2023 NFPA Technology Roadmap
Every other year, the National Fluid Power Association (NFPA) engages with stakeholders across the fluid power supply chain to refresh and re-publish its Technology Roadmap for the Fluid Power Industry. The NFPA Roadmap is a document that describes the evolving needs of companies in fluid power’s many customer markets, the degree to which fluid power is capable of meeting those needs, and the R&D objectives that will help fluid power meet or better meet those needs in the future.
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Thank you for submitting the form and requesting access to the NFPA Technology Roadmap Report. Click on this link to access the reportHave any questions? Please contact Eric Lanke, CEO, at elanke@nfpa.com
The process is overseen by the NFPA Roadmap Committee – which for this cycle was chaired by Bradlee Dittmer of NORGREN and vice-chaired by Steve Meislahn of Sun Hydraulics/Helios. The committee and its several working groups met multiple times over an eight-month period of time to review the results of numerous stakeholder surveys and to develop the various elements of the new Roadmap. Among its many findings are the following eight Customer Strategies, the primary machine-level objectives or technologies that are currently being deployed to help machine builders in fluid power customer markets achieve their performance objectives.
The Roadmap also identifies the following eight Capability Improvements as the primary ways in which fluid power systems should seek improvements in order to strengthen its use in and connection to these Customer Strategies.
Specific pre-competitive Research Areas and Targets are also identified to assist in bringing about these improvements. Organizations that wish to pursue projects of importance to the fluid power industry should seek alignment with these Research Areas and Targets.
Special thanks goes to the many partner associations, including some representing key customer markets, whose members participated in the various surveys and committee discussions. These associations include the Association for High Technology Distribution (AHTD), the Power Transmission Distributors Association (PTDA), the Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute (PMMI), the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM), and the Association for Manufacturing Technology (AMT).
Eric Lanke, NFPA President/CEO, is available to present the Roadmap and its findings to your group or company. Contact him at elanke@nfpa.com if you have interest.
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