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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
IFPS 2018 Annual Meeting
The IFPS 2018 Annual Meeting recently took place in Williamsburg, VA where the 2019 Board of Directors nomination slate was approved. The 2019 Board positions …
Effective Leakage Testing with Bubble Tight Poppet Valves
By John Wayne Jennings, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Lexair Inc. There are many applications that require valves that do not allow leakage. For …
Understanding Hydraulic Stiffness of a System
Hydraulic Stiffness It is generally misunderstood that hydraulic fluid is incompressible when, in fact, it can compress when placed under pressure. Any system …
Telescopic Handler Doubles Lifespan with Innovative Repair Design
By Steven North, Design and Project Engineer, Apex Hydraulics, Ltd. The construction industry is a gruelling environment for machinery. The heavy lifting, …
IMTS 2018 Breaks Records in Chicago’s McCormick Place
The International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) inundated the McCormick Place convention center in downtown Chicago on September 10-15, 2018, and raised …
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