New training centre in Colombia

At its facility in Bogotá, Colombia, Krones Andina has 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.

The training centre in Bogotá initially features three training rooms. It 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.

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.