Daniella Gonzalez-Olgren is the Product Manager of Valves at Festo, a leading supplier of pneumatic and electrical automation technology. Today, we invited her into our forum to learn more about their digital pneumatics technology and its impact on the food packaging process.

Learn More: https://www.festo.com/vtem 

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Russ Farrell is the Applications Engineering Manager at HED Controls, a leading designer of electronic control systems for mobile equipment applications. We invited him into our forum to learn more about their solution for increasing fuel efficiency in hydraulic refuse vehicles.

Learn more about HED Controls: https://www.hedcontrols.com/

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Valeria Tirelli is the CEO and Alberto Tacconelli is the General Manager of Aidro, a manufacturer of components for hydraulic solutions. Today, we invited them into our forum to learn more about their groundbreaking 3D printing technology and how it’s being used to produce efficient and high-quality components for fluid power applications.

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Luis Rodriguez is an Assistant Professor and Daniel Williams is an Associate Professor, both of Mechanical Engineering at Milwaukee School of Engineering. We invited them into our forum to learn more about what MSOE is doing, as one of NFPA’s Power Partner Universities, to get its students involved in fluid power education and careers.

Learn more about the Power Partner University program: https://www.nfpa.com/home/workforce/Engineer-Pathway/Power-Partner-.htm

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Jeremy Flasch is a Product Manager in the Electrical Division of FORCE America – an employee-owned manufacturer, distributor and integrator that provides systems and components to the on- and off-highway mobile markets. We invited him into our forum to learn more about a unique, electronically-controlled application of hydraulics – the precise dispersal and spreading of snow melt from on-highway trucks.

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Parveen Gupta is the Sales Director - Large Projects at Bosch Rexroth and we invited him into our forum to learn about a project he worked on involving hydraulic upgrades for the Panama Canal.

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Kanok Boriboonsomsin is a Research Engineer at the University of California, Riverside in the College of Engineering - Center for Environmental Research and Technology. Kanok is part of a group that assessed the readiness of different classes of off-highway equipment to move from internal combustion engines to electric battery packs as their primary energy sources – given the real-world power demands of these vehicles and the state of the art of current battery technologies – and we invited him into our forum to learn more about this research and what it might mean for the future of fluid power-driven and actuated vehicles.

Learn more about the featured research: https://nfpahub.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/2021-CRC-RWEW_v1.1.pdf 

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Brad Longmuir is an Area Sales Manager for Holmbury, a leading supplier of couplings and valves. Today, we invited Brad into our forum to learn about decompression block couplings and the mobile hydraulic equipment they enable.

Learn about Holmbury: https://www.holmbury.com/

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Dr. Ashlie Martini is a professor of mechanical engineering at University of California Merced and today, we invited her into our forum to learn about opportunities for students in fluid power-related industries and hear about the role education plays in developing the future fluid power workforce.

Learn more about Tribology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ggc44W-39iE

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Chuck White is Director of Sales and Marketing for Hallite Seals Americas, a leading supplier and pioneer of innovative sealing technologies and engineered sealing solutions for the fluid power industry. Chuck was a guest on the show in 2020 to discuss his company’s partnership with the Milwaukee School of Engineering at a testing level. Today, we invited Chuck back into our forum to learn more about understanding and extending the life of mobile equipment using new seal technologies they’ve been able to develop as a result of that testing partnership.

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