HYDRAULICS & PNEUMATICS
ARTEMIS INTELLIGENT POWER
BRINGING HYDRAULICS
INTO THE DIGITAL AGE
There’s not been much fundamental
innovation in hydraulics for the last
20 years but a new breed of digital
hydraulic pump has sparked a rethink
on the role industrial hydraulics can
play in an Industry 4.0 world. Digital
Displacement® pumps are enabling
new machine architectures which
can capitalise on the ultra-fast and
highly-controllable response of
digital hydraulic pumps, says Alasdair
Robertson, Commercial Director at
Artemis Intelligent Power.
It is ironic that what’s being proposed
as efficient digital hydraulic systems of
Industry 4.0 are reliant on analogue
technology developed at the height
of Industry 1.0. At the core of many
advanced hydraulic machines today
is the same basic control mechanism
that was first patented in 1893.
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