Comatrol and Famic Offer Hydraulic Design Software

Comatrol has collaborated with Famic Technologies to offer v2.0 of its Easyvalve hydraulic manifold circuit design software, and a valve catalogue for Automation Studio design and simulation software. Built upon the Automation Studio Live technology, Comatrol's Easyvalve 2.0 provides a streamlined custom HIC development process from the customer to the Comatrol engineer.

Easyvalve captures technical, commercial and application requirements to accurately document and communicate the custom HIC needs, allowing customers to get exactly what they want from the first drawing, reducing the prototype cycle time by as much as half. Easyvalve's intuitive user interface allows a customer to create a hydraulic circuit schematic by dragging and dropping from Comatrol's complete digital library of cartridge valves, Cetop valves and accessories.

Easyvalve 2.0 users can quickly select and configure the products, ports and machining options needed and configure all selected items by using drop-down component selection. The software assists users in making optimal technical versus pricing decisions with information available in the component specifications page of each item, including the valve catalogue pages.

Easyvalve 2.0 can capture customer, technical, and HIC material information in the project information view, and capture customer-critical layout information in the manifold view. Outputs include a project file that stores all work into one document (.HICS), a project summary, a schematic in DXF format, and Automation Studio output (.HIX) to support customer simulation needs. Releasing Comatrol's valve catalogue for Automation Studio is said to make hydraulic system design even easier for the company's customers.

They will be able to design hydraulic circuits more quickly and efficiently by allowing them to create and validate, by functional simulation using Automation Studio, product performance and compatibility with other system components prior to block machining. More than 500 Comatrol components are included in the catalogue.

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