Fluid Power Journal

2019 Off-Highway Directory Listing

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Compressed Air Systems: The Cost of Filter Differential

By Ron Marshall, Marshall Compressed Air Consulting Compressed air filters, despite modern and efficient design, do not maintain themselves. These elements …

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 …

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 …

Applying Control Theory: Interpret Bode Diagrams

Discussions about hydro-mechanical system dynamics make it clear that component selection and system design have tremendous impact on system performance and …

Repair or Replace: Welded Style, Tie Rod Style, or Mill Duty Style?

By Jeffrey Kenney, CFPIHT, CFPIHM, CFPMHM, CFPMHT, Hydradyne LLC Over my career in cylinder remanufacturing, there have been two questions end-users always …