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and cover four pieces over a two day period (continued from page 8)
with one set of students.
It’s All About the
One thing I can share that I see in the future Service...
is that manufacturers will be engineering
equipment that has more automation and event impossible, but CFESA, FEDA and
service diagnostics built in, and the speed NAFEM decided to take that boat out onto
to market for these innovations will increase some uncharted waters and combine our
dramatically! Engineered solutions will annual meetings into one big event this
include reducing operators involvement coming March. And, even better, FCSI and
with the “Dirty Jobs; such as cleaning, MAFSI are spreading the word to their
filtering and routine maintenance that was members interestied in attending.
never routine in the minds of the operators
to begin with! I also see controls with When we open on Wednesday evening with
much more comprehensive self-diagnostic a welcoming reception and dinner after a
capabilities including advising service parts day of individual organization board and
recommended to make the repair. Very soon committee meetings, I fully expect to see
the equipment will be calling for service a very big room filled with industry peers.
without operator involvement. We’ll each have our respective business
meeting first thing Thursday morning, but
In saying all this, I can say that future looks the rest of the content has all attendees
OK to me, but let’s keep a focus on our participating at the same time… from
future tech pool. keynote presentations, to panels, to elbow
to elbow in round-table discussions – we’ll
all hear the same thing, at the same time…
just think about the perspective we’ll gain
(continued from page 19) and where we’ll be able to take each of
Collaboration can Move our respective businesses with this all-out
industry idea exchange. Exciting.
Mountains when Projects
go Really Wrong I am so looking forward to seeing my CFESA
and FEDA friends in March at what I know
the inspector. The consultant’s field tests will be an event for the history books,
showed the OEM specs were correct. The while setting a great course for our future
inspector approved the system and the together.
concept opened on time.
California here we come!
The most critical aspect in all of this is
having the experienced, highly trained field
staff who can recognize potential train
wrecks early enough to avert disaster. It’s
critical that skilled service and installation
professionals can diagnose, troubleshoot
and repair problems when no one else
is around to get the job done—like on a
Saturday afternoon in a football stadium.
There simply is no substitution for
collaborating with the OEM when time,
resources and getting it done correctly the
first time matters.
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