Milwaukee Cylinder now offers an RFID option for tie-rod cylinders. A passive RFID tag contains detailed data about the cylinder and also lets technicians keep a log of maintenance performed...

The S6-WSK from Perkins Mfg. is designed to pick up and dispose of large animal carcasses that are too big or heavy to be handled manually. Hydraulics provides the power to handle this undesirable task with ease...

Specifying an air regulator helps make a pneumatic system run smoothly. But providing more than one can also produce substantial energy savings.

As innovation proves to be ever more of a necessity in today’s mining and construction industries, higher-quality steels are vital to raise the performance and output capabilities of components—especially hydraulic cylinders.

Manually driven pumps are mainly responsible for controlling Francois Gabart's MACIF trimaran, the Utlime winner of the Transat bakerly.

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When you must provide a means for pivoting a load, have you considered a rotary actuator? They offer several advantages over cylinders and mechanical linkages, and some may even surprise you.

An aluminum recycling and smelting plant replaced the pilot valve on its hydraulic feeder unit, and the system began experiencing heat build-up and slow cylinder operation.

Cutaway view shows a magnet embedded within the piston of a pneumatic cylinder. Any of several technologies can be used to detect the position of the magnet through the cylinder wall. Download this article in .PDF format This file ty...