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Infographic: What Is the Biggest Drawback to Pneumatics in Your Applications?

Nov. 22, 2013
32% of Survey Respondents Report the Greatest Drawback Is High Cost of Air

An electronic survey of Control Design readers was conducted in August 2013 in order to identify usage and application trends of HMI & industrial PCs among the industrial machine builders that comprise Control Design's readership.

Respondents reported the greatest drawbacks to using pneumatics are high cost of air (32%), high maintenance (24%), lack of system diagnostics (23%), inflexible (13%) and insufficient vendor support (7%).

Read all results from the survey.

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