From one PLC to another

06 April 2023

On stand T42 in the Drives & Controls Zone at Manufacturing & Engineering Week, Festo will be showing how easy it is to swap from one PLC manufacturer to another when using the Festo CMMT multi-protocol servo and stepper drives, and the versatile new CPX-API/APA distributed I/O and bus driven valve terminal ranges.

Standardised hardware and the ability to work with the industry leading control architectures makes Festo stepper and servo drives, remote I/O and valve terminals a natural choice for machine manufacturers and end-users. Being able to keep 90 percent of the field level hardware the same, and either simply select the preferred bus system through software, dip switches or a header plate, keeps documentation common, maintenance and commissioning familiar, and reduces the variety of ordered or stocked parts to a minimum. Festo's applications engineers are on-hand at the show and in our Customer Applications centre to support your implementations and to help you get up and running fast.