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Many concepts from the past have been overtaken by the fourth industrial revolution: business models, partnerships, customer interfaces, value chains, and even the traditional automation pyramid – all are undergoing huge change. As an innovator and trendsetter in fieldbus technology, Festo will make a major contribution to reshaping the future with new concepts for Industry 4.0.

Your objective is maximum efficiency when planning, installing and operating municipal water and wastewater treatment plants. Thanks to our integrated automation solutions, smart tools and personal support during all project phases, you always reach your objective – worldwide.

The availability of water of appropriate quality is a constantly growing challenge for the whole of humanity. Increasing bottlenecks in energy supply, sinking groundwater levels and growing contamination of global water resources are further reducing the availability of this vital commodity.

For years, Festo has been developing process automation solutions for a broad range of industry sectors. By transferring our experience from one industry to another, we take advantage of valuable synergies and create economies of scale.

Be economical! Rely on the most economical, reliable automation technology for water and sewage treatment in the future: pneumatics.

With a population of 2.8 million, Bursa is the fourth biggest city in Turkey and needs approx. 700,000 cubic metres of fresh water every day. In order to optimise the supply of drinking water, the local municipal water company BUSKI recently modernised its water treatment plants. The 28 newly automated filter basins in the Dobruca water treatment plant can treat up to 500,000 cubic metres of water every day – more than two thirds of the city’s drinking water needs.

Energy efficiency and the optimisation of specific production costs are important commercial and business challenges which we must face for a variety of reasons. Energy-efficient technologies are often more expensive than traditional technologies in the investment phase. However, measures to increase efficiency and reduce life cycle costs (LCC) throughout the entire life cycle of a production plant usually pay off.

Smaller batches and different types of product in the same plant – these are the market demands to which more and more manufacturers in

the process industries need to adjust. The answer is plants based on the “Lego principle”. Users can add modules or switch them off in line

with requirements. But this is only possible with modular automation.

MSE6-C2M constantly monitors compressed air consumption, shuts off the compressed air supply after production has stopped for a certain amount of time and prevents the system pressure from falling below a specific stand-by pressure level.

The VTOP is ideal for control applications with positioner and additional instrumentation. The pneumatic extension modules facilitate a complete setup, without tedious searches for components and time consuming installation, and thus greatly simplify maintenance. The new installation concept VTOP with patented, integrated air routing allows you to combine the individual modules you need, and easily retrofit other modules at any time.

Pablo Ruiz, Product Manager for Process Automation at Festo, presents the quarter turn actuator DFPD: an extremely modular and productive all-rounder!

The CMSH provides you with all the benefits of a highly dynamic, low-wear positioning system with high air output and a long service life. You now only need one device for the fast and precise control of actuators, whether large or small, linear or rotary, single- acting or double-acting. Together with the low internal air consumption, this reduces costs. Featuring 2-wire technology, HART communication, condition monitoring functions and a modular system with many variants, the CMSH offers excellent flexibility for a great number of applications.