Sometimes I think that hydraulics is a dirty word to airline executives. It’s as though some of them consider the technology as dirty, leaky and something they wish they could simply rid their passenger airplanes of. An old boss of mine once commented that a plane could hit a structure, tearing part of a wing […]
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Fluid power distributors — help needed!
One of the best things about working for WTWH is that we’re always trying something different. We’re currently working on a very exciting distributor app that will be featured here on MobileHydraulicTips in the coming months. In advance of that, our editorial team is working on some insightful new editorial pieces covering the fluid power […]
Lessons from PTDA — The power of power
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. […]
The manufacturer’s challenges of distribution network expansion
Last fall, Bailey International set the growth of alternative warehouse locations, as a strategic initiative. The idea was to expand westward in order to better serve its customers on the West Coast. This expansion would allow Bailey to save itself—and its customers—time and money. A site in Reno, Nev. was chosen and the move was […]
