The new EVO solenoid valve range represents the evolution of the very concept of control by Pneumax. The difficulty of finding semiconductors and, more generally, electronic components has given a hard time to many manufacturing sectors over the past three years, causing production slowdowns and delivery delays. The component crisis gave rise to strategies to deal with it, many of them based on the standardisation of control electronics to generate economies of scale and reduce part numbers. This process, which is certainly beneficial for the end customer, must not compromise another very important requirement of the market, which is flexibility of use. In the area of machine tools, particularly special machine tools - where Pneumax is very well established - a primary technological driver, in addition to improved performance, is the ease of reconfiguring the machine as the life cycle of products is getting shorter and shorter, which is why set-up times must be as fast as possible. “The goal that Pneumax achieved by introducing the new PX control electronics,” explains Roberto Rivoltella, Product Manager Control Solutions, “on all of its solenoid valve islands was precisely that of maintaining the benefits of standardisation while combining them with the need to guarantee great flexibility”. In other words, Pneumax has seized the opportunity from a real problem by revising the concept of its electronics and making it available for all of the company's solenoid valve islands, from the most recent 3000 series, to the previous Optyma in all its versions, to the 2700 series designed for the automotive sector. The new version of these solenoid valves, characterised by the initials EVO has therefore the feature of offering a unique communication system based on the new PX electronics. Roberto Rivoltella Product Manager - Control Solutions Pneumax S.p.a. THE EVOLUTION OF CONTROL: WE SPEAK EVO #PRODUCTS & TECHNOLOGIES 10
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