or driving sustainability initiatives, Festo’s proven motion control components give you the performance and reliability your operation depends on.
Global reach and reliable access driven by Festo’s extensive international network
Global strength, midwestern focus
Here in the U.S., Festo reinforces that commitment with a new, state-of-the-art Regional Service Center in Mason, Ohio. This 200,000-square-foot facility brings logistics, production, purchasing, and engineering together under one roof to streamline availability and boost reliability. Its central location and optimized operations mean faster turnaround times, exceptional delivery performance, and a supply chain you can count on, ensuring you get the right Festo components exactly when you need them.
Smart pneumatics & digital motion control
Products in this category bring intelligence directly to the point of motion, enabling predictive performance, faster commissioning, reduced air consumption, and dramatically simplified system architectures. For OEMs and end users alike, Festo’s smart pneumatic platforms open the door to scalable, reconfigurable, and future-ready automation, perfectly aligned with the growing demand for digitalized manufacturing across the Midwest and beyond.
Advancing automation on the industry’s biggest stages
Festo plays a prominent role at leading innovation-driven trade shows such as Automate, where they showcase the newest breakthroughs in smart pneumatics, electric motion, and digital automation technology. Their presence at these events reflects a continued commitment to collaboration, education, and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in modern manufacturing. By engaging directly with OEMs, end users, and system integrators, Festo helps shape the future of automation, bringing forward the ideas, solutions, and technologies that will power the next generation of productivity.
Air Preparation
This modular and modern product line offers numerous options, features, and sizes to meet various needs. Our safety valves, designed to ensure reliable performance, meet both PLd and PLe standards, providing enhanced safety in your applications.
Valves & Manifolds
Power/mation provides a comprehensive range of pneumatic valves and manifolds, from small microvalves to large industrial flow solutions. Our valves are available with direct wiring, multi-pin, or fieldbus connectivity.
Cylinders & Actuators
Our pneumatic actuators and cylinders are available in various bore sizes and stroke lengths, with diverse styles, types, and designs to suit your needs. Featuring patented PPS self-adjusting cushions, these actuators provide smooth and precise operation.
Power/mation support
Power/mation supports you with end-to-end guidance, from selecting the right pneumatic cylinders, valves, and FRLs, to implementing electric actuators, servo drives, and complete handling systems. Our engineers and sales specialists work alongside you to ensure every Festo solution is applied correctly, integrated efficiently, and aligned with your long-term production goals.
With more than a century of innovation behind them, Festo continues to set the standard for smart, efficient automation. And with Power/mation as your local partner, you gain the expertise, inventory access, and regional support needed to keep your plant running at peak performance.
Why Festo + Power/mation
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Pneumatic applications across key industries
Festo pneumatic technology delivers
Fit for nearly any industry where automation is needed, Festo pneumatic technology delivers a rare combination of flexibility, reliability, and engineering depth. Designed to withstand the demanding environments of heavy-duty manufacturing, these components offer robust performance, long service life, and the consistency required on fast-paced production lines. At the same time, Festo’s precision-engineered cylinders, valves, and air preparation systems excel in delicate, high-accuracy applications where even the smallest variations in force, speed, or motion can impact product quality. This adaptability allows OEMs and end users across packaging, medical devices, food and beverage, water treatment, process industries, assembly, and testing environments to confidently build pneumatic systems that meet the exact needs of their operation, whether the goal is maximum throughput, gentle handling, repeatable positioning, or long-term operational efficiency.
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Training & Events
Power/mation regularly hosts hands-on labs, lunch-and-learns, and virtual sessions featuring Festo technologies. Join us to see live demos, ask application questions, and meet our technical team.
Power/mation delivers more than components, we provide engineering support, application guidance, system design expertise, and access to world-class technology from Festo and a full ecosystem of complementary suppliers. Together, we help you build pneumatic systems that are faster, smarter, more efficient, and more reliable.
Corporate Headquarters
St Paul, MN
Toll-Free: (800) 843-9859
Office: (651) 605-3300
Fax: (651) 605-4400
1310 Energy Ln,
St Paul, MN 55108
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Festo Specialist
Lance Waffensmith
Business Development Manager – Pneumatics and Motion Control
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