H&P Insights: Social Interaction; Hydraulic/Electric Analogies; The Value of Clean Air; Ending on a Happy Note
Social Interaction
Hydraulics & Pneumatics has expanded its reach over the years to include not just its print magazine, but its website, newsletters and, over the last few years, social media.
Our LinkedIn company page and group has a combined follower base of more than 28,000 followers, and we have more than 12,000 Facebook followers. Both of these channels have a mix of reader-contributed posts as well as our own content shared with the social media audience.
The pages are worth checking out for their immediacy, but they’re also a great resource for some of our great legacy content. For example:
Hydraulic/Electric Analogies
When you think about hydraulics and electrical as power sources, they don’t seem to have much in common. But as the Hydraulics & Pneumatics article “Hydraulic-Electric Analogies: DC Motors and Hydraulic Motors” notes, there are many similarities are apparent when comparing series-connected DC motors to pressure-compensated hydraulic motors.
The Value of Clean Air
Keeping your work environment clean and clear is a matter of worker safety and comfort, but it’s also a business imperative for pneumatic systems, as noted in another H&P article, “Clean, Dry Air Is Fundamental to Productivity.” To quote from the article: “At its worst, contamination will render a pneumatic system inoperable. But even at its best, it will rob efficiency, productivity and reliability. Just as with many other critical resources, facility managers must take steps to ensure the quality of the compressed air consumed in their operations to avoid substandard product quality; unplanned downtime and loss of production; equipment damage; and the potential for danger to employees and the facility itself.”
Ending on a Happy Note
The 2021 World Happiness Report is out, and despite a year of physical distance and social and political turmoil around the globe, people are generally pretty, well…happy.
We mention this because the report found that in a year wracked with a global pandemic, people relied on their social connections more and more in 2020. We found video calls and staying six feet apart in some ways brought us a little closer amid the chaos.
There’s a lot of data in the report, so we’ll just add the highlights: Finland is rated the happiest country on the planet, and the United States checked in at 19th—just behind the Czech Republic and the United Kingdom, but ahead of France, Italy and Belgium. The study found that people are taking a longer view of their existence are hopeful and happy for the future.
