The highlight of the PTDA Industry Summit in Palm Desert, Calif., last week—at least for me—was the presentation by Jeffrey Gitomer, who spoke to the audience about sales and how the changing world is forcing sales professionals to adapt. He had the roughly 300 attendees alternately laughing and stopping to think. He summed up his […]
Hydraulic Management Group to partner with Scenery Hydraulic
Hydraulic Management Group, LLC, Troy, Mich., has announced a joint marketing agreement with Scenery Hydraulic-USA, a division of Shanxi Sipirui Machinery Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Shanxi, China. Under the agreement, HMG will help Scenery expand their market base in the global hydraulic user market, with the Vickers direct equivalent V/VQ/CQH vane product line. The product will […]
NFPA holding fluid power career fair
I was glad to hear at the recent National Fluid Power Association International Economic Outlook Conference that the group will be holding an upcoming regional career fair. This is something that the fluid power community needs more of, and it’s great to see the companies that have already signed up, including: Bimba Manufacturing, HUSCO International, […]
Get through 2014, and we’ll be fine, says Lustgarten
Eli Lustgarten of ESL Consultants Inc. matched the mostly positive outlook that Alan Beaulieu of the Institute for Trend Research had, as was discussed in my blog post from yesterday. Lustgarten told attendees that manufacturing continues to recover in the U.S. and he said that global economies generally fell into three groups in 2012. He […]
Mostly positive economic news coming from NFPA’s IEOC
The two featured speakers on the first day of the National Fluid Power Association’s annual International Economic Outlook Conference, Alan Beaulieu of the Institute for Trend Research and Eli Lustgarten of ESL Consultants Inc., have earned a bit of a reputation as doomsayers to IEOC regulars. But this year, the feeling was decidedly upbeat after […]
Day 2 of NI Week is “applications day”
Day 2 of NI Week continued to inspire those in attendance, with the keynote focusing on all the fascinating projects being done in the field with NI’s LabVIEW and CompactRIO architecture. Think of it as applications day. We heard about a crazy spectrum of applications, including CERN researchers sized down massive particle accelerators into smaller […]
NI Week 2013 and the big data revolution
The world is changing in data-driven ways that are sometimes hard even for engineers to fully grasp. Call it the Industrial Revolution 4.0 or the Internet of Things or Cyber-Physical Systems or The Programmable World—but National Instruments is a key player in this “big data” driven world, with its LabVIEW software and CompactRIO hardware systems. […]
Ramping up for IFPE Summit
It’s a mere 252 days to IFPE 2014, and I’m looking forward to some great reporting on the show from our editorial staff. (We have some interesting things planned, so stay tuned!) There will be so much to cover, including the educational component to the show, the National Conference on Fluid Power, which will cover a […]
7 most interesting classified engineering projects
An editorial contact of mine recently told me about his friend, Gerald Bull, and Bull’s work on several highly classified engineering projects, including Project Babylon. Babylon involved using a proposed gun-fired satellite launcher as a means of super artillery. Bull was eventually assassinated in Brussels in 1990 and questions remain about who was behind it. […]
Welcoming a new intern—and a new series
I would like to introduce you to Michael Jermann, a journalism student who is currently studying at Kent State University. Michael has a particular interest in technical writing and he will be interning with us for the next few months. You’ll see his handiwork here on MobileHydraulicTips.com, as well as some of our sister sites. […]