Learn how Parker and Summit Attachments reached new heights with Parker's V16 variable motor technology. Summit Attachments and Machinery is a company that utilizes existing platform frames and reworks the equipment adding their custom attachments for specific, rigorous applications within forestry. 

To continue to improve upon their Winch Assist Systems, which offers up to a 55,000-pound pull effort and is crucial to steep slope harvesting, Summit collaborated with our sister division Parker’s Hydraulic Pump and Power Systems (HPS) and a Parker distributor, Motion & Flow Control Products, Inc.

Under sea conditions, the demand on vessels and ships are very high. Operating in a very remote and harsh environment requiries the highest degree of reliability and safety. As a result, market demand over the past years has increased for marine and offshore winches‘ controllability and accuracy. The winches are expected to provide more precision and increased performance and efficiency. Overall productivity is a key factor to success in this industry.

Over the past few years, market demand has increased for air seeding machines. They are expected to be more precise, give higher performance, and also be more efficient. Read how the Parker Hannifin Corporation’s Pump and Motor Division (PMDE) team developed new hydraulic motors that would meet the new performance goals.