Design Engineering March/April 2017

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EDITORIAL BOARD

Dr. Alain Aubertin ice President, Business V Development and International Affairs, Canada Consortium for Aerospace Research and Innovation in Canada (CARIC)

Ajay Bajaj, P.Eng President, Rotator Products Limited; Past President and Board Member, Power Transmission Distributors Association (PTDA)

Frank Defalco Manager, Canada Makes, Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters

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U of T professor awarded 2017 Sloan Research Fellowship

14 CAD Report PTC rediscovers its CAD roots (again) with latest release of its modular push-pull CAD suite

20 CAD Beat Bottero Spa is changing the way bottles are made and using simulation to do it

28 Inside Design John Lamb National Segment Manager, ASCO, Emerson; Chairman, Canadian Fluid Power Association (CFPA)

Dr. Ishwar Puri, P.Eng ean of the Faculty of D Engineering; Professor of Mechanical Engineering, McMaster University

Dr. Mary Wells, P.Eng Associate Dean, Outreach; Professor of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, University of Waterloo

Form3 Design transforms creative ideas into compelling products

32 Idea Generator The latest in industrial products including motors, motion control and sensors

46 CFPA Corner National Fluid Power Challenge entices young minds to embrace STEM careers

Features 24 The Sky’s the Limit Drone Delivery Canada hopes to create a highway in the sky for parcel delivery

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26 State of Canada’s Aerospace Industry This sector contributed $28 billion to the GDP and 211,000 jobs to the Canadian economy

48 Anti-Robot Racer Prosthesis exoskeleton fuses fluid power and kinematics to create a new class of sports machine

52 Fluid Power Round Table 2017 Industry leaders discuss fluid power trends, career opportunities and the Trump effect

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ditors like to think we have our finger on the pulse of the professions, industries and technologies we cover. In truth, it’s unrealistic to think we can be even a fraction as knowledgeable as the people who work in the trenches, day to day. That’s especially true of a magazine like Design Engineering, which covers such a wide swath of industries.

With that in mind, I’d like to call attention to our newly constituted editorial board, a group of prominent individuals who will help guide our understanding and coverage of the mechanical engineering profession going forward. In each case, we looked for people at the top of their respective fields who aren’t tied to one company or institution and could therefore represent the whole.

A few of the names on this list have been unofficial board members for some time. John Lamb, President of the Canadian Fluid Power Association, and Ajay Bajaj, past President and current Board Member of the Power Transmission Distributors Association, are both long-time friends of and contributors to the magazine. Between them, their respective associations cover the gamut of technologies important to our machine design community. Including them on the board formally recognizes their past and on-going contributions.

Others are relatively new to the magazine, but represent industries core to our readership. For 30 years, Dr. Alain Aubertin, Vice President of Business Development and International Affairs at the Consortium for Aerospace Research and Innovation in Canada (CARIC) has been deeply embedded in aerospace research and international commerce, both as an engineer and business owner. With his guidance, Design Engineering will gain a greater understanding of what drives Canada’s aerospace research and industry at home and around the globe.

Similarly, Frank Defalco will contribute significantly to our coverage of the relatively young additive manufacturing industry. As Manager of Canada Makes, a network of private and public entities dedicated to advanced and additive manufacturing in Canada, he has a unique, and vender neutral, perspective on 3D printing technology and how it is impacting Canadian product development and manufacturing.

Of course, much of Canada’s cutting edge engineering science is performed in the labs of the country’s top university engineering departments and our last two board members reflect that fact. In academic circles, University of Waterloo Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering professor, Dr. Mary Wells is best known for her metallurgy and material science research. As the UofW Associate Dean of Outreach, she’s also highly regarded as a passionate advocate for increasing the participation of women in the engineering profession.

Finally, the curriculum vitae of McMaster University’s Dean of Engineering, Dr. Ishwar Puri, is too long for this editorial space, let alone a few sentences. An expert in thermodynamics and magnetic fluid and particle transport (among other fields), he also serves on the executive committee of the Canadian National Council of Deans of Engineering and Applied Science (NCDEAS) and the Global Engineering Deans Council.

We are honoured to welcome these new members to our team, but forming the board represent the beginning of an on-going process. In the future, we foresee adding others who can similarly provide us with the broader and deeper understanding of the industries we cover.

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U OF T PROFESSOR AWARDED 2017 SLOAN RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP

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ngela Schoellig, an assistant professor at the University of Toronto’s Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS), has been awarded a 2017 Sloan Research Fellowship. The fellowships are sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and will provide Schoellig with US$60,000 over a two-year period to support research into machine learning related to autonomous aerial vehicles.

Schoellig is one of only five researchers at Canadian universities out of the 126 earlycareer scholars honoured this year. She heads the university’s Dynamic Systems Lab and is associate director of the Centre for Aerial Robotics Research and Education (CARRE).

She conducts research combining robotics, controls and machine learning. Her goal is to enhance the performance and autonomy of robots by enabling them to learn from past

experiments and from each other.

The flying robots designed by Schoellig and her team could have a wide range of realworld applications, from monitoring pollutants in remote lakes to delivering automatic external defibrillators (AEDs) rapidly and directly to homes. Although there is significant work to be done before flying robots can undertake these tasks, Schoellig says the fellowship will bring her work one step closer to achieving this goal.

“This is both an incredible honour and very humbling,” Schoellig said. “It really is recognition of the work of my entire research group and all of my collaborators – both current and past. This award will enable us to focus on new exciting directions in the development of machine learning algorithms for robotics.”

Angela Schoellig, assistant professor at the University of Toronto’s Institute for Aerospace Studies (Photo credit: Roberta Baker).

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UP FRONT ATS Automation taps new CEO

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MDA to acquire DigitalGlobe MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) has entered into a definitive merger agreement to acquire Colorado-based DigitalGlobe – a deal valued at C$4.7 billion, including debt. Vancouver-based MDA has supplied robotics for the International Space Station, the Canadarm for the U.S. Space Shuttle program and satellite-based Earth imaging.

The space tech company is offering cash and stock worth US$35 per share.

The combined company will have about 4,600 employees in the United States and will continue to employ more than 1,800 in Canada. It will provide a full range of space-related capabilities, including communications and Earth observation satellites, ground stations and robotics. The transaction is expected to close in the second half of 2017. www.mdacorporation.com March/April | 2017

ATS Automation Tooling Systems Inc. has appointed Andrew Hider as the new chief executive officer of ATS effective March 6, 2017. Hider’s predecessor, Anthony Caputo, stepped down from his role as CEO and resigned from the Board of Directors as of February 15, 2017.

Most recently, Hider served as President and CEO of the Taylor Made Group, LLC, a diversified global leader in the supply of innovative products and systems for marine, transportation, agriculture and construction markets.

“ATS has great customers, automation industry-leading employees and a proven value creation plan for shareholders,” Hider says. “I look forward to building on the company’s success in the months and years ahead.” www.atsautomation.com

program. The first phase of the program will utilize the Munich-based Fraunhofer Institute’s DEDAVE Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) as the base platform. The AUV will be enhanced with hydrodynamic, control system and payload upgrades.

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An engine fan and inlet ingesting boundary layer air in a wind tunnel.

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NASA looks at rear aircraft engine design for enhanced performance

Researchers at NASA are studying Boundary Layer Ingestion (BLI) as a promising concept that will help reduce fuel burn in jet engines, as well as cutting emissions and overall operating costs.

While BLI doesn’t make the engines and more powerful, researchers say it does reduce drag. Thus, engines need less thrust to push the aircraft forward, using less fuel.

In a conventional design, with the engines fixed beneath the wings, slow airflow builds up over the aircraft and continues off the rear of the plane, mixing with undisturbed air. With BLI, engineers design the aircraft with the engines located near the rear. This allows air flowing over the plane’s body to become part of the mix of air entering the engine.

When an aircraft’s engines are put in the path of this boundary layer, it is able to enter the engine, and is thus ingested

New stretchable touch sensor could make future foldable devices

Canadian researchers at the University of British Columbia (UBC) have developed an inexpensive sensor that could help make hyper-flexible touch screens a reality. Researchers are already suggesting these sensors could be used to make a foldable tablet or possibly an artificial skin that senses body movement and tracks vital signs.

The sensor uses a highly conductive gel sandwiched between layers of silicone that can detect different types of touch, including swiping and tapping, even when stretched, folded or bent. The current prototype measures only 5x5cm; however, researchers (Photo courtesy of UBC) suggest the sensors can scaled up, as they are working with materials that are both inexpensive and widely available.

“There are sensors that can detect pressure, such as the iPhone’s 3D Touch, and some that can detect a hovering finger, like Samsung’s AirView,” said researcher Mirza Saquib Sarwar, a PhD student in electrical and computer engineering at UBC. “There are also sensors that are foldable, transparent and stretchable. Our contribution is a device that combines all those functions in one compact package.”

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(BLI). It is then accelerated with the rest of the air passing through the engine and exhausted out the back.

The results are promising, and NASA’s aeronautical innovators and industry partners are studying several airplane concepts that could take advantage of BLI. NASA researchers, though, are still exploring the challenges of this design configuration. With rear-mounted engines, the engine’s fan blades are exposed to additional stresses every time they pass through the distorted airflow due to the boundary layer.

These designs could potentially be incorporated into a series of X-planes NASA hopes to build and fly within the next decade to demonstrate advanced technologies and accelerate their adoption by industry. www.nasa.gov

The “double bubble” D8 Series is one aircraft design concept that uses boundary layer ingestion. (Photo courtesy of NASA/MIT/Aurora Flight Sciences)

The development of malleable displays have been a focus of intense research interest over the last couple of years. Canadian researchers have pushed the technology to include smartphones that can bend and touchscreens that can flex.

“It’s entirely possible to make a room-sized version of this sensor for just dollars per square metre, and then put sensors on the wall, on the floor, or over the surface of the body—almost anything that requires a transparent, stretchable touch screen,” said Sarwar.

John Madden, Sarwar’s supervisor and a professor in UBC’s Faculty of Applied Science, suggests that the applications for these sensors goes well beyond smartphones and could be integrated in robotic “skins” to make human-robot interactions safer.

“Currently, machines are kept separate from humans in the workplace because of the possibility that they could injure humans,” Madden explains. “If a robot could detect our presence and be ‘soft’ enough that they don’t damage us during an interaction, we can safely exchange tools with them, they can pick up objects without damaging them, and they can safely probe their environment.” www.ubc.ca

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12 DesignNews Samuel, Son & Co. buys Burloak

One of Canada’s oldest and most reliable companies, Samuel, Son & Co., announced its acquisition of Dundas, Ontario-based Burloak Technologies, a Canadian leader in metal additive manufacturing services.

“We are very excited about this announcement and what it will mean to Samuel and its customers,” said Colin Osborne,

President, Samuel Manufacturing. “Every indicator is pointing to additive manufacturing and 3D printing being a disruptive technology in many of the industries we supply.”

Burloak Technologies designs, prototypes and develops production parts for aerospace, defense and commercial high tech companies. Samuel says the acquisition will enhance its ability to support its customers and allow the two companies to provide the strongest independent supply chain solution in the North American market. With facilities throughout North America, Samuel says it intends to rapidly scale the Burloak operations to deliver 3D metal printing solutions to customers globally. www.samuel.com

Ford adopts 3D printing for quicker design iterations

Samuel Manufacturing President Colin Osborne (right) and Peter Adams, President Burloak Technologies holding a component produced with Burloak’s metal additive manufacturing technology.

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Ford is exploring how large-scale one-piece auto parts, like spoilers, can be 3D printed for prototyping and future production vehicles. The automaker is part of a pilot project that uses a Stratasys Infinite Build 3D printer.

This project will demonstrate the technology’s ability to print practically any shape or length, making it perfect for automotive parts manufacturing. The 3D printer will be located at the Ford Research and Innovation Center in Dearborn, Michigan and will be used to develop more efficient, affordable ways to create tooling and prototype components for lowvolume vehicles.

Additionally, Ford says it could use 3D printing to make larger tooling and fixtures, along with personalized components.

“With Infinite Build technology, we can print large tools, fixtures and components, making us more nimble in design iterations,” said Ellen Lee, Ford technical leader, additive manufacturing research. “We’re excited to have early access to Stratasys’ new technology to help steer development of large-scale printing for automotive applications and requirements.” www.ford.ca

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PTC rediscovers its CAD roots (again) with latest release of its modular push-pull CAD suite.

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he name Creo comes from the Spanish, “create.” By the late 1990s, however, it also came to mean “gang” in street language. Perhaps this is why, when PTC unveiled its new MCAD software in 2010, they adopted the jailhouse theme for the launch event. Metaphorically, Creo was intended to release inmates from the jail in which all other CAD vendors were imprisoning them, PTC executives told the assembled industry analysts and media in downtown Boston.

How might Creo release these prisoners? It turned out PTC’s plan was no different than any other CAD vendor whose software performs direct modeling: read in 3D models from lots of other CAD programs, employ feature recognition to give the newly-arrived dumb solids new smarts, and then use direct editing to edit the parts. Not exactly a new plan, as four years earlier SpaceClaim had already set the industry on fire with the same approach to direct modeling.

Creo was in fact a new name for two old programs, Pro/Engineer and ME10.

Pro/Engineer is a true pioneer in that it was the very first parametric MCAD program in the late 1980s. ME10 was a direct modeling package acquired by PTC from HP, who had used it primarily in sheet metal design for its laser printers, beginMarch/April | 2017

ning in the mid-1980s.

Today, Creo is a family of programs: • Creo Parametric – the full-meal deal, including direct modeling • Creo Direct – stand-alone direct modeling • Creo Illustrate – technical illustration management

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CADReport 15 • Creo Layout – 2D drafting • Creo Options Modeler – product configuration • Creo Schematics – 2D electrical schematics • Creo Simulate – FEA simulation • Creo Sketch – 2D freehand sketching (free to use) • Creo View ECAD – PCB viewer • Creo View MCAD – 2D and 3D file viewer (free to use) New in Creo 4.0 When you’re familiar with function sets in certain CAD packages, it can come as a surprise to learn what other ones do – or don’t do. Creo 4.0, for instance, adds some basic functions other CAD packages have had for years, even decades. For example, box selection is new, where dragging the cursor diagonally left-to-right selects enclosed objects, and right-to-left selects crossing and enclosed objects. AutoCAD and its clones have had this for ages. Other examples of not-so-new functions new

to Creo include a mini toolbar that appears when objects are selected, customization of shortcut keys and fullscreen editing mode.

With each Creo release, direct editing becomes stronger. In release 4.0, a new clipping mode lets us see the part we are editing within the assembly. To help draw parts, we can now snap to other parts for reference. Opposite faces of parts can be dragged at the same time, and we can make negative offsets. In the View Manager, the Appearances tab lets us changes the colors of parts.

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Creo 4.0 filling voids with lattices made from 3D triangular cells. (Right) It can also fill voids with 3D square, hexagonal and octagonal cells.

dimensions and tolerances), to specify tolerances and other specifications.

This isn’t new to Creo; what is new in 4.0 is the GD&T Advisor add-on that reports tolerance information that may be missing or is incorrectly constrained.

For example, when we add a dimension to a hole, the advisor asks if the hole should be perpendicular or at an angle, and then requires us to specify the tolerance range for the hole.

Uniting Solids and Meshes It’s common today for MCAD software to provide both solids and mesh modeling – solids for precise 3D models, meshes for organic shapes made from 3D laser scans, or swooshy modeling that just needs to look good, as in industrial design. The problem is that combining the two is nearly as hard as mixing oil and water.

Kernel vendors like Parasolid and Spatial are inching towards an integrated solution. PTC is doing the same with its Granite kernel, which the company calls “Freestyle.” After a 3D mesh (aka subdiMarch/April | 2017

vision mesh) is in Creo – either imported or constructed natively – Freestyle builds manufacturable geometry (solids) yet retains the easily editable mesh.

Sheet Metal Sheet metal design has become a big deal in low-cost packages like BricsCAD and Onshape, because in some ways it’s easy.

These packages deal with solids of constant thickness using parametric and direct modeling. What we call direct modeling, PTC calls flexible modeling.

In 4.0, sheet metal gets flexible modeling so that we can edit bends, bend reliefs, corner reliefs and corner seams and forms.

Matching the abilities of the two CAD packages mentioned previously, Creo can now import parts designed in other CAD systems, convert them to sheet metal parts, recognize their features (like bends, holes, reliefs), and then edit them – like dragging edges longer or adding bend reliefs.

3D Printing and Lattice Structures Support for printing 3D models found its way into Creo 3, specifically by export-

ing STL files that recognize specific 3D-printer models of two brands, Stratasys and 3D Systems; however, parameters for other brands can be added. With 4.0, Creo prints directly to 3D printers on the network and to remote ones over the Internet. Print validation checks if there are thin walls and other issues that do not print well, and 3D print preview confirms that support structures are in place and makes sure no parts are clipped.

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accessed the function through a thirdparty add-on.) The shape of a lattice part looks like a 3D molecular structure. We select the “hole” in the model to fill, Creo arrays the lattice blocks, and then we adjust their angle and position so that they sit just right. There can’t be any dangly bits; if the finished part encounters liquids, then the lattice will also

need drain holes. After the lattice is placed, we need to run the part through Creo Simulate to ensure it can still handle specified stress loads.

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instead pushed its WindChill PLM software and got very excited over technical publishing. For a part of the last decade, PTC swiveled towards SLM and ALM (software lifecycle management and application lifecycle management). In recent years, it’s been concentrating on IoT, the Internet of Things. Each time it does so, PTC is looking for a way to broaden its sales beyond MCAD. Between these flirtations with notCAD, PTC management rediscovers its CAD roots. In its current fascination with IoT, PTC sees its CAD software providing a useful function. You may have heard about IoT in home devices like Nest thermostats and Phillips smart lightbulbs. It’s outside the home that IoT is being applied seriously, most commonly as sensors on machinery that transmit reports in real-time when parts fail or energy consumption skyrockets.

PTC sees IoT as a big market, and so sees Creo 4 useful for designing IoT devices into CAD models.

Meanwhile, on the other coast, Silicon Valley is excited about what AR (augmented reality) might be able to do. This is where digital data overlays images of the physical world in realtime. PTC plans to integrate its Thingworx Studio with Creo 4.0 so that users have AR experiences of their designs.

The company calls AR “a more effective, engaging and compelling design review process.”

To be sure, Creo is not software for the self-employed or small businesses.

PTC targets corporations likely to also buy many more of its ancillary products and services. With 4.0, PTC expands the capabilities of Creo downward and upward. Downward to basic tasks like full-screen editing and upwards to concepts like freestyle editing and augmented reality.

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STRONGER, LIGHTER GLASS

BOTTLES Bottero Spa is changing the way bottles are made and using simulation to do it.

By Stephen Ferguson

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n a deeply traditional industry, one company is revolutionizing bottle manufacturing by deploying multidisciplinary engineering simulation software to understand exactly what happens inside the bottle making process and using that information to build better bottle making machines.

Bottero Spa is an Italian company that specializes in making machinery for the manufacture of various types of high quality glass products, including a “hollow glass” division that designs and manufactures bottle and container making machinery. Bottero’s aim is to allow their customers to develop innovative new lightweight glass products that are structurally superior to previous designs, but can be manufactured using less raw material and less energy.

Put simply, Bottero is using multidisciplinary simulation to discover how to make better bottles, faster than ever before. Heading this effort are Bottero’s Head of R&D, Marcello Ostorero, who pioneered the use of engineering simulation at Bottero, and Simone Ferrari, who performs many of the STAR-CCM+ calculations at the heart of the simulation process.

Making stronger, lighter bottles Although glass seems a solid, in reality it’s a supercooled liquid, whose viscosity is so great that its molecules do not move freely enough to form crystals. Managing the way glass flows and is cooled to its (near) solid state is critical in ensuring the strength of the final container.

In simple terms, a glass bottle is formed by molding a glob of molten glass (enough to make a single container) into a preliminary bottle shape known as a parison.

This parison is then carefully cooled while being blown into the final bottle shape by a stream of compressed air before the bottle is subjected to a number of downstream processes.

“Our aim is to make lighter bottles, that use less raw materials, less energy to melt and therefore cost less to manufacture,” says Ferrari. “However, since glass is a very sensitive material, we also have to ensure that the bottles are very strong.

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walls of the containers by adding more glass. However, this resulted in heavier products that were less consumer friendly and more expensive to manufacture. In the past 20 years, thanks to developments in manufacturing technology and to the combined influence of consumer preference and economic necessity, the weight of a typical glass bottle has reduced by over 40 percent without any loss in structural rigidity or increase in fragility.

“In order to make a structurally strong bottle, there are two critical stages. In the first step, a glob of molten glass is molded into a parison, which is a preliminary bottle shape. After this, the final bottle is formed in another mold,” says Ostorero.

“Getting this first shape right is extremely important in ensuring the structural strength of the final bottle. It has to be very precise. Otherwise, the bottle will break during normal usage conditions.”

During the manufacturing process, the glass is cooled from over 1,000°C to ambient temperature, during which time the viscosity of the glass increases by seven orders of magnitude (from 100P to 1e9P). If the bottle is cooled too rapidly or unequally, then internal stresses are generated in the walls of the container that reduce its overall durability.

The significant problem in this regard is that it is impossible to understand what actually happens to the molten glass during the molding process, which happens March/April | 2017

unseen inside the bottle-making machine.

Historically, the only way to judge the effectiveness of an extremely complex physical process was to look at the quality of the final product – its glass distribution – and try to imagine what might have gone wrong inside the mold.

“The strength of the final product depends to a great extent on how the glass is cooled during the manufacturing process,” says Ferrari. “Although we can measure the temperature of the mold in the glass plant, without simulation we have little or no insight into the actual temperature of the glass itself. The standard approach in the industry is one of trial and error. Stopping the manufacturing process for months at a time, so that you can perform trials, costs both time and money but doesn’t really give much insight into any problems in the process itself.”

A large bottle manufacturing plant can produce more than two million containers a day, or 25 bottles per second.

The cost of these “trial and error” investigations or unresolved problems in the manufacturing process is huge. For this reason, Bottero decided to deploy engineering simulation to gain detailed insight into the bottle making process.

Multidisciplinary Simulation “To make a good glass container, you need to actually study the physics of the

glass,” says Ostorero, relating the key insight that is at the heart of Bottero’s simulation philosophy. “Rather than thinking only of the mold, we oriented our view on the glass itself. The big advantage of the simulation is that it allows you to really understand what is actually happening inside the mold.”

The glass forming process is also extremely sensitive to changes in machine timing, glass composition and environmental conditions. Ferrari explains: “As it is nearly impossible to physically visualize what really happens inside the molds during the different phases, numerical simulation is the only tool available to help better understand the details of the physics as they occur during the process.”

“We have very complex physics,” explains Ostorero. “If we look just at the machine production, structural and fluid dynamic aspects can be separated. If we look at the product we have to manage, they can’t. They must be treated together.

They are very, very coupled. We produce machines to make containers. The container is made by the cooling down of the molten glass, but it has very hard structural requirements. Understanding the actual temperature of the glass is by far the most important factor in ensuring the strength and quality of the final container. Multidisciplinary simulation using a tool like STAR-CCM+ is the only way that we can achieve that.” www.design-engineering.com

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However, solving the engineering problem is not the only challenge that Ostorero and his team had to face. The glass making industry is deeply conservative, sometimes relying on experience gathered over decades and passed down over centuries. Although this experiencebased knowledge is always valuable as a starting point for developing new products, it is unsuitable for the sort of intelligent design exploration required to facilitate true innovation.

“Many, many, many people from glass plants tell us, ‘Oh, it is impossible to simulate the structural resistance of the glass. Oh, it’s impossible to simulate the forming process of the glass. You are crazy,’” says Ostorero. “Maybe at the beginning, we were crazy. But now we are consistently obtaining good results and simulation is allowing us to discover important new markets in which we have no competition for the moment.”

Exceeding Customer Expectations So, how much better are the products designed through simulation?

“Recently we helped one of our customers reduce the weight of a bottle that holds carbonated beverages using simulation,” continues Ostorero. “When he tested the bottle that we helped him to produce, he was unable to make the bottle explode. This is an incredible achievement - simulation has pushed the structural performance of the bottle beyond the capability of the testing machines. This would have been impossible without simulation.”

“None of our competitors make extensive use of simulation,” continues Ferrari with a smile on his face. “So this has been really, really good for our customers. They are starting to pay us to show them how to improve their manufacturing, for example, how to design better molds and ultimately produce better bottles. So we are actually acquiring knowledge from simulation that is superior to that previously gained by experience alone.”

An eye-catching bottle that sets itself apart from the crowd can be a conversation starter at a gathering or just something that is fun to look at. Bottero understands this and realizes the

importance of a creative bottle design to the consumer. By using simulation in the manufacturing process, Bottero satisfies consumer demand for a unique product by producing a bottle that is well made, lightweight and leaves a lasting impression.

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SKY’S THE LIMIT Drone Delivery Canada hopes to create a highway in the sky for parcel delivery.

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ome of the largest tech giants in the world are moving away from traditional delivery methods. Google’s Project Wings and Amazon’s Prime Air are just two examples of how drone delivery is taking the market by storm. Drone Delivery Canada (DDC) is looking to harness drone technology and build a logistics platform fit to reach Canadians in some of the most remote regions.

Located in Vaughn, ON, DDC was founded three years ago by brothers Tony and Paul Di Benedetto, who had a long history of building up successful technology-focused businesses. After selling their previous business in 2013, the duo wanted to direct their energies to finding the next big tech disruptor.

“We thought there was a huge market that could potentially be opened up and the drone industry really fascinated us,” explains Tony, chief executive officer at Drone Delivery Canada.

However, the brothers were faced with a lot of questions: Can this concept be commercialized? What are the regulatory issues? And who are the main stakeholders within the sector?

“We are really taking baby steps to start executing and building up a platform and getting all of the stakeholders on board to scale it,” Tony adds. “It’s an enormous undertaking.”

When the brothers first entered the drone technology market, it was very much in its infancy. The only available drones were designed to suit hobbyists and recreational needs and that just didn’t work for this particular application.

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explains Paul Di Benedetto, the chief technology officer at Drone Delivery Canada. “And commercial drone technology is still in the development stage.”

To develop a logistics platform and commence testing, DDC needed to develop their own cargo drones to meet the unique specifications of the Canadian delivery market. The company reached out to various governmental agencies and academic institutions to bring together the best minds in drone technology.

There are three main components involved in this technology. The core component is the back-end application system called FLYTE, which acts as the brain of the system – scheduling, managing routes, coordinating between users, regulatory bodies and the UAVs. The second component is the logic that sits on the drone and enables it to safely operate unmanned. Paul explains that they have been working closely with engineers at the University of Waterloo to develop the embedded system, which is at about 80% completion.

The third component is the drone itself. For its development, DDC has worked primarily with the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS) and the mechanical engineering faculty to design and develop commercial-grade airframes.

“Sometimes, what we believe in theory makes a lot of sense,” explains Tony. “But, in practicality, does not. We do a lot of www.design-engineering.com

CanadianInnovator 25 testing, almost every single day. Our solution is very unique for what we are trying to do so it requires some tweaking. We have been plugging away at design and development but have definitely made huge strides.”

The smallest drone they are working with at the moment is just under 80 inches, which is significantly larger than most drones currently available. Most drones also can't survive repeated flights in some of the harshest weather conditions.

“In Canada, the weather can range from -50° all the way up to +50°,” says Paul. “So it’s a really big swing and a lot of consumer products out there just don’t fit this need. Also, a lot of components aren’t designed to those manufacturing specifications, so that’s been a significant design challenge…Some of the adhesives being used or the technology doesn’t withstand the extremes we need…And when we do find components that meet this, they are often heavy or they don’t exist at all. And that’s makes building the lightest, fastest, most durable drone challenging.”

To date, DDC has developed a number of different prototypes that fit into specific delivery categories, so as not to have a massive fleet of many different kinds of UAVs. They typically organize the drones into different payloads, with 5-10lbs being a typical sweet spot for most clients. They also needed to consider if the prototypes were to be used for short or long-distance runs.

“It’s a complete balance between designing something for weight and distance,” Paul adds.

This is why their partnerships with the University of Toronto and Waterloo are so important. DDC is able to bring their design concepts to the teams of highly skilled engineers, who collaborate on and review all proposed solutions to see what best fits the drone delivery system needs.

Throughout the process, the team was tasked with designing something that was both extremely strong yet very light and energy efficient. Currently, 60-80% of the overall build is made up of carbon fibre. However, the team has toyed with the idea of integrating graphene into the airframe.

“We are able to utilize graphene to replace traditional copper wires, which eliminates a lot of weight and it is a very efficient conductor,” explains Tony. “This helps extend battery life and we are also exploring graphene battery technology. It is really using next-gen materials to maximize efficiencies.”

Through this process and collaboration, the brothers say they are learning more and more each day. Testing has provided some valuable insights into the market and client needs as well as feasibility.

“Besides weather, aerodynamics was a significant design challenge,” Paul adds. “Even though you want the most aerodynamic shape, it’s not necessarily the best shape for

the application. You don’t want a massive drone moving a small package around.”

In October 2016, DDC received its first commercial test licence from Transport Canada and began testing their UAV prototype and logistics platform in the Kitchener-Waterloo area. The platform itself is designed to be drone agnostic; when more commercial cargo drones become available, the team can integrate their logic into any airframe.

The delivery system operates in the company’s private cloud, while the autopilot system sits within the airframe/drone.

Through a variety of different communication systems including satellite, the drone communicates with company servers at the DDC mission control.

In the network operation centre, trained staff and pilots are able to oversee the fleet of drones while they operate and execute their missions. According to the company, one pilot can oversee 50 drones.

Testing is underway and DDC recently oversaw their drone from a 125km distance. They are looking to do more extensive testing at Transport Canada’s drone testing site in Foremost Alberta, where they can conduct an “out of sight” test of up to 3000km.

The company also recently partnered with Staples to enable the drone delivery technology in up to 250 locations. Staff is trained on how to load and unload, swap batteries, etc. DDC oversees the flights, monitoring and managing the missions as they are happening in real-time.

“The drones have a combination of different technologies and sensors,” explains Tony. “There is definitely GPS and other sensors involved, such as LIDAR and some proprietary systems that we have developed on our own. It is a multitude of different systems working together to make all of this happen.”

For now, the brothers are taking a conservative approach with their drone delivery system and are working with Transport Canada to help develop a framework for the industry. They hope to obtain their licence by the end of the year and move into commercialization with drone delivery expected in early 2018. They will commence flying in remote areas of Canada while building up a network and deploying into more locations. Yet, the brothers believe urban delivery is still a ways out.

“At the end of the day, this is a brand new industry and we are the early movers,” says Tony. “We are really starting to see the drone market and industry open up.

There is a large appetite of people willing to invest. And, as the technology continues to evolve, the whole idea of autonomous vehicles proves to have practical applications that can help Canadians.”

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DESIGN Form3 Design transforms creative ideas into compelling products.

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hether it is the latest sports equipment, Bluetooth padlock or optical body scanner, Form3 is willing to undertake any project and turn it into a viable product.

Founded in 1997 by partners Alex Feldman and Herb Bentz, this Vancouver-based industrial design firm has since expanded to include 12 employees, predominantly industrial designers but also mechanical and mechatronics engineers.

As Feldman and Bentz explain, the company is growing at a comfortable pace, and they are integrating the talent they need to meet the company’s ever-increasing demands.

“Our focus has always been on improving our design capabilities,” says Feldman. “We integrated mechanical engineering as a means to better resolve the design work we were doing. We recognise the benefits that engineers bring to projects. We don’t have a division between the disciplines; it’s quite integrated.”

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The team has always prided itself on taking on complex and varied projects, refusing to specialize in any one particular area.

“We welcome the excitement and challenges of different kinds of projects,” explains Feldman. “That variety is what has helped us come up with creative solutions. We can draw from experiences in one area and bring them to another. This is often novel and appropriate.”

At any given time, the Form3 team could be working on upwards of 10 unique projects. The company frequently has to address technical challenges within each project. With the opportunity to work on a small precision electronic product or a larger sports device, there are different kinds of efforts and considerations needed.

While the firm thrives on variety, Bentz says Form3 is also interested in increasing the quality of products as a way to make the economy more sustainable.

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address durability, sustainability, and long-term desirability,” he says. “This also requires a shift from the short-term focus of user experience at point of sale to a more timeless aesthetic.”

The team has achieved repeated success by asking the right questions. Feldman explains that they try to go beyond just filling client requests and explore challenges that may not necessarily be considered by the client in order to make the best possible design decisions.

“We study the feasibility of all aspects of projects from the start,” says Feldman. “By asking the right questions and addressing the feasibility of a product concept early on, we’re able to resolve issues that might arise later on in the development stages. We do this because we want to make sure we can respond to the project time constraints in a way that yields the best results.”

Design and team oriented initiatives are augmented with an iterative process of prototyping and testing. This allows the team to meet technical challenges and constraints that emerge in product development while still honouring the client’s original design intent.

Bentz argues that although a project may not look all that different from its early concept, it develops and improves over time to go beyond the customer’s preliminary requirements.

“We run a very open office in one big space,” Feldman

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In any given day, the engineers and industrial designers at Form3 are putting together concept ideas, working together in strategy sessions or compiling research. At the moment, the company has a multi-person team putting together alpha units, where members of the team are required to constantly change hats in order to complete a series of components required for prototyping.

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The staff have many personal interests including cycling, weight lifting, skiing, yoga and motorcycling that provide a good counterpoint to work and valuable experience for the products they work on.

The company has helped developed some notable projects.

In November 2016, Form3 was recognized with the BC Creative Achievement Award for their work with clients such as Sierra Wireless, Total North Communications, Vorum Research, Genuine Guide Gear (G3), Raceface and Knolly bikes.

The company’s work with G3 has spanned over the past four years and numerous products. Form3 was initially contacted to help the G3 engineering team with their ION alpine touring binding.

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Throughout the project, some significant mechanical changes were required as a result of G3’s testing of the mechanical prototypes. Form3 was able to respond to these changes while retaining the original design intent.

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“Our work with G3 has been very There is no additional installation space rewarding,” Feldman says. “The projects, needed for the data transmission due to the ranging from skis, bindings, poles and system combining data transmission and climbing skins, cover a pretty broad specearth conductor in one conductor rail profile. trum of design activities: contributions involve product styling, mechanical With a data transfer rate up to 100 Mbit per second, a real-time channel for safety design, graphic design, and name gensignals as well as audio and video feed eration. G3, based in Vancouver, is a via ethernet, ProfiDAT® meets the rising leader in their industry and produce demand for transmitting ever increasing exceptional products. They have their own data rates and control signals in real-time. mechanical engineers but often use our design abilities, because we work really www.conductix.ca well with them.”

“We’re seeing more of this kind of close relationship with our clients, and I think the future looks good,” says Feldman. “We’ll continue doing the best work we can.”

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Collaborative Robot FANUC America Corporation introduced its latest collaborative robots. The CR-7iA offers a 717mm reach and 7kg payload while the CR-7iA/L offers the same payload with a longer 911mm reach.

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Anybus Gateways HMS Industrial Networks released new versions of their widely-used Anybus gateways for PROFINET IRT, enabling communication between machines and industrial networks, especially focusing on fieldbuses and industrial Ethernet.

Anybus X-gateways connect any two industrial networks while Anybus Communicators connect non-networked devices via a serial line (RS232/422/485) or a CAN interface to all major fieldbus and industrial Ethernet networks. All Anybus X-gateways for PROFINET IRT are now upgraded to be conform to the PROFINET v2.3 specification, allowing up-to-date and conform connectivity between PROFINET IRT and a vast number of different industrial networks such as EtherNet/IP, EtherCAT, Modbus-TCP and PROFIBUS. All new versions support PROFINET RT Class 1 and 3 and come with a PROFINET IRT Ethernet cutthrough switch implemented in the module’s processor. The gateways are conformance-tested to support Class A, B and C. PROFINET IRT Device/Slave settings can be made either via the built-in web interface, or by importing the provided GSDML file into the engineering tool of the controlling PLC. www.hms-networks.com

Motors Servo Motor B&R is adding two new sizes to its 8LS series of servo motors. Size A offers extremely high torque with a flange size of 70mm and an extremely compact design, while size 9 rounds off the upper end of the performance spectrum with up to 75kW of power. Both of these options make it possible for machine manufacturers and system integrators to adapt motors betters to actual requirements. Compact size A motors are the perfect choice where high torque density is needed in a very tight footprint. The fully sealed stator allows a high degree of efficiency as well as high continuous torque. With a maximum torque of up to 1,000Nm, size 9 motors open up entirely new applications with high demands on power and dynamics. www.br-automation.com

Linear Servo Motor Nippon Pulse America unveiled its L250SSS Linear Shaft Motor, a 25mm diameter linear servo motor with a single winding. While 30mm in length,

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the motor’s maximum usable stroke reaches to more than two meters in length. The L250SSS motor is part of Nippon Pulse’s existing SS series of Linear Shaft Motors, which features small forcers and stack-lengths for high-density applications. The SS series motors are available in 25, 32 and 35mm shaft diameter sizes, and with single, double, triple and quadruple winding options.

Both the L250SSS and the other motors in the SS series are designed for life sciences and industrial applications in which multiple forcers are required to travel along a single shaft. www.nipponpulse.com

necessary to fit within the articulating robot wrist, elbow and shoulder axis. Additionally, the motor needed to be robust enough to handle continuous duty cycles. All three motor designs incorporate new rotor magnet material configurations, which have only recently become available for volume applications. This enables a more simplified, cost effective manufacturing process. www.beikimco.com

Frameless Motors

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BEI Kimco released its the DIP2608, DIP30-11 and DIP38-13 frameless motors to meet the torque loads and size requirements in the rapidly growing robotics industry.

Specifically, the company designed the motors for use in a multi-axis assembly robot for semiconductor and other light manufacturing applications. Key to the robot’s design specifications was a motor that would support peak torque loads ranging from 85 oz-in to 531 oz-in within the highly compact frame sizes of 2.6, 3.0 and 3.8 inches in O.D. The compact size of each motor design was

Tolomatic introduced its ServoWeld actuators, redesigned for higher performance and lighter weight. Featuring roller screws, the ServoWeld actuators are made especially for resistance spot welding (RSW) applications in the automotive industry. The SWA and SWB ServoWeld models are available in two sizes: A smaller size 3 for lighter-duty weld schedules and a size 4 for heavier-duty applications. Both sizes are available in a variety of roller screw thread pitches (5mm and 10mm), motor voltages (230Vac & 460Vac) and multiple options for rod ends, feedback & connectors and water cooling. These

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Position Controller ETEL released its AccurET VHP, a high performance position controller range. The product is equipped with both specific hardware and software that maximizes the performance.

These position controllers are compatible with all the other AccurET controllers and can be dedicated to the most demanding axes of a multi-axis motion system. This allows an important part of the machine control software to be located at the axis level. ETEL’s AccurET VHP specific power output stage achieves signal to noise ratio of 100dB. The position controller also provides advanced control features enabling more options and unique algorithms for complex motion systems. For instance, AccurET VHP provides High Speed Encoder Interfaces (HSEI) to enable high resolution position feedback in combination with high speed motion. www.etel.ch

Electric Linear Actuator Diakont introduced the DA99 electric linear roller screw actuators for applications requiring high performance and reliability.

The new DA99 actuator model leverages Diakont’s proven roller screw designs that are utilized by nuclear power plants worldwide. The company’s DA Series actuators feature a precision-machined roller screw integrated with a permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM). Roller screw actuator designs are ideal for demanding applications such as heavy presses, bending machines, injection molding, positioning systems, robotic weld guns, factory automation and discrete manufacturing applications. Diakont’s DA Series actuators are also equipped with patented lubrication ports that facilitate scheduled maintenance without requiring disassembly, recalibration or removal from machinery. www.diakont.com

Plastic Ring Bearing Igus introduced its xiros ball bearings in accordance with DIN 625 for rotary controls.

The xiros 67 and 68 thin ring bearings are suitable for temperatures ranging from -40º to 176º F, and are available in two materials (xirodur B180 and S180) with inner diameters ranging from 4-30mm. www.design-engineering.com March/April | 2017 DES_RotorClip_MarAPril.indd 1

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The pre-leading contacts are 0.3mm longer in the mating face and ensure that functions like the grounding contact are the first to connect during insertion and the last to disconnect during unplugging. Thanks to flexible contact loading, these connectors also can be configured with lagging contacts that lose electrical contact before the other contacts when the board is being disconnected. A system with the appropriate logic can detect imminent contact disconnection and execute certain functions, like data backup. Har-flex connectors with pre-leading contacts are available in custom contact configurations. Like the entire HARTING har-flex series, the SMT connector can be configured with pin points of 6-100 for maximum in-box design flexibility. www.harting.com

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AutomationDirect announced the addition of Mersen’s Surge-Trap Type 1 STXR series of surge protection devices. The one-piece device can be used at the machine or the main panel to protect equipment from power spikes and surges. Available in 120-600VAC models and a 200kA short-circuit current rating, these devices are designed for use in ANSI/UL Type 1 or 2 SPD installations. Featuring Mersen TPMOV technology, the STXR series provides up to seven modes of protection. Additional features include an LED status indicator, ¾-inch knockouts with three-foot leads and a NEMA 4X enclosure for outdoor or indoor use; an optional mounting bracket is available for surface mount applications www.automationdirect.com

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Similarly, the flare TIME HM Series is rated for supply voltages spanning 24–240VAC/ DC, provides basic timing relay control functions spanning 0.05 seconds to 10 days with ±1% (±10ms) accuracy, and the same eight timer operating modes as the TIME M Series.

Additional features include plug-in screw terminals and a remote potentiometer control option. TIME FM Series timing relays, rated for supply voltages 100–240VAC, feature a single changeover contact rated for 5A and 250VAC/30VDC, time relay control functions spanning 1 millisecond to 9,999 hours with ±0.01% (±50ms) accuracy, and 15 selectable operating modes for extreme flexibility www.wieland-electric.ca

Sensors

Inclinometer POSITAL is expanding the TILTIX family of inclinometers with a line of lower cost, lower resolution instruments. These tilt sensors will have an accuracy of ±0.5° and a resolution of 0.01°. For many slope or tilt monitoring applications in cranes, construction equipment, agricultural machinery and water handling facilities, half-degree accuracy is entirely acceptable.

Like other members of the TILTIX family, the lower-cost inclinometers are available in single-axis (0-360°) or dual axis (±80°) versions. Durable PBT plastic housings meet the needs of most applications, with extra heavy-duty cast aluminum housings available for very harsh working environments. They are rated for shocks of up to 100g. The output interface for these instruments is analog (voltage or current) which makes them straightforward to integrate into simple analog control or warning systems. The zero setting can be set through a input pin. www.posital.com

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ABB introduced its Ability Smart Sensor that records data from low voltage motors (ABB and non-ABB) and provides information about their health and performance via a smartphone or a dedicated web portal. According to the company, predictive analytics based on that data can reduce downtime by up to 70 percent, extend motor lifetime by as much as 30 percent and cut energy consumption by up to 10 percent. Initial release sensors will be CE certified and compatible with safe-area induction motors for direct on-line S1 duty, ABB IEC sizes 160-450 and ABB NEMA sizes 140-449. Initial monitoring functionality will cover bearing health, vibration, surface temperature, speed, supply frequency and number of starts. Later releases will expand the range of functionality, with energy consumption monitoring expected during Q3 2017. ABB says the sensors will be available in Europe in April followed by the US soon thereafter with UL/CSA certifications. www.abb.com

LMI Technologies introduced its Gocator 2400 Series, the latest addition to the series of 3D line profilers. The first two models in the series, the Gocator 2410 and 2420, are blue-laser profiling sensors designed for electronics and small parts inspection. These high-performance line profile sensors provide an X resolution of 6µm, along with highly repeatable results down to 0.2µm in height. Twice the speed as the 2300 series (400-5000 Hz with windowing), the 2410 and 2420 sensors double the possible resolution of scan data in the direction of travel. In addition, because the sensors use a blue laser to create profiles, data around the edge of specular targets is cleaner, which is crucial for electronics and small part feature recognition. The Gocator 2410 and 2420 come in a revised IP67 industrial housing offering all-in-one functionality including web-based user setup, built-in 3D visualization, drag and drop measurement tools and communication protocols. www.lmi3d.com

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Contents 42 Fluid Power News Innovation on display at IFPE 2017

46 CFPA Corner

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FLUID POWER & CONTROLS BUYERS’ GUIDE National Fluid Power Challenge entices young minds to embrace STEM careers

48 Anti-Robot Racer

BC engineer's Prosthesis exoskeleton fuses fluid power and clever kinematics

52 Fluid Power Roundtable ‘17

Canadian fluid power leaders discuss growth sectors, career opportunities in the field and the Trump effect

56 Fluid Power: Insights

Interdisciplinary collaboration leads to new innovation in hydraulics and automation

58 Fluid Power Product Showcase The latest in hydraulic and pneumatic product technology

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INNOVATION ON DISPLAY AT IFPE AND CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2017 A

forward-looking vision for construction and infrastructure took center stage at CONEXPO-CON/AGG and IFPE 2017. The exhibitions held March 7-11, 2017 at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, highlighted the newest product innovations and best practices for the construction and construction materials and fluid power/power transmission/motion control industries.

“Our shows are renowned as an industry showcase of ‘what’s next,’ and this year’s show did not disappoint,” said Rich Goldsbury, 2017 CONEXPO-CON/AGG chair and President and CEO of Doosan Bobcat North America & Oceania. “From the new Tech Experience, which highlighted the vital connection between technology and construction, to the culmination of AEM’s Infrastructure Vision 2050 Challenge, this year’s show demonstrated the rapid innovation in our industry.”

The technological changes revolutionizing construction and manufacturing were a central feature throughout the show.

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during a collection of “Tech Talks,” and engaged with the conclusion of the Infrastructure Vision 2050 Challenge Finale.

“Keeping pace with technology is critical for our industries’ success and the 3D printed excavator featuring fluid power innovations, is a perfect example of the shows’ future-forward commitment to explore innovations that are happening now and the exciting possibilities ahead,” said Robert Mortensen, IFPE 2017 chair and President of HUSCO International.

According to the show’s organizers, CONEXPO-CON/AGG and IFPE 2017 spanned a record 2.8 million-plus net square feet of exhibits with a record 2,800-plus exhibitors from the leading U.S. and global manufacturers, from multinational giants to small firms with specialized products.

In addition, U.S. buyer attendance jumped over 16 percent from the 2014 show, and total buyer attendance improved by almost 8 percent for this year’s show with total attendance nearing 128,000 for the week. Of that, approximately 26,000 international attendees from 150 countries attended, comprising nearly 20 percent of overall attendance. www.ifpe.com

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Fluid Power Industry Growth Trend According to the latest data published by the National Fluid Power Association, industry shipments of fluid power products for January 2017 increased 6.5% compared to January 2016, and increased 14.1% when compared to December 2016.

Mobile hydraulic, industrial hydraulic, and pneumatic shipments increased in January 2017 when compared to January 2016. Mobile hydraulic, industrial hydraulic, and pneumatic shipments also increased when compared to December 2016.

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44 FluidPower: News Centennial Awards Night recognizes outstanding students Celebrating its 50th anniversary, Centennial College hosted its annual Student Awards Night in March. Spread over two nights, the award ceremony recognizes students who have achieved academic and personal success with scholarships to help them along their educational journey.

Among those recognized, Centennial student Michel Turcotte was awarded the Canadian Fluid Power Association (CFPA) Scholarship by the CFPA and Design Engineering magazine. The scholarship is given to an exemplary student in the study of fluid power within the Automation and Robotics Technician and Technologist program. www.centennialcollege.ca

CFPA Scholarship winner Michel Turcotte and award donor – Design Engineering publisher, Alan Macpherson – celebrate Michel's award at Centennial College’s annual Student Awards Night.

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Parker Hannifin turns 100 In March, Parker Hannifin Corporation celebrated its 100th anniversary. Established in 1917 as the Parker Appliance Company, the manufacturer of pneumatic brake systems and leak-free fittings was founded by visionary engineer Arthur L. Parker. In the early years, business partner Carl Klamm helped the young company develop in a small loft in Cleveland, Ohio.

The first patent issued in Art’s name details a hydraulic device that regulates the speed of electric generators. In the century since, the company has been granted more than 8,000 patents, helping to set the pace of technological innovation in a wide range of diversified industrial and aerospace markets.

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TECHNOLOGY CAREERS IN CANADA Get the word out about the CFPA’s National Fluid Power Challenge to entice young minds to embrace STEM careers.

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FPA’s Fluid Power Challenge’s goal is to get grade 8 students excited about applying fluid power technology to build a practical device and, in the process, consider pursuing further studies or a career in technology after high school.

In particular, we want the students involved to select the types of science and math courses in their high school program of studies that are perquisites for post-secondary studies in technology.

Unfortunately, many do not and come to regret their premature decision. Working at the Grade 8 level also makes sense because the science and technology courses at this grade level in most provinces include a unit on “fluids.”

The CFPA held its first annual challenge in Toronto in 2001 and has been involved in similar events in Edmonton and, just this year, in Winnipeg. However, these challenges, which involve bringing students from multiple schools together to one location, are relatively expensive and require a lot of work on the part of the schools, local sponsors and the CFPA. As we investigated how to deliver the benefits of the challenge to more students across the country, we realized we needed to find a format that was more costeffective and less time-consuming.

Working with Steve Rogers of Mechanical Kits, the facilitator of our Canadian challenges, the CFPA has developed a “National Challenge” format that will allow a teacher in Fort McMurMarch/April | 2017

ray or St. John’s to take a whole class, divided into four or five-student teams, through the challenge process as part of teaching the “fluids” unit.

This school-based event will be part of the Grade 8 science course and start with “workshop” lessons which reinforce the students’ knowledge of fluid power concepts. It will also introduce them to the tools and materials they will use and give them some practice building simple fluid power devices.

Next, each team will focus on designing, building, testing, fine-tuning and documenting the design of a device intended to solve the current year’s National Challenge Scenario, (i.e. the problem to be solved). Based on an evaluation of the work done for this scenario, the teacher will select a team of four or five students that will proceed to participate in the national competition.

On the Challenge Day, which takes place within a few weeks of the end of the “workshop” lessons, the selected team, with a fresh set of building materials and their portfolio to work from, has three hours to build, test and refine their device.

Then, the team demonstrates their device during a two-minute period that is recorded (and, hopefully, takes place in front of as large an audience as possible at the school).

Still images, the demonstration video and the design portfolio are submitted to a national panel of judges by a specified deadline date for evaluation. The team

This year, teams of grade 8 students from across Canada will compete in the CFPA’s National Fluid Power Challenge by creating simple fluid power driven machines designed to perform a specific task.

with the highest total score will be declared the overall Canadian National Fluid Power Challenge winner. The team with the highest portfolio score will also receive an award. Cost to each school is a nominal $100. For that, they will receive about $500 worth of materials as well as support from the CFPA and Mechanical Kits.

The CFPA’s current focus is getting the word out to classroom teachers and school board technology coordinators. As a reader of Design Engineering, you can help. If you have a child in middle school or know a teacher or board staff involved in science education, please let them know about our challenge and send them to our website for more information.

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B.C. engineer’s Prosthesis exoskeleton fuses fluid power and clever kinematics to create a new class of sports machine.

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t CES 2016 in Las Vegas, anyone who visited the exhibition space of luxury technology development company, Furrion, was greeted by the industry’s biggest and burliest “booth babe” – a 5-meter-tall, 5-meter-wide four-legged walking “mecha” called Prosthesis – The Anti-Robot. Weighing in at 3500 kilograms, it’s March/April | 2017

the creation of British Columbia-based engineer/artist Jonathan Tippett, and the latest mechanized beast to come out of Vancouver’s eatART Foundation, an educational research facility that focuses on large-scale, technically sophisticated art projects.

Like eatART’s other well-known mechanical sculptures – the six-legged Mondo Spider walking machine and the 50-foot long robotic snake Titanoboa – Prosthesis seems like the idea of a young engineer who has watched one too many anime cartoons. In reality, hundreds of volunteers, including eatART co-founders Charlie Brinson, Leigh Christie and others, along with countless University of British Columbia students, helped fabricate the colossal mesh of chromoly steel. www.design-engineering.com

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And besides, Prosthesis isn’t a robot at all, in that it doesn’t rely on computer controls or programming to function. As its name implies, the machine is more like a mechanical suit that “merely” amplifies the pilot’s motion. As a result, Tippett says the exoskeleton has more in common with a motorcycle or snowboard – a machine that allows a trained rider to express, and ultimately revel in, their own physical prowess.

“I didn’t want to just make a giant windup toy that you sat on; I wanted it make it something that required skill,” Tippett explains. “For me, the most rewarding experiences of my life have been in situations where I’m calling on years of training with a machine that I’ve become intimately familiar with, like a motorcycle. Combine that with a slightly perilous situation and you get into this state of intense focus or being in the ‘zone.’

So Prosthesis took that shape – as something that required your whole body to control.”

Although the idea of building a giant walking machine came all at once while Tippett admired the colossal sculptures at Burning Man 2004, he says it took him a while to settle on a design for his machine. Initially playing with both two-legged and four-legged designs, he says he ultimately settled on a combination of both.

“Having four legs is a nice stable platform and easily controlled by a four-limbed pilot,” he explains. “But an abstract interpretation is to think of it as a two-legged walker; that is, its inside legs are one leg and its outside legs are another leg.

And because each step has two feet, you can bias the pressure on those feet to create a virtual contact point that’s somewhere between them. I think, in that way, it’s intuitive to operate because we’re used to bi-pedal balancing schemes.”

Each limb of the pilot is mapped to a particular machine leg – arms control the outer legs and the pilot’s legs control the machine’s inner pair. By moving arms and legs in concert, the machine’s movement resembles the gait of a gorilla or a person walking on crutches.

“You turn by making your outside legs move faster than your inside legs,” he continues. “It’s skid steer but the architecture of the machine is specifically designed to optimize that.

With the legs in a row, as opposed to a zoomorphic architecture where you’d have front legs and back legs, it makes it much easier to steer using a skid steer principle.”

With the overall concept set, Tippett says he began work on the Alpha Leg, a 2:3 scale test bench of the final leg that now serves as a trainer for prospective pilots. After giving up on a telescoping leg idea, he ultimately settled on a hinged structure that resembles a lightning bolt.

The bottom section of the leg’s zigzag structure connects a landing pad to a box-like four-bar linkage in the leg’s midsection. Within that mid-section, three shock absorbers in parallel (two custom-made air and one coil-over) passively straighten the leg and cushion the impact force as the footpad lands. The upper section of the lightning bolt connects the leg to the exoskeleton’s “hip,” an axel about which the leg swings.

To drive its limbs, each leg is equipped with two hydraulic

Harnessed into Prosthesis' cockpit, the pilot controls the exoskeleton's legs by moving his arms and legs in unison in an alternating pattern.

actuators. The “hip” actuator connects to the upper tip of the leg and causes it to swing forward and back. The second actuator connects to the backside of the four-bar linkage. Retracting this “knee” actuator shortens the leg and lifts it off the ground as the hip actuator swings the leg forward. As it clears the ground, the forward moving leg extends to meet the ground. The hip actuator then pulls the leg backwards as the shock absorbers support the machine’s weight and cushion the ride.

Although the overall design might sound fairly straightforward, Tippett says getting the Alpha Leg to work properly presented the project’s biggest challenge.

“When we first went to ride [the Alpha Leg], we found that the thing wanted to jump backwards all the time,” he says. “I thought, ‘Do I need to change the ratio of the 4-bar linkage, do I have to make it non-linear, does it have too much spring?’

Eventually, the answer hit me. Literally, the week before we started building Prosthesis, I said, ‘Guys, we’re turning the legs around backwards. If that’s what it wants to do, why fight nature?’”

Overall, Prosthesis sports eight hydraulic cylinders (four

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This close-up of one of Prosthesis' four legs shows a four-bar linkage hub with the leg's custom air shocks and hydraulic "hip" actuator in the background.

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on each side) supplied by two hydraulic pumps and powered by a 96V electric battery below the cockpit. In place of large tank-like reservoirs, the exoskeleton incorporates two variable volume reservoirs, made by Montreal’s Smart Reservoir Inc., that cut down weight and prevent air bubbles from fouling the system. Overall, the system outputs 170kW (225hp) to produce a top speed of 30km/h for up to two hours, Tippett says.

“The idea was to have the machine as directly connected to the pilot as possible with the least amount of technological intervention between pilot and machine,” he says. “So I had to step it up one level in technology by using solenoid valves and sensors to pick up the pilot’s input forces. That way, we could choose how much input force was needed and we could adapt the response curve.”

Adapting the exoskeleton to its pilot is crucial, Tippett explains, since the exoskeleton is intended as a sports machine and therefore needs to convey as much feedback as possible to the pilot. At the coarsest level, providing that feedback required Prosthesis’ legs and the pilot’s limbs always be in the same position and can’t be out of sync with each other.

Secured by a five-point harness, the pilot inserts their forearms into metal bracers and legs in greaves that encircle the pilot’s calves. The rider’s limbs are then secured in place by pneumatic bladders similar to a blood pressure cuff. Moving both arms and both legs in alternating circular patterns, constrained by the exoskeleton’s eight degrees of freedom, translates to a 1-to-1 motion in Prosthesis’ legs.

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“Prosthesis is just power; it’s not autonomous,” Tippett says. “There’s no on-the-fly adaptation according to what the machine is doing. However, we can fine-tune the machine to find a sweet spot that is just enough resistance that the pilot is engaged but yet the exoskeleton doesn’t twitch and move at the slightest input. But it also doesn’t require so much force to move that it is exhausting.”

For Tippett the artist, Prosthesis embodies a mechanized reminder not to lose the human element under layers of automation; machines as an extension of ourselves rather than an abstraction insulating us from the performance.

For Tippett the engineer, however, Prosthesis culminates 12 years of engineering design, testing and fabrication. In the short term, he says Prosthesis and the rest of eatART’s mechanical menagerie will continue to make appearances at events and help fund the foundation’s future projects. In the long term, he foresees Prosthesis, with help from corporate sponsor Furrion, becoming the first machine in a new form of off-road racing.

“We were actually mapping out our plans to develop the technology and launch a league based on motor sports-type model,” he says. “Our plan is very much to get this machine dialled in so it’s a sporty high performance machine and then build another one and then race them. It’s all mapped out. I’ve got a very busy 24 months ahead of me.”

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DE: According to National Fluid Power Association (NFPA) data, fluid power shipments and orders were down in 2016 compared to the year prior. Did you see the same trend? How is 2017 shaping up so far?

John Lamb, National Segment Manager – ASCO, Emerson: I’d say that we’ve seen a similar trend in Canada. In the last quarter of 2016, with the U.S. election being so close, no decisions were being made until that concluded. Once the decision was made, I think business went back into gear. In 2017, we’ve seen an uptick across the board. In general, I’d say commodities are doing better so even mining is coming back.

Frank Pirri, Product Manager – Flodraulic Group: For us, 2016 was a good year. We can attribute much of that to our focus in system integration. To date, 2017 has been a continuation of 2016 and, if things continue the way they have been, it looks promising. We have a lot of projects on the go. About

Canada’s fluid power leaders discuss growth sectors, career opportunities in the field and the Trump administration’s effect on the industry.

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this time last year, Flodraulic expanded Westward with new offices in Saskatoon, Calgary and Kamloops and expanded an existing office in Edmonton. Flodraulic also has a location in Windsor, Ontario that focuses on industrial fluid power. We are a very diverse group, which helps us through almost any downturn in any specific market segment.

Rob Chin, Sales Manager – MP Filtri (Canada): I would agree that, in 2016, orders were generally down for many customers.

A lot had a tough year, although there were a few in unique situations that were going strong. So in 2016, we did show an increase, but not due to the market. Instead, it was due to diversification of our product lines and expanding our customer base. In addition to MP Filtri, we expanded our product line to include Anfield pressure switches, pumps, motors, valves, hydraulic flanges, etc. That move opened a wider customer base to us. For 2017, we’re cautiously optimistic, as this year has started off stronger than 2016.

“ One thing about Trump is that he’s perceived as business friendly, and the stock market’s rise after his election reflected that. In turn, I think it has had a net effect on Canadian fluid power companies, since the U.S. is our major trading partner and we, as an industry, are supporting our customers that are exporting into the US market.”

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Kyle Dixon, Business Unit Manager – Parker Canada Division: We saw a similar trend across a variety of markets in Canada. Overall, it was a slower year in general, but we did see quite an impact on our traditional resource markets. Oil and gas and mining were particularly challenging, until recently.

In 2017, we’re beginning to see a positive turn-around in the resource sectors. The automotive and general industrial markets in central Canada are other sectors where we continue to see strength and have since the latter part of 2016.

“The Fluid Power industry has always been and will continue to be a good career choice. With today’s continued integration of electronic controls and sensors, it is becoming more high-tech than ever before.”

DE: Which industries or segments of the market are growth areas for your company?

Frank Pirri, Product Manager – Flodraulic Group

Lamb – ASCO, Emerson: Food and beverage is certainly doing well across Canada. It has been very consistent, with a recent trend in packaging that either accommodates new branding initiatives or is more environmentally friendly. That affects our customers in terms of new machines or upgrading existing machines to produce that packaging. Automotive is also performing well. Tier 1 is leading the way there along with the assembly plants. I know there have been a few new auto projects in the U.S. that Canadian Tier 1 sub-assembly companies build product for. In turn, the fluid power companies that work with the Tier 1 level in Canada benefit from those contracts.

Pirri – Flodraulic: As we all know, the oil and gas market has been hurt by the low price of a barrel of oil, although we have noticed an uptick over the last couple of months, possibly fuelled by the new Trump administrations directives. In mining, we have seen an increase in projects since last fall, right after MINExpo to be particular, and we hope that this trend will continue. Along with those two, we currently see opportunities for growth in almost all segments, and we continue to be optimistic, mostly due to the new opportunities generated by our diverse and talented team.

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FluidPower: Roundtable “ You may see other sectors that are growing faster or have more flare, but fluid power is a solid career choice…There’s also a willingness to bring in the younger crowd because we know we have to invest. Otherwise, there won’t be anyone down the road. I think we’d all welcome a young fluid power tech or engineer knocking on our door.”

Rob Chin, Sales Manager – MP Filtri (Canada)

Chin – MP Filtri: We’ve always been in the mobile market but one area we’ve definitely expanded into is agricultural.

Also, now that the bar has been reset for the oil and gas market, we’ve seen some growth based on the new low. It seems like a bit of rough road lately but, when you talk to people in that industry, they seem confident. In addition, now that the fluid power market is becoming more electronic and computer controlled, we’ve ramped up the side of our business that engineers and manufactures pressure switches and temperature transducers. In fact, we’re one of the only companies manufacturing pressure switches and transducers in Canada.

Dixon – Parker: The traditional resource markets are obviously very big for us and, as those get stronger, we’re looking to grow more in those areas. There’s a little bit of confidence coming back into the exploration side of things so they are starting to tool up. Transportation, automotive and agriculture will also continue to be a focus for Parker.

DE: Has the Trump administration’s trade policy intentions had any affect on your customers’ plans or purchasing behavior?

Lamb – ASCO, Emerson: I haven’t encountered any overly negative or positive decisions being made because of the Trump administration, with the exception of the uncertainty in the relationship between the U.S. and Mexico. Since that’s strained, the conjecture is that it might benefit the Canadian automotive industry. Also, now that some of the pipeline projects are being green lit, it could breath some life into oil and gas but that will take a while to kick in.

One thing about Trump is that he’s perceived as business friendly, and the stock market’s rise after his election ref lected that. In turn, I think it has had a net effect on Canadian fluid power companies, since the U.S. is our major trading partner and we, as an industry, are supporting our customers that are exporting into the US market.

Pirri – Flodraulic: To date, we haven’t heard that concern.

Most seem to be comfortable given the potential in the infrastructure market. During the run up to the presidency, President Trump did talk about infrastructure projects that have been frustrated for many years. But now that there is a Republican President and a Republican Congress and Senate, there is hope those projects can be pushed through which would be a boon for anybody providing equipment March/April | 2017

for that industry. In Canada, we deal primarily with mediumsized OEMs who do a lot of exporting into the U.S. As witnessed when Prime Minister Trudeau visited Washington, President Trump seems to be looking at Canada as a favourable trading partner, easing many's fears.

Chin – MP Filtri: Talking to most Canadian customers, I don’t think we feel quite as threatened yet. Trump is pointing the finger mainly at Mexico and China. The reality is that Canada has, at times, imported more from the U.S. than we export. However, with his recent approval of the Keystone pipeline, it could shift the balance but that’s many years away yet. One of our strengths is that MP Filtri manufactures product in Canada and we have operations in the U.S. so we are bit less vulnerable.

Dixon – Parker: There has been a lot of speculation about what might happen, but we haven’t seen any of our customers impacted or reacting due to that speculation. Bigger companies like Ford and GM, who were going to Mexico, seem to have felt some pressure, so they have made some changes which led to speculation as to how that might affect Canada. But, due to the long relationship the U.S. and Canada have had, and the fact that we are each other’s biggest trading partners, they’ve probably got other issues to focus on first. If at all, Canadian/U.S. trade policy will be something that gets addressed some time down the road.

DE: What would you say to a high school or engineering student about the Canadian fluid power industry as a career choice?

Lamb – ASCO, Emerson: Foremost, fluid power is a very stable, core technology. As such, it has been around for a long time and has become part of the landscape of most industries. That includes automotive, aerospace, oil and gas, food and beverage, mining. Nearly everywhere you look, f luid power is core to those and other industries. At the same time, it’s also a dynamic and high technology field, especially in manufacturing where it’s tied in with the automation and Industry 4.0. If students are looking to be in a technology field, fluid power companies are at the leading edge of that.

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today’s continued integration of electronic controls and sensors, it is becoming more high-tech than ever before.

Added to that, there is a demand for fluid power professionals. Once a student graduates, there are many places they can look for employment, whether it’s with a fluid power component manufacturer, distributor, machine designer and or manufacturer, service company and at companies that use f luid power components and systems in their manufacturing process. Adding to all that, as the Fluid Power baby boomers are starting to rotate out of the industry, it will leave a void for new graduates to fill.

Chin – MP Filtri: I would say that you may see other sectors that are growing faster or have more flare, but fluid power is a solid career choice. We’ve had a shortage of fluid power personnel for many years in the hydraulic industry. Historically, there’s always been a high demand, and I don’t see that changing any time soon. So if someone wanted to specialize in fluid power, I don’t think they would be making a mistake. There’s also a willingness to bring in the younger crowd because we know we have to invest. Otherwise, there won’t be anyone down the road. I think we’d all welcome a young fluid power tech or engineer knocking on our door.

“I would strongly encourage students to look at the fluid power industry for potential career possibilities. As a company, we’re spending a lot of time getting students familiar with the fluid power industry, and we need to continue do more to raise awareness and attract new entrants into our field of expertise.”

Kyle Dixon, Business Unit Manager – Parker Canada Division

Dixon – Parker: I would strongly encourage students to look at the fluid power industry for potential career possibilities.

There are many opportunities, whether that’s as a service technician through to customer service, accounting or business ownership as a distributor or small manufacturer. As a company, we’re spending a lot of time getting students familiar with the fluid power industry, and we need to continue do more to raise awareness and attract new entrants into our field of expertise.

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FLUID POWER TRENDS Interdisciplinary collaboration leads to new innovation in hydraulics and automation.

By Ian Miller, E.I.T.

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hen I was first approached to write this article, my mind was a whirl of state space equations and complicated closed loop hydraulic applications – I mean, whose wouldn’t be? After much thought (and some sound advice), I decided to describe a growing industry trend that starts with a human resource factor.

In earlier days, the hiring trend in the hydraulics industry was to pull from a talent pool that comprised people with primarily mechanical backgrounds. The overall shift away from this kind of hiring – to instead draw people from a broad, diverse and multidisciplinary background – has led to many advancements in the industry. These advances can be seen in both the product development being done by manufactures, as well as the overall system design development by integrators.

My own path through the hydraulic industry is an example of someone entering the hydraulics industry from a nontraditional background. I got my start in the Electrical Engineering Technology – Control System program at Humber College in Ontario. After starting with Motion Industries (Canada) Inc. as an electrical specialist, I worked closely with both Motion’s shop services and their tech team to provide programming and system design support on capital project-based work. Lots of automated hydraulic, lubrication and pneumatic systems, March/April | 2017

with the odd purist VFD/servo application of course. I ended up going back to school for a degree in electrical engineering and now manage Motion’s Calgary Service Center, as well as their team of system designers.

Industry Insights As a result of this journey, I have realized several things. First and foremost, I love this industry. It has been my distinct pleasure to work with some of the best and brightest out there, and I am eternally grateful for that opportunity.

Second, there’s a lot of overlap in electrical/mechanical world; I mean, we all follow the same laws of physics, right?

Some of the best programmers I’ve met came from a mechanical or even chemical background and had a strong aptitude for the work. I think the same is true from the automation to hydraulic world. The crossover in theory is very easy to adapt and is, in fact, quite intuitive.

Third, the hydraulics industry is ever-evolving. As things like integrated amplifiers, modular controls, better PID and tuning algorithms and the overall electrification of the hydraulic world continues to advance, so do the possibilities for system design. Those who adapt and embrace these changes (OEM www.design-engineering.com

FluidPower: Insights 57 machine builders, systems integrators, product designers) are going to be the ones driving this industry into the future. They will also be the benefactors of being on the leading edge of technological advances.

Trend watch As far as industry trends go in the hydraulic world, this electrification/automation of things is by far the most prevalent and one that is still developing. Every day, it seems a new product is being offered and always with an integrated electri- Completed hydraulic power unit: Its control system and equipment are packaged as one and ready for cal control, amplifier or other tying into the end-user’s application. embedded device. Things like combining electrical servo motors with a fixed displacement allowing the formation of some interesting companies, unique pump would have been an odd sight a decade ago. As would products and innovative projects. including a particle counter as a permanent installation to improve a customer’s preventative maintenance.

Spotlight Advances in building inexpensive, reliable, integrated cir- As a final note, I thought I would include an example of a recent cuits with massive processing abilities is finally spilling out of project whose success was driven by my company’s multidiscithe “Tech Sector” into the “Industrial Sector” at an exponential plinary team of system designers. The application was to drive rate. This has allowed manufacturers to provide relatively a screw conveyor for a product loadout being added within an lower-cost, advanced product offerings. existing facility. The addition of the system to this existing As hydraulic products continue to advance and change, so do infrastructure made for some extremely tight space constraints. the companies that make, distribute and use them. Long past is We were asked to consult on an alternative drive to the traditional the vision of a “hydraulic guy” being someone in oily coveralls motor/gearbox. We designed, manufactured, installed and comwith a wrench. The industry as a whole is evolving and is starting missioned the entire system consisting of the main drive, the to on-board people from broad and diverse backgrounds. Manu- control of the loadout knife gates and slew ring drives. facturers like Eaton continue to make strategic acquisitions and Simplified, the heart of the system is a high-torque, low-speed build up synergies internally within its own electrical divisions. Hydre-MAC radial piston motor that is driven from an Eaton Breaking down these historical demarcation points is enabling HPV280 closed loop variable displacement piston pump. Everythem to provide better, more advanced and well-supported inno- thing was built and commissioned in-house, including the convations. The human factor coupled with ever-advancing technol- trol panel/system (CSA’d at our Calgary location). The success of ogy will continue to impact this industry. this project was undoubtedly a result of the diverse background Further movements like the IEC 61131-3 and programming and training of our system design team, as well as that of the software like CODESYS have empowered hydraulic manufac- manufacturer who developed and built the components used. tures to easily supply control package platforms for their new Since entering this industry well over a decade ago, I had products. This provides the end user with a high-quality and no idea what was in store. Looking back, I wouldn’t trade it for industry-tested control system that has the benefit of a standard anything and feel honoured to still be a part of it. As I look to programming language. It also enables the manufacturer to what the future holds, I’m excited for the innovations that are preload these controllers with custom function blocks geared still to be seen. These innovations will, without a doubt, be the to help the end user easily integrate their entire product lines result of the hard work and forward thinking of the brilliant into a system. men and women currently working in the industry, and who I could give further examples, but in my opinion, this evolu- are quite possibly from those alternative talent pools still waittion has helped to break down barriers and bring together two ing to be tapped.

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The trend across industries is moving away from compartIan Miller, E.I.T. is Branch Manager of Motion mentalizing specialties and towards a multidisciplinary model, Canada’s Calgary Service Center and Albertaallowing for much more cross-pollination. Working for a based Tech Group with more than a decade of number of companies throughout one’s career, combined with hydraulic and electrical experience. the increased connection of people through social media, is www.design-engineering.com March/April | 2017

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Clippard unveiled its NPV Series Miniature Pinch Valves, which are solenoid-operated devices designed to open and close tubes for controlling flow of liquids and gases. Unlike other valves, pinch valves have no areas or dead volume where fluid can become trapped. Only the inside of the tubing contacts the fluid. Clippard’s NPV Dual-Tube 3-Way valve comes in four sizes with multiple pressure range options to 30 psig. The valves feature a maximum pressure range of 20 to 30 psig, power consumption of 1.0 to 7.2 watts and a response time of 5 to 25ms. NPV Series pinch valves are available with one tube or two tubes. The single tube versions function as standard “on/off” 2-Way valves and are available in Normally-Open or Normally-Closed. The two tube versions feature one Normally-Open tube and one NormallyClosed tube, allowing them to function as 3-Way valves. www.clippard.com

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Eaton announced its ESV9 series of proportional solenoid cartridge valves with less than 7 percent hysteresis. The size 10 ESV9 is a four-way, three-position screw-in cartridge and is available with either a type closed or float spool configuration. The E-spool type solenoid valve has all the ports closed in the de-energized position. The float or motor spool in the de-energized condition features ports two and four open to tank with the inlet port three blocked. This allows the service ports to decay to tank pressure in the de-energised condition. The ESV9 has a rating of up to 22 liters-per-minute and up to 250 bar. As an option, the valves are available with a manual override and in 12V or 24V direct current coil voltages, with or without a diode, along with a number of housing materials (steel or aluminum) and port sizes. www.eaton.com

Miniature Proportional Valve

Parker Hannifin added a miniature proportional valve to its VSO LowPro line that uses a smaller orifice 0.030in (0.76mm) within the same VSO LowPro footprint (0.63in/16mm wide by 0.55in/14mm tall). This latest model provides flow control between 0 and 30 SLPM. The series is qualified for up to 100 million cycles with a reliability factor of 0.96 and a confidence interval of 99%. The family also allows designers to reduce power or battery size due to typical power requirement of 1Watt. The series includes four orifice sizes ranging from 0.030-inch (0.76mm) to 0.080-inch (2.03mm), three voltage levels (5, 12 and 24V) and manifold mount accessories to handle air, oxygen or any non-reactive, non-condensing gases, while complying with Reach, RoHS, CE, IP65 and ISO 15001 regulations. www.parker.com

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The valve offers up to 250 bar [3,626 psi] with a regulated flow 60 l/min (16 gpm). www.fd-groups-america.com

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KSB Pumps Inc. has introduced new members of its Movitec series of high-pressure pumps designed to be mounted in a horizontal arrangement, with the inner threaded inlet nozzle parallel to the axis of the pump and the outlet nozzle positioned to feed a vertical or horizontally aligned outlet pipe.

Like other Movitec pumps, the H pumps feature cartridge-type mechanical seals. They are available in five sizes, with different numbers of stages. The maximum flow rate is 26 cubic metres per hour and the maximum discharge head is 195 metres. Fluid temperature can range between -20 and +140 ˚C. www.ksb.com

Axial Piston Variable Pump

Bosch Rexroth announced the addition of a third size (size 28) to its A1VO Axial Piston Variable Pump series. Despite the cube number of 28ccm, the new size shares the same housing as the already existing size 18. At a nominal pressure of 250 bar and a max-

imum pressure of 280 bar, the A1VO size 28 achieves an efficiency of nearly 90 percent. The high permissible self-priming speeds further complement this power comparison. Adjusting the cradle decouples the speed of the diesel engine from the pump power and produces the flow, according to the actual need. On the new size 28, the speed in continuous operation and at maximum swivel angle has been set to 3,200 rpm. The expanded A1VO portfolio is primarily suitable for lift trucks with a load capacity of up to three tons. www.boschrexroth.ca

Motors Rotary Stage

Aerotech unveiled its ASR1300, a high-speed, direct-drive rotary stage that achieves accelerations of up to 8000 rad/s2 and reaches speeds greater than 1500 rpm in 90° of travel. The ASR1300’s maximum speed of 3000 rpm and its acceleration capability result from a full system-level optimization of the torque-to-inertia ratio. Weighing 2.8 kg, the ASR1300 features

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an integral Type-D (Louis Levin & Sons) collet chuck. Collets are available in multiple sizes supporting tube diameters from 0.1mm to 2.0mm. Applying air pressure adjusts the collet from fully open to fully closed. Air is delivered to the rotating collet assembly through a custom-engineered, noncontact rotary union. www.aerotech.com

Hydraulic Motor

Danfoss Power Solutions launched its Orbital X product line, which includes the OMP X and OMR X motors. Compared to existing models, Orbital X motors have up to 15 percent higher torque capacity than current OMP or OPR motors, and up to 45 percent more than current DH and DS motors, the company says. Orbital X motors also improve bearing capacity by 20 percent over DH and DS motors. Furthermore, the shaft seal lifetime is improved by 50 percent and the motor has a finish that meets the corrosion class C3 standard. Danfoss also debuted a line of Orbital X conversion tools, which simplifies the process of integrating an Orbital X motor. www.powersolutions.danfoss.com

Linear Position Sensor

CPI introduced the SL2000, a linear position sensor designed for complete immersion in hydraulic fluid inside a hydraulic cylinder or accumulator. The sensor will operate in water or sea water and in an air or gas environment. The 32-foot (10-meter) sensing range is achieved using SL Series non-contacting technology, but scaled up and packaged in an aluminum or stainless steel frame with a robust and unique cable assembly. The sensor can be specified with a shielded cable or integral connector of any specification. www.cpi-nj.com

Double-Acting Piston Seal

The Hallite 714 is a compact double acting piston seal for medium to heavy-duty applications. The reinforced, heat stabilized, thermoplastic sealing face with step-cut joint allows the seal to pass over ports, making it an ideal choice for double acting telescopic cylinders. The rugged extrusion resistant design will also perform in high pressure off-highway applications with a considerable extrusion gap reducing the possibility of piston to bore contact. The precision molded face has chamfers. This feature, coupled with a profiled NBR expander, allows for easier cylinder assembly. The energizer material can also be changed to meet different media and temperature demands. www.hallite.com

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HEATERS: HYDRAULIC FLUID ����������� 66

MOTORS: METRIC ��������������������������� 68

ACTUATORS: LINEAR-HYDRAULIC ���� 63

CYLINDERS: COMPOSITE

HEATERS: OIL ��������������������������������� 66

MOTORS: PNEUMATIC ��������������������� 68

ACTUATORS: LINEAR-HYDRAULIC-

(PNEUMATIC & HYDRAULIC) ������������ 64

HEAT EXCHANGERS ������������������������ 66

MUFFLERS, PNEUMATIC ������������������ 68

SERVO �������������������������������������������� 63

CYLINDERS: ELECTRO-HYDRAULIC �� 64

HEAT EXCHANGERS: AIR-COOLED ��� 66

NOZZLES ����������������������������������������� 68

ACTUATORS: MANUAL �������������������� 63

CYLINDERS: HYDRAULIC ����������������� 64

HEAT EXCHANGERS:

OIL COOLERS ����������������������������������� 68

ACTUATORS: ROTARY HYDRAULIC ��� 63

CYLINDERS: METRIC ����������������������� 65

AIR/OIL COOLED ����������������������������� 67

O RINGS ����������������������������������������� 68

ACTUATORS: ROTARY PNEUMATIC �� 63

CYLINDERS: MILL ���������������������������� 65

HEAT EXCHANGERS:

PACKINGS: BRAIDED ����������������������� 68

ACTUATORS: SOLENOID ������������������ 63

CYLINDERS: MINIATURE ������������������ 65

ALUMINIUM-FINNED ����������������������� 67

PACKINGS: CUP �������������������������������� 68

ADAPTORS & MOUNTS, MOTOR ������ 63

CYLINDERS: PNEUMATIC ����������������� 65

HEAT EXCHANGERS:

PACKINGS: GASKET �������������������������� 68

ADAPTORS & MOUNTS, PUMP �������� 63

CYLINDERS: RODLESS �������������������� 65

COPPER-FINNED ����������������������������� 67

PACKINGS: LEATHER ����������������������� 68

AFTER-COOLERS ����������������������������� 63

DAMPERS: HYDRAULIC �������������������� 65

HEAT EXCHANGERS: STEEL-FINNED 67

PACKINGS: METALLIC ����������������������� 68

AIR BREATHERS ������������������������������ 64

DIE LIFTERS, PNEUMATIC ����������������� 65

HEAT EXCHANGERS:

PACKINGS: SYNTHETIC �������������������� 68

AIR COMPRESSOR OILS ������������������ 64

DRIVES: HYDRO-STATIC ������������������ 65

WATER-COOLED ����������������������������� 67

PACKINGS: U-RINGS ������������������������ 68

AIR LOGIC DEVICES �������������������������� 64

DRYERS: AIR-ABSORPTIVE �������������� 65

HIGH-TEMP MASKING ��������������������� 67

PACKINGS: V-RINGS ������������������������ 68

AIR OPERATED HYDRAULIC PUMPS �� 64

DRYERS: AIR-ADSORPTIVE �������������� 65

HOSE: AIR ��������������������������������������� 67

PISTON RINGS: METAL �������������������� 68

BLADDERS �������������������������������������� 64

DRYERS: AIR-CHEMICAL ����������������� 65

HOSE: AIR REELS ����������������������������� 67

PISTON RINGS: NONMETALLIC �������� 68

BLOWERS: CENTRIFUGAL ����������������� 64

DRYERS: AIR-REFRIGERANT ������������ 65

HOSE: FLEXIBLE METAL ������������������ 67

PISTON RODS ��������������������������������� 68

BLOWERS: POSITIVE DISPLACEMENT 64

ELECTRICAL PANELS ����������������������� 65

HOSE: HYDRAULIC �������������������������� 67

PORT PLUGS ����������������������������������� 68

BLOW GUNS ����������������������������������� 64

ENCLOSURES ����������������������������������� 65

HOSE: SELF-STORING ��������������������� 67

POWER STEERING COMPONENTS

BRAKES: HYDRAULIC ����������������������� 64

END EFFECTORS ����������������������������� 65

HYDRAULIC FLUIDS:

& ASSEMBLIES �������������������������������� 68

BRAKES: PNEUMATIC ����������������������� 64

FASTENERS ������������������������������������ 65

ENVIRONMENTAL ����������������������������� 67

POWER TAKE OFFS �������������������������� 68

BUMPERS ��������������������������������������� 64

FILTER REGULATOR

HYDRAULIC FLUIDS: FIRE RESISTANT 67

POWER UNITS & SYSTEMS �������������� 68

CAN BUS SYSTEMS ������������������������ 64

LUBRICATOR (FRL) �������������������������� 65

HYDRAULIC FLUIDS: PETROLEUM ��� 67

PRESSURE GAUGE

CLOSURES, CAPS & PLUGS �������������� 64

FILTERS: COMPRESSED AIR ������������ 65

HYDRAULIC FLUIDS: SYNTHETIC ����� 67

PROTECTORS - SNUBBERS �������������� 68

CLUTCHES: HYDRAULIC ������������������ 64

FILTERS: EXHAUST AIR �������������������� 65

HYDRAULIC FLUIDS: WATER GLYCOL 67

PRESSURE SWITCHES ��������������������� 68

CLUTCHES:

FILTERS: FLANGED �������������������������� 65

HYDRAULIC HOSE ASSEMBLIES ������ 67

PRESSURE TRANSMITTERS �������������� 68

PNEUMATIC TENSION CONTROL ������ 64

FILTERS: HYDRAULIC ����������������������� 65

HYDRAULIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS �� 67

PUMP ADAPTORS ���������������������������� 68

COMPRESSORS: AIR-DIAPHRAGM ��� 64

FILTERS: PNEUMATIC ����������������������� 65

HYDRAULIC POWER UNITS �������������� 67

PUMP HOUSINGS ����������������������������� 68

COMPRESSORS: AIR-OIL-LESS �������� 64

FILTRATION SYSTEMS ��������������������� 65

HYDRAULIC VALVE COMPONENTS ��� 67

PUMPS: CENTRIFUGAL �������������������� 68

COMPRESSORS:

FITTINGS: FLANGED ������������������������ 66

HYDROSTATIC DRIVE COMPONENTS 67

PUMPS: DIAPHRAGM ����������������������� 68

AIR-RECIPROCATING ����������������������� 64

FITTINGS: HOSE & TUBE ����������������� 66

INDEXING TABLES,

PUMPS: FIXED DISPLACEMENT �������� 68

COMPRESSORS: CENTRIFUGAL �������� 64

FITTINGS: METRIC HOSE & TUBE ����� 66

ROTARY PNEUMATIC ����������������������� 67

PUMPS: HIGH PRESSURE ����������������� 68

CONNECTORS, ELECTRIC ����������������� 64

FITTINGS: PIPE �������������������������������� 66

INTENSIFIERS: CONTINUOUS ACTION 67

PUMPS: HYDRAULIC ������������������������ 68

CONTAMINATION CONTROL ������������ 64

FITTINGS: PUSH-INS ����������������������� 66

INTENSIFIERS: SINGLE ACTION �������� 67

PUMPS: HYDRAULIC HAND �������������� 68

CONTROLLERS:

FLANGE PROTECTION ��������������������� 66

INTENSIFIERS: VARIABLE

PUMPS: METERING �������������������������� 68

ELECTRO-HYDRAULIC ��������������������� 64

FLANGES: HYDRAULIC ��������������������� 66

DISPLACEMENT ������������������������������ 67

PUMPS: PISTON ������������������������������ 68

CONTROLLERS:

FLANGES: THREADED & WELDED ����� 66

LEAK DETECTORS ��������������������������� 67

PUMPS: PNEUMATIC ����������������������� 68

ELECTRO-PNEUMATIC ��������������������� 64

FLOW METERS �������������������������������� 66

LOAD CELLS ����������������������������������� 67

PUMPS: PNEUMATIC DRIVEN ����������� 68

CONTROLLERS: FLOW ��������������������� 64

FLOW RESTRICTORS ����������������������� 66

LUBRICANTS ����������������������������������� 67

PUMPS: RECIPROCATING ����������������� 68

CONTROLLERS: HYDROSTATIC DRIVE 64

FLUOROELASTOMER ����������������������� 66

LUBRICATION DEVICES �������������������� 67

PUMPS: ROTARY ����������������������������� 69

CONTROLLERS: MOTION ����������������� 64

FLUSHING, OIL SYSTEMS ����������������� 66

LUBRICATION SYSTEMS ������������������ 67

PUMPS:

CONTROLLERS: PROGRAMMABLE

GASKETS & MATERIALS ������������������ 66

LUBRICATORS, PNEUMATIC �������������� 67

ROTARY POSITIVE REPLACEMENT ��� 69

LOGIC ��������������������������������������������� 64

GAUGES: DIGITAL ����������������������������� 66

MANIFOLDS: HYDRAULIC ����������������� 67

PUMPS: VACUUM ����������������������������� 69

CONTROLS: ELECTRONIC ����������������� 64

GAUGES: FLOW �������������������������������� 66

MANIFOLDS: PNEUMATIC ����������������� 67

PUMPS: VARIABLE DISPLACEMENT �� 69

COUNTERS: HYDRAULIC ������������������ 64

GAUGES: FLUID LEVEL �������������������� 66

MARINE COOLERS �������������������������� 67

PUMPS: WATER �������������������������������� 69

COUNTERS: PARTICLE ��������������������� 64

GAUGES: OIL LEVEL ������������������������ 66

METERS, POSITIVE DISPLACEMENT 67

RECEIVERS, PNEUMATIC ����������������� 69

COUPLINGS: AIR SELF SEALING ������ 56

GAUGES: PRESSURE ����������������������� 66

METRIC TUBE ADAPTER ������������������ 67

REGULATORS: HYDRAULIC �������������� 69

COUPLINGS: FLEXIBLE SHAFT ��������� 64

GAUGES: TEMPERATURE ����������������� 66

MOBILE COOLERS ��������������������������� 67

REGULATORS: PNEUMATIC �������������� 69

COUPLINGS: FLUID SELF SEALING �� 64

GAUGES: VACUUM ��������������������������� 66

MONITOR SYSTEMS ������������������������ 67

REGULATORS: VACUUM �������������������� 69

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ProductIndex/Listings 63 RESERVOIR ACCESSORIES �������������� 69

SOLENOID VALVES: PROPORTIONAL 70

VACUUM CUPS �������������������������������� 70

VALVES HYDRAULIC:

RESERVOIR TANKS �������������������������� 69

SPRINGS: AIR ����������������������������������� 70

VACUUM DEHYDRATORS ����������������� 70

FLOW CONTROL ����������������������������� 71

RINGS: BACKUP ������������������������������ 69

SPRINGS: GAS �������������������������������� 70

VALVE CIRCUITS ������������������������������ 70

VALVES HYDRAULIC: FLOW DIVIDERS 71

RINGS: PISTON �������������������������������� 69

STRAINERS/ DIFFUSERS ����������������� 70

VALVES AIR: CHECK �������������������������� 70

VALVES HYDRAULIC: MINIATURE ����� 71

RINGS: WEAR ����������������������������������� 69

SWITCHES: FLUID LEVEL ����������������� 70

VALVES AIR:

RINGS: WIPER ��������������������������������� 69

SWITCHES: PRESSURE �������������������� 70

VALVES HYDRAULIC: MOBILE ����������� 71

CIRCUIT LOGIC CONTROL ����������������� 70

SEALANTS: THREAD ������������������������ 69

SWITCHES: TEMPERATURE �������������� 70

VALVES HYDRAULIC:

VALVES AIR: DECELERATION ������������ 70

SEALS: FITTINGS ����������������������������� 69

SWIVEL JOINTS: HYDRAULIC ����������� 70

PILOT OPERATED ����������������������������� 71

VALVES AIR: DIRECTIONAL �������������� 70

SEALS: GENERAL ����������������������������� 69

SWIVEL JOINTS: PNEUMATIC ����������� 70

VALVES HYDRAULIC:

SEALS: KITS ������������������������������������ 69

TACHOMETERS/STROBOSCOPES ����� 70

VALVES AIR: DRIVE �������������������������� 70

PLASTIC DIAPHRAGM ����������������������� 71

SEALS: MECHANICAL ����������������������� 69

TAPE ����������������������������������������������� 70

SEALS: OIL �������������������������������������� 69

TEST EQUIPMENT: HYDRAULIC �������� 70

SEALS: O-RING-ELASTOMERIC �������� 69

TEST EQUIPMENT: PNEUMATIC �������� 70

SEALS: O-RING-METALLIC �������������� 69

TESTING INSTRUMENTS ����������������� 70

SEALS: RUBBER DIAPHRAGM ����������� 69

THREAD PROTECTORS �������������������� 70

SEALS: RUBBER HYDRAULIC ����������� 69

THRUSTERS, LINEAR ����������������������� 70

SENSORS ����������������������������������������� 69

TRANSDUCERS:

SENSORS: DISPLACEMENT �������������� 69

ELECTRO-PNEUMATIC ��������������������� 70

SENSORS: PRESSURE ��������������������� 69

TRANSDUCERS: PRESSURE �������������� 70

SENSORS:

TRANSMISSIONS: HYDRODYNAMIC �� 70

ULTRASONIC FLUID LEVEL �������������� 69

TRANSMISSIONS: HYDROSTATIC ����� 70

SHAFTING ��������������������������������������� 69

TUBE FABRICATING �������������������������� 70

SHIMS �������������������������������������������� 69

TUBE/HOSE CLEANING EQUIPMENT 70

VALVES: CHECK �������������������������������� 71

SURGE DAMPING ����������������������������� 71

SHOCK ABSORBERS ������������������������ 69

TUBING: ALUMINIUM ����������������������� 70

VALVES: GATE ��������������������������������� 71

VALVES: METERING �������������������������� 71

SILENCERS & MUFFLERS ����������������� 69

TUBING & HOSE ������������������������������ 70

VALVES HYDRAULIC: AIR BLEED ������ 71

VALVES: OIL SAMPLING �������������������� 71

SLEEVES, BOOTS ����������������������������� 69

TUBING: PLASTIC ����������������������������� 70

VALVES HYDRAULIC:

VALVES: PLUGS �������������������������������� 71

SLIDES, PNEUMATIC ����������������������� 69

TUBING: RUBBER ����������������������������� 70

CHECK PILOT OPERATED ����������������� 71

VALVES PNEUMATIC, MINIATURE ����� 71

SOFTWARE: FLUID POWER

TUBING: STAINLESS STEEL �������������� 70

VALVES HYDRAULIC:

VALVE SPOOLS, DIRECTIONAL

SYSTEM DESIGN ����������������������������� 69

TUBING: STEEL �������������������������������� 70

COUNTERBALANCE �������������������������� 71

CONTROL HYDRAULIC ��������������������� 71

SOLENOID VALVES:

TURBINE OIL COALESCERS �������������� 70

VALVES HYDRAULIC: DECELERATION 71

VALVES: STOP ��������������������������������� 71

GENERAL PURPOSE ������������������������ 69

UNIONS, ROTATING �������������������������� 70

VALVES HYDRAULIC: DIRECTIONAL �� 71

VALVES: WATER �������������������������������� 71

ACCUMULATORS: BLADDER

ACCUMULATORS: SPRING-LOADED

Parker Hannifin Canada PQ Systems Ltd. Princess Auto Ram Industries Servometer Wainbee Limited

Parker Hannifin Canada Rotomation, Scott Rotary Seals Servometer Wainbee Limited Zimmer Group Canada

ACTUATORS: LINEAR-HYDRAULICSERVO

ACTUATORS: SOLENOID

Berendsen Fluid Power Bosch Rexroth Canada Drive Products HYDAC Hydraflow-Pumptech Fluid Power Hypower Systems Hyseco Fluid Systems Ltd. MP Filtri (Canada) Parker Hannifin Canada Servometer Smart Reservoir Stauff Canada Ltd. Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

ACCUMULATORS: DIAPHRAGM BellowsTech, LLC Bosch Rexroth Canada Drive Products HYDAC Parker Hannifin Canada Servometer Smart Reservoir Stauff Canada Ltd. Wainbee Limited

ACCUMULATORS: PISTON BellowsTech, LLC Berendsen Fluid Power Cross Mfg Inc. Parker Hannifin Canada Ram Industries Servometer Wainbee Limited

BellowsTech, LLC Dendoff Springs Servometer Smart Reservoir

ACTUATORS: ELECTRIC

Bimba Manufacturing Co. Clippard Instrument Laboratory Electromate Haydon Kerk Motion Solutions Parker Hannifin Canada Wainbee Limited Wittenstein

ACTUATORS: LINEAR-ELECTRIC

VALVES AIR: FLOW CONTROL ����������� 70 VALVES AIR: PILOT OPERATED ��������� 70 VALVES AIR: QUICK EXHAUST DUMPING �������������� 70 VALVES AIR: RELIEF �������������������������� 70 VALVES AIR: SEQUENCE ������������������ 70 VALVES AIR: SHUTTLE ��������������������� 70 VALVES AIR: SOLENOID �������������������� 70 VALVES AIR: TIME DELAY ����������������� 71 VALVES: BALL ��������������������������������� 71 VALVES: BLEED �������������������������������� 71 VALVES: BUTTERFLY ������������������������ 71

Berendsen Fluid Power Parker Hannifin Canada Wainbee Limited

ACTUATORS: MANUAL

Clippard Instrument Laboratory

Cowper Inc. Drive Centre Electromate Festo Haydon Kerk Motion Solutions Parker Hannifin Canada PQ Systems Ltd. Princess Auto Rotator Products Ltd. Skeans Engineering & Machinery Tolomatic Wainbee Limited Wittenstein

ACTUATORS: ROTARY HYDRAULIC

ACTUATORS: LINEAR-HYDRAULIC

ACTUATORS: ROTARY PNEUMATIC

BellowsTech, LLC Berendsen Fluid Power CenterLine (Windsor) Limited Fabco-Air Inc. Feldcamp Equipment Higginson Equipment Inc.

BellowsTech, LLC Berendsen Fluid Power Bosch Rexroth Canada Feldcamp Equipment Flodraulic Controls Helac Corporation MP Filtri (Canada) Parker Hannifin Canada Rotomation, Scott Rotary Seals Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

Aventics BellowsTech, LLC Clippard Instrument Laboratory Fabco-Air Inc. Festo Ham-Let Canada

VALVES HYDRAULIC: PRESSURE CONTROL ����������������������� 71 VALVES HYDRAULIC: PRESSURE REDUCING ��������������������� 71 VALVES HYDRAULIC: PROPORTIONAL 71 VALVES HYDRAULIC: RELIEF UNLOADING ������������������������������������ 71 VALVES HYDRAULIC: SEQUENCE ������ 71 VALVES HYDRAULIC: SERVO ������������ 71 VALVES HYDRAULIC: SHUTTLE �������� 71 VALVES HYDRAULIC:

Clippard Instrument Laboratory Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

ADAPTORS & MOUNTS, MOTOR Berendsen Fluid Power BSF, Inc. Drive Products MP Filtri (Canada) Rosta Inc. Rotator Products Ltd. RPM Mechanical Inc. Toro Hydraulic & Machinery

ADAPTORS & MOUNTS, PUMP Berendsen Fluid Power BSF, Inc. Drive Products MP Filtri (Canada) Parker Hannifin Canada Rosta Inc. RPM Mechanical Inc. Toro Hydraulic & Machinery

AFTER-COOLERS Drive Products Maritime Compressor Wainbee Limited

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64 ProductListings AIR BREATHERS Beach Filter Products Inc. Berendsen Fluid Power Climax Company Ltd. Drive Products Hy-Pro Filtration Maradyne MP Filtri (Canada) Parker Hannifin Canada Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

AIR COMPRESSOR OILS Maritime Compressor Wainbee Limited

AIR LOGIC DEVICES Clippard Instrument Laboratory Fabco-Air Inc. Festo Parker Hannifin Canada Wainbee Limited

CLUTCHES: PNEUMATIC TENSION CONTROL DESCH Canada

COMPRESSORS: AIR-DIAPHRAGM Wainbee Limited

COMPRESSORS: AIR-OIL-LESS Maritime Compressor Wainbee Limited

COMPRESSORS: AIR-RECIPROCATING Airvacox Ltée Maritime Compressor Skeans Engineering & Machinery Wainbee Limited

COMPRESSORS: AIR-ROTARY SCREW Airvacox Ltée Drive Products Maritime Compressor Skeans Engineering & Machinery

COMPRESSORS: AIR-ROTARY VANE

Wainbee Limited

Airvacox Ltée Drive Products Maritime Compressor Skeans Engineering & Machinery Wainbee Limited

BLADDERS

COMPRESSORS: CENTRIFUGAL

Berendsen Fluid Power MP Filtri (Canada) Toro Hydraulic & Machinery

CONNECTORS, ELECTRIC

AIR OPERATED HYDRAULIC PUMPS

BLOW GUNS Exair Corporation Festo Wainbee Limited

BLOWERS: CENTRIFUGAL Baumen Associates Drive Products Spencer Turbine Wainbee Limited

BLOWERS: POSITIVE DISPLACEMENT Drive Products

BRAKES: HYDRAULIC Berendsen Fluid Power Hydraflow-Pumptech Fluid Power Rotator Products Ltd. SunSource Tech Serv (Cda) Ltd. Tolomatic Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

BRAKES: PNEUMATIC Tolomatic Wainbee Limited

BUMPERS Rotator Products Ltd. RPM Mechanical Inc.

CAN BUS SYSTEMS Drive Products Festo Flodraulic Controls HAWE North America SunSource Tech Serv (Cda) Ltd.

CLAMPS, HOSE & TUBE & PIPE Cariboo House of Hose & Belting Cords Canada Limited Fairview Kuritec Corporation Oetiker Inc. Patel Hose Inc. Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Viega LLC Wainbee Limited Williams Fluidair Corp Ltd.

CLOSURES, CAPS & PLUGS Cords Canada Limited Daemar Inc. MOCAP

CLUTCHES: HYDRAULIC DESCH Canada Eaton

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Allied Electronics Berendsen Fluid Power Cords Canada Limited

CONTAMINATION CONTROL Berendsen Fluid Power Hy-Pro Filtration MP Filtri (Canada) N.R. Murphy Limited

CONTROLLERS: ELECTRO-HYDRAULIC Berendsen Fluid Power Bosch Rexroth Canada Brand Hydraulics Delta Computer Systems Drive Products Feldcamp Equipment HAWE North America Parker Hannifin Canada Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

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Aventics Beswick Engineering Co. Inc. Climax Company Ltd. Clippard Instrument Laboratory

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ASCO Numatics Aventics Durham Pneumatic Automation Fabco-Air Inc. Festo Humphrey Automation Inc. Parker Hannifin Canada Wainbee Limited Zimmer Group Canada

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Climax Company Ltd. Clippard Instrument Laboratory Oil-Rite Corporation

Aventics Clippard Instrument Laboratory Drive Products Fabco-Air Inc. Festo Fluid Power Sales, Inc. Industrial Specialties Mfg. Scott Rotary Seals Source Fluid Power Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

Kuritec Corporation

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Gates Canada Inc. Wainbee Limited

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Climax Company Ltd. Drive Products Eaton Fairview Gates Canada Inc. Motion Canada Parker Hannifin Canada RYCO Hydraulics Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

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SEALANTS: THREAD John Crane Canada X-Pando Products

SEALS: FITTINGS

Daemar Inc. Hercules Sealing Prod Canada Hi-Tech Seals Inc. SKF Machined Seals & Plastics Thordon Bearings Inc.

SEALS: KITS

Daemar Inc. Drive Products Hercules Sealing Prod Canada Hi-Tech Seals Inc. SKF Machined Seals & Plastics

SEALS: MECHANICAL

BellowsTech, LLC Daemar Inc. John Crane Canada Servometer Thordon Bearings Inc. Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Viking Pump of Canada

SEALS: O-RING-ELASTOMERIC

Allied Electronics Anfield Sensors Carlo Gavazzi (Canada) Inc. Davis Controls Ltd. Drive Products Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Turck Chartwell Canada Wainbee Limited

SHAFTING

BSF, Inc. Electromate RotoPrecision

SHIMS

Daemar Inc. Dendoff Springs Exair Corporation

SHOCK ABSORBERS ASCO Numatics Aventics

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BSF, Inc. Dendoff Springs Fabco-Air Inc. Festo Parker Hannifin Canada PULSCO Rotator Products Ltd. RPM Mechanical Inc. Skeans Engineering & Machinery Taylor Devices Inc.

SILENCERS & MUFFLERS Clippard Instrument Laboratory Exair Corporation Fabco-Air Inc. Festo La Société Waircom Maritime Compressor N.R. Murphy Limited Parker Hannifin Canada PULSCO

SLEEVES, BOOTS MOCAP

SLIDES, PNEUMATIC ASCO Numatics Aventics Fabco-Air Inc. Festo

SOFTWARE: FLUID POWER SYSTEM DESIGN Aventics Delta Computer Systems

SOLENOID VALVES: GENERAL PURPOSE ASCO Numatics Aventics Bosch Rexroth Canada Clippard Instrument Laboratory Cross Mfg Inc.

Daemar Inc. Gates Canada Inc. Hercules Sealing Prod Canada Hi-Tech Seals Inc. John Crane Canada RPM Mechanical Inc. SKF Machined Seals & Plastics Thordon Bearings Inc.

SEALS: O-RING-METALLIC Daemar Inc. Hercules Sealing Prod Canada Servometer SKF Machined Seals & Plastics

SEALS: O-RING-PLASTOMERIC Daemar Inc. Hercules Sealing Prod Canada SKF Machined Seals & Plastics

SEALS: OIL

BellowsTech, LLC Daemar Inc. Hercules Sealing Prod Canada Hi-Tech Seals Inc. SKF Machined Seals & Plastics Toro Hydraulic & Machinery

SEALS: RUBBER DIAPHRAGM Daemar Inc. RPM Mechanical Inc. SKF Machined Seals & Plastics

SEALS: RUBBER HYDRAULIC Daemar Inc. Drive Products Hercules Sealing Prod Canada SKF Machined Seals & Plastics Toro Hydraulic & Machinery

SEMICONDUCTORS BellowsTech, LLC

SENSORS: DISPLACEMENT Electromate Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Turck Chartwell Canada

SENSORS: PRESSURE Anfield Sensors ASCO Valve Canada

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SOLENOID VALVES: PROPORTIONAL Aventics Bosch Rexroth Canada Clippard Instrument Laboratory Cross Mfg Inc. Drive Products Eaton Festo Fluid Power Sales, Inc. HAWE North America Parker Hannifin Canada Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

SPRINGS: AIR

Cowper Inc. Dendoff Springs Taylor Devices Inc. Wainbee Limited

SPRINGS: GAS Dendoff Springs

STRAINERS/ DIFFUSERS Berendsen Fluid Power Drive Products Maradyne MP Filtri (Canada) Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

SWITCHES: FLOW Harwil

SWITCHES: FLUID LEVEL Anfield Sensors Furneco International Harwil Oil-Rite Corporation Turck Chartwell Canada

SWITCHES: PRESSURE

Anfield Sensors Baumen Associates Clippard Instrument Laboratory Drive Products Festo Furneco International Harwil HAWE North America MP Filtri (Canada) Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Turck Chartwell Canada

SWITCHES: TEMPERATURE Anfield Sensors Baumen Associates Carlo Gavazzi (Canada) Inc. Drive Products EMMEGI Heat Exchangers Furneco International Harwil MP Filtri (Canada) Turck Chartwell Canada

SWIVEL JOINTS: HYDRAULIC Berendsen Fluid Power Climax Company Ltd. Parker Hannifin Quick Coupling Div. Scott Rotary Seals Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

SWIVEL JOINTS: PNEUMATIC Festo Scott Rotary Seals Wainbee Limited

TACHOMETERS/STROBOSCOPES Maxon Precision Motors, Inc.

TAPE

MOCAP

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TEST EQUIPMENT: HYDRAULIC Berendsen Fluid Power Drive Products Eastern Fluid Power Inc. Max Machinery Inc. MP Filtri (Canada) Parker Hannifin Quick Coupling Div. Pneu-Hyd Industries Ltd. RYCO Hydraulics Stauff Canada Ltd. Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

TEST EQUIPMENT: PNEUMATIC Parker Hannifin Quick Coupling Div. RYCO Hydraulics Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

TESTING INSTRUMENTS Drive Centre Parker Hannifin Quick Coupling Div.

THREAD PROTECTORS Daemar Inc. Hi-Tech Seals Inc. MOCAP

TUBING: PLASTIC

Allied Electronics Aventics Clippard Instrument Laboratory Cords Canada Limited DK-LOK Ontario Drive Products Festo Humphrey Automation Inc. Kuritec Corporation Parker Hannifin Canada Patel Hose Inc. Pesco Sales

TUBING: RUBBER Kuritec Corporation Patel Hose Inc. RPM Mechanical Inc.

TUBING: STAINLESS STEEL DK-LOK Ontario Inox-Tech Canada Spencer Turbine Viega LLC Williams Fluidair Corp Ltd.

TUBING: STEEL

Cowper Inc.

Drive Products Spencer Turbine Williams Fluidair Corp Ltd.

TRANSDUCERS: ELECTRO-PNEUMATIC

TURBINE OIL COALESCERS

THRUSTERS, LINEAR

Anfield Sensors Festo

Hy-Pro Filtration

TRANSDUCERS: PRESSURE

ASCO Numatics Aventics Exair Corporation Festo Humphrey Automation Inc. Parker Hannifin Canada Wainbee Limited

Anfield Sensors ASCO Valve Canada Berendsen Fluid Power Bosch Rexroth Canada Davis Controls Ltd. Drive Products Festo MKS Instruments MP Filtri (Canada) Omega Environmental Parker Hannifin Quick Coupling Div. PQ Systems Ltd.

TRANSMISSIONS: HYDRODYNAMIC Toro Hydraulic & Machinery

TRANSMISSIONS: HYDROSTATIC Drive Products Flodraulic Controls Toro Hydraulic & Machinery

TUBE FABRICATING BSF, Inc. Eastern Fluid Power Inc. Hyseco Fluid Systems Ltd.

TUBE/HOSE CLEANING EQUIPMENT Drive Products Gates Canada Inc. Parker Hannifin Canada Patel Hose Inc.

TUBING & HOSE Clippard Instrument Laboratory Eaton Exair Corporation Fairview Festo Gates Canada Inc. Ham-Let Canada Industrial Specialties Mfg. Kuritec Corporation Maritime Compressor Patel Hose Inc. RPM Mechanical Inc. Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Viega LLC

TUBING: ALUMINIUM Maritime Compressor Spencer Turbine

TUBING: COPPER Clippard Instrument Laboratory Viega LLC

VACUUM CUPS

VACUUM DEHYDRATORS Hy-Pro Filtration HYDAC Parker Hannifin Canada

VALVE CIRCUITS

Berendsen Fluid Power Fabco-Air Inc. Parker Hannifin Canada Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

VALVE SPOOLS, DIRECTIONAL CONTROL HYDRAULIC Aventics Berendsen Fluid Power Drive Products Eaton HAWE North America Higginson Equipment Inc. Lexair Inc. Parker Hannifin Canada Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

VALVES AIR: CHECK

Aventics Beswick Engineering Co. Inc. Clippard Instrument Laboratory Fabco-Air Inc. Festo Ham-Let Canada La Société Waircom Lexair Inc. Parker Hannifin Canada Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

VALVES AIR: CIRCUIT LOGIC CONTROL Clippard Instrument Laboratory Fabco-Air Inc. Festo Parker Hannifin Canada Wainbee Limited

VALVES AIR: DECELERATION Aventics Clippard Instrument Laboratory Wainbee Limited

VALVES AIR: DIRECTIONAL Allied Electronics ASCO Numatics Aventics Beswick Engineering Co. Inc. Clippard Instrument Laboratory Drive Products Fabco-Air Inc. Festo Higginson Equipment Inc. Humphrey Automation Inc. La Société Waircom Lexair Inc. Mullen Fluid Power Parker Hannifin Canada Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

VALVES AIR: DRIVE

Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

VALVES AIR: FLOW CONTROL Aventics Beswick Engineering Co. Inc. Bimba Manufacturing Co. Clippard Instrument Laboratory Fabco-Air Inc. Festo Ham-Let Canada La Société Waircom Omega Environmental Parker Hannifin Canada Scott Rotary Seals Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

VALVES AIR: PILOT OPERATED Aventics Clippard Instrument Laboratory Fabco-Air Inc. Festo Lexair Inc. Parker Hannifin Canada Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

VALVES AIR: QUICK EXHAUST DUMPING Aventics Clippard Instrument Laboratory Festo Humphrey Automation Inc. Parker Hannifin Canada Wainbee Limited

VALVES AIR: RELIEF

Aventics Beswick Engineering Co. Inc. Clippard Instrument Laboratory Fabco-Air Inc. Ham-Let Canada Parker Hannifin Canada Pelmar Engineering Ltd. Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

VALVES AIR: SEQUENCE

Aventics Clippard Instrument Laboratory Fabco-Air Inc. Festo Wainbee Limited

VALVES AIR: SHUTTLE

Aventics Clippard Instrument Laboratory Drive Products Fabco-Air Inc. Festo Lexair Inc. Parker Hannifin Canada Wainbee Limited

VALVES AIR: SOLENOID

Allied Electronics ASCO Numatics Aventics Bimba Manufacturing Co. Clippard Instrument Laboratory Drive Products Fabco-Air Inc. Festo La Société Waircom Lexair Inc. Skeans Engineering & Machinery Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

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ProductListings VALVES AIR: TIME DELAY Aventics Festo Wainbee Limited

VALVES HYDRAULIC: AIR BLEED Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

VALVES HYDRAULIC: CHECK PILOT OPERATED Bosch Rexroth Canada Brand Hydraulics Drive Products Parker Hannifin Canada Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

VALVES HYDRAULIC: COUNTERBALANCE

Bosch Rexroth Canada Drive Products Eaton HAWE North America Parker Hannifin Canada Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

VALVES HYDRAULIC: DECELERATION Parker Hannifin Canada Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

VALVES HYDRAULIC: DIRECTIONAL Bosch Rexroth Canada Brand Hydraulics Cross Mfg Inc. Drive Products Eaton HAWE North America HYDAC Hydraflow-Pumptech Fluid Power Hypower Systems Lexair Inc. Mullen Fluid Power Parker Hannifin Canada Parker Hannifin Quick Coupling Div. Princess Auto SunSource Tech Serv (Cda) Ltd. Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

VALVES HYDRAULIC: FLOW CONTROL Bosch Rexroth Canada Brand Hydraulics Drive Products Eaton HAWE North America Industrial Specialties Mfg. MKS Instruments MP Filtri (Canada) Parker Hannifin Canada Parker Hannifin Quick Coupling Div. Pelmar Engineering Ltd. Scott Rotary Seals Source Fluid Power Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

VALVES HYDRAULIC: FLOW DIVIDERS Brand Hydraulics Drive Products Parker Hannifin Canada Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

VALVES HYDRAULIC: MINIATURE Brand Hydraulics Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

VALVES HYDRAULIC: MOBILE Bosch Rexroth Canada Brand Hydraulics Drive Products Eaton Flodraulic Controls MP Filtri (Canada) Parker Hannifin Canada SunSource Tech Serv (Cda) Ltd. Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

VALVES HYDRAULIC: PILOT OPERATED Bosch Rexroth Canada Brand Hydraulics Drive Products Lexair Inc. Parker Hannifin Canada Pelmar Engineering Ltd. Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

Parker Hannifin Canada Servometer Wainbee Limited

VALVES: BALL

Beswick Engineering Co. Inc. Climax Company Ltd. DK-LOK Ontario Drive Products Fairview Festo Ham-Let Canada MP Filtri (Canada) Parker Hannifin Canada Stauff Canada Ltd. Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Viega LLC Wainbee Limited

VALVES HYDRAULIC: PLASTIC DIAPHRAGM Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

VALVES HYDRAULIC: PRESSURE CONTROL

Bosch Rexroth Canada Drive Products Eaton HAWE North America MKS Instruments Parker Hannifin Canada Parker Hannifin Quick Coupling Div. Pelmar Engineering Ltd. Source Fluid Power Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

VALVES: BLEED

VALVES HYDRAULIC: PRESSURE REDUCING

VALVES HYDRAULIC: PROPORTIONAL Bosch Rexroth Canada Brand Hydraulics Cross Mfg Inc. Drive Products Eaton Feldcamp Equipment Flodraulic Controls HAWE North America MKS Instruments Parker Hannifin Canada Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

VALVES: GATE Drive Products Festo Wainbee Limited

VALVES: METERING

Beswick Engineering Co. Inc. DK-LOK Ontario Ham-Let Canada Parker Hannifin Canada Pelmar Engineering Ltd.

VALVES: PLUGS Drive Products

VALVES: STOP

VALVES: BUTTERFLY

VALVES: WATER

VALVES: CHECK

Bosch Rexroth Canada Drive Products Eaton Ham-Let Canada HAWE North America Parker Hannifin Canada Pelmar Engineering Ltd. Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

Maritime Compressor Parker Hannifin Canada Parker Hannifin Quick Coupling Div. Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

Clippard Instrument Laboratory Ham-Let Canada Wainbee Limited Drive Products Festo MKS Instruments Wainbee Limited

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Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Clippard Instrument Laboratory Drive Products Festo Lexair Inc. Parker Hannifin Canada Pelmar Engineering Ltd.

Beswick Engineering Co. Inc. Bosch Rexroth Canada Clippard Instrument Laboratory DK-LOK Ontario Drive Products Fabco-Air Inc. Festo Ham-Let Canada HAWE North America Industrial Specialties Mfg. Lexair Inc.

TORO HYDRAULIC offers the most popular brands, Hydraulic components PLUS superior sales & service

VALVES HYDRAULIC: RELIEF UNLOADING

Hydraulic Pumps, Valves, Motors, Cylinders Hydrostatic Transmission Pumps, Motors Variable, fixed, displacement Pumps Staffa Motors, Rotary, Gearboxes, Winches Custom built machines, Power Units, hydraulic Presses On site repair, troubleshooting, installation Consultant for Design and analysis of Hydraulic Systems Hose and Fittings, Tube bending and Flaring from 1/4 in up to 1-1/2 in

Brand Hydraulics Drive Products Eaton Parker Hannifin Canada Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

VALVES HYDRAULIC: SEQUENCE Parker Hannifin Canada Scott Rotary Seals Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

VALVES HYDRAULIC: SERVO Bosch Rexroth Canada Parker Hannifin Canada Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

VALVES HYDRAULIC: SHUTTLE Brand Hydraulics Drive Products Parker Hannifin Canada Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

VALVES HYDRAULIC: SURGE DAMPING Pelmar Engineering Ltd. Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

VALVES PNEUMATIC, MINIATURE ASCO Valve Canada Aventics Clippard Instrument Laboratory Cowper Inc. Fabco-Air Inc. Festo

1415 Bonhill Road, Unit #15, Mississauga ON, L5T 1R2 (CANADA) Tel: 905.565.8887 Fax: 905.565.5788 Emergency Services: 416.720.7319 E-mail: sales@torohyd.com Website: www.torohyd.com

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72 SupplierListings AIR-HYDRAULICS INC.

BAUMEN ASSOCIATES LTD.

AIRVACOX LTÉE

BEACH FILTER PRODUCTS INC.

Manufacturer 545 Hupp Ave Jackson MI 49203 USA Tel: 517-787-9444 Fax: 517-787-7585 Email: info@airhydraulics.com Web: www.airhydraulics.com Manufacturer 85 rue des Buissons Lévis QC G6V 5B6 Tel: 418-835-0142 Fax: 418-835-0297 Email: jmfortin@coair.qc.ca

Manufacturer 6-871 Equestrian Crt Oakville ON L6L 6L7 Tel: 905-828-2600 Email: info@baumenltd.com Web: www.baumenltd.com

Manufacturer & Distributor 555 Centennial Ave Hanover PA 17331 USA Tel: 717-698-1403 Fax: 717-698-1610 Email: sales@beachfilters.com Web: www.beachfilters.com Distributors: CDA, Toronto, ON; Wajax, Mississauga, ON

BELLOWSTECH, LLC

Manufacturer 1289 US Hwy 1 Suite 1 Ormond Beach FL 32174 USA Tel: 386-615-7530 Fax: 386-615-7973 Email: bellows@bellowstech.com Web: www.bellowstech.com

ALLIED ELECTRONICS, INC. Distributor 7151 Jack Newell Blvd S Fort Worth TX 76118 USA Tel: 817-595-3500 Fax: 817-595-6444 Email: quotes@alliedelec.com Web: www.thinkallied.com Branches: Ottawa, ON Manufacturers: Visit our Website

ANFIELD SENSORS INC.

Manufacturer 8831 Keele St Concord ON L4K 2N1 Tel: 905-303-8700 Fax: 905-303-7130 Email: sales@anfieldsensors.com Web: www.anfieldsensors.com Distributors: MP Filtri Canada, Concord, ON

BERENDSEN FLUID POWER

Distributor 35A Ironside Cres Scarborough ON M1X 1G5 Tel: 416-335-5557 Fax: 416-335-8844 Email: info@bfpna.com Web: www.bfpna.com Branches: Calgary, AB; Edmonton, AB; Delta, BC; Winnipeg, MB; Dartmouth, NS; Lively, ON; London, ON; Markham, ON; Stoney Creek, ON; Timmins, ON; Laval, QC; Saskatoon, SK Manufacturers: Auburn Gear; Barksdale; Donaldson; Eaton/ Cutler-Hammer; Eaton-Vickers; Olaer; Sauer-Danfoss; Thermal Transfer

BESWICK ENGINEERING CO. INC. Manufacturer 284 Ocean Rd Greenland NH 03840-2442 USA Tel: 603-433-1188 Fax: 603-433-3313 Email: besales@beswick.com Web: www.beswick.com

ASCO NUMATICS

Manufacturer & Distributor 17 Airport Rd Brantford ON N3T 5M8 Tel: 519-758-2700 Fax: 519-758-5540 Email: asconumaticscanada@emerson.com Web: www.asconumatics.ca Branches: Saint-Laurent, QC Manufacturers: Alado; Enertrols; Vaccon Vacuum Distributors: Visit our Website

ASCO VALVE CANADA

Manufacturer & Distributor 17 Airport Rd Brantford ON N3T 5M8 Tel: 519-758-2700 Fax: 519-758-5540 Email: asconumaticscanada@emerson.com Web: www.ascovalve.ca Branches: St. Laurent, QC

AVENTICS INCORPORATED 100-5515 North Service Rd Burlington ON L7L 6A6 Tel: 905-332-0399 Fax: 905-332-8596 Email: info.ca@aventics.com Web: www.aventics.com/ca

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BOSCH REXROTH CANADA

Manufacturer 490 Prince Charles Dr S Welland ON L3B 5X7 Tel: 905-735-0510 Fax: 905-735-5646 Email: info@boschrexroth.ca Web: www.boschrexroth.ca Branches: Edmonton, AB; Port Coquitlam, BC; Fredericton, NB; Dartmouth, NS; Burlington, ON; Longueuil, QC; Saguenay, QC; Saskatoon, SK Distributors: Advanced Motion & Controls, Barrie, ON; Automation West Technologies, Surrey, BC; Avrex, Boucherville, QC; The Fluid Power House, Cambridge, ON; London, ON; H.P. Hydraulics, Val-d’Or, QC; Hydromec, Chicoutimi, QC; Dolbeau-Mistassini, QC; Morrell Canada, Windsor, ON; Norcan Fluid Power, Calgary, AB; Leduc, AB; Red Deer, AB; Kamloops, BC; Langley, BC; Prince George, BC; Saskatoon, SK

Company Profile:Bosch Rexroth is a world leader in drive and motion control technologies, powering today’s most advanced manufacturing systems. Providing a wide array of engineered solutions & services to solve customers’ complex challenges with unmatched applications engineering expertise across a broad range of industries and automations systems. Bosch Rexroth is the one company able to choose from a wide portfolio of industrial and mobile hydraulics, electric drives and controls, tightening tools and linear motion and assembly systems.

BRAND HYDRAULICS CO.

Manufacturer 2332 S 25th St Omaha NE 68105-0069 USA Tel: 402-344-4434 Fax: 402-341-5419 Email: sales@brand-hyd.com Web: www.brand-hyd.com Distributors: Visit our Website

BSF, INC.

Manufacturer & Distributor PO Box 459 Vandalia OH 45377 USA Tel: 937-890-6121 Fax: 937-890-0974 Web: www.bsfinc.net Manufacturers: KTR; LoveJoy; Magnaloy

CARIBOO HOUSE OF HOSE & BELTING

Distributor PO Box 630 108 Mile House BC V0K 2Z0 Tel: 604-219-3835 Fax: 250-791-9219 Email: CHHB@telus.net Manufacturers: Chinook Pumps; Greenline Hose & Fittings; Motion Canada; SMC; Swag-Lok Canada

BIMBA MANUFACTURING CO.

Manufacturer 25150 S Governors Hwy University Park IL 60484 USA Tel: 708-534-8544 Fax: 708-235-2014 Email: cs@bimba.com Web: www.bimba.com Distributors: Cowper Inc., Saint John, NB; Kingston, ON; London, ON; Markham, ON; Lachine, QC; CPI Automation Ltd., Mississauga, ON; HyPower Systems, Calgary, AB; Edmonton, AB; Fort McMurray, AB; Grande Prairie, AB; Delta, BC; Prince George, BC; Winnipeg, MB; Prince Albert, SK; Regina, SK; Saskatoon, SK; Skeans Air Inc., Winnipeg, MB; Skeans Eng. & Mach. Ltd., Prince George, BC; Skeans Eng. Service Centre, Kamloops, BC; Skeans Engineering & Machinery Ltd., Coquitlam, BC; Skeans Engineering Alberta Ltd., Calgary, AB; Edmonton, AB

CARLO GAVAZZI (CANADA) INC. Manufacturer & Distributor 8-2660 Meadowvale Blvd Mississauga ON L5N 6M6 Tel: 905-542-0979 Fax: 905-542-2248 Email: gavazzi@carlogavazzi.com Web: www.gavazzionline.com

CENTERLINE (WINDSOR) LIMITED AUTOMATION COMPONENTS DIVISION Manufacturer 655 Morton Dr Windsor ON N9J 3T8 Tel: 519-734-8464 Email: info@cntrline.com Web: www.cntrline.com

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DRIVE CENTRE INC.

Distributor 16883 boul Hymus Kirkland QC H9H 3L4 Tel: 514-426-2243 Fax: 514-426-7126 Email: sross@climaxcompany.com Web: www.climaxcompany.com Manufacturers: Alemite; Bijur Delimon International; Cloud Sellers Cleaning Systems; Farval; Kirkpatrick Wire Rope Lubrication Systems; Marsh Bellofram Corp.; Oil Rite Corp.; Parker Hannifin Corp.; Simatec; Trico; Winters Instruments

Distributor 57C Galaxy Blvd.

Units 1 &2 Toronto ON M9W 5P1 Tel: 416-231-6767 Fax: 905-829-5973 Email: sales@drivecentre.ca Web: www.drivecentre.ca Manufacturers: ABB; Baldor; Emerson Control Techniques; Marathon Electric Motors; R+W Coupling; Stober

DRIVE PRODUCTS INC. DAEMAR INC.

CLIPPARD INSTRUMENT LABORATORY, INC.

Manufacturer 7390 Colerain Ave Cincinnati OH 45239 USA Tel: 513-521-4261 Fax: 513-521-4464 Email: sales@clippard.com Web: www.clippard.com Distributors: Wainbee Ltd., Mississauga, ON

CORDS CANADA LIMITED

Distributor 62 Densley Ave Toronto ON M6M 5E1 Tel: 416-242-6811 Fax: 416-242-6819 Email: cords@cordscanada.com Web: www.cordscanada.com Manufacturers: Arkplas Products; Bumper Specialties; Heyco; Micro Plastics; Nyltite; Richco; Stockcap; Thogus

COWPER INC.

Distributor 677 7th Ave Lachine QC H8S 3A1 Tel: 514-637-6746 Fax: 514-637-5055 Email: support@cowper.ca Web: www.cowper.ca Branches: Kingston, ON; London, ON; Markham, ON; Saint John, NB Manufacturers: Ace Controls; AGI; Air Logic; Alwitco; Anver; Balluff; Bimba Mfg.; Camozzi; Exair; Firestone Industrial; Koganei; LMI Technologies; Nason; Norgren; Panasonic; Rethink Robotics; Sanyo Denki; Sheffer; Tol-O-Matic; TRD Mfg.; Trio

CROSS MFG INC.

Manufacturer 210-11011 King St Overland Park KS 66210 USA Tel: 620-324-5525 Fax: 620-324-5737 Email: info@crossmfg.com Web: www.crossmfg.com

CYCLO-INDEX

Manufacturer 1129 W Fairview Ave Carthage MO 64836 USA Tel: 417-358-6136 Fax: 417-358-8629 Email: info@cycloindex.com Web: www.cycloindex.com

Distributor 861 Cranberry Crt Oakville ON L6L 6J7 Tel: 905-847-6500 Fax: 905-847-6943 Email: sales@daemarinc.com Web: www.daemar.com Branches: Edmonton, AB; Dorval, QC Manufacturers: Caplugs; DMR; JM Clipper; Kalrez; Keystock; RotoClamp; Rotor-Clip; Shim Stock; Spirolox

DAVIS CONTROLS LTD.

Distributor 2200 Bristol Cir Oakville ON L6H 5R3 Tel: 905-829-2000 Fax: 905-829-2630 Email: info@daviscontrols.com Web: www.daviscontrols.com Branches: Vancouver, BC; Calgary, ON; Sarnia, ON; Montreal, QC Manufacturers: ABB Measurement; Acromag; Danfoss Drives; Flexim; Flowline; Gems Sensors; LS Industrial Systems

DELTA COMPUTER SYSTEMS, INC.

Manufacturer 1818 SE 17th St Battle Ground WA 98604 USA Tel: 360-254-8688 Fax: 360-254-5435 Email: technicalsales@deltamotion.com Web: www.deltamotion.com Distributors: Engrenage Provincial, Québec, QC; Hydraulic & Motor Controls, Orchard Park, NY; MCS Servo Inc., Saint-Bruno, QC; PQ Systems, Burnaby, BC

DENDOFF SPRINGS

Manufacturer 12045 Old Yale Rd Surrey BC V3V 3X4 Tel: 604-580-3400 Fax: 604-580-3600 Email: sales@dendoff.com Web: www.dendoff.com

DESCH CANADA LTD.

Manufacturer 240 Shearson Cres Cambridge ON N1T 1J6 Tel: 519-621-4560 Fax: 519-623-1169 Email: desch@desch.on.ca Web: www.desch.de

DIEQUA CORPORATION

Manufacturer 180 Covington Dr Bloomingdale IL 60108 3105-3105 USA Tel: 630-980-1133 Fax: 630-980-1232 Web: www.diequa.com

DK-LOK ONTARIO INC.

Distributor 6-720 South Service Rd Stoney Creek ON L8E 5S7 Tel: 289-649-1046 Fax: 289-649-1049 Email: sales@dklokontario.com Web: www.dklokontario.com Manufacturers: DFT; DK-LOK Corporation; Hydra-Zorb; Triac A-T Controls

Manufacturer & Distributor 165 Shawson Dr Mississauga ON L4W 1T7 Tel: 905-564-5800 Fax: 905-564-5799 Email: marketing@driveproducts.com Web: www.driveproducts.com Manufacturers: APSCO; Blackmer; Brand; Brevini; Dixon; Eaton; Force America; Gardner Denver; Hydro Leduc; Internormen; Magnaloy; Miratron; Muncie; OMSI; Roper; Thermal Transfer Products; Tulsa Winch Group; Webtec; White; Yuken

DURHAM PNEUMATIC AUTOMATION

Distributor 36 Horseshoe Dr Whitby ON L1N 8E9 Tel: 905-665-9137 Fax: 905-665-6801 Email: info@durhampneumatic.com Web: www.durhampneumatic.com Manufacturers: Airmax; Humphrey; Mindman; SNS; STC

EASTERN FLUID POWER INC.

Manufacturer & Distributor 1120 Clyde Crt Kingston ON K7P 2E4 Tel: 613-384-8884 Fax: 613-384-8887 Email: judith@efp.ca Web: www.easternfluidpower.com Manufacturers: Beka Max; Bucher Hydraulics; Burkert; Caterpillar; Humphrey; Internormen; Parker Hannifin; Sun Hydraulics Distributors: Eastern Fluid Power Inc., Kingston, ON

EATON

Manufacturer 14615 Lone Oak Rd Eden Prairie MN 55344 USA Tel: 952-937-9800 Email: bethmmooney@eaton.com Web: www.eaton.com Branches: Cleveland, OH

ELECTROMATE

Distributor 15-6221 Highway 7 Vaughan ON L4H 0K8 Tel: 905-850-7447 Fax: 905-850-7451 Email: sales@electromate.com Web: www.electromate.com Manufacturers: Advanced Motion Controls; Akribis Systems; Amosyn; Applied Motion Products; Applimotion; Bayside Motion; Bell Everman; Bogen Magnetics; Delta; Dyadic Systems; ElectroCraft; Empire Magnetics; Exor Electronic; Galil Motion Control; Gam Gear; Groschopp; Harmonic Drive LLC; Haydon Kerk Motion Systems; Ibex Engineering; Intelligent Actuator Inc.; ITT Torque Systems; JVL; Kollmorgen; Lintech; Macron Dynamics; Maxon Motor AG; MCG; Merkle-Korff Industries; MicroE Systems; MTS-Temposonics; Netzer Precision; Nippon Pulse America; Pacific Scientific; Pittman; Posital Fraba; Quantum Devices; QuickSilver Controls Inc.; Rabbit Semiconductor; Servo-Tek; Shimpo Drives; Superior Electric; Tecnotion; Thomson; Tolomatic; Wago; World Encoders

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74 SupplierListings EMMEGI HEAT EXCHANGERS, INC.

Manufacturer 3606 East Southern Ave Phoenix AZ 85040 USA Tel: 602-438-7101 Fax: 602-438-7127 Web: www.emmegiinc.com Distributors: Norcan Fluid Power, Calgary, AB; Leduc, AB; Red Deer, AB; Kamloops, BC; Langley, BC; Prince George, BC; Saskatoon, SK

EXAIR CORPORATION

Manufacturer & Distributor 11510 Goldcoast Dr Cincinnati OH 45249 1621-1621 USA Tel: 513-671-3322 Fax: 513-671-3363 Email: techelp@exair.com Web: www.exair.com

FABCO-AIR INC.

Manufacturer 3716 NE 49th Rd Gainesville FL 32609 USA Tel: 352-373-3578 Fax: 352-375-8024 Email: quotes@fabco-air.com Web: www.fabco-air.com Distributors: Visit our Website

FABRICATED PLASTICS LIMITED Manufacturer 2175 Teston Rd Maple ON L6A 1R3 Tel: 905-832-8161 Fax: 905-832-2111 Email: info@fabricatedplastics.com Web: www.fabricatedplastics.com

FAIRVIEW LIMITED

Manufacturer & Distributor 1170 Invicta Dr Oakville ON L6H 6G1 Tel: 905-338-0800 Fax: 905-338-0060 Email: peterconn@fairviewfittings.com Web: www.fairviewfittings.com

FELDCAMP EQUIPMENT LIMITED Manufacturer & Distributor 701 Graham Dr North Bay ON P1B 9E6 Tel: 705-472-5885 Fax: 705-472-2819 Email: sales@feldcamp.com Web: www.feldcamp.com Manufacturers: Parker Hannifin

FLUID METERING, INC. Manufacturer 500-5 Aerial Way Syosset NY 11791 USA Tel: 516-922-6050 Fax: 516-624-8261 Email: pumps@fmipumps.com Web: www.fmipump.com

FLUID POWER SALES, INC.

Manufacturer & Distributor 8257 Loop Rd Baldwinsville NY 13027 USA Tel: 315-638-7111 Fax: 315-638-7117 Email: info@fluidpowersales.com Web: www.fluidpowersales.com Branches: Carrying Place, ON; Dorchester, ON Manufacturers: Concentric; CPV Mfg; Dynex; Hartmann Controls; Hydac; Hydraforce Inc; Vonberg Valve; Wandfluh; Yuken

FURNECO INTERNATIONAL INC.

Distributor 926 rue Aubry St-Jean-sur-Richel QC J3B 2H9 Tel: 450-347-2111 Fax: 450-347-2117 Email: info@furneco.com Web: www.furneco.com Branches: Burlington, ON Manufacturers: A.W. Lake; Aalborg; AKO; Bapi; Comet Systems; Dwyer; E & E Elektronik; Extech; F.P.I.; Fairchild; Hansentek; Love Controls; Mamac; Mercoid; Noshok; Pitanco; Precision Digital; Proximity; Taylor Thermometer; W.E. Anderson

GATES CANADA INC.

Manufacturer 225 Henry St Brantford ON N3S 7R4 Tel: 519-759-4141 Fax: 519-759-4567 Email: orderservice@gates.com Web: www.gates.com

HAWE NORTH AMERICA

Manufacturer 9009K Perimeter Woods Dr Charlotte NC 28216 USA Tel: 704-509-1599 Fax: 704-509-6302 Email: sales@hawehydraulics.com Web: www.HAWE.com Distributors: Hydra-Fab Fluid Power, Inc., Mississauga, ON; Redline Motion Control Inc., Pointe-Claire, QC; Wajax Industrial Components AB; Nisku, AB; Surrey, BC; Winnipeg, MB; Lachine, QC; Québec, QC

HAYDON KERK MOTION SOLUTIONS INC. Manufacturer 1500 Meriden Rd Waterbury CT 6705 USA Tel: 203-756-7441 Fax: 203-756-8724 Email: info.haydonkerk@ametek.com Web: www.haydonkerk.com

HEIDENHAIN CORPORATION Manufacturer 11-335 Admiral Blvd Mississauga ON L5T 2N2 Tel: 905-670-8900 Fax: 905-670-4426 Email: infocanada@heidenhain.com Web: www.heidenhain.com

HELAC CORPORATION

Manufacturer 225 Battersby Ave Enumclaw WA 98022 USA Tel: 360-825-1601 Fax: 360-825-1603 Email: actuators@helac.com Web: www.helac.com

HAM-LET CANADA FESTO INC.

Manufacturer & Distributor 5300 Explorer Dr Mississauga ON L4W 5G4 Tel: 877-463-3786 Fax: 877-393-3786 Email: festo.canada@ca.festo.com Web: www.festo.ca Branches: Calgary, AB; Edmonton, AB; Richmond, BC; Moncton, NB; Montréal, QC; Québec, QC

FLODRAULIC CONTROLS LTD.

Manufacturer & Distributor 45 Sinclair Ave Georgetown ON L7G 4X4 Tel: 905-702-7456 Fax: 905-702-9457 Email: info@flodraulic.com Web: www.flodraulic.com Branches: Calgary, AB; Nisku, AB; Kamloops, BC; Saskatoon, SK Manufacturers: Comatrol; Continental; Danfoss; Eckerle; Elobau; Graco; Hansa TMP; Hetronic; HKS; Hydrocontrol; Micromatic; MiniBooster; Nason; Permco; Roquet; Schneider; Slack & Parr; Turolla

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Manufacturer 3190 Ridgeway Dr Mississauga ON L5L 5S8 Tel: 905-608-9996 Fax: 905-608-8661 Web: www.ham-let.com Distributors: Bell Industries, Edmonton, AB; Canadian Bearings Ltd., Mississauga, ON; Excel Product Services, Etobicoke, ON; Freco Fluid Power, Ottawa, ON; Hosepower Canada, Ajax, ON; Industrial Hose & Hydraulics, Hamilton, ON; Island Hose & Fittings Ltd., Mount Pearl, NL; Mentec Sudbury, Sudbury, ON; Motion Canada, Mississauga, ON; Pneutech Rousseau Inc., Lachine, QC; Stainless Process Equipment, Mississauga, ON; Steke Inc., Sherbrooke, QC; TTL Supply Ltd., Dartmouth, NS; Tubefit Inc., Hamilton, ON; Unified Alloys, Langley, BC; Milton, ON; Saint-Laurent, QC

HARWIL CORP.

Manufacturer 541 Kinetic Dr Oxnard CA 93030 USA Tel: 805-988-6800 Fax: 805-988-6804 Email: sales@harwil.com Web: www.harwil.com

HERCULES SEALING PRODUCTS CANADA

Distributor 226 Lockhart Rd Barrie ON L4N 9G8 Tel: 705-739-6735 Fax: 705-739-6731 Email: sales@herculesca.ca Web: www.herculesca.ca Branches: Dorval, QC Manufacturers: Dichtomatik; The Simrit Group; SKF Polyseal; Trelleborg Sealing Solutions

HI-TECH SEALS INC.

Manufacturer & Distributor 9211 41st Ave NW Edmonton AB T6E 6R5 Tel: 780-438-6055 Fax: 780-434-5866 Email: info@hitechseals.com Web: www.hitechseals.com Branches: Calgary, AB; Winnipeg, MB; Newmarket, ON; Boucherville, QC

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SupplierListings 75 HIGGINSON EQUIPMENT INC.

Manufacturer & Distributor 1175 Corporate Dr Burlington ON L7L 5V5 Tel: 905-335-2211 Fax: 905-335-8756 Email: sales@higginson.ca Web: www.higginson.ca Manufacturers: AAA Products International; Aldon Railway Equipment; Burkert Fluid Controls; CPV Mfg; Cross Manufacturing; Deublin Company; Dynatect; Dynex High Pressure Hydraulics; Efdyn; Fabco Air Inc.; Gusher Pumps Inc.; Humphrey Automation; John C Ernst Company; Lehigh Fluid Power Inc.; Linemaster Switch Corporation; Magnaloy; Moton Controls LLC; Nachi; Oberdorfer Pumps; Oil-Rite Corporation; SMC Pneumatics; Tobal Accumulators; Winters Thermogauges; Zinga Filtratin Group

HUMPHREY AUTOMATION INC. Distributor 10-570 Alden Rd Markham ON L3R 8N5 Tel: 905-479-3633 Fax: 905-479-3755 Email: humphrey@pneumation.ca Web: www.humphreyautomation.ca

HY-PRO FILTRATION

Manufacturer 6810 Layton Rd Anderson IN 46011 USA Tel: 317-849-3535 Fax: 317-849-9201 Email: info@hyprofiltration.com Web: www.hyprofiltration.com

HYDAC CORPORATION Manufacturer 14 Federal Rd Welland ON L3B 3P2 Tel: 905-714-9322 Fax: 905-714-4664 Email: sales@hydac.ca Web: www.hydac-na.com

HYSECO FLUID SYSTEMS LTD.

Manufacturer & Distributor 1-7399 River Rd Delta BC V4G 1B2 Tel: 604-940-8865 Fax: 604-940-8802 Email: sales@hyseco.com Web: www.hyseco.com Manufacturers: Anchor; Curtiss Wright; Daman; Enerpac; KYB; Magnaloy; Marzocchi; Parker

INDUSTRIAL SPECIALTIES MFG. Manufacturer & Distributor 4091 S Eliot St Denver CO 80110 USA Tel: 303-781-8486 Fax: 303-761-7939 Email: sales@industrialspec.com Web: www.industrialspec.com

Distributor 2-421 Rowntree Dairy Rd Vaughan ON L4L 8H1 Tel: 905-856-9994 Fax: 905-856-9924 Email: sales@hfpt.ca Web: www.hfpt.ca Manufacturers: Argo-Hytos; Bosch Rexroth; Hydac; Hydraforce Inc; Kawasaki; Mico; Permco; SAI; Sheffer; SPX Stone; Staffa; Stauff

HYPOWER SYSTEMS

Distributor 117-12111 40th St SE Calgary AB T2Z 4E6 Tel: 403-214-6777 Fax: 403-243-7799 Web: www.hypower.com Branches: Calgary, AB; Edmonton, AB; Fort McMurray, AB; Grande Prairie, AB; Prince George, BC; Vancouver/Delta, BC; Winnipeg, MB; Prince Albert, SK; Regina, SK; Saskatoon, SK Manufacturers: Asco Numatics; Bimba Manufacturing; Bucher Hydraulics; Donaldson; Eaton; Enerpac; Graco; Kawasaki; Norgren; Pall; Poclain Hydraulics; TRD Mfg.

Manufacturer 2025 Mercer Rd Lexington KY 40511 USA Tel: 859-255-5001 Fax: 859-255-6656 Email: valvesales@lexairinc.com Web: www.lexairinc.com Distributors: CAN-ACT Cylinders & Controls, Delta, BC; Integrated Pneumatics Ltd., Saint John, NB; Pneumatic Industrial Equip., Mississauga, ON; Pneutech Industrial Equipment, Kitimat, BC; Pneutech Rousseau Inc., Lachine, QC; Montréal, QC; Sempress Canada Inc., Mississauga, ON; Universal Air Hydraulic Ltd., Nisku, AB

INOX-TECH CANADA INC.

Manufacturer 1905 rue Pasteur Sainte-Catherine QC J5C 1B7 Tel: 450-638-5441 Fax: 450-638-2865 Email: info@inox-tech.com Web: www.inox-tech.com

JOHN CRANE CANADA

Manufacturer & Distributor 423 Green Rd Stoney Creek ON L8E 3A1 Tel: 905-662-6191 Fax: 905-662-1564 Email: canada@johncrane.com Web: www.johncrane.com Branches: Edmonton, AB; Bedford, NS; Sarnia, ON; SaintLaurent, QC Distributors: EDA Environmental, Winnipeg, MB

KHK USA INC.

Manufacturer & Distributor 259 Elm Place Mineola NY 11501 USA Tel: 516-248-3850 Fax: 516-248-4385 Email: info@khkgears.us Web: www.khkgears.us

KSB PUMPS INC. HYDRAFLOW-PUMPTECH FLUID POWER INC.

LEXAIR INC.

Manufacturer 5205 Tomken Rd Mississauga ON L4W 3N8 Tel: 905-568-9200 Fax: 905-568-3740 Email: info@ksbcanada.com Web: www.ksb.ca Branches: Calgary, AB; Edmonton, AB; Sussex, NB; Laval, QC

KURITEC CORPORATION

Manufacturer & Distributor 140 Roy Blvd Brantford ON N3R 7W9 Tel: 519-753-6717 Fax: 519-753-7737 Web: www.kuritec.com Manufacturers: Hose Technology; Kuriyama; Piranha; Tigerflex

LA SOCIÉTÉ WAIRCOM INC.

Manufacturer 1-209 rue York Granby QC J2G 2B9 Tel: 450-378-4441, Ext 221 Fax: 450-378-0332 Email: Reach@waircom.com Web: www.waircominc.ca

MAIN MANUFACTURING PRODUCTS INC.

Manufacturer & Distributor 3181 Tri-Park Dr Grand Blanc MI 48439 USA Tel: 800-521-7918 Fax: 810-953-1385 Email: info@mainmfg.com Web: www.mainmfg.com

MARADYNE CORPORATION

Manufacturer 4540 West 160th St Cleveland OH 44135 USA Tel: 216-362-0755, Ext 4 Fax: 216-362-0799 Email: MFPSales@maradyne.com Web: www.maradyne.com Distributors: Continental Hydraulics, Inc., Montréal, QC; Great Lakes Hydraulics, Burlington, ON

MARITIME COMPRESSOR LTD.

Distributor 164 ch Alexandrina Notre-Dame NB E4V 1S6 Tel: 506-576-6638 Fax: 506-576-9706 Email: maritimecompressorltd@rogers.com Web: www.maritimecompressorltd.com Distributors: Champion Compressors, Mississauga, ON; CompAir Canada, Oakville, ON; DV Systems Inc., Barrie, ON

MAX MACHINERY INC.

Manufacturer 33A Healdsburg Ave Healdsburg CA 95448 USA Tel: 707-433-2662 Fax: 707-433-1818 Email: info@maxmachinery.com Web: www.maxmachinery.com Distributors: Cancoppas Ltd., Mississauga, ON; Flotech Controls, Regina, SK

MAXON PRECISION MOTORS, INC. Manufacturer 101 Waldron Rd Fall River MA 2720 USA Tel: 508-677-0520 Fax: 508-677-0530 Email: info@maxonmotorusa.com Web: www.maxonmotorusa.com Distributors: Electromate, Vaughan, ON

MKS INSTRUMENTS, INC.

Manufacturer 201-2 Tech Dr Andover MA 01810 USA Tel: 978-645-5500 Fax: 978-557-5100 Email: mks@mksinst.com Web: www.mksinst.com

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76 SupplierListings MOCAP

Manufacturer 409 Parkway Dr Park Hills MO 63601 USA Tel: 314-543-4000 Fax: 314-543-4111 Web: www.mocap.com

OMEGA ENVIRONMENTAL Manufacturer 976 rue Bergar Laval QC H7L 5A1 Tel: 514-856-6928 Fax: 514-856-6886 Email: info@omega.ca Web: www.omega.ca

PQ SYSTEMS LTD.

Distributor A2-5279 Stillcreek Ave Burnaby BC V5C 5V1 Tel: 604-299-0022 Fax: 604-299-8453 Web: www.pqsystemsltd.com Manufacturers: Delta Computer Systems; Duplomatic; Exlar; Hydraforce; MOOG; MTS-Temposonics; PQS Servolife; Ross Controls

PRINCESS AUTO LTD. MOTION CANADA

Distributor 8985 Fraserwood Crt Burnaby BC V5J 5E8 Tel: 604-433-6711 Fax: 604-433-4762 Web: www.motioncanada.com Manufacturers: Bosch Rexroth; Char-Lynn; Eaton; SMC; Vickers-Warnick Ltd.

PARKER HANNIFIN CANADA Manufacturer 160 Chisholm Dr Milton ON L9T 3G9 Tel: 905-693-3000 Fax: 905-876-1958 Email: pcdmktg@parker.com Web: www.parker.com/canada Branches: Calgary, AB; Grimsby, ON; Pointe-Claire, QC Distributors: Visit our Website

Distributor 475 Panet Rd Winnipeg MB R2C 2Z1 Tel: 204-667-4630 Email: mail.order@princessauto.com Web: www.princessauto.com Branches: Calgary, AB; Edmonton, AB; Grande Prairie, AB; Lethbridge, AB; Medicine Hat, AB; Red Deer, AB; Coquitlam, BC; Kamloops, BC; Kelowna, BC; Langley, BC; Lloydminster, BC; Prince George, BC; Victoria, BC; Brandon, MB; Winnnipeg, MB; Moncton, NB; Saint John, NB; St. John’s, NL; Dartmouth, NS; Barrie, ON; Hamilton, ON; Kingston, ON; Kitchener, ON; London, ON; Markham, ON; Milton, ON; Mississauga, ON; Newmarket, ON; Ottawa, ON; Sarnia, ON; Scarborough, ON; Sudbury, ON; Whitby, ON; Windsor, ON; Regina, SK; Saskatoon, SK

PULSCO, INC. MP FILTRI (CANADA) INC.

Manufacturer & Distributor 8831 Keele St Vaughan ON L4K 2N1 Tel: 905-303-1369 Fax: 905-303-7256 Email: mail@mpfiltricanada.com Web: www.mpfiltricanada.com Manufacturers: Accumulators Inc.; Anfield Industries; Anfield Sensors; Daman

MULLEN FLUID POWER LTD. Manufacturer & Distributor 12-49 Morrow Rd Barrie ON L4N 3V7 Tel: 705-722-7622 Fax: 705-722-3415 Email: dmullen@mullenfluidpower.com Manufacturers: Parker

N.R. MURPHY LIMITED

Manufacturer 430 Franklin Blvd Cambridge ON N1R 8G6 Tel: 519-621-6210 Fax: 519-621-2841 Email: 4nodust@nrmurphy.com Web: www.nrmurphy.com

OETIKER INC.

Manufacturer 6317 Euclid St Marlette MI 48453 USA Tel: 989-635-3621 Fax: 989-635-2157 Email: Info.us.marlette@oetiker.com Web: www.oetiker.com Branches: Alliston, ON

OIL-RITE CORPORATION

Manufacturer 4325 Clipper Dr Manitowoc WI 54220 USA Tel: 920-682-6173 Fax: 920-682-7699 Email: sales@oilrite.com Web: www.oilrite.com Distributors: Higginson Equipment Sales, Burlington, ON; Howard Marten Fluid Tech Inc., Pickering, ON; Labelle Lube, Laval, QC

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PARKER HANNIFIN QUICK COUPLING DIVISION/SNAP-TITE Manufacturer 8145 Lewis Rd Minneapolis MN 55427 USA Tel: 763-544-7781 Fax: 763-544-3418 Email: qcd_sales@parker.com Web: www.parker.com/quickcouplings

PATEL HOSE INC.

Distributor 43-173 Advance Blvd Brampton ON L6T 4Z7 Tel: 905-791-4161 Fax: 905-791-3599 Email: sales@patelhose.com Web: www.patelhose.com

Manufacturer 401-1813 E Dyer Rd Santa Ana CA 92705 USA Tel: 949-261-1717 Email: sales@pulsco.com Web: www.pulsco.com

RALSTON METAL PRODUCTS LTD. Manufacturer 50 Watson Rd S Guelph ON N1L 1E2 Tel: 519-836-2968 Fax: 519-836-9763 Web: www.ralstonmetal.com

PELMAR ENGINEERING LTD. Manufacturer 8-445 Midwest Rd Scarborough ON M1P 4Y9 Tel: 416-288-1736 Fax: 416-288-0385 Email: support@pelmareng.com Web: www.pelmareng.com

PESCO SALES LTD.

Distributor 3260 rue Sartelon Saint-Laurent QC H4R 1E3 Tel: 514-331-6953 Fax: 514-331-0061 Email: pesco@total.net Web: www.pescoquebec.com Manufacturers: Aquflow; Cantesco; Garlock; Generant; LMI Milton Roy; Saint-Gobain; Sterling Motors; Tarby; ThermOmega-Tech; Zook

PNEU-HYD INDUSTRIES LTD. Manufacturer & Distributor 5 Pinelands Ave Stoney Creek ON L8E 3A4 Tel: 905-664-5540 Fax: 905-664-4334 Email: info@pneu-hyd.com Web: www.pneu-hyd.com

RAM INDUSTRIES INC. Manufacturer 33 York Rd E Yorkton SK S3N 3Z4 Tel: 306-786-2677 Fax: 306-786-2651 Web: www.ramindustries.com

Company Profile:RAM is an industry leader in custom hydraulic cylinder design and manufacturing. For 40 years, RAM cylinders have served OEMs in a variety of industries including construction, transportation, material handling, oil and gas, agriculture, and industrial applications. RAM’s expertise is working with engineering and procurement teams to design for specific cylinder fit and functionality requirements. We produce a wide range of cylinder sizes, and customize orders to meet production and procurement needs.

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SupplierListings 77 RENUM HYDRAULICS LTD.

Manufacturer & Distributor 200 Wilkinson Rd Units 11-12 Brampton ON L6T 4M4 Tel: 905-457-6754 Fax: 905-457-1656 Email: sales@renumhydraulics.com Web: www.renumhydraulics.com Manufacturers: EDI; Marzocchi; Misselli; Oilcontrol; Omal; OMFB; OT Pumps; Vivolo

ROSTA INC.

Manufacturer & Distributor 7-394 Highway 47 Goodwood ON L0C 1A0 Tel: 905-642-6996 Fax: 905-642-6006 Email: info.ca@rosta.com Web: www.rosta.com Manufacturers: Rosta; Venanzetti Vibrazioni; Vibrachoc/ Paulstra

ROTATOR PRODUCTS LTD.

Distributor 8-101 Innovation Dr Woodbridge ON L4H 0S3 Tel: 905-856-2653 Fax: 905-856-3407 Web: www.rotatorproducts.com Branches: Pierrefonds, QC Manufacturers: Conductix Wampfler; Eaton; Hycomp; Johnson Power; Magnetek; Oil Skimmers; Poona Couplings; R&M Material HDLG; Reuland; Rexnord Falk; Ringfeder; System Components

ROTOMATION, INC.

Manufacturer 11 Sunshine Blvd Ormond Beach FL 32174 USA Tel: 386-676-6377 Email: sales@rotomation.com Web: www.rotomation.com Distributors: Dicsa Automatisation, Inc., Saint-Bruno, QC; PROAX Technologies, Inc., Oakville, ON

ROTOPRECISION INC.

Manufacturer & Distributor 304 Watline Ave Mississauga ON L4Z 1P4 Tel: 905-712-3330 Fax: 905-712-3805 Email: sales@rotoprecision.ca Web: www.rotoprecision.ca Branches: Coquitlam, BC; Dorval, QC Manufacturers: Alinabal Motion Transfer Devices; Anderton (Cirteq) International Ltd.; Motovario Corporation; NB Corporation; Nordex Inc.; Onvio LLC; Ruland Manufacturing Co. Inc.; The Smalley Steel Ring Company; Strongbar (UK) Ltd.; WIB Bearings

RPM MECHANICAL INC.

Manufacturer & Distributor 2290 Industrial St Burlington ON L7P 1A1 Tel: 905-335-5523 Fax: 905-335-5843 Email: info@rpmrubberparts.com Web: www.rpmrubberparts.com

SAFEWAY HYDRAULICS

SRS CRISAFULLI, INC.

SCOTT ROTARY SEALS

STAUBLI CORP.

Manufacturer 301 Franklin St Olean NY 14760 USA Tel: 716-376-0708 Fax: 716-372-1777 Email: sales@scottrotaryseals.com Web: www.scottrotaryseals.com

Manufacturer 201 Parkway W Duncan SC 29334 USA Tel: 864-433-1980 Fax: 864-486-5495 Email: connectors.usa@staubli.com Web: www.staubli.com Distributors: CAN-ACT Cylinders & Controls Inc, Delta, BC

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STAUFF CANADA LTD.

Manufacturer 5858 Centerville Rd St. Paul MN 55127 USA Tel: 651-925-5620 Fax: 651-653-0989 Email: info@safewayhyd.com Web: www.safewayhyd.com

Manufacturer 501 Little Falls Rd Cedar Grove NJ 07009 1291-1291 USA Tel: 973-785-4630 Fax: 973-785-0756 Email: info@servometer.com Web: www.servometer.com

SKEANS ENGINEERING & MACHINERY LTD.

Distributor 1900 Brigantine Dr Coquitlam BC V3K 7B5 Tel: 604-777-4247 Fax: 604-777-1900 Email: skeans@skeans.com Web: www.skeans.com Branches: Winnipeg, MB; Calgary, AB; Edmonton, AB; Saskatoon, SK; Prince George, BC Manufacturers: Bimba Mfg; Colder Couplings; CPC; Enidine Shock Absorbers; Galland Henning Nopak; Gardner Denver; Hansen/Eaton; ITT; Legris Fittings; Leuze Sensors; Mac Valves; Mattei Compressors; Murr Elektronik; Omron; PHD Cylinders; Piab Vacuum Pumps; Tolomatic Cylinders; Transair Piping Systems; TRD Cylinders; Wilkerson FRL’s

SKF MACHINED SEALS & PLASTICS Manufacturer 5777 Coopers Ave Mississauga ON L4Z 1R9 Tel: 905-712-1600 Fax: 905-712-1606 Email: canada.sales@economos.com Web: www.skf.ca

SMART RESERVOIR INC.

Manufacturer 812 boul Industriel Bois des Fillon QC J6Z 4S7 Tel: 450-965-9669 Email: carl@smartreservoir.com Web: www.variablevolumerservoir.com

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Manufacturer 331 Lake Hazeltine Dr Chaska MN 55318 USA Tel: 952-368-3866 Fax: 952-448-3392 Web: www.sourcefp.com Manufacturers: Hypower Systems Inc.

SPENCER TURBINE RYCO HYDRAULICS, INC.

Manufacturer 1616 Greens Rd Houston TX 77032 USA Tel: 281-821-4100 Fax: 281-821-4300 Web: www.ryco.com.au Branches: Aurora, ON

Manufacturer 600 Day Hill Rd Windsor CT 6095 USA Tel: 860-688-8361 Fax: 860-688-0098 Email: marketing@spencer-air.com Web: www.spencerturbine.com Distributors: Acme Vacuum Co., Saint-Laurent, QC; ClearTech Industries, Mississauga, ON; eda Environmental, Winnipeg, MB

Manufacturer 1610 Crisafulli Dr Glendive MT 59330 USA Tel: 406-365-3393 Fax: 406-365-8088 Email: srsc@crisafulli.com Web: www.crisafullipumps.com

Manufacturer & Distributor 866 Milner Ave Scarborough ON M1B 5N7 Tel: 416-282-4608 Fax: 416-282-3039 Email: sales@stauffcanada.com Web: www.stauffcanada.com

SUNSOURCE TECHNOLOGY SERVICES (CANADA) LIMITED Distributor 47-49-6535 Millcreek Dr Mississauga ON L5N 2M2 Tel: 905-821-4230 Fax: 905-821-4879 Web: www.sun-source.com

TAYLOR DEVICES INC.

Manufacturer 90 Taylor Dr North Tonawanda NY 14120 0748-0748 USA Tel: 716-694-0800 Fax: 716-695-6015 Email: taylordevi@aol.com Web: www.taylordevices.com Distributors: Teratec Inc.

THORDON BEARINGS INC.

Manufacturer 3225 Mainway Burlington ON L7M 1A6 Tel: 905-335-1440 Fax: 905-335-4033 Email: info@thordonbearings.com Web: www.thordonbearings.com Distributors: Avalon Marine Limited, Dartmouth, NS; RMH Industries, Saint-Augustin, QC

TOLOMATIC, INC.

Manufacturer 3800 County Rd 116 Hamel MN 55340 USA Tel: 763-478-8000 Fax: 763-478-8080 Email: sales@tolomatic.com Web: www.tolomatic.com Distributors: Cowper Inc., Truro, NS; Burlington, ON; Lachine, QC; Saint-Hyacinthe, QC; Electromate, Vaughan, ON; PTM, Downsview, ON; Skeans Air Inc., Winnipeg, MB; Skeans Engineering, Calgary, AB; Edmonton, AB; Coquitlam, BC

TORO HYDRAULIC & MACHINERY INC. Manufacturer & Distributor 15-1415 Bonhill Rd Mississauga ON L5T 1R2 Tel: 905-565-8887 Fax: 905-565-5788 Email: sales@torohyd.com Web: www.torohyd.com Manufacturers: Yuken (Japan)

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78 SupplierListings TURCK CHARTWELL CANADA INC. Manufacturer & Distributor 1-140 Duffield Dr Markham ON L6G 1B5 Tel: 905-513-7100 Fax: 905-513-7101 Email: sales@chartwell.ca Web: www.chartwell.ca

VIEGA LLC

Manufacturer 395-12303 Airport Way Broomfield CO 80021 USA Tel: 800-976-9819 Email: insidesales@viega.us Web: www.viega.us

Web: www.wainbee.com Branches: Calgary, AB; Edmonton, AB; Prince George, BC; Vancouver, BC; Winnipeg, MB; Halifax, NS; Kitchener, ON; Chicoutimi, QC; Montreal, QC; Québec, QC; Saskatoon, SK Manufacturers: AC Tech; Ametek; Bucher; BuTech; Cervis; Chicago Pneumatic; Clippard; Colder; Cooper Power Tools; De-Sta-Co; Desoutter; Durant; Fluidsentry; Gast Manufacturing; Haskel; Hy-Pneu-Mat; Hydreco; Ingersoll Rand; Jun-Air; Parker Hannifin; Proportion Air; Titan; Vacuforce

WILLIAMS FLUIDAIR CORPORATION LIMITED

VIKING PUMP OF CANADA INC.

Manufacturer & Distributor 661 Grove Ave Windsor ON N9A 6M3 Tel: 519-256-5438 Fax: 519-256-5070 Email: cinfo@idexcorp.com Web: www.vikingpumpcanada.com Branches: Edmonton, AB; Vancouver, BC; Toronto, ON; Montreal, QC Manufacturers: Corken; Griswold; Grundfos; Liquid Controls; Micropump; Monoflo; Pulsafeeder; Richter; Rotech; Top Line; Travaini; Viking Pump; Warren Rupp; Wright Flow Technologies Distributors: Industrial Pump Systems, Sudbury, ON; IRC Equipment Inc., Mount Pearl, NL; Kemtag Enterprises Ltd., Moncton, NB

Manufacturer & Distributor 1018 Salk Rd Pickering ON L1W 3C5 Tel: 905-831-3222 Fax: 905-831-3284 Email: service@williamsfluidair.com Web: www.williamsfluidair.com Manufacturers: Gates Hose and Fittings; Pitanco Gauges; RSB Tube Clamps; Walther Quick Connects Distributors: Benteler Tube GBH ; Walther Quick Couplings

Web: www.xpando.com Distributors: Cimco Refrigeration, Toronto, ON; Crane Supply, Moncton, NB; Ottawa, ON; Sudbury, ON; Refrigeration Components Co., Brantford, ON; Refrigerative Supply, Burnaby, BC; SDI Supplies Ltd., Sudbury, ON; TS & M Supply, Regina, SK

ZIMMER GROUP CANADA INC. Manufacturer 26 Saunders Rd Barrie ON L4N 9A8 Tel: 416-766-6370 Fax: 416-766-6371 Email: sales@zimmer-group.ca Web: www.zimmer-group.com

ZINGA FILTRATION GROUP

Manufacturer 2400 Zinga Dr Reedsburg WI 53959 USA Tel: 608-524-4200 Fax: 608-524-4220 Web: www.filtrationgroup.com Distributors: CFA Industries Inc., Aurora, ON; Motion Canada, Pointe-Claire, QC

WITTENSTEIN

Manufacturer 1249 Humbracht Cir Bartlett IL 60103 USA Tel: 630-540-5300 Fax: 630-736-6100 Email: info@wittenstein-us.com Web: www.wittenstein-us.com Branches: Waterdown, ON

X-PANDO PRODUCTS COMPANY

WAINBEE LIMITED

Manufacturer 204 Stokes Ave Ewing NJ 08638 USA Tel: 609-394-0150 Fax: 609-989-4847 Email: sales@xpando.com

Manufacturer & Distributor 5789 Coopers Ave Mississauga ON L4Z 3S6 Tel: 905-568-1700 Fax: 905-568-0083 Email: salesinfo@wainbee.com

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Allied Electronics

www.alliedelec.com

11

Harting Canada

www.harting.ca

12

Amacoil Inc.

www.amacoil.com

18

Hawe Hydraulics

www.haweusa.com

59

Anfield Sensors Inc.

www.anfieldsensors.com

33

Hercules Sealing Products Canada

www.herculesna.com

69

Aurora Bearing Company

www.aurorabearing.com

60

igus Inc.

www.igus.com

Automation Direct

www.automationdirect.com

KHK-USA

www.khkgears.us/ 4

Baldor Electric Company

www.baldor.com

80

LMJ Products Inc.

www.lmjproducts.com

60

Beckhoff Automation

www.beckhoff.ca

13

Main Manufacturing Products

www.mainmfg.com

66

Berendsen Fluid Power

www.bfpna.com

44

Motion Industries / Eaton

www.motionindustries.com

45

Bimba Manufacturing Co.

www.bimba.com

2

MP Filtri (Canada) Inc.

www.mpfiltricanada.com

61

Boker's Inc.

www.bokers.com

58

Parker Hannifin Canada

www.parker.com

51

Bosch Rexroth Canada

www.boschrexroth.com/en/ca

17

Pivot Point Inc.

www.pivotpins.com

55

Brother Gearmotors

www.brothergearmotors.com

27

RAM Industries Inc.

www.ramindustries.com

65

Canadian Fluid Power Association

www.cfpa.ca

47

ROSTA Inc.

www.rosta.ca

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Clippard Instruments Laboratory Inc. www.clippard.com

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RotoPrecision Inc.

www.rotoprecision.ca

Columbia Marking Tools

www.columbiamt.com

53

Rotor Clip Inc.

www.rotorclip.com

35

Conductix-Wampfler Canada

www.conductix.ca/en

30

RYCO Hydraulics Inc.

www.ryco.com

67

Daemar Inc.

www.daemarinc.com

19

Schaeffler Canada Inc.

www.ina.com

23

Designatronics, Inc.

www.designatronics.com

43

SCHUNK Intec Corp.

www.ca.schunk.com/

21

Designfusion

www.designfusion.ca 14-15

Spirol Industries, Ltd.

www.spirolcanada.com

32

Dura-Bar

www.dura-bar.com 39

Tolomatic, Inc.

www.tolomatic.com

34

ELESA

www.elesa.com 36

TORO Hydraulic & Machinery Inc.

www.torohyd.com

71

Festo Canada, Inc.

www.festo.ca

40

TURCK Chartwell Canada

www.chartwell.ca

37

Fluid Metering Inc.

www.fluidmetering.com

68

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