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Vacuum Pick and Place: High-Speed Cycle Time Reduction
By Dane Spivak, and illustrations by Daniel Pascoe, Davasol Inc. In the world of high-speed factory automation, speed is everything. Manufacturing processes …
Strong, Tough, and Reliable: Linear Displacement Transducers Take on the Most-Demanding Applications
By Blake Cawley, Product Manager, AMETEK Factory Automation The importance of automation is greater than ever, as is the role played in automation by linear …
<strike>Filler</strike> Filter/Breathers
By Dan Helgerson, CFPAI/AJPP, CFPS, CFPECS, CFPSD, CFPMT, CFPCC, CFPSOS LLC I once worked at a blow-molding facility with 16 hydraulic power units. The units …
Preparing for Success: The Hydraulic Specialist Certification Study Manual Update
By Denis Poirier, Jr., CFPAI/AJPP, CFPS, CFPCC, CFPHS, CFPIHM, Vice President of Certification, The Eaton Corporation – Hydraulics Group Advancements in …
Then and Now: CRDV, CRDV/S, and CRDV/S with WiFi
By Patrick Byce, Marketing Coordinator, Spartan Scientific Spartan Scientific, an American manufacturing facility located in Northeast Ohio, specializes and …
2019 Photo and Video Contest
Take your best shots! The IFPS and the Fluid Power Journal are excited to announce the addition of a video contest to its annual photo contest. Both contests …
Vacuum Measurement
By Dan Pascoe Often missing from a vacuum system is something to measure the vacuum level such as a vacuum switch or a vacuum gauge such as shown in Fig. 1. A …
Don’t Follow The Crowd, Mount Your Hydraulic Pumps…For Life
By Brendan Casey An essential requirement for the optimum performance and service life of a hydraulic pump is that its pumping chambers fill freely and …
Cycle Rates
20By Daniel Pascoe In modern day manufacturing, quick cycle rates are key to profitability and eventual production facility success. This is no different in …
Hydraulic Oil vs. Seal Lip Material
By George Barbin In a perfect world, our bodies would be able to rehydrate with either fresh or salt water, our skin would not be affected by UV rays, and …
Beware of Getting HOSED
By Jamie Vokes, CFPCC Various kinds of mobile and industrial equipment use hydraulics in one form or another. While hydraulics is a very efficient use of …
Fluid Power’s Uncertain Future
By Brendan Casey In October 1991, at a meeting of the Buffett Group, Warren Buffett’s inner circle, Bill Gates was asked what he thought of Kodak as a …
Handling Large Loads
By Daniel Pascoe Most vacuum pick-and-place applications involve the handling of small parts such as semiconductor components or food packaging items, which …
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 …
Precision Farming
How Modern Hydraulics Can Contribute to Greater Efficiency and Precision in Agriculture By Dipl.-Ing. Matthias Müter, Dipl.-Ing. Ralf Leinenbach, and Dr.-Ing. …
The Long Road to Safety Certification
By Charles Butcher, Justin Shelton (Hoerbiger), and Eike Stratmann (Hoerbiger) Hydraulic locking units for passenger restraint gain TÜV approval Ever had a …
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