The theme of the 12th IFK will be “Fluid Power – Future Technology!”. The covered topics will enable the development of 5G-ready, cost-efficient and demand-driven structures, as well as individual decentralized drives. Further topics are real-time data exchange that allows the application of numerous predictive maintenance strategies, which will significantly increase the availability of fluid power systems and their elements and ensure their improved lifetime performance. The main focus of our research is to solve technical problems in an application oriented fashion and to improve sustainable architectures and designs.