Drive for Technology 2016

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TEAMinMOTION June 2016

Sheri Lisauskas’ daughter graduates with honors

Alicia was on the honor roll and graduated early in January of 2016 then walked with the 2016 Class of Crystal Lake South to receive her diploma on May 28. Since we already had a celebration with family in January, we went for a nice dinner at Kyoto’s Japanese Steak House. Alicia’s last two years at CLS she was involved in the work program and worked for Discovery and Fresh Market. She then applied to ISU, Eastern & Whitewater. She decided on ISU and will begin in the Fall of 2016 to study Business and Communication.

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Dziedzic family ends school year with a bang!

The school year ended with a bang for Wesley and Grace. Wes auditioned into the top Jazz group at Midwest Young Artists which is a prestigious regional music organization. He also placed 2nd in jazz piano at the Intersection of Jazz and Classical festival competition at West Virginia University. For a summer job, Wes is playing the piano at a summer theater camp for 6-10 year olds in Mt. Prospect.

Grace auditioned into one of the drum major positions in the Main South HS Marching Band for next year and will be attending drum major camp later in July. She was also excited to appear as one of the pictures on the cover of their high school yearbook. Summer school is filling most of Grace’s days but after that we will be hosting an exchange student from Japan. She is Grace’s age and she is looking forward to her visit. If it works out well, Grace could be heading to Japan next summer.

Full steam ahead for the Riskes

The Riske family made a trip to the Milwaukee County Zoo and visited the baby giraffe. Sophia (4), Keegan (2), and Norah (1) all had a great time watching the animals and running around the playground.

This summer, Sophia and Keegan are looking forward to weekends at the cottage on Lake Nokomis for swimming and pontoon rides.

Cox Family Update

My daughter Christina graduated from high school on May 14th! We took a photo of the family after graduation (sans Ben who was at work.) Christina is planning on saving money over the next year and attending Cosmetology school (make up & hair).

Moving on up with the Snells

Taylor just finished 5th grade and she is moving into junior high! She has been busy lately with dance - ballet, jazz, tap, and she is on a competition dance team.

Payton is going to be a sophomore in high school. She takes singing lessons, plays guitar and is involved with the Beacon Acadamy for broad-casting, video production & journalism. She recently won an award for Best on Camera Talent (pic 2nd to the left) My husband and I just came back from Cabo San Lucas. Beautiful place! A must see!!

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Guess who?teaminmotion@cmafh.com

In our CMAFH universe, there lives a gentleman who travels within our orbit. We hope that you will appreciate the historical details as you read his story below and try to guess his identity. All correct guesses by June 30 will go into a drawing to win your choice of a plant or prop from the next CMAFH BBQ.

My Story: I grew up on a farm in rural Drywood, MN with six brothers and sisters. My family sharecropped on 160 acres, and we grew potatoes, onions, carrots, rhubarb, corn, oats, hay and wheat, or whatever we wanted to grow. We also had milk cows and pigs. Our draft horses did the plowing, and we cut hay with an old sickle mower. In the fall we slaughtered pigs and calves to feed our family through the winter. My mother did a lot of canning of meats and vegetables, and we kept potatoes in the root cellar.

For fun, we would fish for bull heads in the summer and in the winter we’d go sledding. At Christmas, we had a small tinsel tree and presents were slim. We were just happy to spend time with the family at Christmas.

We didnt have all the conveniences that you enjoy today. We lived in a two story farmhouse with meager amenities: we had an oil burner and a wood burning cookstove with a hole in the roof for a vent, and our bathroom was a two hole outhouse in the woods. Our drinking water came from a well near the house. Sometimes we would find dead frogs in the cistern when we drew water for our baths! We didnt have a shower, so when it was bathtime we brought in buckets of water and heated that on the cookstove, and all the kids shared the same bathwater.

Our school was a one room country schoolhouse where my teacher, Miss Jello, taught grades 1-8. She had 8 rows of desks, a blackboard and an oil burner that she used to heat the room. I remember walking that 3 mile round-trip in the rain or snow, and we’d pick up friends along the way. I’d carry a lunch pail with a sandwich and an orange most days, but in the winter, for a treat, we’d all bring a potato with our initials carved in it. We would put our potatoes on the stove and they would get piping hot by lunch time. When we graduated from 8th grade, we weren’t really prepared for high school. Schooling was not overly important to most people in our area because we were farmers and expected to work on the farm. I did take the bus to the nearest high school which was 17 miles away!

When I was nine years old, I got polio and the doctor sent me to Sister Kenny Hospital in Minneapolis where I spent 4 months paralyzed on one side. Two therapists came in every day and stretched my limbs. It was the first time I ever saw a black person, and she was always laughing which brightened my day some. The nurses would come in with steel tubs full of steaming hot towels and they wrapped my arms and legs in these cloths so hot that I would cry in pain. I didnt get too many visitors those months, my aunts came by a few times and my mom and dad could only get away for one visit. When I was completely well, they sent me home.

After high school, I entered the military as a medic and later started working in hydraulics, ultimately landing in the CMAFH universe. You may not see me everyday, depending on where you work, but many people in the Hanover Park office know me by sight or by name. Who am I?

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Employee Birthdays & Events

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Our 1950’s themed GoTo Award Luncheon will be a gas!

Lukasz Bala 05/05Ziggy Kogut 05/10Norm Dziedzic 05/11Paul Mazurek 05/11Mark Rayhill 05/15Tom Machac 05/20Mike McGahee 05/21Joe Hallquist 05/22Betty Huyvaert 05/24Bryan Smith 05/26Joan Papan 05/29Sue Maynard 05/30Lisa Casey 06/07Jo Lynn Snell 06/08Eric Grendahl 06/08Carrie Zasowski 06/15Emily Cohen 06/15Mike Butler 06/17Jeremy Schmitz 06/21Larry Henning 06/23

Jorge Villamil 06/28Sheri Lisauskas 07/05Tony Schirmer 07/09Gordon Johnson 07/10John Pennala 07/12Bryan Schneider 07/15Tom Lavigne 07/21Ken Hall 07/21Debra Gordon 07/23John Raysa 07/26Val Byers 07/29Ignacio Gonzales 07/31Brian Roltgen 08/02Harry Aghjian 08/03Laura Ziccardi 08/05Jeff Santana 08/05Mike Aicher 08/09Pat Sexton 08/11Mike Balmaseda 08/13Manny Aguilar 08/15

Don Spohr 08/18Nick Destefano 08/22Cullen Smith 08/23Steve Leide 08/24Kim Martino 08/24Matt Nelson 08/24Olymbia Cataldo 08/27Kathy Hamilton 08/30

Holidays and Events Fourth of July Monday, July 4, 2016 Labor Day Monday, September 5, 2016

Summer Picnic Schedule

July 28: 11:30 - 1:00 p.m. 1950’s Rexroth GoTo Party presented by Bosch Rexroth

September 15: 11:30 - 1:00 p.m. Oktoberfest BBQ and Masskrugstemmen

When you wake up in the morning on Thursday, July 28, it may feel like the 1950’s again for a very brief time. Don’t fight the feeling; be who you would have been or were during that golden era of television and unjustified teen rebellion. Greasers, jocks, nerds, preps or beatniks - all are welcome at our party!

We will have several fun events and activities during the luncheon which is generously hosted by Bosch Rexroth in recognition of our award winning GoTo sales status in 2015.

11:30 a.m. Bosch Rexroth GoTo Luncheon Kickoff Speakers: Harry Aghjian and Rob Shepherd Rexroth CEO Paul Cooke GoTo Team Leader Sarah Salmonowicz TwoSmartwatchraffles

11:45 a.m. Lunch at the GoTo Diner Music by the Cool Jerks All American Ice Cream Parlor & Soda Shop

12:30p.m. Hula Hoop Contest - $50 cash prize Bubblegum blowing contest - $50 cash prize Guys & Dolls Costume Contest - $100 cash prizes

*GOTO MENU PRICES SHOWN ARE FOR HISTORICAL REFERENCE ONLY

by Harry Aghjian, CEO CMA/Flodyne/Hydradyne

The Drive for Technology has become known in our region for being a compact, powerful trade show where attendees can learnabout new products and technology in an intimate setting.

It is encouraging that our customers came from hundreds of miles away to be at the show. We worked hard to combine an informa-tion rich event with some fun. Our pig roast and barista bars wereexamples of the “fun” part. The key for us, however, was the information portion of the two day event.

The Drive for Technology used three channels to impart new products, new theories & new technologies to our customers: technical seminars, hands-on workshops and a vendor trade show. Using the Internet of Things or, if you prefer, Industry 4.0 as our theme, we highlighted some of the newest technologies known to our industry.

One such example is the Rexroth MLC-H controller. MLC-H is the only open 4A8A2969architecture controller that allows the mixing of hydraulic axis and electric servo/stepper axis under one programming environment using a digital SERCOS III interface. The truly revolutionary part of this new technology is its Open Core interface. Open what? One easy example to illustrate Open Core: the MLC-H is open to external devices such as smart phones and tablets. Having an open interface makes the MLC-H a truly future proof technology supporting all the Ethernet-based protocols!

Another example is the OXiStop, OXS from Hydac. Simply put, OXS allows us to shrink 4A8A2634hydraulic reservoirs by up to 8x (less oil) and reduce operating costs up to 3x. These are real benefi ts from products that are brand new to our industry.

Our fi nal mission was to allow our customers to “take with” thekey information that they were presented with at the show. We supplied an on-line link from our web site to download 100 +MB of information and data complete with application examples from each technical seminar. Bosch Rexroth, for example, conducted four technical seminars, two workshops and set-up a 40 ft. booth to display their technology. That’s a lot of information, and our customers were able to digitally walk away with everything that they needed at the end of the two day show. That’s what the Drive for Technology is all about!

Drive for Technology 2016: New products with real benefi ts

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Automation Blog is back!

After a brief delay, our blog is back up and running on a new site! Our main CMAFH contributor so far has been Harry Aghjian who has written several posts, the most recent on the benefi ts of the Drive for Technology (see above). We also feature guest blogs from our vendors which helps us share a wide variety of content that our customers/readers can enjoy.

We are always looking for good new content to share! Claim your fi fteen minutes of fame and become aCMAFH blogger. If you would like to review new product or discuss a trend, or perhaps you recently solved a problem for a customer and would like to share your experience, please submit your blog to Team in Motion.

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The months leading up to the Drive for Technology were deceptively quiet! By outward appearance, no one was overly excited, agitated, stressed, overworked or nervous during the weeks leading up to the show. In fact, we were looking a little too calm, leading some staffers to wonder where was the enthusiasm, where was the worry?! What if the show didn’t come together according to our usual standard of excellence?

With seven shows under our belts, is the DFT a well oiled machine? Probably, but we did not exactly rest on our laurels! Familiar with the mechanics of the DFT but aiming higher, staffers were working “under the hood” with retrofi ts, up-grades and improvements in every area of the show. We may have been unusually nonchalant, but we got the job done and more. DFT 2016 excelled in enthusiasm, energy and customer satisfaction! Judging from customer reviews, vendor reviews and employee feedback, this year’s event was our best ever.

We introduced some new features to the DFT. The CMAFH booth was expanded to show more of our Engineered Systems capabilities and located at the entrance of the trade show. We rolled out nine new hands-on workshops which were held on the tradeshow floor and we automated the check-in process. In short, we not only maintained our standard of excellence, we raised the bar. Every employee was welcome to pitch in ideas or volunteer to help, and many did.

The moral of this story is that experience counts - and you can count on our people. ‘Leave it all on the fl oor/fi eld’ is sport’sterminology for playing hard, until you have nothing left. If you attended DFT 2016 then you know that nothing was reserved - we left it all on the trade show fl oor! See Drive for Technology photos here

DRIVE FOR TECHNOLOGY 2016 STATS

1160 registered attendees:782 customers registered239 exhibitors139 staff

April 19: 376 customers checked inApril 20: 252 customers checked in438 unique customers attended272 unique companies registered

Terry Mullen spends some quality time with customers

Amy Pollman, Joy Morgan, Greg Bess & Lindsey Ward at aluminum framing workshop

All smiles: Joy Morgan and Debra Gordon accompany customer at pig roast

2016 - The year we left it all on the trade show fl oor!

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Engineered for success - Matt Burmeister joins CMAFHMatt grew up in Neenah, Wisconsin with an affinity for engineering - a technical mind must run in his blood. His brother is a civil engineer and his uncle, John Hugunin, is the Operations Manager of CMAFH’s Engineered Systems group!

Matt is a recent graduate from the University of Minnesota with a Bachelor’s of Electrical Engineering. He enjoys hands on problem solving and says he always wants to work directly with products and people. Matt has a special interest in power and energy as it relates to engineering. In college, Matt’s senior design project was titled Electric Motor Efficiency for Solar Vehicles.

“For senior design I worked on an Electric Motor Efficiency Monitoring Device. My group designed and built a standalone system that would plug into an electric motor’s communication bus (CAN for our project) and determine the real time motor efficiency. The project was designed specifically for the University of Minnesota Solar Vehicle Projects Custom Built Electric Motors and Motor Controllers. The system would retrieve pertinent data

from the motor and controller then perform an efficiency analysis and provide onboard storage for future analysis as well as real time wireless transmission to a terminal on a nearby laptop. We were successful in providing the Solar Vehicle Project a with a functional first iteration system. The picture is our hardware excluding a battery pack and voltage regulator as well as the wireless module that con-nects to a laptop to view the information real time.”

In his free time, Matt plays a variety of musical instruments including piano, bass and percussion and was in a band in high school that played gigs in the area. He also enjoys reading fantasy novels and historical fiction. Most recently he has been obsessed with the Discworld Series by Terry Pratchett. Matt recently moved to Waukesha and enjoys walking the trails and getting out in nature.

Joan Papan is one of the the original Controls for Motion Illinois employees, and she has been witness to this company’s rapid growth. Joan started in CMA’s Palatine office 23 years ago doing order entry and purchasing or “whatever was needed.” They ran out of space several times - moving from Palatine to Elgin (twice in Elgin) and then to Schaumburg, and Todd Sharp was at the helm.

“I worked for Todd, and he was just wonderful to work for - very understanding, very kind and always in a good mood. The best thing about working for CMAFH is the people, said Joan. We just have a great group of people!”

Joan was working in CMA’s Schaumburg office when she first heard about Flodyne/Hydradyne. “I heard bits and pieces about a merger and then it was reality. The day I walked into Hanover Park to start work cold turkey it was a little overwhelming. Debra Gordon was at her daughter’s wedding so it was just me going into this big office, but I got used to it pretty quickly.”

Joan’s family grew by a grandaughter in 2009, but she lost her husband in 2015. She announced her retirement this year in order to travel and spend more time with her family: a son, two daughters and four grandchildren ages 19, 17, 14 and 7. To that end, Joan is selling her home and moving to Brookfield, WI where she will be near her twin daughters who live in Hartland and Pewaukee. She is spending a few weeks with her sister in Connecticut and a week or two visiting a friend who lives in Acapulco. “If it gets too cold for me in Wisconsin, I will head south. Maybe I will take a singles cruise,” she laughed.

Joan plans to return to the workforce on a part time basis, but you may never guess what she wants to do most. “On my list, I want to rock babies. There are babies who are put up for adoption and they may spend days in the hospital with no loving mother to hold them, and the nurses dont have time. For many years, I have always wanted to rock babies. “

See photos from Joan’s retirement party here.

Let the adventure begin! Joan Papan plans retirement

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Amy Pollman makes a move to Wisconsin

SOAR golf outing update

Shown L-R: John Pennala, Brian Roltgen, Charlie Brom (Rexroth), Amy Pollman, Pat Lukomski, Dave Boeldt (Rexroth), Joe Gignac

CAD designer, Amy Pollman started working at our CMAFH Brookfield facility on May 9th. This was a big move for Amy since she had to relocate to Waukesha, WI. We asked Amy if she had any regrets about leaving Illinois, and she said that she was looking forward to the change. “I enjoy being in nature, and Wisconsin is a beautiful place to live and be active.”

As you can see, Amy has integrated very well into the CMAFH-Wisconsin team and lifestyle. By day, she is a SOLIDWORKS CAD designer: by night, a cyclist. All we now ask of her is that she slows down so her fellow bikers can keep up!

We had great weather (a bit HOT) for our 3rd annual SOAR golf outing on Saturday, June 11. The event went very well. I’m proud to say I work with a VERY generous crew at CMAFH! Special thanks to the many employees who donated. We’ve put a lot of smiles on the faces of orphans!

Joe Gignac celebrating after making (a rare) contact with a golf ball at the golf outing! To be fair, it was Joe’s first time golfing!

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Outtakes

From John Hugunin: We had a small fork truck accident involving a sprinkler head, the sprinkler won. No one was hurt and no damage was done due to some quick thinking by many in the building. Things were moved out of the way, the water was shut off and clean up started almost right away. The pipe and head were replaced, the alarm system reset and we were back in business like it never happened in an incred-ible amount of time. See the video here.

During our 2015 Oktoberfest, Lukasz Jurczyk put in a request on behalf of the Polish warehouse crew to host a party. By 2016, he had forgotten, but we reminded him, and a crew lead by Darek Dziewulski assembled to host our first ever Polish-American summer BBQ! It was a blast and featured lots of great food from Kasia’s Deli in Chicago. Photos here

From Harry: Here is a Roadshow picture I took while parked outside of our customer with male model and driver, Craig Logston.

Submitted by Lana Heaney: Wade Savage learned the hard way not to bid on things in a live auction when you are drunk! Wade purchased this for $550.00 at the Soar event we attended this last Friday.

You may have seen Rexroth’s new Roadshow trailer parked out front at the DFT. A few weeks later, it is on the road and stopping at many of our customer locations in IL and WI.

Hail, Hail the gang’s all here! Bryan Smith sent this picture showing the Roadshow’s first customer stop in Illinois. In at-tendance: Keith Fahrforth, Jeff Rietschel, Todd Sharp, Charlie Brom and Bryan Smith.