The latest fieldbus-enabled valve islands speed installation and minimise costs

The G3 fieldbus-enabled valve island from ASCO Numatics, offers a number of advantages over conventional valve islands, including reduced wiring costs and faster and easier commissioning and start-up. Built-in diagnostics make it easy to troubleshoot problems - reducing maintenance costs and minimising downtime.

Innovations include SPEEDCON M12 connectors that only need a half-turn to gain a secure connection, so reducing commissioning time and costs. DIP switches, which have been traditionally used for configuration, have been replaced on the G3 by a small graphic display on each module with plain-language messaging. This arrangement places visual status and alarm indication in a clearly visible display area. It involves no programming or extra cost, and requires no training to use. Error messages are generated and cleared automatically. The display's associated pushbuttons allow the user to navigate quickly through intuitive menus for easy and effective troubleshooting.

The G3 features a modular design that simply connects the modules together using easily removable clips and screws, allowing late changes to specifications to be made quickly and easily. This flexibility means that I/O modules can be simply unclipped from the main pneumatic fieldbus valve manifold, relocated and connected back to the main module via a sub-bus cable.

By applying proven technology in innovatively simple ways, the latest G3 valve island from ASCO Numatics (www.numatics.com/G3), is helping end users to deliver greater cost efficiency and wider application opportunities, while considerably improving commissioning, use, and maintenance.