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News Release from: Festo | Subject: VTSA valve terminal
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 03 January 2008
Valve terminal is highly configurable
A highly flexible valve terminal permits any combination of valves and regulator modules and has advanced industrial Ethernet and fieldbus-based diagnostic capabilities.
Festo has launched a highly configurable valve terminal that offers major cost-saving advantages to automation designers and builders Builders can now standardise on fewer components to reduce spares inventory and to lower service costs
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 13 Apr 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The VTSA valve terminal can accommodate up to 32 ISO standard 18mm, 26mm and 42mm valves, and allows any combination of these valves to be mounted on the same manifold.
The VTSA valve terminal is supplied as a fully assembled and pre-tested unit, enabling users to effectively replace an entire control panel via a single order, said Festo to manufacturingtalk.com.
The valve terminal is fully compliant with the new ISO 15407-2 standard, which defines the mounting interface and electrical connections for five-port pneumatic directional control valves.
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The standard was developed to harmonise the platform for VDMA standard 01 and 02 sized valves, which are now known as 26mm and 18mm valves.
* All metal sub-base modules - the VTSA valve terminals feature robust, all metal sub-base modules, and employ generously proportioned air ducts designed to maximise flow rate.
Festo offers a wide range of compatible 5/3, 5/2 and dual 3/2 valves, all of which have an operating pressure range of -0.9 to +10 bar.
The valves are available in 18mm, 26mm and 42mm sizes, with respective flow rates of 550 litres/min, 1100 litres/min and 1500 litres/min.
All three valve series offer a choice of 24V DC and 110V AC solenoids for maximum applications flexibility.
They can be configured so that their breathing ports vent into the exhaust port instead of to atmosphere, making them ideal for use in clean air environments such as food processing plants.
* Valvs can be orientated - a novel feature of the VTSA valve terminal is that it allows the valves to be oriented so that all pneumatic and electrical connections are accessed from one side of the unit.
This leads to a very clean installation, which requires less physical space and simplifies servicing.
Furthermore, the valves all feature front-panel LEDs and the pressure regulators are equipped with swivelling pressure gauges, making it easy for operators to see the overall system status from a single viewpoint.
The VTSA valve terminal can have individual electrical connections, multipin connection or can integrate directly with Festo's CPX terminal controller.
The controller is a modular, high functionality hub with an Ethernet interface and extensive fieldbus protocol support.
The controller enables advanced remote diagnostics capabilities to be easily incorporated into factory-wide local area networks, to provide centralised control and monitoring of individual valve performance.
Local diagnostics can either be performed using the valves' front panel LEDs, or via Festo's novel CPX-MMI handheld control unit.
* About Festo - Festo manufactures pneumatic and electrical components and systems for automating industrial processes.
The company has an annual turnover in excess of EUR 1.4 billion, and has facilities in 176 countries around the world.
Festo operates an aggressive R and D programme, holds over 2,800 worldwide patents, and introduces about 100 innovative new products to the market every year. Request a free brochure from Festo ...
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