Authored by: Sachin Kambli Product Manager Festo Corp. Hauppauge, N.Y. Edited by Kenneth J. Korane Key Points: •Preventing leaks in pneumatic circuits can cut energy costs by more than 40%.

You see a lot of pneumatic actuators in industrial automation, and for good reason. They’re simple, powerful, reliable, and above all, cheap. Online sources and fluid-power suppliers carry a … ...

Simple control tasks can be candidates for pneumatic, electropneumatic, and hybrid pneumatic controls. Purely pneumatic controls must be used in certain cases, as in the explosive environment ...