In Controlled Pneumatics, Festo combines proportional technology, sensors and control algorithms to form a control loop. This technology opens up completely new fields of application for pneumatics in terms of pressure, flow rate and motion – and also makes conventional production more efficient. Last but not least, with the high-precision piezo valves, it reduces the consumption of compressed air by up to 50%, as this can be dispensed perfectly. It is very easy now: With the input of a few parameters, the closed-loop control is put into operation thanks to Festo's sophisticated algorithms.
Easier, safer, faster, more precise, more efficient – overall more economical!
Whether yarns and wires, foils or paper: Controlled Pneumatics ensures uniform web tension with high dynamics and precision. The extremely sensitive pressure control compensates for fluctuations and takes kinetic energies into account. You win a significant improvement in process reliability. Check out how it works!
You get an optimal result thanks to the dynamic and flexible surface pressure over the entire machining process when grinding, brushing or polishing – even with different workpieces or material combinations. The precisely adaptable pressure makes high-precision surface processing up to wafer polishing possible. Included: short set-up times thanks to software and duplicatable presets – with just one piece of hardware.
More time for production: Controlled Pneumatics eliminates the need for gripper changes, pre-sets ensure fast commissioning, pre-positioning with the Motion Terminal allows higher packing density. Via the digital gripping force control, the gripper can be quickly, easily and flexibly adapted to a wide range of requirements – whether inside/outside or according to weight and material. Ideal also for end-of-arm solutions for robots.
Whether ink, adhesives or liquids for testing and analysis, with Controlled Pneumatics, liquids can be metered extremely precisely and according to an individual recipe. This is not possible with either electric automation or standard pneumatics.
An elastomer is brought into a mold under high pressure. For correct forming, the blowing process must be completed in a short time, otherwise the material will cool down. Precise pressure control and high repeatability with Controlled Pneumatics ensure a very economical and reliable process.
In order to control liquids according to the respective requirements, you need high control dynamics and very good control properties, even in the lower pressure range. The plunger coil actuators in the proportional pressure regulator VPPI are particularly well suited for this.
Inert gases are used to protect products such as food or wafers from oxidation, but also to ensure a clean contour during laser cutting. Very precise, stable and linear flow behavior without hysteresis is required here – and a high repetition accuracy of the setpoint value.