Industrial Pneumatics

What Will You Learn?

• Explain how compressed air is generated, stored, dried and distributed in an industrial plant.
• Select and set up a filter-regulator-lubricator (FRL) air service unit for clean, regulated, lubricated air.
• Describe the construction and operation of single-acting and double-acting cylinders and rotary actuators.
• Identify and apply directional control valves (3/2, 5/2) and ancillary valves (flow control, shuttle, twin-pressure, quick-exhaust).
• Interpret and draw pneumatic circuit diagrams using ISO 1219-1 graphic symbols.
• Construct and tune single- and double-acting cylinder circuits, including meter-in and meter-out speed control.
• Design simple multi-cylinder sequencing circuits using the cascade method.
• Carry out planned maintenance, detect and quantify air leaks, and troubleshoot pneumatic faults systematically.
• Apply compressed-air safety precautions per ISO 4414 and recognised workshop practice.

Requirements

• None compulsory, though this Level 3 course assumes basic workshop safety and hand-tool competence.
• Familiarity with the gas laws and basic physics of pressure and force is helpful (covered in Level 1 Physics).
• Access to a pneumatic training panel (e.g. Festo Didactic or Amatrol) with a compressor, FRL unit, cylinders and 3/2 and 5/2 valves.
• A circuit-simulation package such as Festo FluidSIM for the design and simulation classwork.