Fluid Power Journal

NFPA’s Robotics Challenge Scholarship Drives Students to Use Fluid Power

The NFPA Robotics Challenge is a scholarship program that supports of the missions of FIRST Robotics and the National Robotics League (NRL). NFPA offers …

Enabling IIoT Connectivity for Industry 4.0

By Will Healy III, Industry Marketing Director, Balluff Inc. The next industrial revolution isn’t coming; it has already begun. The Industrial Internet of …

Saving Cost, Weight, and Space on Trucks

By Björn Arvidsson, Product Development Engineer, Alexander Hahn, Sales Director – Systems, and Jussi Ijäs, Sales Director – Components, PMC …

Research to Watch: Polymer-Enhanced Fluid Effects on Mechanical Efficiency of Hydraulic Pumps

This column will bring you the progress of the pre-competitive research being conducted at member universities that are part of the CCEFP network. This …

Three New Fluid Power Standards Published

Standardization development continues in the field of fluid power systems and components. TC 131, the technical committee directly responsible for fluid power, …

Universal Vacuum Grippers and End of Arm Tools

By Dane Spivak, and illustrations by Daniel Pascoe, Davasol Inc. Design criteria for nearly all systems follow many of the same rules, and it is no different …

Transforming Our Thinking About: Energy Units

By Dan Helgerson, CFPAI/AJPP, CFPS, CFPECS, CFPSD, CFPMT, CFPCC We are taught to think of fluid power in terms of flow and pressure; flow is for velocity and …

Then and Now: Energy Awareness

By Dan Helgerson, CFPAI/AJPP, CFPS, CFPECS, CFPSD, CFPMT, CFPCC In 1994, I visited an injection molding plant in Claremont, New Hampshire. The facility had …

Grow Your Career With Intention

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 …

Coming to a Community Near You

NFPA’s FAMTEN Program Builds a Pathway for Students into Fluid Power Careers The National Fluid Power Association’s Fluid Power and Applied Mechatronics …