Michael Ference Fluid Power Marketing

The Fluid Power Industrial Consortium is an excellent event that is produced by our friend, Tom Wanke of the Milwaukee School of Engineering in conjunction with the NFPA.  In fact, the event was scheduled to take place co-located with the NFPA Regional Meeting but due the pandemic, this year's June event is being presented as a webinar. The title of the presentation on June 4, 2020 is Improving Fluid Power System Efficiency, Reliability, and Durability with Precision Manufacturing .   Here is a link to a registration page The specific topics and presenters include Bore Finishing Processes for Improved Hydraulic Component Performance presented by Phil Hanna of Sunnen Products Company, Technology Integration in Real Life Production Machining presented by John Belmonte of Mitotec Precision, LLC, and Maximizing Manufacturing Productivity in the Information Age presented by Dan Skulan of Renishaw, Inc.  Having attended the FPIC events in the past as well as the NFPA Regional Meetin

I know that many working professionals across the world are using Zoom, GoTo Meeting, Google, and other means of communicating and we have actually done so for quite a while now, from even before the pandemic.  I also know that we have attended events through virtual means such as webinars for a long time too. Now, with events being postponed, fluid power companies still need a means to communicate with their customers and prospective customers and many have turned to digital platforms to replace face-to face events.  Back in 2017, Fluid Power World started our Fluid Power Technology Conference creating a forum for the exchange of information, for networking, and for getting to know more about what works best in fluid power. We had two great events planned for 2020 with the first conference taking place in Minnesota at the University of Minnesota in June.  Well, that plan got changed and, right now, it looks like that will not happen.  To replace it, we are planning a virtual

Our next YouTube Live training session will take place on May 26, 2020 at 2:00 PM EST.  The topic that will be presented by Carl Dyke of LunchBox Sessions will be PistonPumps:  Displacement & Pressure Cutoff Adjustments and it will be sponsored by Oilgear. Here is a link to LunchBox Sessions where you will need to subscribe in order to watch all of the training sessions for free.  As you can see from the above graphic, we have held three sessions already and they have had very good attendance.  The sessions are available in the archived version as well. I hope you will join us on May 26th for our next YouTube Live session.

We’re building a search engine for electronic and mechanical components and products including fluid power components and related products. It’s called DesignFast - https://www.designfast.com/ Our goal is to help engineers find the products they need and then send them over to your store to make their purchase. If your company website has an e-commerce platform, through our new DesginFast program we can drive some traffic over to your site. We have a fantastic offer for 2020 as we are focused on helping companies get their products listed on the platform, so we can start building more traction and momentum. We’ll revisit any paid programs in the future once we get past this Corona crisis - with no obligation .  Getting your products on DesignFast is simple. We just need a list of your products with details. We can use a Flat Files like a CSV or live API feed. Please let us know if you're interested in participating and we can work with you to get your feeds runnin

In case you did not have a chance to attend the live presentation of our YouTube Live training yesterday, here is a link where you can watch the archived version.  The title of this session was Pilot Operated Pressure Relief Valves and it was presented by Carl Dyke of LunchBox Sessions.  Carl is a regular contributor to Fluid Power World and our Fluid Power Technology Conference. We thank our sponsor, SMC, for making this session available to all interested learners.  Our next session is titled Piston Pumps:  Displacement & Pressure Cutoff Adjustments and it will be presented by Carl via YouTube Live on May 26, 2020.  Our sponsor will be Oilgear and I hope that you will join us then.

Here is a link to the lunchbox sessions presented by Carl Dyke link .  I hope that you can join Carl Dyke and Fluid Power World for the next online fluid power training session. This will be the third session in our YouTube Learning Series presented by Carl Dyke of LunchBox Sessions and CD Industrial, and by Fluid Power World magazine and digital media network. 

In June, our excellent content surrounding your advertising message continues in  Fluid Power World  magazine and digital media network.  Our print magazine has some very interesting and informative content planned this issue. It starts with our coverage of the  Material Handling Equipment .  The movement of goods is made easier with fluid power systems.  This issue will give some examples.  Also,  Agricultural Machinery continues to rely on the strength and dependability of fluid power systems.  We will review the fluid power systems involved in the machinery that feeds our world. Pneumatics and IoT  will be a focus on the specific applications of connectivity and the productivity provided by it in pneumatic systems.  Our product focus items for June will be  FRLs and  Fittings .  Our regular departments will round out an excellent editorial package in June. Turning to the digital side of our business, we offer six websites and e-newsletters including Fluid Power World, D