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Engineering excellence, customer

focus and highest quality products

continue to attract new clients from

numerous industries. RYCO contin-

ues to provide quick release coupling

solutions to meet customer demand.

RYCO carries pneumatic, hydraulic

and specialty couplings in a diversified

offering of ball lock, poppet, flat face

and screw to connect types.

QUICK RELEASE COUPLINGS

Poppet Check Valves

With rubber poppet seal for improved sealing when disconnected.

Push/Pull Sleeve

Can be moved in either direction to connect, or disconnect.

Single Acting Sleeve

Manually retracted to connect, or disconnect.

For further information, contact our sales team:

Call: +1 866 821 7926 | Email: [email protected]

http://www.RYCO.com.au

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FluidPower:Roundtable

Tourgis-Wainbee: IIoT is really just a

progression of the original industrial rev-

olution; a new name for something that

already existed. Still, I see it having a tre-

mendous impact for fluid power. It’s natu-

ral for people to make decisions based on

feelings, but too often we defend those

decisions anecdotally without evidence. I

think what IIoT/Industry 4.0 brings is the

ability to trust our feelings through the

backup of empirical data.

Pirri-Flodraulic: From the mobile hydrau-

lic side of things, it has and will continue

to have significant impact. Use of a variety

of sensors, you can remotely monitor

pressures, temperatures, speeds and a host

of other parameters necessary for proper

machine operation and control. With that

information, you can perform preventative

maintenance and remote troubleshooting,

as well as geo-fence equipment to prevent

loss, monitor equipment to make sure it is

not being abused and monitor productiv-

ity. IIoT is already having a large impact

on the industry and will only increase as

these machines become smarter and are

increasingly connected to the Internet.

Chin-MP Filtri: We expect our contam-

ination monitoring products will play a

significant role in hydraulic systems that

integrate with Industry 4.0. Considering

that 80 percent of failures are contam-

ination related, we believe that custom-

ers will see the value in monitoring their

systems for contamination as part of

their cyber-physical Industry 4.0

requirements. DE

The hydraulic industry in particular is constantly being

challenged by new technologies that didn’t exist or weren’t

competitive in the past.

• Rob Chin, Sales Manager, MP Filtri Canada

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