Your Industry at Your Fingertips Buyers’ Guide to the Fluid Power Industry’s Professionals Canada Post Mail Publications Agreement Number: 40609661 Volume 1, Issue 3 WorldinMotion Winter 2019-2020 The official publication of the Canadian Fluid Power Association Your SPECIAL ISSUECanadian Fluid Power Association ❚ Winter 2019-2020 ❚ 5 contents Published For: Canadian Fluid Power Association 146 Delarmbro Drive Erin, ON N0B 1T0 Phone: (519) 833-7417 info@cfpa.ca www.cfpa.ca Published By: Matrix Group Publishing Inc. 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UP FRONT 07 A Letter from the President of the Canadian Fluid Power Association 09 A Letter from the Vice-President of the Canadian Fluid Power Association BUYERS’ GUIDE 19 Your Guide to the Fluid Power Industry’s Professionals: Alphabetical List 20 Your Guide to the Fluid Power Industry’s Professionals: Capabilities Index 36 Your Guide to the Fluid Power Industry’s Professionals: CFPA Members’ Capabilities Chart 38 Your Guide to the Fluid Power Industry’s Professionals: Buyers’ Guide NEWS & VIEWS 44 Mark Your Calendars for the 2020 CFPA Annual General Meeting 46 Index to Advertisers 10 Seven Tips for Designing or Specifying the Right Hydraulic Power Unit 16 In the Know: A Report from the CFPA’s Board of Directors FEATURES Volume 1, Issue 3 Let’s Get Digital You like the fluid power industry, and we like you. LET'S TAKE THIS TO THE NEXT LEVEL. Sign up to receive the digital copy of Your World in Motion by going to http://www.cfpa.ca/your-world-in-motion-fall-2019.Canadian Fluid Power Association ❚ Winter 2019-2020 ❚ 7 I hope you had a superb holiday season and happy new year! This year, 2020, marks not only a new decade but also the genesis of our fluid power Buyers’ Guide. The guide is a valuable resource helping to connect fluid power designers, engineers, OEMs, end-users, and maintenance technicians with the vast offerings of association member companies. This year, the CFPA will expand on the buyers’ guide concept by creating a database on our website to showcase all the member companies. Each profile will include contact information on top of listings of products and services offered for each company. If you haven’t already submitted your profile and product offering list, e-mail us at info@ cfpa.ca to receive your digital form. Our exclusive, Canada-only, benefits and compensation survey will continue for the second year. There is nothing else like this in our industry, providing you with survey results regarding wages, vacation time, car allowances, health insurance, and much more. Take note—only contributing companies will have access to the data, so be sure your company takes part if you want to see how you compare. On the Fluid Power Challenge front, it looks like another successful year is brewing. We already have over 300 students registered for the National Fluid Power Challenge. The Toronto Local Challenge has been pencilled onto the calendar, though we’re still a few months out from the start date. March 31 marks the workshop date, where students plan and experiment with their fluid power device. On May 7, students from across the Greater Toronto Area will converge at Islington Junior Middle School, where they will build their designs and put them to the test for all to see. Expect record participation yet again. The fluid power industry in Canada is much larger than is represented within just the Canadian Fluid Power Association. Although participation and growth have been rapid these past few years, we still need more members, more committees, and more engagement. If you’re not part of the association, join. If you’re not on a committee, join. If you’re not on a subcommittee, join. We need your help to further the industry we share. Our combined reciprocal efforts will grow fluid power in Canada to ensure our legacy outlasts us. Our committees—communications, events, membership, workforce, market insight, and industrial resources—all require help to further our industry. Intending to recruit individuals within already active companies, we will be sending out recruitment posters for you to hang around your office, plant, or warehouse. We hope to grow engagement from the depths of association member companies because the bulk of current activity stems from executive-level employees at member companies. Recruiting engaged persons from every corner of the association will provide the help we need to keep the CFPA growth curve diagonal. Keep your eyes peeled for that poster in the next few months. If you’re not part of the association, join. If you’re not on a committee, join. If you’re not on a subcommittee, join. We need your help to further the industry we share. Our combined reciprocal efforts will grow fluid power in Canada to ensure our legacy outlasts us. Caryes Allan President Canadian Fluid Power Association Letter from the President up frontCanadian Fluid Power Association ❚ Winter 2019-2020 ❚ 9 up front Technology is changing our industry in many and diverse ways. Historically, fluid power has been a very mechanical discipline, with little to no electrical or electronic control influence. Certainly, that changed over the years, but very slowly and with limited impact—until recently. Today, the importance of “smart” devices can be seen in many areas of the fluid power universe, from fluid power devices that are purely electronically controlled with no mechanical control elements, to those with microprocessors and data storage on-board that can communicate to other devices and share their status with one another. And further on, to connected devices providing information on a network bus that other devices can use or higher-level controllers can influence. Fortunately, the education system of today—and society itself— produces digital natives who are very familiar and comfortable with technology in all its forms. It seems the first action when you want to know about something or interact with it is to check your phone for an app. As the saying goes, ‘There’s an app for that,” and that’s how it seems, even for controlling fluid power devices. Our digital natives are very comfortable downloading an app and connecting to a device and making it work, but what do they know about the technology they are interfacing with when it comes to fluid power? I am pleased to report that the efforts of our Career Path Committee are changing our knowledge on the educational opportunities for fluid power in Canada. We have found there are more sources of fluid power education available across Canada than we had originally thought, from universities with labs and fluid power research, to colleges with various related programs such as mechatronics, to limited opportunities for continuing education in fluid power. But they are isolated and disconnected from one another and, to the best of our knowledge at this time, not as comprehensive as they may have been in the past. We are trying to change that. We have a short-term educational need for those who are not digital natives but have a foundation in fluid power to become more educated in the new technologies that are connecting fluid power devices and a longer-term need to provide sources of education to enhance the knowledge and abilities of digital natives who will be working in fluid power-related fields. The CFPA and, more specifically, the Career Path Committee are making it a part of our mission to find, connect, and make accessible a comprehensive listing of fluid power education in Canada, from university programs, through to college and even continuing education programs across the country. The challenge beyond, but parallel to, those efforts is to extend our reach. Our association is made up of fluid power component manufacturers and distributors and industries closely related to those. We have a limited pool of people who require or desire formal fluid power education, but the customers who buy and implement those systems and technologies have people involved who also need such education, and the pool of needs with those machinery manufacturers and end-users of that machinery is much deeper. We need to find ways to reach those people to ensure their awareness and use of fluid power education opportunities in Canada. You can help by sharing your knowledge of available fluid power educational opportunities with us at info@cfpa.ca and by connecting and communicating with your customers how we are helping our association help the fluid power industry in Canada to grow and thrive. We are also open to whatever ideas and suggestions you have that might help, so please connect with us. Today, the importance of “smart” devices can be seen in many areas of the fluid power universe, from fluid power devices that are purely electronically controlled with no mechanical control elements, to those with microprocessors and data storage on-board that can communicate to other devices and share their status with one another. And further on, to connected devices providing information on a network bus that other devices can use or higher-level controllers can influence. Ted O’Donnell Vice-President Canadian Fluid Power Association Letter from the Vice-PresidentNext >