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Valve terminals: the automation platform
of the 21st century

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Big trend: function integration on valve terminals

Function integration means increased productivity and reduced installation

Electrical components: up to 512 digital/analogue I/O, temperature and pressure sensors
Pneumatics: up to 128 valves
Proportional pneumatics: up to eight pressure regulators on the bus
Servopneumatics: positioning and soft stop for up to eight axes
Motion control: electrical drives, synchronous/asynchronous/2.5 D interpolation
Safety engineering: press valves, special valves and start-up pressurisation

Supplementary information

Valve terminals – the benefit for automation

Valve terminal system overview

More than 20 fieldbus and Ethernet protocols:

PROFIBUS and PROFINET

DeviceNet and Ethernet/IP

CANopen, Modbus TCP and EtherCAT

AS-interface

Simple diagnostics and visualisation

e.g. via FDT/DTM (Profibus)
or OPC server (Ethernet)

Reduce costs effectively

"Valve terminals are an effective way to reduce your total cost of ownership in practice – thanks to electric and pneumatic function integration. Now, in addition to this, motion control is also integrated. The result is reduced system costs by up to 20%, and in some cases by as much as 60%"

Examples:

20% reduction in system costs, thanks to a single order and the large reduction in the number of single parts
60% less time spent on assembly, leading to a shorter time to market

Shorter commissioning times thanks to Festo Plug & Work ©: Easier parameterisation due to uniform interfaces and minimised sources of error via complete integration.

Enhanced machine performance means up to ...

30% shorter cycle times thanks to Smart Soft Stop
50% reduction in air consumption and
30% shorter cycle times thanks to subordinate, decentralised installation concepts

All in all, reduced total cost of ownership (TCO)

Function	Time exposure conventional [min]	Time exposure integrated [min]
Regulator MS-Series	10	1
Pressure sensor SDE1	10	1
Proportional-pressure regulator VPPM	10	1
Emergency-stop	5	5
Valve terminal small	5	5
Time before / after	40	13