12/09/2014

Members in Motion

December 2014

Local seventh and eighth grade students from South Bend Community Schools, South Bend Career Academy, and John Young Middle School of Mishawaka participated in the 2014 Fluid Power Challenge hosted by Daman Products Company, a manifold manufacturing facility based in Mishawaka, Indiana.

"The Challenge offers area middle school students the opportunity to experience a hands-­‐on education concerning fluid power and mechanical engineering concepts," says Larry Davis, president of Daman. "Students are required to demonstrate teamwork in the midst of material constraints, a required division of labor, clear planning practices and the ability to work toward a common goal." Read More.

Daman Products Company, Inc. was founded in 1976 by Mishawaka native Jack D. Davis to design and manufacture hydraulic valve manifolds and related products. Daman Products was recognized as an Inc. Magazine's Top 5,000 fastest-growing private companies in 2013, a Growth 100 company in 1998, 1999 and 2004, in addition to being named St. Joseph County Small Business of the Year 2004. Larry Davis, president, was named Indiana Small Business Person of the Year in 2005.

MFP Automation Engineering is excited to announce an addition to their hydraulic, pneumatic, fluid connector, automation, manufacturing, and distribution services: the Manifold Solutions Catalog! This offers inventoried standard and custom manifolds, and features power unit manifolds as well as the PCV-3765 which is a great replacement for your Vickers EHST valve. Contact us today: (616) 538-5700: cknauf@mifp.com : www.mifp.com.

Tribute, Inc. released version 14.1 of its Tribute Software System, which includes many of the projects ranked as top priority by the Program Review Committee. To keep in tune with the industry, Tribute, Inc. utilizes input from its customer base in development of both TrulinX and the Tribute Software System. The program review committees, comprised of long-standing customers, convene regularly to rank programming projects submitted by clients.

The TrulinX team will be releasing version 14.4 shortly with many enhancements to Counter Orders, Parker Tracking System, Invoice Maintenance, and Credit Card Maintenance, which will facilitate speedy service by CSR’s inside and at the counter. Also in the next release, TrulinX customers will now have the ability to automatically export PO’s to Sun Hydraulics, in addition to vendors such as Pall, Garlock, Parker, Dixon, and Gates.

The direct involvement by customers and partnerships with industry suppliers is why Tribute, Inc. continues to be the premier provider of business management software to the industrial distribution and fabrication marketplace.