Digital Pneumatics: Breakthrough In Fingerboard Control, Safety, Reliability

The advent of digital pneumatics promises to change how machines and processes are designed and managed throughout the industrial world. It’s a technological disrupter with exciting potential applications in oil and gas exploration and production. This whitepaper describes a first application: using digital pneumatics to control and monitor latch opening on the fingerboard of an oil exploration platform. The benefits include cost and time savings in installation, a reduced safety risk for employees, lower energy cost and increased reliability through preventive maintenance.

This whitepaper includes information on:

• Digital pneumatics and what it means to industry
• Fingerboard operations – the conventional and digitally managed approaches
• Festo Motion Terminal VTEM – how it works
• Benefits of wire-free, monitored fingerboard operations
• Other benefits of VTEM for oil and gas drilling platforms