Handling Large Loads
By Daniel Pascoe Most vacuum pick-and-place applications involve the handling of small parts such as semiconductor components or food packaging items, which …
What’s Your Standby Efficiency?
By Brendan Casey We are conditioned to think a variable displacement pump is more efficient than its fixed displacement counterpart. As a generalization this …
NFPA Foundation Awards 10 Fluid Power Research Supplements
NFPA Members Invited to CCEFP Summit to Review Projects and Presentations By Eric Lanke, NFPA President/CEO The NFPA Education and Technology Foundation is …
Compressed Air Systems: Are You Draining Away Your Profits
By Ron Marshall Air compressors create water, there is no way around it, the ambient air is squeezed, like wringing a sponge, and cooled, creating a constant …
Large Punch Press Cylinder Stutters On Downward Extension
An OEM had a hydraulic distributor design an HPU for a punch press he wanted modified to punch large stainless-steel discs that were then sent to a forming …
Fluid Power Sales by Major Customer Markets
The National Fluid Power Association (NFPA) recently released 2017 Survey Data on the segmentation of U.S. fluid power sales to major customer markets. The …
Fluid Power Industry Creates ISO Standards that Impact Our World
By Denise Husenica, NFPA International Standards Development Manager, Secretary, ISO/TC 131 and Administrator, U.S. Technical Advisory Groups The International …
NFPA Joins Heroes MAKE America Association Partners Network
NFPA Members Given Priority Access to Candidates for Production Floor Jobs By Eric Lanke, NFPA President/CEO One of NFPA’s key objectives is to increase the …
Developing Electrohydrostatic Actuation to Improve Ring Rolling Production
By Dr. Erkhard Siemer, General Manager for Design Hydraulics and Electrical Engineering, SMS Group GmbH, and Achim Helbig, Dr.-Ing, Innovations Projects …
Research to Watch: Control and Diagnostic of Electro-Hydraulic Machines
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 …
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