Recordings of FPIC Seminar at Argonne National Laboratory Available
By Eric Lanke NFPA President/CEO On Friday June 1, 2018, NFPA held its quarterly Fluid Power Industrial Consortium (FPIC) seminar series at Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, Illinois. Having this half-day FPIC seminar at Argonne National Laboratory for the first time is significant because Argonne will be receiving funding from the Department of Energy…
Progress Made on Pump, Pneumatic Control Standards at Spring ISO Meetings
A series of fluid power systems ISO standards development meetings were recently held in London. Along with an all-experts meeting, two subcommittees (product testing and control products) and 12 working groups met to further the developmental progress on current projects, systematic reviews of published standards, and to discuss possible new areas of work within the…
NFPA Welcomes New Supplier Member: Makino, Inc.
Makino, Inc. manufactures, sells, and repairs machining centers (MCs), electrical discharge machines, numerical control (NC) milling machines, and other related industrial machinery. The company also produces manufacturing systems as well as Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM) and Computer Aided Design (CAD) systems software to support its machine tools.
Member News: Aventics Acquired by Emerson
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 Aventics Corporation. Laatzen, Germany-based Aventics Corporation was recently acquired by Emerson, a fluid automation technology and engineering company based in St. Louis. The acquisition is expected to…
You Won’t Want to Miss the 2018 NFPA Foundation Invitational Golf Tournament
2018 NFPA Foundation Invitational Golf Tournament August 13, 2018 Glenview Park Golf Club The 10th annual NFPA Foundation Invitational Golf Tournament is coming up fast. Held at the Glenview Park Golf Club for the second year in a row, there are a number of reasons this is a can’t miss event: Extend your networking efforts:…
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…