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Fluid power SME announces company launch

By Mary Gannon | May 27, 2022

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Fluid Power SME LLC a new and unique hydraulic and pneumatic design and consulting company is pleased to announce their company launch. With a sharp emphasis on technical competency and exceeding client expectations, Fluid Power SME offers access to highly experienced, certified experts for objective, third party design services and consultation, empowering their clients to be more flexible and self‐sufficient in their decision making.

“It is not always practical or cost effective to build up a design team to include every discipline for every project” said  Rance Herren, Director – Technical Services and founder. “We do not sell components or systems — rather, Fluid Power SME concentrates on becoming an extension of our clients’ team, providing all the expertise and resources needed to launch the hydraulic and pneumatic design phase of a project.”

Areas of expertise include:

  • Hydraulic and pneumatic system design and component specification
  • Software driven circuit simulation and analysis
  • Documentation and technical writing
  • Component sourcing services
  • Hydraulic and pneumatic technical training as well as IFPS certification preparation and testing
  • Failure analysis and subject matter expert witness
  • General fluid power technical consultation

“Access to qualified fluid power expertise remains a challenge in every industry, and with the ever‐increasing skilled trades gap, it will continue to be so for the foreseeable future. Collaborating with Fluid Power SME means our clients won’t have to become an expert themselves, freeing them to focus on other critical tasks. We strongly believe our model will become increasingly prevalent in industry” said Herren.

Fluid Power SME is a team of specialized experts with decades of hydraulic and pneumatic application experience. With significant backgrounds in design, fabrication, installation, commissioning, testing, troubleshooting, project management  and training, they are uniquely and deeply qualified to bring a wealth of expertise from a wide variety of industries and applications.

With over 37 years of hydraulic and pneumatic application experience in a variety of roles and industries (including 24 years in oil and gas), Rance Herren is widely recognized as expert on fluid power system design, troubleshooting and failure analysis. Herren is a graduate of the Industrial Controls Technology program at California State University Fullerton, the Industrial Electrical Technology program at Chaffey College in Rancho Cucamonga, California and holds multiple advanced fluid power certifications. He is the past President (2016) of the International Fluid Power Society and remains a lifetime member, technical contributor, and advisor.

Fluid Power SME
www.FluidPowerSME.com


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Mary Gannon

Mary Gannon is editor of Fluid Power World. She has been a technical writer and editor for more than 13 years, having covered fluid power, motion control and interconnect technologies.

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