This fall’s event will take place September 19, 2025 at the Hyatt Regency Milwaukee. Rooms are listed as $168/night; please call 414-276-1234 to make your reservation. Four speakers will present market-ready technologies to help your company reduce noise, harshness and vibration in fluid power equipment. There is a $100 registration fee associated with this event. 

8:00 AM to 8:30 AM - Breakfast Provided

8:00 AM to 8:30 AM - Welcome and Opening Remarks -                        Representatives from NFPA and MSOE will call us to order and provide an overview of today's program and the supporting organizations. 

8:40 AM to 9:20 AM -  Strategies for Reducing NVH                               

Sudhir Kaul, MSOE Chair of Mechanical Engineering 

9:20 AM to 10:00 AM - Shaking the Noise out of Fluid Power              Stefan Petterson, MTS

10:00 AM to 10:30 AM - Break

10:30 AM to 11:10 AM - Treating Noise at the Source with Hydraulic Suppressors                                      

Nathan Pedigo, Wilkes and McLean

11:10 AM - 11:50 AM - Pulling it all Together: System Level Approach to NVH

Shanmukh Sarode, PhD, Electrification R&D, Parker Hannifin

11:50 AM - 12:30 PM - Lunch

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM - Tours of Grohman Museum and the Fluid Power Institute                                                              

After lunch, enjoy two optional tours. Visit the Grohmann Museum’s Men at Work Collection—the world’s most extensive art tribute to the history and humanity of work—and explore the Fluid Power Institute, where guests tour working labs that advance hydraulic motion control through experiential learning and the development of new technologies.