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who is responsible for the technical activities of all the
Systems Engineering Centers. “This is everything that
goes into mobile equipment. Through this facility, we’re
helping our customers compete because we can marry
different technologies together for them.”
Alongside the systems engineers, Parker’s Hydraulic
Pump Division, Hydraulic Valve Division, Parflex Division,
Pneumatics Division and Electronic Controls Division have
people on-site, and they are all integral to the Systems
Engineering Center, with other divisions poised to add per-
sonnel as well. This will boost the workforce in Elk Grove
Village from about 30 now to an expected 66, mostly in
engineering and business development.
“The key today is that you have to understand the func-
tionality of equipment and then find a motion and control
scheme that works best,” said Stambro. “In the past, a lot of
functions were hydraulic — it was the only way to operate.
But now there are different ways of doing things, and we’re
finding that OEMs are looking at other technologies.
“Hybrids are becoming more important, so they need a
partner who can understand how it works in the hydraulics
world and what it needs to do in the electromechanical
world. And here, we can do this.
“We’re also seeing the very fine line for Tier 4 now. There
is a lot of work going on now to find ways of designing the
engine for mean power just below the Tier 4 horsepower
level. We can help them do that by storing and preserv-
ing energy. And it doesn’t matter if it’s done electrically or
hydraulically — we have the capability to help them.”
“I think the fact that we have so many tools in our
motion control toolbox is unique,” added Donaldson. “We
like to say we’re technology agnostic, which means we
can really look at the problem based on how Parker can
solve it as opposed to how one division might try to do it.
Not too many companies are positioned to do that. There
is always the temptation that well, this is probably the
right way, but I’m going to do it that way because that’s
my job over there. We don’t have those constraints.”
Another interesting aspect of the Systems Engineering
Center approach is the melding of engineering and
business development/sales functions. “Years ago, the
systems engineering and business development entities
were embedded in sales,” Donaldson said. “It wasn’t that
way around the world at first. Initially, it was embedded in
the hydraulics group.
“Then about seven years ago we were taken out of the
hydraulics group and we started to pick up more seg-
ments. We picked up fluid connectors and automation and
climate and industrial controls, filtration — that’s both sales
and engineering. Now we’ve taken that same model to the
engineering centers around the world.
“Being part of sales is what makes our system engi-
neering and our business development legs successful
because it’s about access to the customer, about having
a customer-facing organization and being able to solve
