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MSOE Fluid Power Club Students Connect with Industry

Programs like the Fluid Power Clubs are made possible in part by the generous support of industry volunteers as well as NFPA Education and Technology Foundation and Pascal Society donors.  The NFPA Technology and Education Foundation has launched a new program to support Fluid Power Clubs on university campuses. The goal of the clubs is to get…
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Meet a Fluid Power Scholarship Winner—Cole Stephan

Programs like the Fluid Power Scholarships are made possible in part by the generous support of industry volunteers as well as NFPA Education and Technology Foundation and Pascal Society donors.  The NFPA Education and Technology Foundation has awarded $2,000 scholarships to students pursuing fluid power technology fields of study. Here’s one of the winners, Cole…
Manufacturing Day

MFG Day is October 4

Manufacturing day is finally here! Every fall, manufacturers across the United States open their doors to show their communities what manufacturing really looks like. Again this year, because of its alignment with our workforce development objectives, NFPA will support events related to MFG Day through our own programs and encouraging member companies to take part in…

CCEFP Summit Registration Deadline Approaching

Registration for the CCEFP Summit, scheduled for October 22-24, 2019 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is set to close on Friday, October 11. The event program features the latest developments in fluid power research projects, including projects awarded research supplements from the NFPA Foundation in 2018. Topics include energy conversion, storage, fluid power components, and surface modification.…

Fluid Power Forum Podcast Covers Fluid Power and Robotics Education

Episode 5 of Fluid Power Forum, NFPA’s new fluid power industry-focused podcast, is now live. This episode features Jacob Barnes, the 2018 recipient of NFPA’s Fluid Power Robotics Challenge Scholarship, who talks about his fluid power journey as a student as well as his future career plans. Barnes is currently going into his sophomore year at his dream school, Cal…
CAT & JJC FPAC 2019 Participants

CAT & JJC Host Their Largest Action Challenge Yet

Programs like the Fluid Power Action Challenge are made possible in part by the generous support of industry volunteers as well as NFPA Education and Technology Foundation and Pascal Society donors.    Caterpillar (CAT) is sponsoring its fifth annual and largest-yet Action Challenge event this year, hosted by Joliet Junior College (JJC). Twenty-five teams from ten schools are…
fluid power standardization

U.S. Technical Advisory Groups Hold Fall Meetings

September has been a busy month for the fluid power U.S. Technical Advisory Groups (TAGs). Forty-one committee members from the U.S. TAG to Subcommittee 4 – Connectors and Couplings came together the week of September 10 in Louisville, Kentucky and 23 committee members of the U.S. TAG to Subcommittee 6 – Contamination control reconvened the week…

NFPA Research Supplement Update: High Efficiency Hydraulic Pump-Motors

Programs like the NFPA Research Supplement Program are made possible in part by the generous support of industry volunteers as well as NFPA Education and Technology Foundation and Pascal Society donors.    By Eric Lanke NFPA President/CEO I recently attended the June 2019 Summit of the Center for Compact and Efficient Fluid Power (CCEFP) at…

Connect with Other Fluid Power Professionals November 18 in Cleveland

2019 Cleveland Regional Meeting  in conjunction with WTWH’s Fluid Power Technology Conference Monday, November 18, 2019 | 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio Register Here Registration is now open for the NFPA 2019 Cleveland Regional Meeting, taking place over breakfast from 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM on Monday, November 18. This year’s meeting is…
IFPE 2020

See Who’s Exhibiting at IFPE 2020

IFPE 2020 March 10-14, 2020 Las Vegas Convention Center Las Vegas, Nevada IFPE 2020 is set to provide exhibitors and attendees alike countless opportunities to learn about what’s new and what’s coming soon in fluid power technology. The floor plan is already filled to the brim with more than 400 industry-leading companies ready to showcase their latest…

NFPA Research Supplement Update: Seamless Electric to Hydraulic Conversion

  By Eric Lanke NFPA President/CEO I recently attended the June 2019 Summit of the Center for Compact and Efficient Fluid Power (CCEFP) at Purdue University. This was the second of two meetings in our last fiscal year where the fluid power research projects supported by our new NFPA Research Supplement Program were presented. In…

Meet a Fluid Power Scholarship Winner—Rebekah Clark

The NFPA Education and Technology Foundation has awarded $2,000 scholarships to students pursuing fluid power technology fields of study. Here’s one of the winners, Rebekah Clark. She is attending Spokane Community College in Spokane, Washington and is enrolled in the Hydraulic and Pneumatic Automation Technology program. We asked Rebekah about winning the scholarship . .…