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2020 IFPE Features First-Ever Networking Reception
By Michael Degan, Editor, Fluid Power Journal Well it’s hard to believe that three years have flown by and we find ourselves days away from the 2020 …
Entrepreneurship is Not for the Faint of Heart
By Valerie Bahoric, Marketing Manager Lynch Fluid Controls Entrepreneurs are the economic risk-bearers who forgo the safety of traditional employment out of …
Preventative Maintenance: The Key to Keeping our Industry Growing
By Jeffrey Kenney, CFPIHM, CFPMHM, CFPMHT Over the past 10 years, as I have visited customer sites to review issues for leaks, engineering services, and …
Mentorship is the Way Forward
By Timothy White, CFPAI/AJPP, CFPS, CFPECS, CFPMIH, CFPMMH, CFPMIP, CFPMT, CFPMM, The Boeing Company I can’t believe it has been a year since I took over as …
Empowering a Cultural Revolution in the Industrial Revolution
By Will Healy III, Industry Marketing Director, Balluff Inc. Like it or not, we are leading organizations through an industrial revolution. Digitization, …
Here’s to the Next 25
By Robert McKinney, Associate Publisher, Fluid Power Journal As I reflect upon this year with Fluid Power Journal thus far, my mind travels back to last fall …
Propelling Fluid Power into the Future through Human Connection
By Andy Patel, Marketing Manager, Hercules Sealing Products In regards to user engagement and social media, the fluid power industry is moving at a slower pace …
25 Years of Fluid Power Journal
By Paul and Lisa Prass Here we are with 25 years behind us since our journey began creating and producing the best industry trade journal. As I write this for …
Looking Back As We Move Forward
By Donna Pollander, ACA, Executive Director of the International Fluid Power Society As the Fluid Power Journal celebrates its 25th anniversary next month, it …
The Value of Connected Hydraulics
By Keaton Holappa, Applications Engineer, Connected Hydraulics & i4.0, Bosch Rexroth Corporation When people think about hydraulics as a fluid power …
The Value of Investing in Wind Knowledge
By Nikki Walker, Wind Market Manager, Hydac The Wind Industry continues to grow year after year, racing against time to meet the next PTC (Production Tax …
New Ideas Take Shape in the Industry
By Jeff Herrin, Vice President of R&D, Danfoss Power Solutions Change is the only constant. While this statement rings true for every industry, those of …
Grow Your Career With Intention
By Alan Froslie, CFPHS, CFPAI, Airline Hydraulics George Burns once joked that the first thing he did in the morning was check the obituary section of the …
Transforming Fluid Power Systems through Collaboration
By Zongxuan Sun, Director of Center for Compact and Efficient Fluid Power, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota Fluid power is one of …
Giving Back And Paying It Forward
By Timothy White, CFPAI/AJPP, CFPS, CFPECS, CFPMIH, CFPMMH, CFPMIP, CFPMT, CFPMM, The Boeing Company I recently read a quote that got me thinking about how we …
Stepping Out of Your Comfort Zone
By Dean Houdeshell, PE, CFPAI/AJPP, CFPE, CFPS, CFPIHT, CFPMHT, CFPMHM, Cemen Tech Inc. What would be your answer if you were asked: “Do you want to grow?” …
Success in Fluid Power
By Lisa Debenedetto, CFPS, Sales Application Engineer Midwest USA, Argo-Hytos When I was asked to write this article, after the initial panic attack, I …
The Value of Fluid Power Certification That Speaks to the Customer
By Robert Sheaf, CFPAI/AJPP, CFPE, CFPS, CFPECS, CFPMT, CFPMIP, CFPMMH, CFPMIH, CFPMM, CFC Industrial Training When I started CFC Industrial Training in 1990, …
Accepting the Challenges of Fluid Power
By Mohaned Shahin, CFPS, Account Manager, Parker Hannifin Corporation I believe that the early experience I had working with hydraulics, and failing, is a …
Fluid Power Through the Eyes of an Electrical Engineer
By Randy Bobbitt, CFPS Fluid Power has been part of my life since 1984. I was initially hired by Hydro-Line Manufacturing because I was an experienced …
Welcome to the Future of Fluid Power!
By DAN HELGERSON, CFPAI, CFPS, CFPMT, CFPECS, CFPSD After many years with little or no change in the components or approaches to the application of fluid …
Education and New Talent in the Fluid Power Industry
By Chauntelle Baughman, CFPHS, President and Co-Founder of OneHydraulics, Inc. I vividly recall those days as a young woman fresh out of college and ready to …
Fluid Power: An Evolutionary Industry, Served by a Progressive Society (IFPS)
Bishwajit Ranjan, PE, CFPE, CFPS The speed of evolution in the fields of science and technology has been rapid. While it took Apollo-11 seventy five hours to …
The Modern Off-Road Equipment Industry Demands Technical Application Skills, Training, and Certification in Mobile Hydraulics
by John Juhasz, CFPECS, CFPS As my time on the IFPS Board of Directors comes to its end this year, it’s a good time to reflect on the state of our industry …
The Value of Fluid Power Training and Certification
by D. Dean Houdeshell, PE, CFPAI, CFPE, 2018-2019 President, IFPS If your experience is at all like mine, you entered your first fluid power job with little …
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