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ESA announces first Virtual Tech Event for September The Equipment Service Association (ESA) is hosting its Virtual Tech Event Thursday, September 10. ESA changed the format from in-person to virtual, condensing a few days into one impactful day, fulfilling ESA’s elite training standards by offering seven dynamic sessions filled with industry-rich content. For just $50, the Virtual Tech Event encapsulates exceptional training, time for networking and questions,
“ESA knew virtual was the only way to host this event, safely,” said Rick Lindemann, president of ESA and Dakota Fluid Power. “We had to do this the right way for our members so we concentrated on inviting the best fluid power experts in the field, while focusing on the elite training and educational know-how our members expect.” The agenda is as follows:
Morning sessions
9:30 ET – Welcome and Introductions 9:40 – 10:10 – Hydraulic Cylinder Cushions, Tony Casassa, Application Engineer, Aggressive Hydraulics 10:10 – 10:40 – Hydraulic Seal Failures – Some Common and Some Not So Common, Sonny Goldsmith, Training, Hercules Sealing Products 10:40 – 11:20 – Understanding ISO Codes, Curtis Hass, National Sales Manager, Donaldson Company 11:20 – 11:50 – STAMPED, Dave Miller, Vice President of Global Product Line Management, Gates 11:50 – Morning Wrap-Up/Afternoon Review 12:00 – 1:00 – Lunch Break FLUID POWER WORLD
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1:00 ET – Introduction of CFC Hosts 1:05 – 4:00 – Session Series Fluid Power Safety (55 Minutes) Basic Industrial Control Theory (55 Minutes) Predictive & Preventative Maintenance (55 Minutes)
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Afternoon sessions
Robert J. Sheaf Jr., CEO of CFC-Solar, Inc. — Sheaf founded Certified Fluid Consultants (CFC) in 1990 and is owner/CEO of CFC-Solar Inc. (Currently operating as CFC Industrial Training). He has been directly involved with fluid power for 45 years and has taught fluid power courses for 39 years throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico. He served two years on the Board of Directors for the Equipment Service Association and was a director of the ESA Scholarship Fund. Jon Rhodes, President of CFC Industrial Training — Rhodes is the president of CFC Industrial Training and has 31 years of Industrial Experience. As an instructor, he assisted in the development of custom fluid power training stands for the oil and gas industry as well as providing machine specific fluid power and electrohydraulic hands-on training for an entire maintenance and engineering staff at a new start-up steel mill. He has also designed and built custom hydraulic test rigs for variable torque loading and simulation for the US Military. Rhodes holds an A.S.E.E.T. in Electronics Engineering. He also holds U.S. Patent # 6,158,923 for Method and Apparatus for installing Pre-Assembled Silt Fence. Tony Casassa, Application Engineer at Aggressive Hydraulics — Casassa started his career out of Purdue University by working at Parker Hannifin in the Hydraulics Group in a combination of sales and engineering positions, involved in complete hydraulic systems for mobile equipment. He then moved to the OEM side working at Tadano Mantis as their Hydraulic Engineer for the mobile telescoping boom crawler cranes products — including working
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