Last week’s NFPA Industry and Economic Outlook Conference was highlighted by the always-popular Eli Lustgarten, SVP, Longbow Securities. Lustgarten, who noted that 2009-2012 was possibly the worst recovery in history, did say that the industrial sector is clearly leading this economy. “The U.S. is the best house in a lousy neighborhood,” said Lustgarten, in going […]
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Beswick’s quick-disconnect couplings: For those “not-normal” applications
Mike Donati of Beswick Engineering is quick and to the point: “I’ll bet that you, or one of your colleagues, have a requirement for a quick disconnect coupling. Normally that isn’t too difficult to source but—and this is why you drink several cups of coffee and stay late at work—you do not have a ‘normal’ […]
Fluid power: A great career choice
Loved seeing a news item last week on the Facebook page of the Minnesota West Community & Technical College. Their Granite Falls Campus announced that its Fluid Power Technology program, a 2-year technical program, has had 100% job placement rate for the class of 2012.
Combining pneumatic components for more efficiency
Met with Richard Bull of Norgren last week. Bull brought a sample of the new Integrated Valve and Actuator Control pneumatic product.
Pneumatics taking out the trash?
People are always proposing pneumatic tubes for all sorts of far-fetched ideas (going back at least to the Jetsons!), but the folks are Greener Ideal think that pneumatic tubes are the future of garbage removal.
First look at Festo’s pneumatic ExoHand HMI system
Festo has been active on the cutting edge of design the last few years, from the award-winning design of its M9 compressed air preparation units to its elegant SmartBird and elephant-inspired robotic arm. So it’s great to see the latest item to come out of their German design team, the ExoHand. And nice to see pneumatics playing a prominent role in this design
Update from the CCEFP
The big event last month was the annual conference of the National Fluid Power Association (NFPA) in Hawaii. In what was supposedly their largest Hawaii event ever (it’s usually held in the islands every third year), attendees heard a lot of information about globalization and how to take their companies and products to the international market.
