Features
Hydraulics Offers the Advantage for Heavy Equipment
By Emily Newton, Editor in Chief, Revolutionized.com. Hydraulic and electric heavy equipment motors are two popular options for companies’ machinery needs. …
Piab’s piSAFE Helps Safe Lifting of Heavy Products
By Andrea Bodenhagen, Global Ownership Content Manager, Piab. In the automotive industry, safety of operations plays an important role, particularly when …
Under Surveillance: Testing Vehicle Steering and Fan Drive Systems
By Martin Cuthbert, Managing Director, Webtec. Power-assisted steering is now common on all types of on-highway vehicles. While electric steering systems are …
The Acid Test: Judging a Hydraulic Fluid’s Performance
By Joshua Dickstein, Technology Deployment Manager – Industrial Oils, The Lubrizol Corporation. Hydraulic fluids serve two primary functions: transmitting …
Integrating the Hydraulic Filter Catridge on the Manifold: Can It Work?
By Gordon Weiler, Vice President of Sales, Daman Products. Traditionally, adding a filter to a hydraulic system has meant plumbing an inline filter housing as …
Keys to Success: 8 Building Blocks of Smart Fluid Power Systems
By Will Healy III, Regional Marketing Manager – Americas, Balluff Inc. Manufacturers working to improve asset utilization and machine availability while …
Electric Shock: Off-Highway Isn’t Done with Hydraulics
By Alan Hitchcox, Technical Communications Specialist. Bobcat’s new T7X skid steer loader is all about sustainability. As with other heavy equipment recently …
Roth Hydraulics Accumulators Essential to Bühler Die-Casting Machines
With the Carat 840 and the Carat 920, Bühler, of Uzwil, Switzerland, is further expanding its range of die-casting solutions. They are the most powerful …
Case Study: Building Seaworthy Hydraulic Cylinders
By Peter Claessens, Customer Support & Supply Chain Manager, Danfoss Power Solutions. Floating liquefied natural gas vessels are used in offshore …
The Odd Couple: A Component that Floats Your Boat
A Component that Floats Your Boat By Brad Longmuir, Regional Sales Manager, Holmbury Inc. When the COVID pandemic hit the U.S. in March 2020, lots of things …
Winds of Change: Hydraulic Turbines Generate Green Energy
By Michelle Berdusis, Wind Energy Business Development Specialist, and Mark Barnes, Senior Vice President, Global Business Development, Des-Case Corporation. …
Law Firm: Manufacturers Must Consider Prescription Meds Case by Case
By Kathryn J. Russo, Jackson Lewis P.C. Manufacturers that conduct workplace drug and alcohol testing must be careful when addressing drug test results and …
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, …
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 …
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 …
Five Steps to Efficient, Error-Free Process Adjustments
By Steve Bain, Industrial Segment Sales Manager – Food and Beverage, Festo Corp. Modern automation systems increasingly need to adapt to various products in …
Translating Lean Principles into Office Functions
By Keith Groves, Manufacturing Consultant, University of Tennessee Center for Industrial Services The lean manufacturing movement came out of a desire to …
Replace or Restore? Why You Should Retrofit that Aging Press
By Mike Kramer, Press Application Engineer, Bosch Rexroth One of the most productive and hardworking machines in the industry today is the extrusion press. …
On the Air: How Smart Pneumatics Saves Costs and Helps the Planet
By Robert Brezni, Global Account Manager, Fluid Control & Pneumatics, Emerson At a time when the need to decarbonize economies is at its greatest, …
Drive-Through: Hydraulic AWD Takes It on the Road
By Paola Ipsa, AddiDrive Program Marketing Manager, Poclain Hydraulics — Maximizing productivity and safety while minimizing CO2 emissions is a top priority …
Fluid Power Companies Face Backlogs Due to Supply Chain, Labor Shortage
War in Ukraine could also impact sourcing. By Michael Degan, Fluid Power Journal Editor One day last month, 72 cargo ships waited to be unloaded at California …
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