Fluid Power Journal

Improving Fuel Efficiency in Heavy Equipment

By Emily Newton, Editor in Chief, Revolutionized.com. Improving heavy equipment fuel efficiency is a common goal among company owners and fleet managers. …

PIRTEK USA Announces Franchise Signings and Openings

PIRTEK USA, a global on-site and retail hydraulic and industrial hose service provider, announced strong growth at the beginning of the year with five …

Atlantic Hydraulic Names Manager for NASA Project

Atlantic Hydraulic Systems recently named Christina Chapman as project manager for a critical system it is developing for NASA’s Artemis program, which aims …

Festo Proximity Switch Features Auto Learn Function

Festo recently introduced the SDBT-MSX, the first programmable proximity switch with automatic switching point setting. With an initial detection range of 20 …

SIKO Position Sensors Used for Movie Special Effects

By Michaela Wassenberg. Draw-wire encoders are not the kind of component normally associated with motion picture production. But draw-wire encoders from SIKO, …

Notable Words: The Challenges of Off-Road Vehicles

By Zongxuan Sun, Director, Center for Compact and Efficient Fluid Power. Off-road vehicles, including construction machines and agriculture equipment, account …

Terzo Introduces New Hydrapulse Product

Terzo Power Systems, a provider of electrohydraulic pump systems, recently introduced its most powerful product to date, the Hydrapulse F3. Designed to handle …

RG Group Names New Board Officer

RG Group, a group of distribution and manufacturing companies producing motion control and fluid handling products headquartered in York, Pennsylvania, …

NFPA IEOC Conference Set for August

The National Fluid Power Association’s Industry & Economic Outlook Conference is scheduled for Aug. 17-18 at the Westin Chicago Northwest, NFPA has …

NFPA Accepting Applications for Research Funds

The National Fluid Power Association is accepting applications for its 2022-23 NFPA Research Supplement Awards. The NFPA program will award ten $7,500 research …