My name is Frank Latino and I'm a global product manager for Festo in our EA business unit. And today I'd like to talk about the new specifications or features for our VTUX valve terminal, the new valve terminal from Festo. And I'm Mark Walters. I'm the industry segment manager for end of line packaging. And I'm going to talk about some of the applications that this new valve series is equipped for.
So, to start off with on the VTUX. You may notice from the sample or from the demonstration that we have over here different size sub bases within underneath the same valve. So you can get higher flows with the same valve by going with a 10 millimeter or do a 12 millimeter wide sub base.
And that gives the customer some advantages on having only stock one, one valve for different size flows. The VTUX will also, It has, there's a lot of intelligence built into the backplane of the V TUX as well. But maybe from this demonstration I could talk about the pretty standard backplane here.
But we see up here now on the V TUX that's moving around on the end of arm tool or in the actuator. This has a little bit more features in it. So, you see, for example, digital inputs are now combined with the valve. And the light packaging of the VTUX, the polymer design, also with things like digital inputs incorporated, and this is also running off of our, what we call our AP system.
So, the intelligent communications, it all combines as one package with the VTUX that enables customers to really take advantage of, of both central and decentral installations with pneumatics and IO. And maybe you'd like to talk about some of the applications, Mark.
And one of the perfect applications for the VTUX is shown right here. So if you want to zoom in, you can see a traditional valve manifold like this, but a lot of customers are using valves on their end of arm tooling. This is a perfect valve series for that because of its lightweight and also its ability to be decentralized. So what we're showing here is we actually have a vacuum module incorporated into the VTUX valve series.
We also have your inputs right on the VTUX. So you have a very compact, clean design right there. And by the way, the communication is fed off of this.So you could have it decentralized, which is also reducing the weight of your end of arm tool because you don't have that communication node on the valve manifold series itself.
So, this is a perfect application for end of arm tooling.
