Michael Ference Fluid Power Marketing

We continue our great second half plans for 2019 at  Fluid Power World magazine and digital media network.  Of course, our print magazine has some very interesting and informative content planned for the year.  In our October issue, we will feature  Forestry Equipment.    This market has remained a vital user group for all types of hydraulic components.  On the industrial side,  Plant Maintenance 101 best practices to aid designers and maintenance people alike on the ways to keep hydraulic and pneumatic systems running efficiently.  Our October issue will feature  Pneumatics in Vacuum Applications .   Whether your company is involved in medical, manufacturing, or any type of automation, this article will be helpful.  And we will review  Accumulators  and  Hydraulic Fluids. Turning to the digital side of our business, we offer six websites and e-newsletters including Fluid Power W...

The real heart of the Fluid Power Technology Conference is the content provided in the many seminar sessions or "talks" given from the FPTC stage.  At our MSOE event last week, we were very privileged to have lots of great content presented. On Tuesday, the first day of the actual conference, Ryan Kay of CEJN Industrial Corporation gave he usual excellent presentation titled Solutions for Multiple Hydraulic Connections ... "Ready, Set, Connect."  In his talk, Ryan discussed how multi-couplers can add value to the equipment/attachment manufactures and their end customers.  Thanks Ryan! Kicking off the sessions from the fieldhouse stage was Thomas Frolich of Freudenberg who talked about the Development of an Innovative Diaphragm Accumulator Design and Assembly Process.   They have developed a new concept for the manufacture of diaphragm accumulators. We thank Thomas for his presentation to our FPTC audience last week.  These two talks combined wit...

We have another great issue planned for the August 2017 issue of Fluid Power World .   As usual, we will be covering all of the fluid power bases with pneumatics, industrial fluid power, mobile hydraulics, a product focus, and our regular monthly departments. Fluid Power in Utility Equipment represents an important segment of mobile hydraulics that is very similar to construction equipment.   Consider all of the mobile vehicles used to maintain utilities across America and you will get a feel for the size of this market.   Our August issue will feature an application story on this mobile market.   We will also preview the ICUEE Show that serves the utility equipment market. Packaging is, of course, a very major segment of the overall pneumatics user market and our editors will take a look at pneumatic applications used to package goods for many end-use markets.   The PackExpo Show will take place in September and our August issue will preview that show....