Actuators and Positioners
Actuators and Positioners for Smart Valve Automation
Valve actuators and positioners are essential components in many industrial processes, enabling precise control and automation in valve operation. They also play a pivotal role in regulating fluid/gas flow, maintaining ideal pressure levels, ensuring optimal process conditions, and protecting your personnel.
At Cross Company’s Process Solutions group, we offer a comprehensive range of actuators sourced from industry-leading manufacturers. We bring decades of experience in specifying and sizing critical components like valve actuators and positioners. But we don’t just provide hardware, we design customized automation solutions that enhance the precision, safety, and reliability of your operations.
Quadra-Powr™ Spring Diaphragm Quarter-Turn Actuators
Valv-Powr™ VPVL Series Pneumatic Actuator
MGR Manual Actuators
Cross Valve Automation Brochure
Optimize your process performance. With an industry leading selection of providers, Cross experts can help your team find exactly what valve automation solutions your operation needs. Take a look at our latest valve automation brochure and contact a Cross expert today!
Valve Actuators
Valve actuators open and close a valve without manual intervention. They come in three styles: pneumatic, electric and hydraulic, depending on the available source of power. Selection of the right actuator depends on:
- Needed actuation speed
- How frequently it will actuate
- Cycle life
- Need for a manual override or fail-safe
- Temperature
- Whether the valve is in a hazardous environment or not
Valve Positioners
Valve positioners sit between the process controller and the valve actuator and adjusts the actuator’s position depending on a control signal. A valve positioner allows you to fine tune your process or speed up your response to changes in the process. They can be used for both linear and rotary valves and come in three styles:
- Pneumatic
- Electro-pneumatic
- Digital
Why Partner with Cross for Valve Automation?
Sizing an actuator or selecting a positioner is a technical challenge that requires an understanding of torque requirements, media pressure, and environmental factors. Partnering with the Cross Process Solutions group ensures your automation package is engineered for the long haul.
Tailored Recommendations
We take the time to learn the goals of your specific application before making any recommendations. Whether you need a bare actuator for a simple upgrade or a fully integrated “valve-actuator-positioner” package for a demanding process, our experts ensure every component is matched for compatibility and performance.
Industry-Leading Technology
Through our strategic partnerships with leading brands, we provide access to innovative technologies such as brushless DC motors for electric actuators and vibration-resistant digital positioners. These advancements offer as much as 100 times the cycle life of standard products in specific applications, reducing your total cost of ownership.
Engineering Support
Our team of application specialists and process engineers work as an extension of your team. Whether it’s for sizing calculations to designing customized automation for your specific application, we provide the technical expertise to ensure your facility runs at peak efficiency while meeting production and safety goals.
Offering Solutions From Leading Brands
Automation for Process Control
Actuators provide the necessary force to open and close valves, while positioners accurately control valve positions based on external signals, allowing for seamless integration into automated control systems.
Actuators and positioners enable remote operation of valves, reducing the need for personnel to be physically present in hazardous or remote locations. By automating these valve operations, the need for manual intervention is minimized, leading to consistent and efficient process performance.
Adding actuators and positioners to your process also allows for rapid responses to changing conditions, which can maintain process stability and prevent incidents that can cause injury, damage, or downtime. Further, automating these systems reduces the potential for operator error, which enhances process reliability overall.
Enhanced precision
Remote process control
Increased efficiency
Quick response
Energy savings
Protect Your Process
Nothing can protect your facility from all accidents all the time. But you can have the right equipment in place to prevent the unsafe or risky conditions that cause these accidents in the first place. And the best first step to increasing safety is the right safety equipment. Protect your process, personnel, and equipment with Cross Company.
Why Cross Actuators and Positioners?
At Cross Company, we’re committed to providing high-quality process valves to all of our customers through our strategic partnerships with industry-leading manufacturers. Through this, we’re able to maintain a wide offering of reliable, innovative, and technologically advanced valves suitable for many applications.
Our team of process engineers, application specialists, and support is fully equipped to work with you to find the right valve for your process application. Whether you need a manual valve or an automated flow control system, we have the industry experience, equipment, and expertise necessary to ensure your operations run smoothly and efficiently.
Partnering with Cross Company for your valve needs guarantees access to a vast selection of high-quality products and expert support, enhancing the overall performance and reliability of your operations. Contact one of our experts today to learn more about how Cross can help your process operation.
Cross Valve Automation Brochure
Optimize your process performance. With an industry leading selection of providers, Cross experts can help your team find exactly what valve automation solutions your operation needs. Take a look at our latest valve automation brochure and contact a Cross expert today!
Related Valves and Valve Automation
At Cross, we offer much more than just valve actuators and positioners valves and fittings. We can also provide the solutions our process manufacturing partners need to succeed. Check out our other valve equipment and see for yourself.
