Festo Features a Robust Suite of Pneumatic Safety Solutions at Automation Fair

ISLANDIA, N.Y. - Nov. 18, 2024 - Festo is introducing at Automation Fair an innovative suite of safety products, including its new CIP safety module, that ensures the safe operation of pneumatic systems and lowers the risk of injury and system and product damage. Festo Automation Fair Booth #406, Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, Calif., Nov. 18-21.

Festo pneumatic safety solutions are compatible with the top industrial Ethernet protocols–EtherNET/IP, PROFITNET and EtherCAT–which gives them near universal application.

Three additional safety solutions in the suite

Festo’s new flagship valve terminal, the VTUX, has been designed with safety in mind. VTUX valves feature negative overlap spools that allow for safe exhausting of compressed air in case a valve spool is in an indeterminate position. Festo will be incorporating additional safety features as the platform matures. 

For those in the automotive industry that use safe I/O blocks, such as Allen-Bradley ArmorBlock Guard I/O modules, Festo offers its CPX platform with VTSA-F-CB valve terminal. This solution delivers three safe zones controlled by an external safety controller. The VTSA-F-CB offers up to a CAT3, Ple and SIL3 safety level for safe-switch-off and prevented-unexpected startup. It also offers soft start/quick exhaust options.

Didactic distributed control system and PLC training tools exhibited

Festo Didactic, the training arm of Festo, develops hands-on training systems for post-secondary engineering labs and customer-based customized training. Didactic is also a leader in the mechatronic apprenticeship movement in North America.

At Automation Fair, Didactic shows its 3531 Distributed Control System (DCS) hands-on learning system. This learning system replicates process applications across a range of industries, including water and wastewater, oil refining, petrochemical and food processing.

This learning tool features the Rockwell Automation PlantPAx DCS system and simulates control scenarios, including temperature, pressure, flow, level, basic and advanced regulatory control, complex process control loops and cybersecurity practices. Didactic also features at Automation Fair advanced hands-on PLC and variable-frequency drive training systems.

About Festo U.S.

Festo is a leading manufacturer of pneumatic and electromechanical systems, components and controls for process and industrial automation. For more than 50 years in the U.S., Festo Corporation has continuously elevated the state of manufacturing with innovations and optimized motion control solutions that deliver higher performing, more profitable automated manufacturing and processing equipment. Through advanced technical and industrial education, Festo Didactic Learning Systems and its partners prepare workers for current and future manufacturing technologies.