The National Fluid Power Association (NFPA) seeks to engage with stakeholders across the fluid power supply chain to publish a technology roadmap for fluid power in industrial, or in-plant, applications. This roadmap will be a document that describes the evolving needs of companies in fluid power’s many industrial 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.
We have now begun a project timeline that will culminate in the production of this document in November 2025.
Our latest survey focuses fluid power Capability Improvements, namely the ways in which fluid power systems currently align with and must improve if they are to increase their alignment with several machine-level technology strategies being used by industrial machine builders to meet their own performance objectives.
There are two surveys – one focused on Capability Improvements in hydraulics, the second in pneumatics.
Based on your area of interest and expertise, you can complete one survey, the other, or both. They will remain open until April 25, 2025.
All NFPA members are encouraged to participate – and to share these surveys in your supply chain networks. We are seeking feedback from the broadest possible spectrum of the fluid power value chain.