2021 AETC Agenda
Join us for the 25th Agricultural Equipment Technology Conference in February, virtually! All times listed are CENTRAL STANDARD TIME (CST) and are subject to change. As of February 5, 2021.
Monday, February 8
Continuing Professional Development Courses:
9am-11:30am CPD1 Excel and Engineering Economics
Whether you are an engineering economics expert, studying for the FE, studying for the PE, or simply want a refresher, this CPD will have something for you. Tyler and Mike will present content from their engineering economics and farm management classes and give a few excel tips along the way. Instructors: Michael Montross, University of Kentucky; Tyler Mark, University of Kentucky.
9am-11:30am CPD2 Supply Chain Management
The COVID-19 virus and the related travel restrictions and shutdowns upended many manufacturers' supply chains. It created the ideal situation to expose weakness in supply chain management and to demonstrate the crippling effect those weaknesses can have on manufacturing operations. Now, more than ever, companies need to have responsive, lean, and dependable supply chain partners. Our presenter for this CPD will be Paul Ericksen. Beginning his career as an engineer, Paul retired from John Deere after 30 years where he progressed into managerial level positions in the supply chain. Currently, Ericksen is the Supply Chain Advisor for Industry Week magazine and advises organizations on supply management practice while promoting progressive changes in supply management strategy. In this CPD, Ericksen will explain the differences between sourcing with commodity versus engineered product suppliers, show the relationship between supplier capability and executive-level performance metrics (above and beyond piece price), and include case study discussions that demonstrate the value of adopting progressive supply management strategies. He will also explain what suppliers can do in order to best market themselves to their customers. Please plan to attend this exciting discussion and learn how to develop strong partnerships that lead to consistent performance and profitability. Instructor: Paul Ericksen, Supply Chain Advisor Industry Week magazine.
9am-11:30am CPD3 Closed Circuit Hydrostatic Transmission Sizing and Considerations
Proper system sizing and component selection are critical to the performance of closed-circuit hydrostatic transmissions in off-highway vehicles. This session will focus on a process to effectively size a hydrostatic transmission for vehicle propulsion or other functions based on application requirements. Important design considerations including charge supply and loop flushing, system pressure protection, and pump and motor controls will also be discussed. Session will also include a practical exercise to demonstrate the sizing process. Instructor: Wyatt Hall, Systems & Applications Engineer, Danfoss Power Solutions.
Sessions:
9-10:30am Student Welcome Session – Join us for a student-focused overview of AETC. Celite Milbrandt, founder and CEO of MonoDrive, will join us to give his perspective on the testing and future of automated vehicles.
Moderator: Austin Roepke
Welcome and Keynote Address
12pm-1:15pm Modernizing African Agri-Food System A Business Case for Investment in Agri-Food System Technologies in Africa. Prof. Linus Opara, Distinguished Professor and DST-NRF South African Research Chair Postharvest Technology University of Stellenbosch
1:15pm-3:15pm TS#1-The Evolving World of Standards and Regulations This session will overview key standards development activities and regulations pertaining to agricultural equipment. A selection of timely topics will be included which cover priority North American and international activities.
Moderators: Scott Cedarquist and Walter Brace, ASABE
Presenters: Karl Klotzbach, Test & Homologations Engineer, CNH Industrial, AETC Infomercial
Nick Tindall, Senior Director, Regulatory Affairs & Ag Policy, Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM), US Regulatory Issues Associated with Agricultural Equipment
Joe Flaugher, Product Safety & Compliance Engineer, John Deere, Ag Electronics Scope Expansion: The New Look of ISO/TC23/SC19
Roger Hamilton, Manager, Corporate Engineering Standards, John Deere, Sustainability Update: ASE-16 Committee Introduction
Marty Matlock, Professor of Ecological Engineering, University of Arkansas, Sustainability and the Circular Economy
Daniel Mustico, Vice President, Government and Market Affairs, Outdoor Power Equipment Institute (OPEI), Hot Topics from the Outdoor Power Equipment Industry
Terrence Sauve, Farmstead Optimization and Safety Engineer, OMAFRA/MAAARO, Agricultural Equipment and Systems Standards in Canada
3:30pm-5pm TS#2 Product Development Process Both larger and smaller scale machinery manufacturers rely on project management systems to successfully deliver their products to their customers. This session explores, comparatively and at a high level, the potential advantages and disadvantages of traditional and agile product development methodologies.
Moderator: Shane Williams, Kuhn North America
Presenters: Jill Wiggins, Knowledge & Diagnostic Administrator, Technical Information Safety Liaison, CNH Industrial
Karl Klotzbach, P Eng/PE – Senior Test & Homologations Engineer, CNH Industrial
Committee Meetings:
9am-11am MS-23/19 Agricultural Electronics and US TAG
11am-12pm MS-23/2/1 Environment within Agricultural Vehicle Enclosures
3:30pm-5pm MS-23/7/1 Grain Harvesting
Social:
7:00pm 25th Anniversary Social and Escape Room Join us as we celebrate 25 years of AETC! We'll then break off into groups to put clues together and escape from a themed room. There is no time limit, so have fun and get to know your fellow escapees!
Tuesday, February 9
Sessions:
9am-10:30am TS#3 Spraying Logistics Panel Discussion Building on last year’s popular harvesting Logistics panel discussion, this year’s panel discussion will move in the growing season to sprayers and application technology. We will have a series of farmers and custom operators talking about their operations and fielding questions about spraying logistics in their operations.
Moderator: Cale Boriack, CNH Industrial
Panelists: Jason Veikle, Grain Farmer
Rick Martens, Marten Manurigation, Martens Farm Inc.
Dan Baum, Baum Farms, Maple Leaf AG, Inc.
Matt Falck, Hefty Seed Co., Ag PhD
Dylan Dare, Nutrien Ag Solutions
David Dahl, David Dahl Farms Inc; NDD Cattle Co
11am-12:15pm Update on Machinery Directive, UK Exit from Europe and Standards Protocol ASABE member Keith Hawken, a familiar participant and speaker at ASABE meetings, will once again share his thoughts on ongoing events in Europe and their connectivity to the agricultural equipment industry.
Moderators: Scott Cedarquist and Walter Brace, ASABE
Presenter: Keith Hawken, Technical & Standards Director, Agricultural Engineers Association
12:30pm-1:30pm AE50 Awards Presentations Join us as we congratulate and recognize the 2021 AE50 Award winners. AE50 awards highlight the year's most innovative designs in engineering products or systems for the food and agricultural industries. Top AE50 winners will be recognized with the prestigious Davidson Prize.
1:30pm-3:15pm TS#4 Considerations in Hydraulic Circuit Development Proper operation of hydraulic systems requires the correct components within the circuit and a good understanding of the interaction between the components and their effect on system performance. This session will present advice for defining and selecting circuit components, discuss opportunities for making a system easier to maintain and troubleshoot, look at considerations for ensuring safety in hydraulic systems, and also review the effects of hydraulic line size on fluid conveyance.
Moderator: Shane Williams, Kuhn North America
Presenters: Scott Frost, Gates Corporation, Maintenance and Safety Considerations in Hydraulic Systems
Bill Schaffer, Application Engineer, Hydac Technology Corp, Hydraulic Accumulators: Fundamentals and Common Agricultural Applications
Paul McGavin, Senior Training Specialist, Eaton Hydraulics, and Denis Poirier, Training Operations Manager, Eaton Hydraulics, Sizing Considerations for Fluid Conveyance Lines
Dave Hafvenstein, Sprayer Hydraulics Technical Lead, CNH Industrial, Hydraulic Circuit Development-From Functional Requirements to a Functional System
3:30pm-5pm AE50 Showcase #1 Each year the AE50 awards recognize companies offering the best engineered innovations for agricultural, food, biological, and related systems. The AE50 winners featured in this session were new to the marketplace in 2020, and all have the potential for significant impact in their area of industry. This is an excellent opportunity to learn more about the new features incorporated into these products and share a portion of their journey to the marketplace. The showcases are open to all registered attendees and will feature presentations on a sampling of those products receiving 2021 AE50 awards.
Moderator: Austin Roepke
Presenters: Justin Raski and Scott Wangsgard, BigBaler 340 High Density, New Holland
Bryan Yanke, HDR Rigid Cutterbar Draper, John Deere
Arthur Santos and Conor Bergin, Fendt Momentum Planter, AGCO Corporation
Bryan Dugas and Peter Johnson, Harvest Monitor with SmartClean System, John Deere
Committee Meetings:
9am-9:30am MS-23/4/4 Tractor and Implement Hydraulics
9:30am-11:00am MS-23/4/3 Lighting and Marking
11:00am-12:30pm MS-23/2/2 ATSC ROPS Subcommittee
1:30pm-3pm MS-23/2 Common Tests and US TAG
3pm-5pm MS-23/4/5 Tractor Implement Interface/PTO
Social:
7:00pm Student/Industry Event - Trivia Night Bring a beverage of your choice and join us for a casual evening of conversation and virtual trivia with other students and professionals alike!
Wednesday, February 10
Sessions:
9am-10:30am AE50 Showcase #2 Each year the AE50 awards recognize companies offering the best engineered innovations for agricultural, food, biological and related systems. The AE50 winners featured in this session were new to the marketplace in 2020, and all have the potential for significant impact in their area of industry. This is an excellent opportunity to learn more about the new features incorporated into these products and share a portion of their journey to the marketplace. The showcases are open to all registered attendees and will feature presentations on a sampling of those products receiving 2021 AE50 awards.
Moderator: Austin Roepke
Presenters: Jian Jin, LeafSpec, LeafSpec LLC
Jane Fife, Bio-YIELD, 3Bar Biologics
Robert Ross, Fendt IDEALdrive Steering System, AGCO Corporation
Chad Biegler, VSN Visual Guidance, Raven Industries
10:45am-12:30pm TS#5 Advances in Mechanical Power Transfer The technical session provides an overview of relevant advances in the power transmission field. The technical presenters aim to advance your understanding of the product solutions presented here. Our hope is the broad brush cross-section of advances highlighted herein will help in the design of machines and their components while meeting the demands of a changing marketplace.
Moderator: Brian Huenink, John Deere
Presenters: George Hanson, Weasler Engineering, Inc., Maintenance-Free Bearings and Corresponding Lubrication
Randy Velikan, NSK, Contactless Torque Sensor
Heiko Sattler, Dr. -Ing., Continental, ContiTech, Condition Monitoring of Combine Variable Speed Belts
Marcus Kuhl, John Deere, John Deere EVT
Distinguished Lecture Series
12:30pm-1:30pm ISOBUS – The Open Wired Network for Tractor-Implement Communication 1987-2020 Several ideas of agricultural electronics were born in 1980’s when the first electronic systems were introduced to control functions of a tractor, as rear hitch. In the 1990’s, the trend was toward mechatronic control of machinery but also towards informatics and data management. Both of these technological advances were requiring standardized communication interfaces for modular machinery systems used in farms around the world – tractor and implements. In this lecture, we go through the major milestones of ISOBUS; or ISO 11783 standard series. In addition, the lecture presents the current state of the art of ISOBUS technology, both as the ISO standard but also industrial aspects to develop products and deploy those successfully to the market in practice. We also discuss the future of the open ISOBUS for the next decades.
Moderator: Mark Dilts, CNH Industrial
Presenters: Professors Timo Oksanen and Hermann Auernhammer, Technical University of Munich, Germany
1:30pm-3:15pm TS#6 Software Development/Ag Electronics/Application of New Electrical Solutions Discussing the process of software development, pitfalls and troubleshooting, and new technology like AUTOSAR in agriculture machinery.
Moderator: Jason Schuster, John Deere
Presenters: Joe Fisher, Senior Software Engineer, DISTek Integration, Inc., An Overview of Modern Software Development
Jason Wolbers, Product Line Embedded Software (PES) Program Manager, Vector North America, Inc., Using AUTOSAR to Streamline Software Development
Benjamin Elliott, Software Engineering Manager, and Mark Richmond, Senior Software Engineer, Genova Technologies, Inc., Breaking Long Delivery Chainsv
3:30pm-5pm TS#7 Advancing Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Innovations in Ag Technology Artificial Intelligence (AI) along with Machine Learning (ML) playing a key role in Advancing Innovations in Agricultural Technology and Crop Production. A multidisciplinary community working in AI and Analytical experts try to identify the gaps and opportunities in technology development and user transformation in the farming sector. Creating a workforce in these areas will be a boon to the agricultural industry.
Moderator: Ganesh Bora, USDA
Presenters: Steve Thomson, National Program Leader, NIFA/USDA
Dharmendra Saraswat, Associate Professor of Advanced Agricultural Technology, Purdue University, Can Deep Learning Outperform Humans in Identifying Weeds and Plat Disease?
Siyuan Lu, Principle Research Staff Member, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Geospatial Big Data and AI Services: Roles in IoT-Bases Farming
Mathias Haynl, Business Unit Manager-Functional Safety and Cyber Security, TUV Rheinland of North America, Inc., Safety Related Functions Utilizing Deep Learning Algorithm-Relevant Standards
Committee Meetings:
9am-10am MS-23/7/2 Forage and Biomass Engineering
10am-10:45am MS-23/14 Ag Machinery – Symbols, Displays & Manuals and US TAG
11am-12:30pm MS-23/6/3 Dry Materials
1:30pm-3pm MS-23/3 Agricultural Machinery – Safety and Comfort and US TAG
3pm-5pm MS-23/6 Application Systems
Social:
7:00pm Bowling Miss our standard group outing? Join us for one last social to bowl! There will be plenty of time to catch up with old friends and make new ones while we compete for the best score!
Thursday, February 11
Committee Meetings:
9am-11am US TAG 23/6 Application Systems
11:30am-12:30pm MS-03/2 Farm Materials Handling and Transport
1:15pm-2:00pm MS-23/4/1 Agricultural Equipment Braking
2:00pm-3:30pm MS-23/4 Tractors and US TAG
3:30pm-5pm MS-23/7 Harvest and US TAG
Friday, February 12
Committee Meetings:
9am-10:30am STC-02 International Standardization
10:45am-11:30am MS-23 Tractors & Machinery for Agriculture & Forestry and US TAG
11:30am-12:15pm MS-03 Standards Oversight
