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Fluid Power Technician Training Reduces Costs and Downtime, Boosts Safety

By Seth Skydel

Maintaining fluid powered equipment requires a special skill set. However, across the industries that utilize those systems, hiring and retaining trained and certified mechanics / technicians is an ongoing and growing challenge, noted Donna Pollander, CEO at the International Fluid Power Society( IFPS).

“ One of the issues is that
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