利用受控气动元件实现精巧控制

这项新技术拓宽了气动技术领域

在受控气动元件中,Festo 将比例技术、传感器和控制算法整合起来,形成一个控制回路。这项技术为气动系统在压力、流量和运动方面开辟了全新的应用领域,同时也让传统的生产流程变得更加高效。通过高精度的压电阀进行精准计量,可以减少高达 50% 的压缩空气消耗量。归功于 Festo 开发的精妙算法,现在只需输入几个参数,闭环控制就可以开始运行。

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尽可能提高过程可靠性,提高企业竞争力

  • 通过数据的可追溯性,在压力、流量和移动方面对生产过程进行准确和可重复的控制。
  • 将快速和灵活的控制与高度动态的位置相关力和位移曲线有力结合。
  • 采用数字化的气动功能,让操作更加安全。
  • 无论在新的还是已经引入的生产流程中,它都能够有效提高工件加工的工艺可靠性和质量。

简单的调试和操作

  • 化繁为简。例如可通过数字控制终端 VTEM App,在一个硬件中实现多通道控制。
  • 由于预先形成了闭合控制回路,调试和首次运行都能取得出色的结果。
  • 这套系统会对应用参数持续检查,确保在运行过程中参数可立即被调整到设定值。
  • 通过预设实现快速格式变更。

经济的和可持续的生产流程

  • 从头对压缩空气进行有针对性的计量,带来更大的节能潜力。
  • 它可确定每个工作步骤的最小压缩空气需求,以尽可能低的能源消耗获得出色的性能。
  • 通过对元件进行状态分析、预测性维护和早期泄漏检测,实现了正能量平衡。

更简单、更安全、更快速、更精确、更有效——总之,更经济!

Typical application areas for Controlled Pneumatics

Uniform web tension for reliable processes

Whether yarns and threads, film or paper, Controlled Pneumatics ensures uniform web tension with high dynamics and precision. The extremely sensitive pressure control compensates for fluctuations and takes kinetic energy into account. Your process reliability will be significantly improved. See for yourself how it works!

High-precision surface processing

Thanks to the dynamic and flexible surface pressure throughout the entire grinding, brushing or polishing process, you get an optimum result, even with different workpieces or material combinations. The precisely adjustable pressure makes high-precision surface processing possible, even for wafer polishing applications. With software and presets that can be duplicated, set-up times are short – and there is just one piece of hardware.

Flexible gripping without retooling

More time for production: Controlled Pneumatics makes gripper changes superfluous, while pre-sets ensure fast commissioning, and pre-positioning with the Motion Terminal allows higher packing density. The digital gripping force control allows the gripper to be adapted quickly, easily and flexibly to a wide range of requirements, whether for inside/outside gripping or according to weight and material. Also ideal for end-of-arm solutions for robots.

Accurate dispensing or pumping using pressure

Whether ink, adhesives or liquids for testing and analysis, with Controlled Pneumatics, liquids can be dispensed extremely precisely and according to an individual recipe. This is not possible with either electric automation or standard pneumatics.

Precisely timed blowing of PET bottles

An elastomer is placed in a mould at high pressure. To ensure the form is correct, the blowing process must take place quickly, otherwise the material will cool down. The precise pressure control and the high repeat accuracy with Controlled Pneumatics ensure a very economical and safe process.

Precisely controlling diaphragm pumps

When liquids need to be controlled in line with requirements, high control dynamics and good control characteristics are needed, even in the low pressure range. The moving coil actuator in the proportional pressure regulator VPPI is particularly well-suited to this application.

Economical use of inert gas

Inert gases are used to protect products such as food or wafers from oxidation, but also to ensure clean contours during laser cutting. This requires very precise, stable and linear flow behaviour without hysteresis, as well as a high repeat accuracy of the setpoint value.