The sophisticated technology of Krones’ machines and lines offers optimum preconditions for good performance. But the actual efficiency achieved by bottling and canning lines is essentially determined by the deployment of skilled, properly qualified operators and by meticulous maintenance. Krones Andina has accordingly, at its facility in Bogotá, Colombia, built its own training centre for the operating and maintenance staff of Krones’ clients, in close liaison with the Krones Academy. In early May 2015, the new training centre was inaugurated in the buildings of the Colombian subsidiary. 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 centre’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, so as to improve meaningful comprehension and trouble-shooting capabilities, and thus make their own lines run more smoothly.The demand for advanced training is huge
The training centre in Bogotá offers a workshop on how to use the Contiroll HS labeller with a hotmelt station, whose functioning is explained in detail by demonstrating the labelling 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-moulding machine. A second level of the centre accommodates the automation modules and networks.
The Krones Academy can choose from a very sizable 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. Which is why care has been taken to ensure that the lessons are given in the native Spanish language of the clients’ staff.The demand for advanced training in Latin America is huge. So the initiative for the new training centre was fuelled not least by the wishes and needs of the clients concerned. This training centre will make a meaningful contribution towards upgrading the knowledge of the technical personnel in the region’s various countries. The feedback from clients in Latin America’s beverage industry on the inauguration of the Krones Academy has been correspondingly enthusiastic.Photo: Krones AG
