This session will cover:

• Designing and testing for NEMA and IEC premium efficiency levels
• History of high efficiency standards activities
• Industrial facility opportunities
• Magnetic wedges (purpose)
• Impact of magnetic wedges on motor performance
• Experimental data for different magnetic wedges
• Qualification of magnetic slot wedges
• Designing with magnetic wedges

Bill Finley Siemens Industry, Inc. Norwood, OH

Tyler Gaerke Siemens Industry, Inc. Norwood, OH

Improving your sales or landing a new customer will not do you any good if you get fined for mishandling waste or failing to obtain a required permit. This session will cover environmental regulations you must be concerned about, including:

• Hazardous waste issues generated from painting and insulating operations
• Water permitting issues related to steam cleaning and stormwater management
• Air permitting issues related to varnish insulating processes and burn-off and bake ovens
• The “ins and outs” of environmental regulation
• How to comply without going broke

Tom Barnes
Compliance Specialists, Inc.
McCalla, AL

Based on his new book entitled Triple Your Profit! and using EASA data,  the speaker will cover how to:

• Understand your profit dynamics
• Set a realistic profit target
• Make your sales profitably

Al Bates, Ph.D.
Profit Planning Group
Boulder, CO

This session will cover how to get the vibration spectrum and what it means, including:

• Wave form
• Displacement
• Velocity
• Demodulation

Gene Vogel EASA Pump & Vibration Specialist St. Louis, MO

Walter Barringer Mobius Institute Knoxville, TN

Today you’ll experience many facets of the jewel that is Music City. Included are a driving tour of Music Row’s recording studios and music publishing offices, Nashville’s historic downtown district, the painstakingly reconstructed Fort Nashborough, the Victorian warehouse district and the Tennessee State Capitol. The tour stops at Ryman Auditorium, one of country music’s signature landmarks. The facility was originally built by Captain Ryman as a tabernacle, but from 1943 to 1974 it was the home of the Grand Ole Opry–the “Mother Church” of country music.

The tour also takes you to the world’s largest research center dedicated to a single form of American music–the Country Music Hall of Fame–for an in-depth look at the people, places and instruments that have contributed to the development of country music.

(Travel takes about 25 minutes each way; have lunch “on your own” when you return to the hotel.)

Looking deeper into his new book entitled Triple Your Profit!, the speaker will cover how to:

• Get control of your gross margin
• Target your investment levels properly
• Develop a plan
• Create a to-do list

Al Bates, Ph.D.
Profit Planning Group
Boulder, CO

Beyond the moral reasons to comply with safety-related regulations, there are many financial reasons. This session will cover:

• Safety regulations affecting the motor repair industry–both in-house and service-related liabilities
• How to ensure your safety program is complete, effective and defensible in our litigious environment
• Cost-effective methods to implement an effective safety program
• What to expect along with do’s and don’ts if you are inspected by OSHA
• Accident investigation and methodologies to reduce reportable accidents and lower workman’s comp costs and rates
• How to conduct your own safety audit

Tom Barnes
Compliance Specialists, Inc.
McCalla, AL

This session will cover:

• Interpreting AC and DC drop test results (Is that coil really shorted?)
• Differentiating between interpole and armature problems
• Locating an armature short/ground
• Locating shorted/open equalizers in an armature
• Working neutral: Did that motor arc when it left the factory? Let’s cure that problem!

Chuck Yung
EASA Senior Technical Support Specialist
St. Louis, MO

Pump packing is a high maintenance item for any centrifugal pump so equipped, and unacceptable for chemical pumping applications. This session will discuss how service centers can convert a pump from packing to mechanical seals to:

• Eliminate a maintenance issue for customers
• Allow an available pump to be put into alternate service requiring mechanical seals

This session is an overview of such a conversion on a 50 hp split-case pump. 

Gene Vogel EASA Pump & Vibration Specialist St. Louis, MO

Don Scaturro Illinois Electric Works, Inc. Granite City, IL

The industry's leading trade show event continues today!

In addition to all the great products and services on the show floor, take this opportunity to visit the New Product Theater to find out about the latest products from select vendors. The theater will be located on the exhibition floor. Make sure to check out the daily schedule of presentations.

Click here to view a list of this year's exhibitors

Presentations scheduled for today

12:30 - 1:00 pm
Toshiba
P9 with VLP Technology

1:15 - 1:45 pm
Baker Instrument Co., an SKF Group Co.
Learn About the New Baker DX Shop Tester from SKF

2:00 - 2:30 pm
Electro Static Technology
Measuring VFD Induced Shaft Voltage on AC Motors

2:45 - 3:15 pm
Spring Point Solutions
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