A typical commercial vehicle air braking system requires, at minimum, around a dozen core pneumatic valves to meet baseline regulatory standards. And these days, there’s no “typical” air brake system ...

Festo recently introduced the manually operated VHEF and the mechanically operated VMEF pneumatic valves. These small, durable, and versatile valves are core Festo products and guaranteed to ship ...

Identify the forces that act on closure components and actuators. Describe how these forces work in the positioning of closure components. Prepare equations required to determine an actuator (i.e.

Optimizing industrial pneumatics can reduce plant energy consumption. • Properly sized components are the first step to efficient systems. • Supplying actuators with more pressure than needed wastes ...

Distributed control can cut system reaction time by 95%. DeviceNet is a workhorse communications network with many fine capabilities, but it sometimes has limitations when systems have a large number ...

A worksheet that calculates control valve installed gain can be part of any control valve selection process. For many years, the author has used, and promoted the use of, control valve installed flow ...