Conference Program

7:30 - 8:10 a.m.
Breakfast

8:10 - 8:55 a.m.
Annual Business Meeting

9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Final Exhibit Showing

Check out EASA's current list of Exhibitors.

9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Used Equipment Trading Post

12:15 - 1:45 p.m.
Networking Luncheon & Speaker
Humor at Work: Laughter as a Profit Center

Stress in the workplace is no laughing matter. This presentation will offer insights and techniques for using positive humor as a buffer to the pressures of work and life. Research proves that businesses, customers and staff benefit when employees learn to use humor and laughter to:
• Cope with change
• Relieve stress
• Boost creativity and productivity
• Improve customer service
• Encourage better teamwork and higher morale
• Enhance communication skills
Transform your enterprise by making laughter your new profit center!

Kathleen Passanisi
New Perspectives
Lake St. Louis, MO

2:15 - 3:30 p.m.
Education Session
Accelerate INNOVATION

Innovation does not equal technology. It is about finding better ways to boost productivity, performance, and profitability. This session will:
• Demystify the process of innovation, and make it simple, clear, and practical
• Show how every employee can generate breakthrough ideas to increase efficiency, expedite execution, and boost the bottom line

From scheduling thinking time to using the observation tower to using OPS (other people’s successes), attendees will walk away with ideas they can use today to generate powerful innovations.

Dan Coughlin
The Coughlin Co.
St. Louis, MO

“Having grown up attending EASA conventions, I look forward to them as much as a family reunion. There is, and always will be, something new to learn. EASA brings together people willing to help by sharing their knowledge. EASA also gives you an opportunity to share what you have learned with others.

2:15 - 3:30 p.m.
Education Session
Generations at Work: New Dynamics in the Workplace

You’ve always needed flexible workers who get the job done. Now you have four generations thrown together with different work ethics, expectations and backgrounds. Misunderstandings and clashes should be expected. How you deal with them is key. This session will cover:
• How and why work ethics and expectations have changed
• Positive and negative aspects of each group as viewed by others
• Shared solutions from successful organizations
• Steps you can take to facilitate improved working relationships
• Strategies to motivate employees and customers
• Sustaining win/win relationships
• The benefits of the generation-mixed workplace

Matt Thornhill
The Boomer Project
Richmond, VA

2:15 - 3:30 p.m.
Education Session
Mischievous Magnetism in Rotating Machinery

This session will cover:
• Magnetism fundamentals
• Stray magnetism
• What makes magnetism mischievous
• Damaging effects to rotating machinery

Paul Nippes, P.E.
Magnetic Products and
Services, Inc.
Holmdel, NJ

2:15 - 3:30 p.m.
Education Session
Core Testing: A Good Procedure Gone Astray?

The loop or core test was developed for testing 50/60 Hz stator cores, yet customers increasingly are specifying its use for squirrel cage rotors, armatures, and higher-frequency machines. Understanding the principles behind the loop test results in good repair decisions.

Chuck Yung
EASA Technical Support Specialist
St. Louis, MO

3:45 - 5:00 p.m.
Education Session
How to Retain Generations X and Y Employees

The fact that it’s a challenge to recruit younger employees (and by that we mean 35 or under!) to the EASA industry is no secret. But once you do, how can you become more effective in retaining them? This session will cover:
• The high expectations Generations X and Y have of themselves and those they work for
• How to work with the younger generations with a different mind-set
• What motivates your younger workers
• Tools to assist you in developing a strategy to retain these key employees

Matt Thornhill
The Boomer Project
Richmond, VA

3:45 - 5:00 p.m.
Education Session
Accelerate Your Brand

Your brand is your reputation in the marketplace. It’s not what you want to be; it’s what customers believe you are right now. This session will cover:
• Penetrating insights into the dos and don’ts of building the brand you want
• The critical and integrated relationship of purpose, business research, strategy, planning, execution, and marketing that ultimately determines the brand you have

Dan Coughlin
The Coughlin Co.
St. Louis, MO

3:45 - 5:00 p.m.
Open Tech Forum

This is one of the most popular sessions at every convention. Bring your technical problems and questions and learn from EASA’s engineering team and your colleagues during this informal dialogue.

Discussion Leaders: EASA Education & Technology Consultant Austin Bonnett, Bonnett Engineering, Gallatin, MO; EASA Technical Support Specialists Tom Bishop, Kent Henry and Chuck Yung; and EASA Pump & Vibration Specialist, Gene Vogel

5:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Chairman’s Party at the EASA Lounge
Entertainment by Galaxy.

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88:00 - 10:30 a.m.
Optional Service Center Tour: Illinois Electric Works

Provides AC/DC motor rewinding and repairs to 10,000 hp, babbitt bearing spin casting, dynamic balancing, laser coupling alignment, metallizing, selective plating, predictive maintenance, on-site services, pump repairs, related machining and welding (www.illinoiselectric.com).

Requires separate ticket. See Registration Form.