Andrew Berger
President/CEO at Indiana Manufacturers Association
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Andrew Berger is president and CEO of the Indiana Manufacturers Association. Before taking that role in January 2025, Berger served as the association’s senior vice president of governmental affairs and as a lobbyist; earlier, Berger was legislative director at the Association of Indiana Counties.
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Programming covers System Design & Optimization and Maintenance, Reliability & Performance, plus an opening panel, plenary, technical case studies, and special workshops. The opening panel, “The Critical Importance of Industrial Energy & Water Efficiency,” is moderated by Andrew Berger, President, Indiana Manufacturers Association, and Roderick Smith, Publisher, Best Practices Magazines & EXPO. It addresses aligning plant utilities with zero-carbon and energy targets, compressed air and process cooling engineering, and large-scale utility efficiency projects. The plenary pairs a Compressed Air & Gas Institute update from Matt Smith, President, Compressed Air & Gas Institute, with “The Future of Manufacturing,” a keynote by Jake Hall, the Manufacturing Millennial, on workforce retirements, production demands, energy challenges, plant utilities, automation, digital tools, frontline-worker solutions, and AI. Technical sessions address natural-refrigerant heat pumps; chiller plant optimization and free cooling; integrated HVAC, compressed air, lighting, controls, and waste-heat recovery; multi-variable-speed-drive compressor controls; low-pressure and intermittent air demand; thermodynamic analysis and hidden energy losses; utility incentives and measurement and verification; demand-side substitution of compressed air; compressed-air auditing and on-site nitrogen generation; food, beverage, and pharmaceutical compressed-air safety; operational discipline and industrial energy management; reliability, maintenance, cooling-tower upkeep, oil carryover, process cooling, and chiller design. Special workshops cover compressed-air Treasure Hunt projects with table-top pneumatic labs, industrial chilled-water system design and operation, pneumatic conveying fundamentals and troubleshooting, and sales foundations and precision prospecting.