COMPAMED 2020

In medical practices, mobile analytical devices featuring "lab-on-a-chip" technology enable fast testing to identify pathogens in the case of bacterial or viral diseases. In order to lighten the load of manufacturers of these devices for in vitro diagnostics, Festo offers ready-to-install automation solutions, including customer-specific engineering.

From the first day onwards, Festo has taken its social mandate of alleviating the Corona crisis very seriously and has launched several focused support projects, such as the development of an emergency respiratory ventilator, support in the production of protective facemasks and the installation of an emergency hospital. Moreover, the LifeTech business field offers an excellent range of components for laboratory automation and for patient care devices. ...

Diagnostics laboratories are currently faced with the challenge of managing ever greater volumes of samples. The media separated solenoid valve VYKA, the valve control module VAEM and the modular dispense head VTOE from Festo simplify and speed up the processing of samples. When combined with compact kinematics, extremely precise, functional system solutions are easy to implement.

The media separated solenoid valve VYKA from Festo is suitable for use as a dosing valve for contactless dispensing or as a control valve for continuous flow applications. With a width of just 7 mm, this compact powerhouse doses small quantities very precisely.

Whether in portable oxygen system devices or in bioreactors, the new proportional flow control valve VEMD from Festo provides extremely high control dynamics and costs considerably less than comparable solutions. Thank to piezo technology it requires only minimal space and power consumption.