Festo DHPS-16-A 1254043 Parallel Gripper: Complete Technical Guide and Industrial Applications

11 gennaio 2026

Historical parts record: Photos and notes below belong to this record. Confirm the offered unit’s full model, condition and available test evidence before ordering.

What is the Festo DHPS-16-A?

Note on the listing title: the queue titles this article a "Parallel Gripper" — the part is not a gripper. The Festo factory box says so plainly: DHPS-16-A, material number 1254043, series M3, is packed and labelled a Solenoid valve — a pneumatic solenoid valve from Festo SE & Co. KG of Esslingen, Germany. This record is two units, both factory-sealed in their original Festo cartons (the photo set documents the sealed boxes; the valves were photographed unopened, so this page documents the part from the factory packaging). New in original packaging, 1-year warranty as recorded at intake. All 5 photos below show these exact sealed boxes.

2 min readContent reviewed 7 October 2026

Part details

DHPS-16-A, as printed on the Festo factory box
Field	Value
Model	Festo DHPS-16-A
Material number	1254043
Series	M3
Part type	Solenoid valve (as labelled by Festo)
Maker	Festo SE & Co. KG, DE-73734 Esslingen, Germany
Origin	Made in Germany
Barcode	4 052568 264993
Quantity	2 boxes, 1 piece each — factory sealed, photographed unopened
Warranty	1 year, as recorded at intake
Shipping weight	1 kg per set as recorded

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Values are read from the Festo factory box labels; no valve-body specifications are claimed because the units were photographed sealed.

Why the sealed box is itself the story

A Festo solenoid valve bought factory-sealed is the strongest condition claim pneumatics can make: the carton's taped seams are the maker's own, the label ties the box to a material number — 1254043 — that Festo's spare-parts system resolves to an exact valve build, and the serial trace runs from the Esslingen line to the user's shelf without an intermediate repack. In a pneumatic cabinet the solenoid valve is the switching element everything else obeys: the coil energises, the armature shifts the poppet or spool, and the air that clamps, lifts or rotates goes exactly where the PLC asked. When one fails — a stuck armature, a burnt coil, an internal leak — the machine loses one motion and the replacement decision is a material number, not a parameter hunt. That is why this record's value is the unbroken box: a bench stocking DHPS-16-A under the Festo number can pull a sealed unit, swap it in minutes, and return the line without ever opening a datasheet. The two sealed boxes photographed here remain as Festo shipped them; the first technician to open one will find the valve, its datasheet slip, and the maker's own packing — the way Esslingen intended.