Low Vacuum High flow
By Daniel Pascoe Most vacuum pick-and-place applications require a moderate vacuum level of about 20+”Hg. For example, a 40-mm diameter cup has a …
Contamination: How Its Cure Can Be Worse Than The Disease
By Brendan Casey, HydraulicSupermarket.com Given that removing contaminants from the oil to extend hydraulic component life is the primary objective of …
The Compressed Air Energy Equation
By Ron Marshall Something about the compressed-air-system energy equation doesn’t appear to add up. Compared to what goes into the compressors, little energy …
IO-Link: A Step Toward Smart Manufacturing
By Sam Skelton, CFPPS Festo Corporation Control engineers and plant maintenance personnel responsible for machine design and maintenance are continuously …
Why We Need a Global Standard to Measure Shifting Time of a Control Valve
By Mary Dyksterhouse, Lab Manager at Parker Hannifin Pneumatic Division, Nominated by the U.S. Technical Advisory Group to become the next convenor of TC …
2017 IFPS Annual Meeting
The 2017 Annual Meeting held in Indianapolis, Indiana was bursting at the seams with a record-breaking crowd. The 2018 Board of Director nominee slate was …
Pneuchair Unveiled at Water Park
A new waterproof motorized wheelchair that runs entirely on compressed air was unveiled April 7 at Morgan’s Wonderland, a 25-acre theme park in San …
Research to Watch: 4 Quadrant Multi-Fluid Pump/Motor
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 …
Energy Savings with “E-motion”
Servo-Electric Pump Drive Optimizes Hydraulic Presses — From a Technical and Energy-Efficiency Perspective A hydraulic pump directly coupled with a …
ISO 4406: Method for Coding the Level of Contamination by Solid Particles
By Barry Verdegan, Ph.D., Research Fellow, Cummins Filtrations, Inc. and Chair, ISO TC 131/SC 6 It has been estimated, in commonly available literature1, that …
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