Notable Words
Let’s Get Together
By Scott Sardina, PE, CFPS, CFPECS. “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” – Henry Ford The …
Hybrid Learning
By Donna Pollander, ACA, CEO, International Fluid Power Society. The IFPS has recently unveiled an innovative hybrid training initiative, and I’d like to …
Enhancing Sustainability by Maximizing Fluid Power Efficiency
By John Sander, Vice President of Research & Development, Lubrication Engineers, Inc. It is common for organizations today to try to maintain a balance …
You Don’t Use Everything You Learn in School
By Justin Fluegel, Research and Development Engineer. Recently my son and I discussed his potential obsolescence as Artificial Intelligence (AI) eliminates …
Ergonomics Improve Filtration System Safety, Reduce Operator Strain
By Wim Callaert, Senior Product Manager, Eaton Technologies GmbH, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium. Ergonomics plays an important role in optimizing the design of …
Fluid Power, Resolute as Gold
By Ian J. Ford, Sr., Product Manager. “Two weeks to slow the spread.” “Essential workers only.” How can we forget such phrases? The U.S. economy was …
Passion for Pascal
By Janis Adams, Editor, Fluid Power Journal. The history of hydraulics has a long, winding and illustrious flow, as I am coming to understand in my new …
Fluid Power is Dead
By Rance Herren, Founder, Fluid Power SME. If a headline like this in a fluid power magazine does not grab your attention, I’m not sure what will. But if …
Notable Words: Inspiring the Next Generation of Engineers
By Eric Alström, President, Danfoss Power Solutions. As university students near graduation, their thoughts turn from coursework to career. With various …
Notable Words: Certification Benefits Professionals and Their Companies
By Thomas Blansett, CFPS, CFPAI, Technical Director, IFPS. Many articles about certification focus on benefits to the individual, and I certainly don’t …
Notable Words: Hydraulics & Electrification – The Future Is Bright
By Mark Czaja, Chief Technology Officer, Parker Hannifin. Without a doubt, we’ve seen in recent years tremendous focus on electrification across all …
Board President: Staying Curious in 2023
By Scott Sardina, PE, CFPAI, CFPHS, CFPECS, 2023 IFPS Board President and Chairperson. The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own …
Notable Words: Board President Looks to ‘the next 50 years’
By Denis M. Poirier Jr., CFPHS, CFPAI, AJPP, AJPPCC, CFPIM, CFPCC, 2022 IFPS Board President and Chairperson. You may not realize this, but the International …
Notable Words: Fluid Power Rides a Wave of Change
By Kevin P. Vanderslice, Director of Mobile Sales, ifm efector The last 18 months have been a challenge for everyone, as we deal with supply chain issues, the …
Can Fluid Power Focus on Energy?
By Dan Helgerson, CFPAI/AJPP, CFPS, CFPECS, CFPSD, CFPMT, CFPCC, Fluid Power Journal Technical Editor This is what we know: An electro-mechanical system …
Notable Words: Electronic Software Won’t Program Out Bad Hydraulics
By Lisa DeBenedetto, Account Manager, GS Global Resources When looking at machine design, there are several major engineered systems that need to be …
Notable Words: Failure Is Not an Option? Really?
By Scott Sardina, PE, CFPS, CFPAI, CFPECS, President, Waterclock Engineering If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough. —Elon Musk At some …
Notable Words: ‘I, fluid power, take thee, electrification …’
By Chauntelle Baughman, President and Cofounder, OneHydraulics Change. No one likes it. No one wants it. Everyone resists it. But is change always a bad thing? …
A Variation on Electrohydraulics
By Craig Lukomski, Product Market Manager, Simulation and Test, Moog These days, motion-control technology discussions with customers go in three directions: …
The Value of IFPS Certification
By Donna Pollander, ACA, Executive Director, International Fluid Power Society Business growth and success rely on a workforce with the right skills, in the …
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 …
Heavy Equipment Relies on Hydraulics
By Alan L. Hitchcox, Freelance Technical Editor No matter when we first learned the fundamentals of hydraulics, our training covered variable displacement …
Boosting Productivity with Digitalization
By Kim Harper-Gage, Chief Operating Officer North America, Festo The good news: productivity in the U.S. manufacturing sector is up. The bad news: the rise is …
New Board President: Integrate Improvised Approaches to Certification
By Denis Poirier Jr., CFPHS, CFPAI, AJPP, AJPPCC, CFPIM, CFPCC, IFPS Board President and Chairperson To say last year was more challenging than other years …
Board President Looks Back on ‘21: ‘a very trying time’
By Rocky Phoenix, CFPMHM, CFPMHT, CFPCC, CFPMMH, 2021 IFPS Board President and Chairperson In December, my term as president and chairperson of the board of …
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