HVAC Training & Seminar Services

GEA's HVAC training and seminar experts provide clients with high quality training in air conditioning, sales and marketing, brazing and welding, quality systems and audits, safety, and lean manufacturing. Hundreds of years of combined expertise in HVAC systems, equipment design, sales, marketing, and manufacturing process improvements provide GEA with the necessary subject matter expertise.

Environmental & Regulatory

Environmental & Regulatory

GEA technical experts provide environmental training, seminars and consultation to industry organizations, scientific groups, governments and multi-national corporations around the world. We have received distinguished speaker awards in the U.S.,Taiwan, China, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, Brazil, India and other countries of the world. Our Environmental Update newsletter has provided environmental information and analysis to a global audience for more than fifteen years. Our personnel serve on key industry organizations around the world. GEA helps companies seeking to understand and plan for the evolving environmental trends and the technologies that will be used to alleviate their impact. GEA can assist in determining and complying with local, state, national and international regulations as well as consult on the use of new refrigerants and oils in this rapidly evolving world.

Lean Manufacturing Training

Our experts have provided hands-on lean manufacturing training in factories around the world. Teaching and learning lean manufacturing principals by doing, whether it be in the factory, or applying process improvement technologies to your office, distribution, or service departments is one of the best ways to learn. GEA's lean manufacturing training experts are technicians, engineers, and managers who work hard to provide students with a quality learning environment and program that produces real world results.

Brazing and Welding Training

Brazing and Welding TrainingTrain workers, establish procedures and policies to ensure high quality brazing and welding of a wide range of materials. Get to the root causes of joint failures, quality problems or costs that are too high. GEA has extensive knowledge and experience in SMAW, GTAW, GMAW and BRAZING as well as SUB-ARC and PLASMA. Can help you meet ASME, TUV and AWS standards.

 

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Quality Systems and Audits

We provide quality training and assistance to help you

  • implement quality system(s) optimized for the products/services being provided

  • establish auditing and feedback processes to assure ongoing compliance

  • implement systems to comply with pressure vessel, electrical and safety standards

  • establish certification programs for ISO 9001 Quality Standard and ISO 14001 Environmental Standard

  • learn Six Sigma principles to resolve problems, waste and costs.

  • Apply flow charts and process mapping to alleviate bottlenecks and quality deviations

  • work with customers and company sales and service people to resolve field or site quality problems.

Service TrainingService Training

Learn how to make your service business the most profitable part of your company. We will work with you to analyze your service business or start up a new and profitable service business. GEA personnel have started up service companies in Saudi Arabia, Australia, China, Malaysia, Taiwan and other countries as well as across the U.S. We assist in setting up parts warehouses and establish pricing levels for parts and service.

Business Management

Experienced business managers can assist you in evaluating your company and discovering the opportunities to improve profitability and customer responsiveness. GEA experts help new and mature businesses become more successful and profitable by providing technical expertise, creativity and insight vital to developing the successful business enterprise. Use our experience and expertise to identify and address ineffective processes and practices that are slowing your growth, inhibiting your competitiveness and restricting profitability. Our team will work with you to develop a winning business plan and show you how to implement professional practices and metrics to improve the effectiveness of your business.

National/Strategic Account Development

Provides two days of hands on training on the philosophy and tools required to develop improved relationships and sales with your large, strategic customers. This training is geared to Sales Managers, Account Executives and Directors of National and Strategic Accounts Programs. GEA provides a methodology that enables your company to develop long term, mutually beneficial relationships with large complex customers. With over 25 years of experience building such programs with national, global and strategic customers, GEA trainers help your company add incremental sales by expanding business with existing customers and by adding significant large customers to your account base. These customers require a different approach that focuses on meeting their long term needs that go beyond a product-only relationship. We will help you develop support services for these important customers with your team to provide these customers a more cohesive relationship with improved communication and consistent application of solutions to meet their needs is a strategic advantage. Review this compelling article on A Shift In Sales Pertspective from the GEA library.  

 

Key Personnel

Mike Koza

Mike Koza - Twenty-five years of manufacturing process improvement experience at Trane and Ford, including ten years specializing in Demand Flow© Technology training and implementation, automation equipment, construction and tool analysis for manufacturing. Mike has applied "Flow" to other areas including the office and service for factories and organizations around the world.

 

 

Richard E. (Dick) Cawley, P.E.

Richard E. (Dick) Cawley, P.E. - More than 40 years of experience in the HVAC industry. In his 28 years with Lennox he was Chief Engineer-Compressor Design, Manager of Heat Pump and Cooling Product Development, and Manager-Applied Research. For the last 11 years he has served as Director of Technology Development for Trane. Dick is a Fellow-Life member of ASHRAE and holds 13 U.S. patents.


 

Bill SpietzBill Spietz - Thirty seven years of Weld Engineering for The Trane Company providing technical welding leadership to all domestic branch plants and plants in France, Australia and China. Expert in thermal joining processes - arc welding (resistance welding, brazing/soldering), codes, OSHA Welding Safety Standards and pressure bearing weld joints.

 

 

Roger WalkerRoger Walker - Sales Executive specializing in growing revenue via new programs and markets with extensive experience ranging from small companies to global, Fortune 500 Companies. Headed Trane's National & Global Accounts program. Led the team that developed a world class "Customer Centric" process that maximized value to the customer, resulting in increased sales and customer loyalty. Accomplished speaker and trainer.

 

 

Larry ButzLarry Butz, P.E. - Twenty-five years specializing in product development and technology globalization. Five years in France as engineering manager for Europe/Middle East/Africa. Created and lead multi-cultural teams in technology transfer and factory start-up projects in China, Europe and to the U.S. Headed Engineering & Technology Division for Trane International. Technology and environmental spokesman to governments, industry and scientific groups and businesses around the world. LEED AP