Festo’s new Pneumatic Essentials program ensures quicker delivery of components

Pneumatic Essentials is a one-stop-shop for fundamental components such as this mini slide, proximity switch, guided drive, and compact cylinder.

To spur faster delivery of guaranteed in-stock pneumatic parts and manufacture more compact components for today’s small-footprint, energy-efficient machinery, Festo Canada recently launched the Pneumatic Essentials program. This ambitious global initiative will streamline ordering processes with competitive pricing, guaranteed availability, shorter delivery times, and innovative design for 16 fundamental pneumatic components.

Pneumatic Essentials is a one-stop shop for the parts that fit most common pneumatic applications – ensuring that customers get quality components that boost equipment performance, reduce waste, and minimize downtime.

A robust supply chain

Clients get superior service for parts required for air preparation, high-wear polyurethane tubing, one-way flow-control valves, high-flow valves for normal and harsh environments, self-teaching proximity switches, mini slides, guided drives, direct-interchangeability ANSI NFPA cylinders, and round or compact cylinders.

With this program, North American customers get shorter delivery times for catalog and customized Essentials parts from Festo’s Global Production Center in Mason, OH. Pneumatic Essentials is the result of substantial time, energy, and resources invested into augmenting manufacturing and logistics to ensure a robust supply chain. Festo has not just rebranded existing products; it also identified major solutions that would benefit from upgrades and developed new manufacturing lines for clients with new designs. The award-winning SDBT-MSX proximity sensor, for instance, is the world’s first programmable proximity switch with automatic switching point setting.

The Essentials program offers smaller, lighter components that benefit customers with reduced footprint and energy efficiency. For example, the DGST pneumatic mini slide is one of the most compact units available. Festo machines this slide and yoke plate from a single piece of aluminum, which ensures low torsion and accurate alignment.

Also available is the ADN-S, a new ultra-compact, double-acting cylinder, which is 36 per cent shorter and 20 per cent lighter than competing units. The DSNU-S round-body metric cylinder has the same bore and stroke as the DSNU, its ISO equivalent, but is up to 40 per cent slimmer, 35 millimetres shorter, 50 per cent lighter, and the perfect option for applications in confined spaces.

For more information, contact Festo.

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