Invitation to Serve on the 2021 NFPA Roadmap Committee

Education Roadmap road to horizon

  By Eric Lanke NFPA President/CEO NFPA is calling on all members to help populate the roster of the 2021 NFPA Roadmap Committee. We specifically need professionals from across the fluid power supply chain – including from our primary customer markets – to serve on next year’s committee and help us produce the 2021 NFPA…

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Fluid Power Research Aligned with NFPA Technology Roadmap

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 had the pleasure of attending the October 2019 Summit of the Center for Compact and Efficient Fluid…

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Fluid Power Forum Podcast Covers Technology Roadmap

Episode 6 of Fluid Power Forum, NFPA’s new fluid power industry-focused podcast, is now live. This episode features Mark Bokorney of Sun Hydraulics who, as the chair of NFPA’s Roadmap Committee, led the committee’s 2019 update to the Technology Roadmap for the U.S. Fluid Power Industry – a document that lays out a pre-competitive R&D agenda for fluid power technology to better…

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New Roadmap Prompts Call for Podcast Guests

  By Eric Lanke NFPA President/CEO I hope everyone is downloading and enjoying our bi-weekly episodes of Fluid Power Forum – NFPA’s new podcast focused on interesting and innovative uses of fluid power, and the people behind them. With the publication of the 2019 NFPA Technology Roadmap (download your copy here), there’s a new laundry…

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Expand Your IoT Knowledge at June 7 FPIC Seminar

Fluid Power Industrial Consortium (FPIC) June 7, 2019 Hyatt Regency, Milwaukee Milwaukee, WI Register Here Expand your knowledge of the Internet of Things in fluid power at the June 7 half-day Fluid Power Industrial Consortium (FPIC) seminar. This seminar will be held at the Hyatt Regency, Milwaukee and will kick off with breakfast and networking. The presentations for…

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