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
 

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)

More on fieldbus/Ethernet

 
Servopneumatics integration: maximum power density in automation with valve terminals from Festo

Servopneumatic function integration

  • CPX-CMAX  Controller for up to 8 axes in a servopneumatic positioning system with integrated power and position control
  • CPX-CMPX  Electronic end-position controller Smart Soft Stop for up to 30% faster cycle times
  • CPX-CMIX  Measuring module for recording integrated displacement encoders in drives – with cylinders as sensors two process steps are combined into one!

 

 

Servopneumatics is innovative 

Based on controlled pneumatics, it guarantees maximum power density in automation.

If you use this power density for drives with a displacement encoder, it is possible to use the dynamic response, force and flexibility of pneumatics for many positioning tasks with a positioning accuracy of up to 0.2 mm.

 

Valve terminals from Festo are the only ones that offer you:

  • Motion control in IP65
  • I/Os and valves for the front end 

Areas of application and benefits of servopneumatics

Areas of application

 

  • Production engineering, e.g. flexible and force-controlled pressing of workpieces with a defined force
  • Packaging technology, e.g. repositioning from a conveyor belt to a packaging unit
  • Conveying technology, e.g. in pushing and sorting functions
  • Dosing technology, e.g. in volume filler systems
  • Test engineering, e.g. positioning of testing equipment

 

 

Benefits

 

  • Force and position-controlled pneumatics for variable positioning
  • Up to 30% faster and with 30% less air consumption than standard pneumatics
  • Up to 50% more cost-effective than electrical solutions – and more compact, lighter and sturdier at the same time

 

 

More information

 

Servopneumatic positioning systems