By Will Healy III, Industry Marketing Director, Balluff Inc. Like it or not, we are leading organizations through an industrial revolution. Digitization, …
By Robert McKinney, Associate Publisher, Fluid Power Journal As I reflect upon this year with Fluid Power Journal thus far, my mind travels back to last fall …
By Andy Patel, Marketing Manager, Hercules Sealing Products In regards to user engagement and social media, the fluid power industry is moving at a slower pace …
By Paul and Lisa Prass Here we are with 25 years behind us since our journey began creating and producing the best industry trade journal. As I write this for …
By Donna Pollander, ACA, Executive Director of the International Fluid Power Society As the Fluid Power Journal celebrates its 25th anniversary next month, it …
By Keaton Holappa, Applications Engineer, Connected Hydraulics & i4.0, Bosch Rexroth Corporation When people think about hydraulics as a fluid power …
By Nikki Walker, Wind Market Manager, Hydac The Wind Industry continues to grow year after year, racing against time to meet the next PTC (Production Tax …
By Jeff Herrin, Vice President of R&D, Danfoss Power Solutions Change is the only constant. While this statement rings true for every industry, those of …
By Alan Froslie, CFPHS, CFPAI, Airline Hydraulics George Burns once joked that the first thing he did in the morning was check the obituary section of the …
By Zongxuan Sun, Director of Center for Compact and Efficient Fluid Power, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota Fluid power is one of …
By Timothy White, CFPAI/AJPP, CFPS, CFPECS, CFPMIH, CFPMMH, CFPMIP, CFPMT, CFPMM, The Boeing Company I recently read a quote that got me thinking about how we …
By Dean Houdeshell, PE, CFPAI/AJPP, CFPE, CFPS, CFPIHT, CFPMHT, CFPMHM, Cemen Tech Inc. What would be your answer if you were asked: “Do you want to grow?” …
By Lisa Debenedetto, CFPS, Sales Application Engineer Midwest USA, Argo-Hytos When I was asked to write this article, after the initial panic attack, I …
By Robert Sheaf, CFPAI/AJPP, CFPE, CFPS, CFPECS, CFPMT, CFPMIP, CFPMMH, CFPMIH, CFPMM, CFC Industrial Training When I started CFC Industrial Training in 1990, …
By Mohaned Shahin, CFPS, Account Manager, Parker Hannifin Corporation I believe that the early experience I had working with hydraulics, and failing, is a …
By Randy Bobbitt, CFPS Fluid Power has been part of my life since 1984. I was initially hired by Hydro-Line Manufacturing because I was an experienced …
By DAN HELGERSON, CFPAI, CFPS, CFPMT, CFPECS, CFPSD After many years with little or no change in the components or approaches to the application of fluid …
By Chauntelle Baughman, CFPHS, President and Co-Founder of OneHydraulics, Inc. I vividly recall those days as a young woman fresh out of college and ready to …
Bishwajit Ranjan, PE, CFPE, CFPS The speed of evolution in the fields of science and technology has been rapid. While it took Apollo-11 seventy five hours to …
by John Juhasz, CFPECS, CFPS As my time on the IFPS Board of Directors comes to its end this year, it’s a good time to reflect on the state of our industry …
by D. Dean Houdeshell, PE, CFPAI, CFPE, 2018-2019 President, IFPS If your experience is at all like mine, you entered your first fluid power job with little …
By Ron Burg, Mechanical Engineer, Mahan’s Inc. The new frontier of underwater mining is experiencing rapid technological development. Innovation has proven …
By Shawn Fitzgerald It’s no secret U.S. manufacturers are struggling to find the right talent for their open jobs. We all know how important it is to fill …
By Scott Sardina, PE, CFPHS, CFPPS, CFPS, CFPAI I’m a lifer. It seems like every year I find myself enrolled in a new semester course or seminar. Part of it …
by Donna Pollander, ACA, IFPS Executive Director There are some really exciting things going on at IFPS…updates to our flagship certifications, development …