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Several tonnes of sausages are smoked by Bösinger in each batch. The smoke is produced

using beech and pine chips, which are smouldered using special smoke generators.

Star:

What are the challenges when

designing a smoking plant?

Wurster:

Keeping the flavour and col-

our at a consistently high level for

every one of the ten thousand

smoked sausages is an art in itself.

Star:

What about the plant itself?

Wurster:

We need to be able to guar-

antee our customers an extremely

high level of plant availability as well

as a long service life for that plant.

Star:

How does that manifest itself?

Wurster:

Our smoke generators are

designed to run 24 hours a day,

7 days a week for 20 years. (laughs)

Smoking hot

sausages!

Star:

So selecting the right compo-

nents is critical?

Wurster:

Absolutely! That is why we

switched to standard components

from the Festo core product range

across the entire control chain.

Star:

Why?

Wurster:

We believe that Festo’s core

range means reliability. With Festo,

we get everything from a single

source. Including fast spare parts

service and therefore reduced ware-

housing.

Star:

You mean quality down to the

smallest details?

Wurster:

Our customers always say

that nothing is too much trouble when

it comes to sausages. Every detail is

important. We agree and that’s why

we use Festo’s core range of products!

Why Germos GmbH uses Festo ‚ s core product range

Interview

Germos GmbH based in Remshal-

den is a leading manufacturer and

developer of smoke houses.

Bösinger Fleischwaren GmbH is

one of the biggest producers of

original Black Forest ham.

Bernd Wurster,

CEO Germos GmbH

The semi-rotary drive DRRD is an

extraordinary member of the Festo

core product range. This is not just

because it is an award winner (see

page 4: ‘Outstanding pneumatic

innovation’), but also because of the

large choice of flexible variants

which make this product a star

among the stars. Take a look at just

a few of the special application fea-

tures.

The DRRD is available with end-posi-

tion locking, preventing unwanted

movement in the event of a pressure

failure. Or, should you need addi-

tional position sensing, there is also

a variant with which you can detect

the mechanical position directly.

What if you require full drive torque

in the end positions? No problem for

the variant with external shock

absorbers. The DRRD can also be

adapted to many different applica-

tions using internal cushioning vari-

ants.

To further simplify component selec-

tion, DRRD installations are really

easy to plan and configure using

Just a few of the variants of semi-rotary drive DRRD.

One type for all applications

Semi-rotary drive DRRD leaves nothing to be desired

Festo’s perfectly matched valves,

sensors and accessories from the

core product range. It just shows

that a lot of thought has gone into

product design and development

with the customer’s needs in mind!

www.festo.co.za/drrd

Pssst! The com-

ment column

The Oscar goes to ...

Every spring, film buffs and lovers of

glitz and glamour turn their attention

to Hollywood, where the year’s best

movie performances are honoured at

the Oscars, including for “Best Sup-

porting Actor”. This is the actor who

makes an important contribution to

the film as a whole. In German, the

meaning of ‘supporting actor’ is down-

played by its translation as “Neben-

rolle”, which literally means “second-

ary role”. This clearly diminishes its

importance.

Are secondary roles a minor matter?

We all know that there is no such

thing as a secondary role when it

comes to successful teamwork. Imag-

ine if the design engineer of an auto-

mation solution cared less about

selecting the mounting components,

tubing and cables than he did about

the drive section. We all know what

the result of that would be. An unsta-

ble process and a system that doesn’t

work. In other words, a whole heap of

problems. The same is true every-

where. Our entire life is influenced by

this principle.

The devil is in the detail

Wherever we look - in our immediate

surroundings, in our place of work, in

everything we do - Nothing is unim-

portant. Nothing is without conse-

quence. There are no secondary roles.

The musings of A.K. Stahl

Smart, cost

effective swivelling

Semi-rotary drive DRVS

Seven sizes

Compact design

Attractive price

www.festo.co.za/drvs

ADN, ADVC, DSBC, DFM and DRRD.

These are the drives of the Festo core

product range, and they all do pretty

much the same thing – advance and

retract a piston, back and forth.

But something has changed in the last

few years. Thanks to more sophisti-

cated sensors and more intelligent

automation technology, drives today

have application ranges that would

Sensors opening up new possibilities

Sensor from the SDAT series on a standard

DSBC cylinder.

tions where welding plays a role. The

ability to output the position data via

IO-Link with the SDAT sensor, opens up

a host of new possibilities and applica-

tion approaches.

As development and innovation contin-

ues, you can expect to see many more

benefits in the future. Cylinders are no

longer just tough and durable drives,

they can now be applied in sensitive

environments too.

not have been achievable just a few

years ago. With sensors from Festo’s

SDAT series, it is possible to identify

piston positions.

Applications such as filling and bond-

ing (i.e. processes that involve the

precise measurement of liquid media),

can thus be monitored. The same

applies to processes for bending,

pressing, screwing or other applica-