What Our Customers SAY!

Alan,

      I just wanted to send you a quick note to tell you thank you for the basic hydraulic troubleshooting class I attended last week at Hon Company in Cedartown , Ga. Your class was very informative as well as entertaining. I have already corrected a couple of problems we were having using the knowledge I received from attending this class. This not only saves money on parts and equipment, but more importantly it saves downtime. I would highly recommend this class to every maintenance person, no matter how experienced they are. I’m looking forward to some advanced training in the near future. I have conveyed this to my supervisor and look forward to seeing you back again soon. Once again thank you very much.

LARRY -STEEL DEPARTMENT-MAINTENANCE CRAFTSMAN -3RD SHIFT  

I just wanted to let you know that John and myself have left our old jobs and have both been hired on at a new company who manufactures parts for jets, helicopters, NASA space shuttle and generators. 

We were hired because of our hydraulic abilities. I recall you stating during our hydraulic training program at our old employer that, companies will hire individuals who can "troubleshoot hydraulic problems from a schematic". This was a key feature during our separate interviews.

So far, we have helped our new employer discover several problems with their hydraulics.

Thanks for all your help!

Tom

Al and Jack,

     I appreciate your help in getting our Winder back on line.  We were down to two reel spools and would have had to shut down at a cost of $10k per hour.  The manuals you made up for us were a help, and Jack’s expertise had our problem solved in less than 30 minutes.  For future help, you could have an emergency number available on your web site.  We were headed in the right direction with the help of the diagrams and training you provided us with.  Jack, I hated to get you out of bed and drive down, but this could have cost us a tremendous amount of money.  Thanks again for the help.

Bruce Harper
Maintenance Superintendent
Riverwood International Corp.
Macon, Georgia

Dear Mr. Weeks,

Thank you for the excellent hydraulics training class in Cordele , GA back in Jan 2008.

I took the quiz on your website back in Dec 2007 and my score was less than 60%. After class my score was 100%. I just took the quiz again over a year later to see how much knowledge was retained…… 100%. I read the questions, recalling vividly what you taught about each system and the real life experiences you shared with the class. I was confident with each answer. (The one drawback to properly maintaining a hydraulic system is that you do not get to practice troubleshooting it!)

The plant I work for is closing its doors for good due to economic conditions beyond our control. I’m updating my resume tonight and will include GPM Hydraulics Training with confidence. I have valuable knowledge to help me find new employment. Thanks again!

Sincerely,

Todd Roop

I just wanted to pass along to all involved, and especially Al, for the training that he gave to us. All feedback I have received has been outstanding. The guys really enjoyed and seemed to get involved with this a lot more than some of the other training sessions that we have had.  Al presented the information in terms that we all could understand and was always answering questions from the group.  The manual is a great asset for the guys and it was easy to see that the amount of time put into assembling the information was by no means an overnight adventure.

Thanks again.

Eric Petit
Maintenance Supervisor
Mill Services
UPM Raflatac

I wanted to thank Jack and your team for providing the excellent hydraulic training to our employees on October 23. We had approximately 30 participants and the feedback was very positive. The managers provided this feedback to us:

" just wanted to  express Tim's and my appreciation for all the work that you and especially Shell provided to pull together a specialized “hydraulics safety” training session for us.  It is difficult to find this expertise and the training coordination worked out perfect.  It really raised the awareness of potential dangers when working around high –pressure hydraulic systems. Our welding team historically has worked almost exclusively electromechanical Friction Stir welding systems and now we’re using 3000psi and 5000psi hydraulic systems"

Please express our thanks to Jack. We'll certainly be in touch for any future training needs in this area.

Kind regards,
Shell

NASA

Just wanted to say, thanks for your help today. The class you taught at our plant last year has helped me save our company a lot of money this past year. The knowledge you passed on to me about how to reclaim hydraulic oils has been a valuable tool. We have been able to save our fluid by filtering it down with a water removing filter. As you know, when you taught our class last year you told us about being able to use a portable filtering cart to filter out water and small micron particles. 

After looking into what you taught us, I purchased a portable filtering cart and filtered three of our systems. Normally that oil would have been thrown out. Too make a long story short, I took your advice and reclaimed the oil and we saved approximately $4000 by not changing the oil out in these three systems. 

By the way, that paid for the $1500 filter cart and we still saved $2500. That is just on three systems, I don't know what the total would be for all the oils that I have been able to reclaim. I figured out with a little looking into, you can clean just about any oil. I have cleaned everything from hydraulic oil to ISO 680 gear oil.

Thanks,

Scott Carrigan
Predictive Maintenance
Shuretape Technologies

Hi Alan,

Thanks,That makes sense now. A pretty complicated system and it is an exercise for me and my buddies to try to decipher things with our limited training. I did flushing, setting up and start up on a big paper machine last year with Metso Paper on our site.  A complicated reel and roll handling system. It’s very neat. Your training class came in handy and I’ll have to say I recommend it. 

Thanks, and I’ve pointed our management to your training courses as has the other gentleman (Keith) that was in the class with me. I’ll keep in touch.

Thanks again,

David

Lubrication Coordinator
Georgia-Pacific Corp.

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Independent Training Consultant
Ruston, LA

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Maintenance Training Coordinator
International Paper
Vicksburg, MS

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