Membership Continues to Grow
Canimex Inc. Drummondville, Quebec, – Canimex works directly with OEMs all over North America assisting them in engineering, service and design. For over 30 years, Canimex has offered a complete range of products including DC power units, radio remote control kits, low speed high torque hydraulic motors, brakes and steering units, variable displacement piston pumps,…
Fluid Power’s Role in Our Nation’s Energy Efficient Future – Part 2: Introducing Fluid Power to the Department of Energy
by Eric Lanke, CEO Second in a series of articles describing NFPA’s actions focused on the development of a program within the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) that can fund and focus on energy efficiency improvements using fluid power technology. The envisioned program would be partly research-focused, helping to develop new energy efficient fluid power…
Judy Wojanis Honored with 2014 Women in Manufacturing STEP Award
NFPA congratulates Judy Wojanis, president, Wojanis Hydraulic Supply Company, Inc. for being honored as one of the Manufacturing Institute 2014 Women in Manufacturing STEP Award recipients. The STEP (Science, Technology, Engineering and Production) Awards honor women who have demonstrated excellence and leadership in their careers and represent all levels of the manufacturing industry, from the…
NFPA Fluid Power Challenge Highlighted on National Public Radio
NFPA Workforce Program Manager, Lynn Beyer was a call-in on the Joy Cardin Show on National Public Radio on January 22. The topic was The Tech Race and Gender Gap and the guest speaker was Barbara Ericson, Director of Outreach, College of Computing at Georgia Tech. Lynn spoke about how the NFPA Fluid Power Challenge…
Local School District Helps Students Link Hydraulics to Future Transportation
By Jerry Merz, Consultant The Wauwatosa School District updated its 6th grade Technical Education program curriculum in 2013. The new curriculum incorporates pneumatics and hydraulics and the course culminating project utilizes the National Fluid Power Association (NFPA) Challenge. 480 6th grade students took the class during the 2012-13 school year and were exposed to fluid…
Students Design Gantry Crane for Senior Capstone Project
For their senior capstone project, three students at Lawrence Technological University are working on a crane that uses fluid power to move large loads. The project, “A Gantry Crane Utilizing Fluid Power,” is being funded through a teaching grant from the NFPA Education and Technology Foundation. The objective is to design a fluid powered device…
February Standards Update
The latest progress on International Standards Doc # Name Stage/Close Date Impact Contamination control ISO 3723:1976 Hydraulic filter element end load test International Standard circulated to the U.S. TAG to ISO/TC 131/SC 6 for systematic review; ballot closes 2014-02-14. Improves reliability Control products — hydraulic ISO 4401:2005 Mounting surfaces for four-port hydraulic directional control valves…
NFPA Members Set to Gather for 2014 Annual Conference
[youtube id=”tTATRFQTX4k” width=”854″ height=”480″] [Exerpt of Peter Zeihan, Keynote at 2014 Annual Conference] You won’t want to miss out on NFPA’s high-profile speakers to provide multiple perspectives. Speakers include: Federal Regulations are a Drag (on US Manufacturing Competitiveness) – Stephen Gold, President and CEO of MAPI; Why a Healthy Industry Needs Pre-Competitive Research – Kim…
NFPA Creates a Forum for the Fluid Power Industry and its Customers at 2014 IFPE
NFPA will once again have a strong presence at IFPE 2014 being held March 4-8, 2014 at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. Co-located with CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2014, IFPE provides a perfect platform for interaction between engineers in fluid power and its key end-use markets. A Gathering Place The NFPA booth, centrally located on…
Member Company News
ACE Controls Inc. recently celebrated their 50th anniversary with a reception that included their distributor base as well as their employees. Bosch Rexroth training specialist, Mike Bryan, was named Trainer of the Year by the German American Chambers of Commerce (GACC). The GACC Award recognizes outstanding German subsidiaries that demonstrate excellence in workforce training by…
Membership Continues to Grow
CKD USA Corporation Rolling Meadows, IL – CKD USA Corporation is the US headquarters for CKD Corporation. For more than 70 years CKD has been engineering solutions for companies in the automotive, semiconductor, machine tool and general factory automation fields. CKD is a full line pneumatic, process control and electromechanical manufacturer serving the Global Market…
Fluid Power’s Role in Our Nation’s Energy Efficient Future – Part 1: Setting the Stage
by Eric Lanke, CEO Did you know that NFPA has been engaging in a dialogue with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)? You didn’t? Well, I’m not surprised. After all, I haven’t been writing very much about it. What’s it all about, you ask? Well, at the highest level, it’s very simple. We would like…