To start improving overall pneumatics efficiency, the first place to start is always the compressor room - the place where the larger horsepower motors and biggest energy users reside. Durability results in assemblies capable of attaining millions of valve cycles and actuations, while being paired with monitoring technologies that support streamlined preventive maintenance programs in many facilities. These innovations allow designers to focus on compact machine footprints and connectivity while retaining a focus on plant savings. Component lubrication has all but been eliminated.

Actuators are lightweight, incorporate position feedback and a wider range of applications. Air preparation encompasses full-featured assemblies that ensure efficiency, copious functionality and safety. What’s replaced them are a sleeker, more energy efficient and aesthetically pleasing means to deliver air to automated processes.Įfficiency-focused demand vis-à-vis automated machinery has impacted valves, resulting in less weight, smaller size and power savings. While the traditional designs of the past were useful and effective, the days of using the air control valve as a step stool to reach higher on the machine are gone.

Pneumatic actuators used up large amounts of machine real estate (although they did have a calming hiss to them, ensuring that compressed air was present and ready for work). Air preparation was exceptionally oversized, and valving was placed on sub-bases the size of bricks and weighing more.

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