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Very few environments are as demanding as those on an oil rig. Materials are stressed and corrosion is promoted by water, salt and wind, as well as extreme weather fluctuation. The highly innovative Festo Motion Terminal as well as the state of the art valve terminal VTUG combined with our control cabinets offer reliable and steady solutions for automation of fingerboards under these harsh conditions.

The Motion Terminal VTEM uses the world’s first valve that has its functions controlled by apps. The intelligent technology consisting of pneumatics, sensors, electronics and software enables many motion and monitoring tasks. With the VTEM, you get your system ready for Industry 4.0.

Your formula for success: the perfect combination of motion, pressure and flow rate.

• Use, storage and transport conditions for Festo products
• Standards in pneumatics
• Compressed air preparation
• Operating conditions for valves
• Port designations of pneumatic components to ISO 5599
• Operating conditions for drives
• Pressure/force table and graphBuckling load graph
• Air consumption
• Pneumatics and explosion protection – ATEX
• EC directives/approvals
• Design – Clean room suitability
• Paint-wetting impairment substances and resistance to media
• Corrosion resistance class CRC
• Protection classes according to IEC/EN 60529
• Functional earth – protective earth – PELV
• Spark arresting

Suggestions for the future of your automation. Here you will find real-life applications that can make your company much more productive, and at the same time more energy efficient. They are examples of the variety of reely combinable motions that are possible with the Motion Terminal, including for retrofitting your system. Get ready to be inspired!

Previously being our Focus Product brochure, Festo North America presents our Key Products for North America brochure.  This brochure stars our key product for the year pertinent to the North American Region.

The advent of digital pneumatics promises to change how machines and processes are designed and managed throughout the industrial world. It’s a technological disrupter with exciting potential applications in oil and gas exploration and production.

This white paper provides information on the features and the current roles of conventional mechatronic systems and cyber-physical systems in automation and the benefits offered by CPS across the entire value chain and how they promise a quick return on investment thanks to digital simplicity.

Automation World, August 2016

RSC Mason obtained certification under the ISO 13485:2016 standard on January 24, 2023. This standard sets forth the requirements for a Quality Management System (QMS) in the design and manufacturing of medical devices. To achieve certification, an organization's QMS must successfully pass a third-party Medical Device Single Audit Program (MDSAP) Audit. This certification ensures that Festo can consistently provide medical devices and related services that meet both customer expectations and any relevant regulatory requirements, by demonstrating its ability to implement a QMS. Ultimately, the goal is to generate qualified leads from customers who require products for the production of medical devices.

On/off process valves can be automated in different ways using pneumatics. This white paper looks at automation using an individual valve, a valve terminal and a digital valve terminal, and compares the three actuation methods in terms of:

• Required hardware/components and the installation

effort involved

• Investment costs

• Potential for compressed air savings and increased

energy efficiency

• Diagnostic and maintenance options

• Potential for function integration

• Possible applications in safety-related circuits

• Possible applications in potentially explosive areas

The ongoing need to make process adjustments in modern automation systems opens itself up to unwanted device tampering. This white paper outlines a five-step process to ensure effective, error-free process adjustments of pneumatic components.