Festo introduced a ball valve assembly program designed to deliver a host of process application benefits. This new process-based program provides customers with a high-quality solution across multiple plant locations and ensures Festo support.
Festo now assembles, warrants, and supports ready-to-install ball valve assemblies that can include the ball valve, Namur solenoid, actuator, positioner and sensor. Until now, most ball valve assemblies have been locally sourced and built for each plant. This leads to variations in part numbers, components, quality, support, and higher than needed inventory levels. Consistency plant-to-plant is an issue for large multi-national corporations and major OEMs. The new Festo program ensures consistency, especially for the components, that allow precise control of the ball valve – Namur solenoid, actuator, positioner and sensor. “We found Festo would streamline operations and improve process control by assembling and supporting ball valve assemblies that had consistency in the actuation, communication, and sensing parts of the assembly”, said Craig Correia, process automation industry manager for Festo.
All of the components in this Festo program meet ISO Namur and VDE standards. Because these components are all international standards based, Festo can include non-Festo components that meet international standards on request for higher flexibility.