The need for efficient components with built-in intelligence continues to grow, including for hydraulics and pneumatics utilized in industrial applications as our top story in today’s newsletter discusses. Higher levels of automation are a driving force as well as the desire of machine owners to reduce their operational costs which efficiency can play an important role in achieving. These factors will shape the design of fluid power and other motion system designs for years to come as machine owners look to increase their productivity in various ways.

How do you see efficiency shaping hydraulic and pneumatic designs? In what ways are you seeing fluid power systems becoming more intelligent? Have topics related to these or other subjects you’d like to see Power & Motion cover in the future? Let me know your thoughts by emailing me any time at [email protected]. 

Sara Jensen, Editor, Power & Motion