05/07/2025
After its popular debut last year, the Hard Hat Compressed Air Maintenance Workshop will return for Best Practices 2025 EXPO & Conference in Kansas City, Oct. 21-23. This four-hour, interactive workshop designed for facility engineers and maintenance technicians focuses on how to ensure a reliable compressed air supply, achieve substantial energy savings and meet carbon emission reduction targets. It’ll be led by expert panelists from SMC Corporation of America, Ardagh Glass Packaging, The Analysts, UE Systems and Gentex.
The workshop provides hands-on experience with fully operational table-top compressed air labs with pneumatic circuits. Participants will observe the impacts caused by pressure loss and flow variation as well as identify the locations, causes, repairs and quantification of compressed air leaks. Each participant will receive a project list to take back to their facility to enhance uptime and achieve carbon reduction with minimal downtime and low capital cost.
The Hard Hat Compressed Air Maintenance Workshop includes four sessions: Meet Your Compressor Room, Meet Your Distribution Piping, Meet your Processes and the “Dirty 30” and Master Your Compressed Air System.
The Hard Hat Compressed Air Maintenance Workshop is designed to teach facility engineers and maintenance technicians how to maximize uptime, save energy and hit carbon emission reduction targets.
Five industry experts will be leading the workshop:
- Jon Jensen, Energy Efficiency Group Manager, SMC Corporation of America
- Joshua M. Taylor, Asset Reliability Manager, Ardagh Glass Packaging
- Josh Wamser, Auditor and Co-Founder, The Analysts
- Kyle Bitter, Regional Manager – Upper Midwest, UE Systems
- Chris DenBesten, Facilities Specialist for Water Quality, Compressed Air and Nitrogen, Gentex
The Hard Hat Compressed Air Maintenance Workshop is sponsored by SMC Corporation of America.
Only plant maintenance and engineering personnel are eligible. Pre-registration required. Learn more: https://cabpexpo.com/hard-hat-compressed-air-workshop.
About Best Practices 2025 EXPO & Conference
The Best Practices 2025 EXPO & Conference is the leading North American event focused on sustainable, safe and reliable on-site utilities powering automation. The event takes place Oct. 21-23, 2025, at the Kansas City Convention Center in Kansas City, MO. Attendees come from engineering firms, manufacturing plants and equipment companies responsible for specifying, purchasing, operating, selling and maintaining on-site utility equipment in industrial compressed air, vacuum and cooling water systems. For more information, visit https://cabpexpo.com/attend.
