CHICAGO CHAPTER THREE

NEWSLETTER

 

Tuesday Meeting

Oct 15, 2002

 

PISTON PUMP TECHNOLOGIES

Presented by Greg Bouzard

OEM Sales Manager, Piston Pumps

The Oilgear Company

 

 

6 pm Light Dinner (No charge)

7 pm Technical Presentation

 

Komatsu America

440 North Fairway Drive

Vernon Hills, Illinois

847-970-4100

 

Reservations:  Call (847) 970-3734, and leave a message including your name and number of persons attending

or e-mail dvoss@komint.com

 

Technical Presentation: by Greg Bouzard

 

About the speaker: Greg Bouzard, OEM Sales Manager (Piston Pumps) Oilgear Company.

 

Greg started chasing Hydraulic Bubbles in 1972 and is still doing so in 2002.  He spent (4) years as a Pneudraulics (Hydraulics/Pneumatics) Specialist in USAF working on Jet Fighters.  He earned an Associate Degree in Fluid Power Technology from District One Technical College (Eau Claire, WI.).  Greg was a Research and Development Lab Specialist @ Sundstrand, Ames Iowa, and an Inside Technical Sales Specialist-Oilgear Company.  He obtained Certification for Fluid Power Specialist in 1993, and completed his BS Degree in Business Management-Cardinal Stritch College.

 

 

The presentation will cover:

• The use of Innovative Plastics in Piston Pumps
• Bio-degradable Fluids
• New Advancements in Piston Pump Controls

 

 

 

Visit the Oilgear WEB site @ http://www.oilgear.com

 

 

 

 

 

A light dinner will be offered at no charge before the meeting.  Please make a reservation by calling the number on the front cover of this newsletter.

 

Non-members welcome.

 

 

 

 

FPS Chapter Board and Contact Persons for 2002

                                                President: Len Kaster                                 708-599-5549           

Past President: Jack McGinnis               312-658-1313

Newsletter/Secretary: Dennis Voss         847-970-3734

Fluid Power Society                               800-303-8520

FPS Chapter Coordinator e-mail    preesefps@aol.com

                               

 

 

 

 

Meeting Directions:

From I-94 exit at route 60 west.  Head west on 60 and cross route 21, approx 3 miles.  Cross route 21. Turn left on Fairway Drive; a Mobile gas station is on the northwest corner.  Continue straight through the first stop sign, Komatsu America is the first building on your right.