Hydraulics & Pneumatics articles from January 2003

Hydraulics & Pneumatics archives from January 2003

We'll beat leakage when users demand it. (Editor's Page).
January 1, 2003... While grocery shopping, I noticed how plain looking cereal boxes have become. When my kids were little, I remember seeing all kinds of foils, plastics, embossments, and special inks applied to cereal boxes. Now, most, or all, of them use simple...

Poor customer service -- a result of the new corporate socialism? (Readers' Forum).
January 1, 2003... My grandfather bought a hardware store in our rural town outside of Syracuse in 1915. He ran it through two world wars, the Great Depression, economic ups and downs and passed it on to my father in 1960. He ran it through economic ups and downs...

Industry Shipments & Order Statistics.
January 1, 2003... Industry Shipments & Order Statistics Orders and Shipments (Cumulative year-todate percent changes) Pneumatic Industrial Hydraulic Mobile ...

A look at 100 years of MSOE. (Industry News).
January 1, 2003... This January, the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE) is not only looking forward but also taking some time out to look back, as the university crosses major milestone -- its 100th birthday. A yearlong celebration is planned, with the...

Preliminary program announced for Scandinavian fluid power conference. (Industry News).
January 1, 2003... The Eighth Scandinavian International Conference on Fluid Power, planned for May 7-9, 2003 in Tampere, Finland, has unveiled its preliminary program. Sessions will cover water hydraulics, pumps, valves, hydraulic simulation, motion control, and...

Bosch Rexroth marks 50 years in hydraulics. (Industry News).
January 1, 2003... Bosch Rexroth's Industrial Hydraulics Div. has reached a huge milestone: 50 years in the hydraulics field. The Rexroth foundry in Lohr, Germany introduced its first hydraulic valves in 1952. Mannesmann Rexroth later merged with Hydromatik, and...

Industry-wide reliability program is launched. (Industry News).
January 1, 2003... The National Fluid Power Association has launched an industry-wide program in support of product reliability. NFPA's Technical Board hopes to complete drafting of the reliability testing standard, including all of the component-specific...

Parker's Skinner Valve gets a new name. (Industry News).
January 1, 2003... Parker Hannifin's Skinner Valve Division, New Britain, Conn., has changed its name to the Parker Fluid Control Division. The new identity will allow the company to better market its six distinct product lines. The division has manufacturing...

Online fluid power article archive updated. (Industry News).
January 1, 2003... Fluid Power Web's online article archive has been significantly updated, with many popular articles and feature series from 1992-2000. The archive, which is available at www.fpweb.com, now contains over 60 articles on fluid power technology,...

New technical standards available. (Industry News).
January 1, 2003... The NFPA is now offering new technical standards, including: Fluid power systems -- O-rings -- Part 1: Inside diameters, cross-sections, tolerances and size identification code and Hydraulic fluid power -- Flange connectors with split or...

NFPA celebrates its 50th anniversary. (Industry News).
January 1, 2003... The National Fluid Power Association (NFPA) is celebrating its 50th anniversary and has launched a year-long celebration to mark the event. A timeline is being constructed on NFPA's website to highlight the fluid power industry' rich past....

Sauer-Danfoss Inc. (People).
January 1, 2003... Sauer-Danfoss Inc., Chicago, has announced that Steven H. Wood has been appointed to its board of directors. Wood, executive vice president and CFO of Maytag Corp., holds a bachelor's degree in accounting from the University of Illinois,...

National Academy of Engineering. (People).
January 1, 2003... National Academy of Engineering, Washington, D.C., has appointed Norman L. Fortenberry as director of the new Center for the Advancement of Scholarship on Engineering Education. The center: seeks to catalyze continuous improvement in...

Delta Computer Systems, Inc. (People).
January 1, 2003... Delta Computer Systems, Inc., Vancouver Wash., has appointed Bill E. Savelaas motion products marketing manager. Savela holds a BS in electrical engineering and a MS in business administration from Michigan Technology Univ., Houghton, Mich.,...

FPDA launches distributor survey. (Industry News).
January 1, 2003... The Fluid Power Distributors Assn. has launched its biennial survey of distribution operations practices. The 2003 Distributor Profile Survey will focus on operational issues that distributors are facing in today's marketplace. FPDA is...

Load-sense gear pump opportunity. (Industry News).
January 1, 2003... Hydraulic Design Corp., Pittsburgh, announced that it seeks to partner with a leading hydraulic pump manufacturer interested in producing, marketing and distributing the proven, energy efficient load-sensing gear pump, designed and patented by...

Anderol and Royal Lubricants consolidate operations. (Industry News).
January 1, 2003... Anderol, Inc. and Royal Lubricants, Inc., East Hanover, N.J., have recently been consolidated under the Anderol name to bring their full line of, specialty lubricants under one global product line. The Anderol brands will support many industry...

Editor's note.
January 1, 2003... This issue of the magazine marks a transition in my status -- from emeritus to retired. Looking back over my 25-year career with Hydraulics & Pneumatics, I realize that I owe a great debt to many members of the far-flung, informal fluid-power...

Motion controllers offer versatility. (Ideas & Applications).
January 1, 2003... Many of the original motion controllers were inflexible boxes programmed for a single function or needing their own complex motion language. They were difficult to maintain and nearly impossible to troubleshoot. In contrast, the RMC100 family...

Rubber compound selection guide. (Ideas & Applications).
January 1, 2003... Many experts consider rubber as the least understood material. Unlike metals and plastics, rubber has no universal cut-and-dried design criteria, which makes selection of the correct rubber compound difficult. To assist with the selection...

Position transducers report in real time. (Ideas & Applications).
January 1, 2003... Output lag times are inherent in some position transducers because their signal-processing arrangements take time, In high-speed applications, this can mean that the controls only know where components have been recently, not where they are...

Limit control adds safety factor. (Ideas & Applications).
January 1, 2003... Ogden Manufacturing's ETR-9040 limit control protects equipment, work in process, and personnel from out-of-specification pressure, flow, and temperature. A true back-up system can be put in place when this microprocessor-based control is used...

Chrome plating goes inside the box. (Ideas & Applications).
January 1, 2003... Chromium plating on steel produces a wonderful combination of surface resistance to corrosion and wear. These factors make chromium-plated bar the material-of-choice for hydraulic piston rods. But there's a dark environmental side to the...

Help for unemployed fluid power professionals. (Ideas & Applications).
January 1, 2003... Economic conditions have forced a lot of people to look for a new job, and those in fluid power certainly are not immune. Many find it frustrating to repeatedly try explaining to recruiters just what fluid power is. Fortunately, there is an...

Pneumatic whistle alerts operator. (Ideas & Applications).
January 1, 2003... When customers make off-the-wall product requests, we sometimes suspect they may just be teasing us. That was the case when a manufacturer of heavy transport equipment first asked if we'd be interested in developing a pneumatic whistle. Then he...

Pressure locks shaft connections. (Ideas & Applications).
January 1, 2003... Reciprocating motion in auto mated machinery can weaken keyways and tapers that position and hold pulleys, sprockets, and gears -- possibly leading to system failure. To prevent such problems, ETP shaft connections from Zero-Max provide a solid...

Air-driven pumps increase flow with safety. (Pneumatic Systems).
January 1, 2003... An ongoing maintenance function at Borg Warner's Transmission Systems facility in Bellwood, Ill., involves changing, transferring, or treating a variety of fluids in a range of equipment throughout the plant. The company built several portable...

Plant air systems and efficiency. (Pneumatic Systems).
January 1, 2003... Seventy percent of all manufacturing facilities in the U.S. use compressed air to drive a variety of equipment. Compressed-air systems account for 10% of all electricity use and roughly 16% of U.S. industrial motor system energy use. More...

Air logic continuously reciprocates cylinder. (Pneumatic Systems).
January 1, 2003... Hoerbiger-Origa Corp.'s pneumatic oscillating valve offers an economical, automatic control for a variety of applications that call for a cylinder to reciprocate continuously. This component packages a solenoid-operated 3-way valve, a...

Rotary air valve locks tailgates. (Pneumatic Systems).
January 1, 2003... Air cylinders often are used to move tailgate locking levers into position on dump trucks and trailers to prevent accidental release of the truck's load. (This operation generally is manual on smaller trucks, but on most larger vehicles,...

HPU runs on air. (Pneumatic Systems).
January 1, 2003... P923 hydraulic power units (HPUs) incorporate reciprocating pumps driven by compressed air; seven models cover flows to 9 gpm and pressures to 10,000 psi. Pump stalls at max pressure -- generating no heat, noise, or wear and using no power....

Wrapping up the operating envelope. (Motion Control).
January 1, 2003... At system design time it is normally the case that the application calls for a specific load to be overcome and propelled at some specified or required velocity. This is called the design point or design target. A further reality is that most...

Fight leakage with new fittings: SAE's new J2337 fittings are the latest weapon in the war against leakage. But these fittings offer more than leak-free performance. (New Technology).
January 1, 2003... Users of hydraulic systems are demanding are the cost effective, leak-proof and reliable components with high power density. This means higher working pressures, in-leakage. But these fittings offer creased simplification of piping systems, and...

Jaw couplings are bitten by a spider of a different sort: selecting the proper type of jaw coupling goes hand-in-hand with choosing the right spider. (Design Basics).
January 1, 2003... One of the most widely applied types of flexible couplings is an elastomeric design known as the jaw coupling. This design is characterized by two hubs, each having two or more thick, stubby protrusions, called jaws, around their perimeters....

Double pump. (New Products).
January 1, 2003... Two rotary groups in A20VG Pump are positioned back-to-back with common port plate that has integral control devices and relief valves. Each positioning chamber uses micro controller to operate pressure reduction valve. Displacement per rotary...

Miniature shuttle valves. (New Products).
January 1, 2003... Shuttle valves -- in 24 configurations -- are precision-machined from solid brass, have bright dipped corrosion-resistant finish. Seals are Buna-N. Single-barb design grips urethane hose without clamps. Clippard Instrument Lab. 153

Speed regulators. (New Products).
January 1, 2003... Four models in Kinechek Mini-K Series of compact, hermetically sealed hydraulic speed regulators control speed/feed-rate over 1/2-, 1-, 1 1/4 and 1 1/2-in. strokes. Can be adjusted for forces from 5 to 1200 lb. Silicone fluid makes speed...

Vacuum module. (New Products).
January 1, 2003... VGS 3010 module integrates suction cup and multi-stage air-driven vacuum pump in single gripper unit to minimize vacuum loss between pump and point of application. Efficient pump produces 27-in. Hg at 45-psi feed pressure, consumes only 1 scfm....

Counterbalance valves. (New Products).
January 1, 2003... Counterbalance valves fit into industry standard size 8 cartridge cavity. Sometimes called over-center or load-holding valves, they also come in sizes 10, 12 and T11A. The direct-acting, poppet-type valves handle pressures to 5000 psi, flows of...

Soft-start air valves. (New Products).
January 1, 2003... PHSSA Series auto-pilot soft-start valve automatically allows gradual build-up of downstream pressure when system starts, protecting actuators and other equipment from shock. When downstream pressure reaches 60% of supply, main valve opens....

Hydraulic fittings. (New Products).
January 1, 2003... Line of fittings -- in more than 60 configurations -- serves applications with BSPP, BSPT, JIS, Komatsu, and DIN threads; meets JIC, SAE, and international standards. Custom sizes and styles available. Brennan Industries 157

Pressure transducer. (New Products).
January 1, 2003... Ashcroft KM10 transducers handle shock, vibration, and temperature extremes. Polysilicon thin-film sensor is welded to stainless-steel process connection inside 1P67 envelope. Digital signal conditioning produces linear and repeatable results....

Shock absorbers. (New Products).
January 1, 2003... Miniature MC 9 industrial shock absorbers are 1,22 in. long; offered in two effective weight ranges. Include internal accumulator, stainless-steel piston rod, integral mechanical stop, and fully threaded metric outer tube. ACE Controls...

Pneumatic valves. (New Products).
January 1, 2003... Series SVA10 and SVA20 solenoid valves -- constructed mainly of plastic -- offer high flow (Cvs of 0.4 and 0.86) in compact bodies (widths of 10 and 16 mm). Both can have 9- or 25-pin D-sub connectors. Options: 40-pin ribbon cable connector for...

Controllers. (New Products).
January 1, 2003... Rugged digital-electronic I/O controllers for mobile equipment can replace traditional relay logic to drive on/off or proportional solenoids. Units interface with 9-to 16-v battery power. Features can include valve drivers, safety interlocks...

Suction cups and suspensions. (New Products).
January 1, 2003... CVM line of suction cups and suspensions locate vacuum port at head, thus providing almost instant attach and release for automation equipment. Cups are available in flat, single-, and multi-bellows styles, molded from nitrile, silicone,...

Tube fittings. (New Products).
January 1, 2003... O-Ring Seal fitting compresses O-ring between gland and exterior surface of tube: requires no flaring or brazing. Tapered split-ring grips mechanically without distortion, resists vibration. Can be disassembled and reused because no parts...

Pattern-changer valve. (New Products).
January 1, 2003... Oil Control's labor-saving joystick pattern changer is compact, 2-position/8-way manual valve designed to enable excavator and backhoe operators to change joystick operation from John Deere pattern to ISO/SAB standard pattern -- and back again....

Pressure transducer. (New Products).
January 1, 2003... Compact Model DCT industrial pressure transducer -- based on micro-machined silicon technology -- is fully digitally compensated for effects of pressure and temperature changes. Construction is stainless steel. Available in variety of mounting...

Bellows-type cylinders. (New Products).
January 1, 2003... Economical, durable Rexroth 1900 low-profile bellows-type cylinders -- with metal end plates and elastomer sidewalls -- serve as actuators and vibration isolators. Can stroke through arc without clevis. Force capability ranges from 1 to 390 kN,...

www.cdsleeves.com/7fatalmistakes.html. (Web Wire).
January 1, 2003... This white paper, The Seven Fatal Mistakes of Storing Data, Music, and Photos on CDs, discusses "everything you always wanted to know about the pitfalls of burning CDs but didn't know who to ask." It has a lot of interesting information -- for...

www.aem.org. (Web Wire).
January 1, 2003... The website of the Association of Equipment Manufacturers is a recent winner from the Web Marketing Association's 2002 WebAwards. The site is a great place to get the latest news on construction and other mobile equipment manufacturing, along...

www.bei-tech.com. (Web Wire).
January 1, 2003... BEI Technologies manufactures a range of position, pressure, and inertial sensors, along with motors, optical encoders, and actuators. Their site explores the different industries they work in, along with product and R&D info.

www.htma.net. (Web Wire).
January 1, 2003... Here's the official site of the Hydraulic Tool Manufacturers Association, a not-for-profit organization that provides guidelines and standards for safe and efficient tool operation. Visitors can download a variety of PDF white papers on tool...

www.engineergirl.org. (Web Wire).
January 1, 2003... What a wonderful site this is for young women interested in pursuing an engineering career. Engineer Girl! is sponsored by the National Academy of Engineering, and it has sections that discuss why engineering is fun, what it encompasses, and...

www.car-buying-strategies.com. (Web Wire).
January 1, 2003... Here's a site that offers free advice on buying a new or used automobile. Some pretty detailed reviews are available for many late model cars, and a handy links section allows users to quickly apply for a loan, get insurance information, or...

www.compressorworld.com. (Web Wire).
January 1, 2003... CompressorWorld is an Internet company specializing in sales of industrial equipment. This slick website guides both new and veteran designers through the process of buying a variety of pneumatic components.

www.nato.int. (Web Wire).
January 1, 2003... NATO may bring to mind the Gold War years, but the organization has grown into well, we're not quite sure what it does anymore, but it's certainly changing, welcoming many of the former Iron Curtain countries into the fold. The group's website...

www.farmingtoneng.com. (Web Wire).
January 1, 2003... Farmington Engineering, Inc.'s website has myriad details on their line of [C.sub.v] expansion plugs, as well as their [C.sub.v] restrictors and solenoid valves. An easy-to-use product guide matrix puts all the necessary engineering and design...

www.docfinderplus.com. (Web Wire).
January 1, 2003... DocFinderPlus is a cool -- and accurate -- database for finding a doctor in your area in any specialty. The Plus refers to the fact that you can also search by hospital affiliation or HMO plan. And that's a must-have in these crazy health-care...

www.boardreader.com. (Web Wire).
January 1, 2003... BoardReader is a site that tracks the latest buzz on various corporations. The unfortunate thing is that it seems to be little more than a search engine; our trials resulted in some links that had nothing remotely to do with the company...

Accumulators.
January 1, 2003... Accumulators Fluid Petroleum base Synthetic Water Accumulators, Inc. * * * Air-Dro Cylinders, Inc. ...

Actuators, rotary.
January 1, 2003... Actuators, rotary Service Hydraulic Petroleum ...

Air logic devices.
January 1, 2003... Air logic devices Principle of Type operation MPL Fluidic Spool Air...

Compressors, vacuum pumps & blowers.
January 1, 2003... Compressors, vacuum pumps & blowers Function Mechanical Vacuum Compressor vacuum pump...

Couplings, quick connect, hydraulic.
January 1, 2003... Coupings, quick connect, hydraulic Fluid Petroleum base Synthetic Water Airmo, Inc. * * * Boston...

Couplings, quick connect, pneumatic.
January 1, 2003... Couplings, quick connect, pneumatic Type Single Double Straight shut-off shut-off...

Cylinders.
January 1, 2003... Cylinders Service Hydraulic Petroleum ...

Dryers.
January 1, 2003... Dryers Deliquescent desiccant Drying ...

End effectors & cylinder slides.
January 1, 2003... End effectors & cylinder slides End effectors Grippers Angular Parallel ...

Filters, air line.
January 1, 2003... Filters, air line Type Bowl Canister Coalescing Adsens Technology, Inc. * AIRman, Inc. * Airtec...

Filters, hydraulic.
January 1, 2003... Filters, hydraulic Fluid Petroleum base Synthetic Arrow Pneumatics, Inc....

Fittings, tube & port, hydraulic.
January 1, 2003... Fittings, tube & port, hydraulic Use Industrial Aerospace Adaconn * Adaptall Inc....

Fittings, tube & port, pneumatic.
January 1, 2003... Fittings, tube & port, pneumatic Use Industrial Aerospace Adaptall Inc. * Adsens...

Gages, pressure & flow, hydraulic.
January 1, 2003... Gages, pressure & flow, hydraulic Fluid Petroleum base Synthetic Water Accuaire Instruments Inc. ...

Gages, pressure & flow, pneumatic.
January 1, 2003... Gages, pressure & flow, pneumatic Type Sensing element Pressure Flow Diaphragm Bellows Accuaire Instruments Inc. * * *...

Heat exchangers.
January 1, 2003... Heat exchangers Fluid Petroleum Synthtic Air base Water fluid Airtek ...

Hose fittings & assemblies hydraulic.
January 1, 2003... House fittings & assemblies hydraulic Hose and fittings Permanent Re-usable ACE Hydraulics ...

Hose fittings & assemblies, pneumatic.
January 1, 2003... Hose fittings & assemblies, pneumatic Hose end fittings Hose fittings & assemblies, pneumatic Permanent...

Hydrostatic drives.
January 1, 2003... Hydrostatic drives Integral Number of package sizes Attica Hydraulic Exchange 10 Auburn Gear Inc. ...

Interface devices.
January 1, 2003... Interface devices Manual controls Design Panel mounted ...

Intensifiers, hand pumps & air-powered pumps.
January 1, 2003... Intensifiers, hand pumps & air-powered pumps Fluid Petroleum base Synthetic...

Joints, rotating & swivel.
January 1, 2003... Joints, rotating & swivel Design Barrrel Ball Bearing -shaft -pipe ...

Lubricators, air line.
January 1, 2003... Lubricators, air line Type Drop Wick Siphon Airtec Pneumatics, Inc. ARD - Ingersoll-Rand Fluid Products * Arrow...