By Kim Harper-Gage, Chief Operating Officer North America, Festo The good news: productivity in the U.S. manufacturing sector is up. The bad news: the rise is …
By Denis Poirier Jr., CFPHS, CFPAI, AJPP, AJPPCC, CFPIM, CFPCC, IFPS Board President and Chairperson To say last year was more challenging than other years …
By Rocky Phoenix, CFPMHM, CFPMHT, CFPCC, CFPMMH, 2021 IFPS Board President and Chairperson In December, my term as president and chairperson of the board of …
By Nicole Forbes, Strategy and Business Development Manager, Fluid Conveyance, Danfoss Imagine walking into your local library and being directed to a card …
By Aurelio Banda, Group Vice President of Automation, Motion Today, automation and manufacturing are synonymous with transforming an industrial company. The …
By Mark Barnes, Senior Vice President, Global Business Development, Des-Case Corporation In the aftermath of World War II, British Prime Minister Winston …
By Jon S. Rhodes, CFPECS, CFPAI, President, CFC Industrial Training Fluid power is a mature market with a proven track record in unmatched power density, …
By Paul Johnson, President, Aggressive Hydraulics In this day and age of Amazon and Omnichannel for retail, we are becoming conditioned to buy differently …
By Buckley Brinkman, Executive Director/CEO, Wisconsin Center for Manufacturing and Productivity The pandemic, an uneven economic recovery, new technology, …
By Brandon Gustafson, Engineering Manager, Lubrication Equipment Division, Graco Inc. I have been in the fluid power industry since my first job as a …
By Peter Bleday, Head of Autonomous Vehicles, Danfoss Power Solutions It takes many people to harvest crops such as strawberries, apples, and asparagus. The …
By Lynn Beyer, Vice President of Workforce Development Programs, National Fluid Power Association In biennial surveys, National Fluid Power Association members …
By Rocky Phoenix, CFPMMH, IFPS Board of Directors President The year 2020 was a great one – to put behind us! I won’t talk about all of the problems and …
By Jeff Kenney, CFPIHM, CFPMHM, CFPMHT, IFPS Board of Directors President As I near the end of my year as president, I find myself reflecting on the world …
By Hakan Erdamar, Group President, Discrete and Industrial, Emerson Automation Solutions No one could have foreseen the enormous personal, financial, and …
By Jon Frey, Head of Engineering Systems and Solutions, Bosch Rexroth When faced with the opportunity to develop a circuit or system design, application …
By Dan Helgerson, CFPS, CFPAI, CFPJPP, CFPSD, CFPMT, Fluid Power Journal Technical Editor I am not an environmentalist. I do not believe the earth is my …
By Randall D. Smith, Supply Chain Liaison, Marine Systems, Northrup Grumman Corp. At the beginning 2020, I thought that cannabis products and legalized …
By Dan Fernandes, CFPS, Sun Hydraulics It was 9:00 a.m., Oct. 10, 2012. I was fresh out of college and four weeks into my fluid power career. I saw a dozen of …
By Denis Poirier Jr., CFPAI/AJPP, CFPHS, CFPCC, CFPIHM, Eaton Corporation Hydraulics Group Certification can be defined as “a benchmark that validates a …
By Gordon Kauffman, CEO Baltimore Hydraulics Inc. What a difference 50 years makes. For those of you who have been in the business as long as I have, you can …
By Michael Degan, Editor, Fluid Power Journal Well it’s hard to believe that three years have flown by and we find ourselves days away from the 2020 …
By Valerie Bahoric, Marketing Manager Lynch Fluid Controls Entrepreneurs are the economic risk-bearers who forgo the safety of traditional employment out of …
By Jeffrey Kenney, CFPIHM, CFPMHM, CFPMHT Over the past 10 years, as I have visited customer sites to review issues for leaks, engineering services, and …
By Timothy White, CFPAI/AJPP, CFPS, CFPECS, CFPMIH, CFPMMH, CFPMIP, CFPMT, CFPMM, The Boeing Company I can’t believe it has been a year since I took over as …