I have been doing hydraulic motion control projects for 35 years. During this time, I have seen pundits predict the imminent demise of the hydraulic industry. So why hasn’t it happened? The answer is simple. Advances in hydraulic technology and training have allowed the inherent benefits of hydraulics versus other means of powering machines and mobile equipment to be demonstrated in real applications.
Two decades ago I was sitting in front of a major hydraulic company’s vice president of valves. The vice president didn’t seem to be all that interested in servo control because it was less than 5% of his company’s total business. He also deemed servo control as a little risky. Some people might have been discouraged about that, but it was obvious an opportunity existed to increase that percentage by replacing traditional on-off hydraulic valves with computer-controlled hydraulics.
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