Learn About IIoT in Next Week’s Special Webinar
Next week Wednesday, June 13 at 10am CST, Annual Conference speaker Jeremy Drury will cover the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) in a special webinar. The webinar will cover some of the background of IoT, where it stands now, and where it needs to go in the remainder of 2018. Listeners will learn more about Industry…
Robotics Challenge Scholarship Winner Helps Create Formula Hybrid Car
Spencer Tiegs, the 2017 NFPA Robotics Challenge Scholarship winner, has been very busy since winning his scholarship! Not only is he attending the Milwaukee School of Engineering for mechanical engineering as part of the University Scholars Honors Program, he also continues to coach and mentor FIRST® Robotics high school students and is part of the…
NFPA Welcomes New Supplier Member: Fluid Gear Products
Based in Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, Fluid Gear Products, Inc. manufactures load adapters, custom shafts, mountings, flanges, and other custom products. The company is also a distributor of radial piston hydraulic motors, planetary gear reducers, hydraulic wheel motors, slewing bearings, hydraulic flow dividers, hydraulic rotary manifold, parallel shaft gear reducers, and worm gear reducers.
Winter is Over! Register Today for Foundation Invitational Golf Tourney
We’re calling it. Depending on where you are when viewing this message, random patches of snow or parking lot mountains of snow may persist, but we are moving on to summer and the 10th NFPA Foundation Invitational Golf Tournament. Following a great outing last year, the tournament will be held August 13 at Glenview Park…
NFPA Robotics Challenge Scholarship Applications Due May 1
FIRST® Robotics and National Robotics League (NRL) mentors: The $40,000 NFPA Robotics Challenge Scholarship application closes May 1. Remind your students to apply here! One merit-based scholarship for $40,000 ($10,000 per year for four years) will be awarded to a high school senior who participates as part of a 2018 FIRST® Robotics or NRL Competition Team. The scholarship may be used to study…
Detroit Regional Offers Human Resource Insights
Over 30 fluid power professionals met over breakfast this year for the 2018 Detroit Regional Meeting in Southfield, Michigan. This year’s featured speaker was Tom Kennedy, President and Founder of MadsenArcher Consulting, Inc., who presented, “Attracting, Engaging and Growing Talent.” Tom’s presentation covered the growing talent shortage, how companies can improve their Employee Value Proposition,…
Murray State Wins First Place at Fluid Power Vehicle Challenge
The 2018 Vehicle Challenge Competition at Danfoss in Ames, Iowa was a great success bringing together ten university student teams as well as judges and sponsors from eight NFPA member companies. The Vehicle Challenge is a competition that challenges students to design and build a bicycle using fluid power. The students that participated were highly…
Student Experience Comes Full Circle at Daman’s 8th Action Challenge Event
Daman Products Inc. celebrated its eighth annual Fluid Power Action Challenge by engaging 92 students on 23 teams. The last few years, Daman has been working with Bethel Community College to host the 11 participating schools. In the many years of organizing and sponsoring these events, the students that participated in the earlier years have…
NFPA Welcomes New Manufacturer Member: Canfield Industries
Canfield Industries was founded in 1977 in Canfield, Ohio. The company offers a wide selection of electronic devices. Its offering is specialized in interconnection devices, electronic timers, proximity sensors, modules and specialty electronic devices. Other products include linear actuator sensors, round style sensors, inclinometers, tilt switches, M12 and GT Series (Deutsch Style) mobile connectors, conveyor…
Member News: ESP International Acquires Superior Tube Products
NFPA member news is designed to inform members of key industry updates in quick, bite-sized posts that provide only the most important information. This week’s update comes from ESP International. ESP International recently announced its acquisition of Superior Tube Products, a Davenport, Iowa-based fabricator of bent and welded tube products for agricultural and off-highway equipment…
NFPA Members Invited to June 1 FPIC Seminar
Fluid Power Industrial Consortium (FPIC) June 1, 2018 Argonne National Laboratory Argonne, IL Learn more about advanced hydraulic fluids at the June 1 MSOE Fluid Power Industrial Consortium (FPIC) seminar at the Argonne National Laboratory. Registration for the event is due May 17, and tours of the facility will follow the presentations and lunch. The speakers for…
Four Companies Achieve Legacy Builder Status in NFPA Foundation
By Eric Lanke NFPA President/CEO At the recent NFPA Annual Conference in Orlando, four more companies were recognized for reaching Legacy Builder status in the NFPA Foundation. When NFPA started the NFPA Foundation back in 2007, we created the Legacy Builder Award, to be given out at each year’s Annual Conference to any…