Hydraulics & Pneumatics spoke with John Savage, director of the National Fluid Power Centre, and Richard Sharpe, the centre’s controls and automation manager, about the growing requirement for a more systems-based approach to technical training.   The world of fluid power is changing. Consider the way hydraulic systems are becoming no longer just hydraulics and pneumatics systems but systems that are increasingly likely to include an electronics and controls element. “This direction is being push...
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RS Components has added Fluid Management to its line of Technology Solution Guides. The company has dedicated a complete section of its Process, Control and Automation web pages to this new Guide to help its customers to make the most suitable product selection; whether implementing or updating a fluid management system. Information on valve sizing and selection, flow control and monitoring techniques and level sensing technologies is clearly presented and easily accessible. “Our already extensive portfolio ...
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Hydraulics & Pneumatics spoke with David Cook, sector manager for technology at Banff & Buchan College, about the educational establishment’s fluid power and systems training regime, including an important recent development. Banff and Buchan College is situated in Fraserburgh near Aberdeen, the oil capital of Europe. The college has a long-established and successful relationship both with industry and with many Scottish universities, helping students to secure employment or go on to higher education. It...
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