Krones Andina has built a training center for the operating and maintenance staff of Krones’ clients, in close liaison with the Krones Academy at its facility in Bogotá, Colombia.
This enables the deployment of skilled, properly qualified operators and by meticulous maintenance for Krones’ machines and lines to perform optimally.
The new training center was inaugurated in the buildings of the Colombian subsidiary in May 2015.
Krones Andina is responsible for providing lifecycle service support in a territory that includes not only Colombia, but also Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru and Panama.
The training center’s principal remit is to foster and inculcate soundly based in-depth knowledge among the clients’ staff, and to prepare them for handling new machine technologies.
The Colombian offshoot of the Krones Academy initially features three training rooms.
The clients’ operating and maintenance staff can be trained on the spot in how to use the technologies concerned to optimum effect and gain hands-on experience.
This improves meaningful comprehension and trouble-shooting capabilities, and thus makes their own lines run more smoothly.
Advanced training
The training center has a workshop on how to use the Contiroll HS labeller with a hotmelt station, whose functioning is explained in detail by demonstrating the labeling process, together with fine adjustment of the individual assemblies and the electrical and electronic technologies involved.
Besides the labeller, the training rooms are also equipped with a module of the VODM filler and a station of the Contiform blow-molding machine.
A second level of the center accommodates the automation modules and networks.
The Krones Academy can choose from a pool of trainers worldwide, and deploy them responsively for training events in Colombia.
One of the paramount preconditions for intensive communication of the requisite knowledge is to eliminate the language barrier.
The lessons were therefore given in the native Spanish language of the clients’ staff.
Besides catering to client demand, the training center aims to contribute towards upgrading the knowledge of the technical personnel in the region’s various countries.
