Controllers Articles
Festo: Reliable and optimised complete solution
From the individual component to the complete automation solution, you’ll find the entire package for process automation at Festo. The portfolio...
Valve User Issue 83
Real-World Benefits of Digital Transformation
A large petroleum refinery off the coast of Wales digitally transformed their operations using Emerson’s TopWorxTM DXP discrete valve controller...
Valve User Issue 79
Emerson’s New Emergency Shutdown Discrete Valve Controller Improves Safety, Uptime in Hazardous Applications: TopWorx DX Partial Stroke Test with HART 7 provides detailed valve assembly data & diagnostics, enabling predictive maintenance & reliable operation.
Emerson has introduced the TopWorx™ DX PSTwith HART® 7. Units provide valuable valve data and diagnostic information, enabling the digital t...
Valve User Issue 74
Hygienic Butterfly Valve Actuation just got easy!
For many years the task of Automating a Stainless Steel Hygienic Butterfly Valve has been somewhat onerous with very little flexibility being made ava...
Valve User Issue 51
Rotork Master Station launched for increased valve actuator control
Rotork’s latest generation of its innovative system for controlling and monitoring valve actuators and plant equipment has been launched.
The Roto...
Valve User Issue 49
Biffi Italia introduces the new CON3000 electric actuator at IVS Bergamo 2019: Innovative electric valve actuation solution display at show
Biffi Italia, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of highperformance valve actuation systems, will introduce ICON3000, the newest release of the ...
Valve User Issue 49
Versatility Meets Design
Modular, resilient, versatile – these are the core properties of the quarter-turn actuator DFPD from Festo. This rack and pinion combination is thus t...
Valve User Issue 49
SmartAct Actuators break the mould when it comes to materials used
At the Smart Actuator Company, we believe in using the best and most applicable materials for the manufacturing of our products.
Have you ever won...
Valve User Issue 49
AVA open new UK Facility following a successful 2018
Following a very successful 2018, AV Actuators (AVA) are opening a new facility here in the UK to allow its next stage of development. AVA has spent t...
Valve User Issue 48
Albion Actuated Valves
Actuation is set to play an increasing role in process industries globally, according to a recent report. Here, Les Littlewood - Sales & Marketing Dir...
Valve User Issue 48
A Valve Operating System for a New Age – Emerson Bettis™ VOS-PAC: Fully engineered and tested, the Bettis VOS-PAC integrates the digital tagging of parts, creating on-demand documentation
Engineering a valve automation system that will provide reliable execution under extreme conditions in the most remote locations is no simple task. To...
Valve User Issue 47
New SmartAct® Small Electric Actuator Launch
Fresh from receiving the Queens Award and National Family Business Championship in 2017, The Smart Actuator Company team has worked hard to bring the ...
Valve User Issue 45
AIV acquires Zenith Supply
AIV, LP, a Houston-based global wholesale distributor of valves and actuators for the oil & gas, power generation, chemical, petrochemical, refining, ...
Valve User Issue 45
Hydravalve (UK) Now Stock WRAS Approved Bronze Ball Valves
Hydravalve’s Process Valves & Actuation catalogue was released on the 8th January and since then are pleased to announce the positive feedback and sup...
Valve User Issue 45
Auma Launches Explosion-Proof Variable Speed Actuators: Electric actuator manufacturer AUMA has launched explosion-proof variable speed valve actuators for use in potentially hazardous environment
The new SAVEx actuators for open-close duty and SARVEx multi-turn actuators for modulating duty, combined with intelligent ACVEx actuator controls, pr...
Valve User Issue 45
J+J Stock Power Genex Products
J+J Automation, a leader in valve actuation solutions in the UK for over 20 years now has stock in Matlock of Power Genex products, the quality South ...
Valve User Issue 45
‘Supply chain agility crucial to capitalise on recovering market’ claims Actuated Solutions: Actuated Solutions Ltd emplore the Oil & Gas sector to embrace agile supply chain practices
In February, a month after Brent crude surpassed the $71 marker for the first time in three years, specialist provider of value automation products, A...
Valve User Issue 44
Challenge of Monitoring Shut Down Valve Condition on Existing and Ageing Assets: Shut down valves perform a vital safety role on many process plants, both onshore and offshore.
They are designed and positioned such that, in the event of a potential problem, they operate to ensure the process is stopped in a way that prevents ...
Valve User Issue 44
ATI Introduces Electro-Hydraulic Control System: Direct mount system for use with linear and quarter-turn hydraulic actuators
Automation Technology (ATI) has introduced an electro-hydraulic control system, adding to its broad range of valve actuators and controls. The product...
Valve User Issue 43
F31K2– Valve Position Sensing with a Global View: Traditionally, limit switch boxes with mechanical, magnetic or inductive contacts are used to detect the position of the valve in valve actuators.
However, open solutions are also gaining in popularity on the market due to their compact design and easy installation. The F31K2 dual inductive senso...
Valve User Issue 43
Take The Stress Out Of Valve Spring Design & Sourcing
Springtech regularly receive enquiries from valve manufacturers and their maintenance networks requesting an engineering review of springs which are p...
Valve User Issue 43
Why Is Compressed Air A Poor Choice? And Not Just For Valve Actuation…
When end users need to decide between pneumatic or electric valve actuation there are many important factors such as cost, speed of operation or physi...
Valve User Issue 43
Efficient Motorized Actuator For Globe & Diaphragm Valves: The new GEMÜ eSyDrive motorized actuator sets new standards in the areas of compact design, speed and accuracy.
Pneumatically operated valves are increasingly being replaced with electric versions and GEMÜ has designed this new actuator as an answer to increasin...
Valve User Issue 43
The Puzzle Solved
The AC Valve Alliance Group is made up of six privately owned, individual companies, each of which is an expert in their own field and built together ...
Valve User Issue 43
Plants based on the Lego principle: modular automation is the answer to volatile markets in process industries
Shorter production runs and increasingly varied requirements from the same plant: these are the market demands which more and more process plant manuf...
Valve User Issue 43