Biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry

Your challenge Our solution

Safe and reproducible solutions A head start with specific automation solutions
Production technologies for pharmaceuticals are becoming more The engineering services, modules, assemblies and products from
and more complex, and systems are being automated to an ever Festo provide you with answers for the implementation of modular,
greater extent. Requirements stipulated by the regulatory authorities scalable automation concepts for your systems. Whether you produce
are getting stricter. Partners involved in health care systems are active ingredients using biotechnological or chemical processes,
tightening their belts all over the world. Under these circumstances prepare formulations as a contract manufacturer or fill parenterals in
you need partners instead of just suppliers – partners who the clean room, consulting services, energy saving concepts, training
understand your requirements and your business, and who help you and products from Festo offer security, increase your productivity and
manufacture safe, high-quality products at optimized production ensure highly reproducible product quality.
costs.

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Added value from Festo in all phases Engineering Procurement Installation Commissioning Operation, maintenance
of the system’s lifecycle
Productivity and production Everything from a single source. Save time and money. Benefit Immediate, reliable High system availability and
costs are already determined Festo delivers from Festo plug & work through commissioning. Festo supports reliable processes. Festo
during the engineering phase. • products, special and complete • quick and simple on-site you through ensures this with
Our Festo solutions, installation, • reduced complexity without • support for your systems
know-how • advises you so that you can • ranging from standard • FAT certified, ready-to-install losing out on functionality throughout their entire
achieve more efficient pneumatics to ready-to-install, products, thanks to more flexible and service life,
Your solutions and maximized customer-specific solutions, • less time needed for training modular valve terminal • worldwide availability of

advantage standardization,
• saves you time at the
control cabinets and process
valves, and
and validation thanks to
standardization.
technology,
• simple commissioning of
spare parts
• assistance with modernization
engineering stage, • coordinates your international ready-to-install modules, and upgrades,
• supports you in optimum activities with the help of a control cabinets and process • consultation and services for
planning and implementation closely-knit customer service valves, the optimization of processes
• and coordinates all the steps network at 250 locations in • expert training for safe and operating costs.
for you with all partners 176 countries. operation right from the start.
concerned.
• Worldwide, even for cross-
border projects!
Automation potential in the individual process steps

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Inertization of tanks and process Standardization of control Automation and complete Machine automation and Compressed air preparation Pneumatic and electrical automa-
equipment. cabinets for media preparation delivery of process valves. connection to control systems for process valves, actuators tion of filling and packaging
and utilities. by means of valve terminal and processes which come into machines as well
technology. contact with the media. as state of the art handling solu-
tions.
Automation platform components Ready-to-install process valves

Electrical automation platform CPX Pilot valves CPE, VSNx, VOFx Ball valves VZBC and VAPB in pharmaceuticals Hygienic butterfly valves
Automation all the way down to the field level, Decentralized control of pneumatically actuated variants Stainless steel hygienic butterfly valves for
fieldbus nodes, remote I/Os (digital/analogue), process valves, cylinders and other consuming Control of liquid or gaseous media and steam. controlling liquid and gaseous media.
compressed air and gas sensors, motor controllers devices. Applications: ball-type drain valves, steam supply, Applications: control of supply and discharge
and much more. Applications: pneumatic control of butterfly valves compressed air supply, CIP supply for chemical for mixers and homogenizers.
Applications: electrical connection of process and ball valves in chemical systems, explosion reactors.
sensors and position transmitters for process protection zones 2/22 and 1/21, for safety-oriented
valves in fermenters, freeze dryers, chromatographs EMR circuits up to SIL4. Angle seat valve VZXF
and other process equipment. Butterfly valves Control of liquid or gaseous media and steam.
Control of liquid or gaseous media and steam. Applications: steam supply in pharmaceutical
Applications: ultra-clean water and wastewater systems, autoclaves and sterilizers.
Valve terminals VTUG, CPV, MPA treatment, handling of powder and granulates,
Central control of pneumatically actuated process handling exhaust gas at chemical reactors.
valves, cylinders and other consuming devices.
Applications: pneumatic control of diaphragm
valves in fermenters, water treatment systems and
cylinders in packaging machines.

Automation of process valves

Electrical position transmitters DAPZ, SRBF Positioner CMSX
Indication of the position of quarter turn actuators, Positioner for double-acting quarter turn
digital and analogue. actuators, analogue and digital feedback signals.
Applications: position indication for pneumatically Applications: position control for automated
Pneumatic components and compressed air preparation automated ball valves and butterfly valves. butterfly valves, ball valves, bulk goods
deflectors, etc.
Linear drives CRHD, ADN Compressed air preparation, D and MS series
Pneumatic automation in process equipment On-site cleaning of compressed air and Quarter turn actuators DFPB/DAPS
and machines. process air. Pneumatic automation of quarter-turn actuators Linear actuators DFPI, DLP
Applications: moving spray balls in spray dryers, Applications: on-site compressed air preparation (open/close and regulated). Pneumatic automation of linear and quarter-turn
handling technology in filling and packaging for pneumatic consumers, preparation of process Applications: butterfly valves, ball valves, plug actuators (open/close and regulated).
machines. air for direct contact with the product. valves, bulk goods deflectors. Applications: actuated gate valves for dry goods,
ventilation flaps.

Pneumatic tubing and fittings PFAN/PTFE and Proportional pressure regulator VPPM
NPQP, FDA-compliant Pressure and flow control of inert and
Supply and distribution of neutral gases and neutral gases.
process air. Applications: inerting, transferring materials
Applications: distribution of compressed air to from one container to another, pressure
pneumatic drives (cylinders and process valves), blanketing, contact pressure regulation for Ready-to-install solutions
nitrogen supply from bottles. cylinders, controlling process valves.
Complete control cabinets Customized solutions
Applications: pneumatic and electrical control Applications: ready-to-install pneumatic
cabinets for fermenters, chemical reactors and distributors and filter cascades, complete handling
other process equipment. units, racks for media supply in machines.
Head start for you: complete automation systems from a single source ...

Ethernet

Control panel Programmable

logic controller

Fieldbus/Ethernet

Control
Remote I/Os Valve terminal cabinet
Compressed air supply
I/O module
Internal
bus expansion

Valve terminal Position

Analogue input/output for direct field transmitter
connection
Digital input
Diaphragm
valve

Sensors

Digital input/output

Position transmitter Position transmitter

Linear actuator
Quarter turn actuator Quarter turn actuator

Butterfly valve Ball valve

... and innovation through synergies

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For years, Festo has been developing factory and process automation We are the engineers of productivity
solutions for a broad range of industry sectors. By transferring There are four outstanding characteristics with which we
experience and innovations from one industry to another, we take successfully implement your automation tasks and provide
advantage of valuable synergies and create economies of scale. you with increased productivity: reliability, efficiency, simplicity
You too can profit from our worldwide network of know-how, because and expertise. These make us what we are for you: engineers
it enables us to develop and implement customized concepts for your of productivity.
plant quickly and economically.

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