After a long hiatus, the Fluid Power Industrial Consortium (FPIC) is back in person, and we’re excited to welcome you to the Hyatt Regency Milwaukee on September 19, 2025 for a morning of technical presentations, followed by lunch and tours.

Theme: Minimizing Noise, Vibration & Harshness in Fluid Power Systems
Hosted by the MSOE FPIC and supported by NFPA (NFPA members are automatically part of FPIC!), this event features four expert-led sessions focused on market-ready technologies to help reduce NVH in fluid power systems

Agenda

8–8:30 a.m. | Breakfast Provided

8–8:30 a.m. | 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. 

8:40–9:20 a.m. | Strategies for Reducing NVH
Sudhir Kaul, MSOE Chair of Mechanical Engineering 

9:20–10 a.m. | Shaking the Noise out of Fluid Power 
Stefan Petterson, MTS

10–10:30 a.m.| Break

10:30–11:10 a.m. | Treating Noise at the Source with Hydraulic Suppressors                                      
Nathan Pedigo, Wilkes and McLean

11:10–11:50 a.m. | Pulling it all Together: System Level Approach to NVH
Shanmukh Sarode, PhD, Electrification R&D, Parker Hannifin

11:50 a.m.–12:30 p.m.  | Lunch

12:30–2:00 p.m. | Tours of Grohmann 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.