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More Than Hot Air: Applying Pneumatic Energy to Automotive Applications
For motorists and vehicle operators concerned with efficiency and reducing their environmental impact, hybrids are an attractive solution. Any vehicle with two …
Reducing Carbon Footprint with the Right Vacuum System
The most common vacuum technology for handling sealed materials today utilizes air-driven vacuum ejectors. The handling system is quite often based on a robot …
Manufacturing Q&A
Shirish Pareek is the founder and CEO of Hydraulex Global, a corporation that specializes in worldwide remanufacturing, repair, and distribution of major-brand …
NFPA Fluid Power Challenge Student Competition Secures the Workforce of Tomorrow
Teamwork. Preparation. Safety. These are just a few of the lessons that students from 25 middle schools in western Pennsylvania took away from their experience …
High-Performance Hydraulic Fluids Boost Fuel Efficiency
Manufacturers of construction equipment are always looking for ways to make their equipment more efficient and cost effective. And now these manufacturers are …
Hydraulic Hose Assembly Application Guidelines – ISO/TS 17165-2
Hydraulic hose and hose assemblies require careful selection, fabrication, installation, and maintenance to reduce the likelihood of component or system …
Reliable Plant 2014 Receives Hero’s Welcome in San Antonio
Industry experts, decision-makers, and practitioners from around the world recently gathered for Noria Corporation’s 15th annual Reliable Plant Conference …
Barge Master Launches Motion Compensation Platform
Drive and control solution keeps platforms stable for offshore cranes Barge Master BV, a Dutch company, launched the BM – 001, its first operational motion …
Fluid Power Professionals Day Photo Contest
Thank you to all our Fluid Power Professionals’ Day photo contest participants. It was a difficult voting decision with so many capturing photos, however …
IFPE and CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2014 Attract Nearly 130,000 – New Exhibit and Education Records
The future on display as global industry showcase spotlights new product innovations, technology IFPE and CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2014 took center stage in Las Vegas, …
Custom Repair Program for Servo Valves Keeps Test Rigs Running
Proving grounds aren’t always the most effective way to test the durability of a truck or car. If a car maker wants to evaluate, for example, a light truck …
Fluid Level Sensors in Oil and Gas
With the growth in unconventional drilling, the need for liquid level sensors grows. Fluid sensing in oil and gas is more important than ever. Water, oils, …
Stay Ahead of the Competition with Effective Fluid Power Proposals
If you only submit cost quotes, you are competing on price alone. Most companies do not want to do that. A proposal is a sales document that tells the reader …
Animatronics – Shut-off Valve Ensures Safety of People and Equipment
When a hydraulic lift fails, the results can be devastating—especially when it’s a platform with people on or under it. The hydraulic lift can easily come …
Random Pick and Place
In 90% of vacuum pick-and-place applications, the product being handled is a known size, shape, and weight. A packaging machine designed to pick up a 20-lb box …
Ceramic Air Valves Reduce Maintenance Cost
The story line has been repeated endless times: maintenance personnel have to deal with directional control valves that stop working far sooner than they …
2014 Off-Highway Directory Listing
Download our 2014 Directory Listing and Product Matrix below. Click on the images for a PDF
Steep Slope Tree Harvester Uses Logic Control Solution to Improve Lumberjack Safety
The new ClimbMAX steep slope tree harvester is able to maneuver safely on varied terrain, unlike traditional tree fellers. Designed and manufactured by Trinder …
Klüber Lubrication
For more than 80 years, Klüber Lubrication has formulated tribological solutions for an ever-advancing industrial society. The company has developed …
2014 IFPS Spring Meeting Recap
Special thanks to the 35 International Fluid Power Society (IFPS) professional members who recently met in Orlando, Fla., to conduct the IFPS 2014 Spring …
Variable Speed Pump Drives for Industrial Machinery – System Considerations
Despite ominous predictions in the ‘80s and ‘90s, hydraulics being completely replaced by electrical drives did not occur, and fluid power still plays an …
Offshore Technology Conference 2014
May 5-8, 2014 • Reliant Park – Houston, Texas In its 45th year, the Offshore Technology Conference brings together industry leaders and …
Your Air Tool is Inefficient – Here’s Why
Since we are surrounded by vast, unlimited volumes of atmospheric air, it is easy to think that the compressed air in your plant piping is free. But if you …
Automated Drilling Pipe Handler Moves Precisely Due to Electro-Hydraulic Controls
Drilling rigs are essentially hoisting machines that raise and lower drill pipes into wellbores that can be four miles or more in depth. A large motor (top …
Predicting the Mobile Market: Q & A
Mel Arent, EMMEGI Heat Exchangers Inc. Mel is the general manager of EMMEGI Heat Exchangers Inc. in Phoenix, Ariz. He has over 34 years of experience …
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