Festo has launched the world’s first fieldbus-controlled proportional valve regulator that mounts directly on a valve manifold. This fully-integrated approach offers unprecedented control flexibility and conveys numerous cost-saving advantages, including reduced parts-count, simplified installation and maintenance, less wiring and powerful remote diagnostics. The new VPPM-MPA proportional pressure regulator provides design engineers with an exceptionally easy and precise means of varying the pressure of air supplied, via the valve manifold, to pneumatic actuators, facilitating accurate control of speed, force, pressure and torque.