Domin CEO, Marcus Pont, will be a featured panellist in the upcoming Power & Motion webinar, How Digitalisation of Fluid Power is Enabling New Technological Advancements, on February 26, 2025, at 4:00pm GMT.
In the session, Marcus will share insights into how we define the term ‘digitalisation’ at Domin, and will also discuss with the other panellists how it is being deployed and the challenges or opportunities for fluid power.
Joining Marcus are Frank Langro, Director of Product Market Management at Festo, and Nate Keller, Ph.D., Business Development Manager at Moog Construction.
Together, they will explore the transformative impact of digitalisation on fluid power systems. Discussion points include:
- Defining digitalisation
- The benefits that can be achieved
- Examples of how digitalisation is being employed throughout fluid power
- Some of the challenges and opportunities around deployment of digitalisation
In this excerpt from the webinar, Marcus shares what the term ‘Digitalisation’ means for Domin:
“It’s a word that means a lot of things at the same time and a lot of different things to a lot of different people. I most commonly see it used to try and communicate that a company is doing things in a modern way, and that’s the message that people want heard when they say that. At Domin, we’re really keen on language, and really keen to ensure that language creates common understanding and helps give a bit of meaning out of what can sometimes be complex things.
“I’ll share what we think of digitalisation at a product level for Domin. We break it down into three different areas within our hydraulic products. The first is the most simple and it’s just the means with which you communicate to the product, the means with which you control a product. And so, for example, that might mean that instead of using current or voltage to communicate a demand signal you use a digital communication protocol such as Ethernet, EtherCAT, CANopen or anything like that. At its most basic, this allows for a more simple, more advanced and even more effective control and communication of a product.
“The second thing that we think about is configuration, and that’s where we start thinking about being able to change almost the personality of a product via software. So rather than having to change the hardware, we’re changing the way that the product behaves via software. And that’s the next stage of digitalisation for Domin.
“Within our products the final stage for us is around a fully digital hydraulic system. And that’s a big, complex thing that we can spend a lot of time talking about another time. But if I were to give you an analogy, it’s about digitally controlling hydraulic fluid in a similar way that transistors digitally control electrical current. Historically, we started with electrical resistors, and we moved to transistors, and we believe the future of hydraulics ends up with that kind of transistor-level control of hydraulics, and we think that has the same potential and the same impact that electrical transistors had on that industry.
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