Start with the cycle, the load, and the machine the cylinder lives in. Engineer the cylinder from there.
Inside a plant, a hydraulic cylinder may never see mud or weather. It sees the numbers instead: cycle counts that can climb into the millions over the life of a machine, cycle times measured in seconds, positions that have to repeat, and a production schedule with no line item for unplanned downtime.
The cylinder also has to fit into the machine. It connects to a frame, a ram, a fixture, or a lift structure; it shares space with tooling, guards, and valves; and it answers to the machine’s controls. Mounting alignment, side loading from the tooling, port location, position feedback, and access during maintenance all affect how well it performs.
Aurelius Manufacturing works with machine builders and OEM engineering teams to develop custom welded hydraulic cylinders around the complete application. Bring us the machine function, the operating sequence, and the production requirements. We will work with your team to define the cylinder around them.
Bring us your industrial equipment application. We will work with your team to engineer the cylinder around it.
Industrial Applications
Pressing, clamping, lifting, positioning, and testing each load a cylinder differently. A press cylinder may see its peak force at the bottom of a short stroke; a lift cylinder may hold a load for hours; a cylinder on an automated cell may cycle every few seconds for years. The design starts with the specific function and how the machine asks the cylinder to perform it.
These application areas provide a starting point for a conversation with Aurelius. We can evaluate the cylinder around your machine’s loads, motion, mounting, controls, operating environment, and recurring production needs.
Design Considerations
Bore, rod diameter, stroke, and pressure are starting points. Industrial cylinder development also needs to account for cycle life, how the load is guided, how the cylinder mounts to the machine frame, and how it connects to the valves and controls around it.
Aurelius works with your engineering team to evaluate those requirements together and identify practical mounting, porting, and configuration choices for the machine.
Bring us your industrial equipment application. We will work with your team to engineer the cylinder around it.
Why Aurelius
Bring us the application, including the constraint that keeps coming up in design reviews.
Many industrial machines are designed around standard catalog cylinders, and for many functions that is the right answer. The picture changes when the envelope is tight, the mounting does not match a standard pattern, the plumbing is getting crowded, or the machine needs features a standard configuration was never built to include.
That is where Aurelius works from the application outward. Your team can start with a completed drawing, an existing cylinder that needs another look, or a new machine function that still needs a cylinder solution. We consider mounting, porting, configuration, materials, and manufacturing requirements together, and look for practical opportunities to simplify assembly, plumbing, or service.
Aurelius has been creating engineering solutions for 100 years, and that mindset shows up on our own shop floor. When commercially available workholding or machine support has not been adequate, our team has designed and built its own. Machine builders will recognize the thinking.
Quality carries through to production. Aurelius inspects incoming tubing and rod stock and returns material with unacceptable surface defects, invests in training long-term employees, and tests every cylinder it manufactures. For OEMs, the relationship can continue from design development into recurring production.
Yes. Aurelius works with machine builders and OEM engineering teams to develop custom welded cylinders around the application. Share the machine function, load cases, stroke, mounting, available space, operating pressure, cycle requirements, environment, and production quantities.
Bring us your industrial equipment application. We will work with your team to engineer the cylinder around it.