Nick Buccheri of Emerson discusses the evolving industrial electrification landscape and the importance of choosing the best motion solution for each application, whether electric, pneumatic, or hybrid.
Uncertainty about tariffs is reducing capital investments, leading to lowered market expectations for industrial and mobile machinery which are key customer sectors for the fluid power industry.
New hydraulic components, sensors, and other technologies launched at bauma 2025 reflect the mobile equipment industry's focus on efficiency, safety, and electrification.
Pulse-width modulation is familiar to those in the electronic control field, but hydraulics engineers probably don’t realize that this technology can be applied to achieve variable output from a fixed-displacement hydraulic pump.