The new Fluid Power Industrial Consortium at MSOE provides educational and networking opportunities for members of the fluid power industry in a non-compete …
The NFPA Fluid Power Vehicle Challenge is a workforce development program designed to support teams of undergraduate students (through a senior capstone design …
Eric Lanke, President/CEO of the National Fluid Power Association, has been elected to serve on the Board of Directors of the Council of Manufacturing …
NFPA started a strategic alliance collaboration with FIRST® that will harness the similarities between the mission of FIRST and those of NFPA’s workforce …
The first of the NFPA 2017 regional meetings will be held on Tuesday, April 11, 2017 in Minneapolis. The NFPA will again partner with Hennepin Technical …
NFPA workforce programs, such as the Fluid Power Action Challenge, fluid power classroom activities, and Student Career Connection events, taught a total of …
by Eric Lanke, NFPA President/CEO Over the last few weeks, I’ve been participating and serving as a judge in the midway presentations of the nine university …
by Eric Lanke, NFPA President/CEO The NFPA Technology Roadmap is a document that describes an industry-wide consensus regarding the pre-competitive research …
Initiative Will Help Support NFPA’s Road-Mapping Efforts by Eric Lanke NFPA President/CEO The Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE) has announced the …
CCEFP Strategy Led by Faculty Experts and Industry Leaders The Center for Compact and Efficient Fluid Power (CCEFP) continues to make progress toward its three …
by Eric Lanke NFPA President/CEO The world of fluid power is already making its plans to gather at IFPE 2017, the leading international exposition and …
by Eric Lanke, NFPA President/CEO In early October 2016, NFPA submitted an application to the Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program of the National …
Every so often, a truly special industry event hits the calendar. The NFPA 2017 Annual Conference is one of those events. Scheduled for February 8-10, 2017, at …
by Eric Lanke, NFPA President/CEO Last week I had the great pleasure of attending the third Fluid Power Innovation and Research Conference (FPIRC) in …
By Eric Lanke, NFPA President/CEO Back in May I participated in a workshop on Fluid Power Advanced Manufacturing, hosted by the University of Minnesota and …
By Eric Lanke, NFPA President/CEO With our university research and education partner the Center for Compact and Efficient Fluid Power (CCEFP), NFPA has been …
By Eric Lanke, NFPA President/CEO The next Energy Efficient Hydraulics and Pneumatics Conference (EEHPC) will be held in March 2017 in conjunction with the …
Fluid power is a workhorse of the U.S. economy—a cross-cutting technology of choice for dozens of industries and hundreds of applications. That’s one of …
The NFPA Education and Technology Foundation awards grants of up to $25,000 to 4-year universities to develop, replicate, or disseminate high-quality, …
by Eric Lanke, NFPA CEO The U.S. Department of Energy maintains more than 20 Industrial Assessment Centers (IACs) around the United States—university …