 Peter NachtweyPresident - Delta Computer Systems, Inc Mr. Nachtwey has more than 25 years of experience developing hydraulic, pneumatic and vision systems for industrial applications. He graduated from Oregon State University in 1975 with a BSEE and served in the U.S. Navy until 1980. He became president of Delta Computer Systems, Inc. in 1992. In addition to leading Delta’s engineering and R&D programs, his articles are published in industry publications such as Hydraulics and Pneumatics, Machine Design. He has also presented technical papers for IFPE, NFPA, FPDA and various technical conferences. |
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Robert Muehlfellner has held different positions in his ten years with B&R Industrial Automation at its North American headquarters in Roswell, GA. In his current role as Director of Automation Technology, he works closely with the sales team reviewing customers' automation requirements and promoting both new and existing B&R technologies. Based on extensive customer interaction, analyzing market feedback and trends, in his role as Global System Architect he works together with R&D at the global B&R headquarters in Eggelsberg, Austria to design new and improved automation software, hardware, and technology solutions that meet the needs of the North American market. Prior to joining B&R USA, Robert worked in engineering and management roles for six years at B&R Austria. |
Robert Muehlfellner |
Mr. Sheaf is the founder of Certified Fluid Consultants (CFC) and President of CFC-Solar, Inc. He has been directly involved with fluid power for 37 years and is a recognized authority throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico. He has taught fluid power courses for over 30 years. Mr. Sheaf worked for five years at a General Motors division as a Process Control Engineer troubleshooting and improving hydraulic and electrical systems. For nine years, he managed the Hydraulic Power Unit Division of Pabco Fluid Power, a distributor of Vickers hydraulic components. At the Kinnear Corp. his duties for 6 years involved mechanical design and field service. In 1981, Mr. Sheaf started his own business focusing on field service, training and consulting. He has served two years on the Board of Directors for the Equipment Service Association and was a director for the ESA Scholarship Fund. His active involvement (24 years) with the Fluid Power Society (FPS) includes service as President, Director on the Board of Directors, Chairman of the Certification Board and Past President of FPS Publications. |
Robert J. Sheaf, Jr. C.F.P.E. |
Jens Kummetz studied electrical engineering and control engineering at the Leibniz University Hanover (Germany) and at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Electrotechnique, d’Electronique, d’Informatique et d’Hydraulique de Toulouse (France). After receiving his Diploma in electrical engineering and control engineering, he worked as a research engineer at the Leibniz University of Hanover. Based on his research activities in the field of machine tools, control engineering and nonlinear dynamics, he received his PhD in the year 2000. Since 2001, Dr. Kummetz has been with the company DR. JOHANNES HEIDENHAIN GmbH. As an R&D manager for systems integration, his field of activities covers methods for system analysis and design like FEM, modal analysis and numerical simulation of high order systems with position controlled multi axis actuation. Furthermore, Dr. Kummetz is working on basic research in questions related to static, thermal and dynamic accuracy of production systems. |
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Dr. Jay Lee is Ohio Eminent Scholar and L.W. Scott Alter Chair Professor at the Univ. of Cincinnati and is founding director of National Science Foundation (NSF) Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) on Intelligent Maintenance Systems (IMS www.imscenter.net ) which is a multi-campus NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center which consists of the Univ. of Cincinnati (lead institution), the Univ. of Michigan, Missouri Univ. of S&T, and the Univ. of Texas-Austin. Since its inception in 2001, the Center has been supported by over 75 global companies. His current research focuses on dominant innovation tools for product and service design as well as intelligent prognostics tools and smart predictive analytics for equipment reliability assessment and smart product life cycle management. Currently, he serves as honorary professor and visiting professor for a number of institutions. He also serves as advisor to a number of global organizations, including a member of the Manufacturing Executive Leadership Board of U.S., IBM MAXIMO Executive Advisory Council, Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) in Taiwan, Japan Productivity Center (JPC), Academy of Machinery Science & Technology in China, Scientific Advisory Board of Flanders' MECHATRONICS Technology Centre (FMTC) in Leuven, Belgium, etc. In addition, he serves as editors and associate editor for a number of journals including IEEE Transaction on Industrial Informatics, Int. Journal on Prognostics & Health Management (IJPHM), Int. Journal on Service Operations and Informatics, etc, |
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Marty Barris is currently employed by Donaldson Company as Product Director, Liquid Filtration. In this product management role, his department is responsible for global product line management, profitability, competitive analysis, and sales training for the hydraulic, lube oil, and fuel filtration product families. Previous assignments have included international stints in Brussels Belgium and Tokyo Japan, focused on business development and product launches. He has over 31 years of experience with Donaldson and holds 20 patents on filtration and emission control products. His roles have included liquid, air, gas, and exhaust filtration product development and engineering and product management. |
Marty Barris|
Paul Michael is a Research Chemist at the Milwaukee School of Engineering Fluid Power Institute. He has 30-plus years of experience formulating and testing lubricants. Paul chairs the NFPA Fluids Committee, is active in ASTM Section N on hydraulic fluids, serves as a lubrication subject matter expert for the US Military, and is principal investigator for energy efficient hydraulic fluids in the Center for Compact and Efficient Fluid Power. |
Paul Michael|
Clint Hayes is the Manager of Sales Product Management for Linear Technologies at Bosch Rexroth Corporation in Charlotte, North Carolina. In his current position he directs the product management and applications engineering support functions for all linear motion products, analyzes U.S. market trends within specific industries and provides strategic input in the development of new products. He has over 14 years experience in Applications Engineering and Product Management in the field of linear motion and has authored several technical papers for major trade journals. Clint holds a Bachelors Degree in Industrial Technologies from Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina. |
Clint Hayes|
Carl is themanager of applications engineering for linear bearings and production machinery at Schaeffler Group USA Inc. He has 12 years experience in the machine tool industry and 10 years experience in the bearing industry, focusing on precision bearings for machine tool products. Carl received a BSIE from the Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois. |
Carl White |
Jan Komsta has joined Bosch Rexroth after his graduation from Institute of Automatics and Robotics of Warsaw University of Technology in 2007. Since 2011 he is employed as Manager for Simulation and New Technologies at Bosch Rexroth Corporation in Bethlehem, PA, where he provides simulation and engineering support for electro-hydraulic applications, including speed variable pump systems. In his previous assignment, with Bosch Rexroth’s R&D Department in Lohr am Main, Germany, he was involved in development of new nonlinear robust controller and observer structures for electro-hydraulic system. Currently, he is also finishing his PhD project at Institute for Automatic Control, Darmastadt University of Technology. |
Jan Komsta |
Hank van Ormer has worked with compressed air equipment and systems for over forty years in multiple capacities: as a vendor, technical representative, research and development, instructor, and consultant. He is recognized as one of a mere handful of leaders in the compressed air industry. Mr. van Ormer founded Air Power USA, Inc, in 1986 – an independent, brand-neutral consulting company – to provide industrial users of compressed air with unbiased information and technical services. The company has formally audited over 2,000 plants and managed the implementation of over 1,000 significant energy efficiency projects. |
Hank van Ormer |
Ryan Hettinger has been in the Industrial Automation field for 12 years. He started his career with Dial Tool Industries working for 5 years as an Automation Engineer specializing in controls and programing of PLCs, HMIs, Motion controllers, and vision systems. For the past 7 years he has worked as an Applications engineer for Festo Corporation specializing in pneumatics and fieldbus products. |
Ryan Hettinger |
Jon has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin – Platteville and a Masters in Business Administration from Marquette University. Jon has been with Aztalan Engineering Inc. since 2009 and has worked in various functional areas. Jon has worked extensively with design for manufacture and has started various initiatives including a pre-production review process and transitioning the company from manual annotations to electronic annotations. Currently Jon is working on building up the Aztalan’s contract design engineering division. |
Jon M. Helt
Roger Hart is the Research and Development Engineering Manager at Siemens Industry, Inc. He has 28 years of experience in CNC architecture, design and software engineering. Roger has a Bachelor of Science degree in Math and Computer Science from Marietta College. |
Roger Hart 
