Fluid Power Journal

OTC Opens Today in Houston

The Offshore Technology Conference opens today in Houston at NRG Park, where hundreds of exhibitors will display new technologies and products for the marine …

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. …

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 …

Emerson Executive: The Journey to Sustainability

Improving pneumatic efficiency is a key step. By Hakan Erdamar, Group President of Discrete & Industrial, Emerson. People all over the globe are taking …

Case Study: Reducing Contamination in a Hydraulic Grinder

By Otto G. Knottnerus, President, Harvard Corporation A Midwestern engine manufacturer was experiencing high contamination levels in the hydraulic oil of a …

Screwed on Right: The Pros and Cons of JIC Hydraulic Fittings

By Charles Kolstad, Marketing Manager, Tameson JIC fittings, also called SAE J514 hydraulic fittings, play an essential role in everyday applications. They are …

Supersize Me: How a Hydraulic Cylinder Amplifies Its Fluid

By Robert Post, CFPHS, Hydraulic Designer, Sherman + Reilly There are many parallels between electrical and hydraulic systems, but did you know hydraulic …

Number of Positive Drug Tests Highest Since 2001

Positives grew 31.4% in the last decade. From Quest Diagnostics. The rate of positive drug tests among the U.S. workforce last year reached its highest rate …

Ground Control: Electrohydraulic Precision in Mobile Machines

By Ben Dupre, Senior Technical Writer, HydraForce Today’s construction, agriculture, and material-handling machines look very different from machines of 20 …

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