ENGEL France opened a new training and education centre in Wissous, Paris. The idea behind this is to stage injection moulding 4.0 for trials and to improve understanding with state-of-the-art machinery.
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ENGEL France opens training and education centre
In times fraught by the pandemic, virtual options are also offered for all training courses for setting up, programming and optimising injection moulding machines.
With its ‘feel, experiment and understand’ strategy, and through consistent digitalisation, the training centre is strategically located for face-to-face events. A great deal of customer proximity is also achieved ‘remotely’ due to COVID-19 restrictions.
The training room plays the main role here. Digitally equipped with the best possible equipment and with the support of the Virtmould simulation tool, online webinars are held from here. Virtmould enables the injection moulding machine's control interface to be displayed on a PC screen and the machine to be operated from the PC.
Romain Reyre, General Manager of ENGEL France, said: "The topics in the comprehensive training catalogue satisfy specific knowledge needs for set-up personnel, explain robot programming and support the optimisation of injection moulding processes."
At the technology centre, there is an e-victory injection moulding machine with a clamping force of 80 tonnes and an electric injection unit, equipped with a viper linear robot and a variety of modules from the ENGEL inject 4.0 range. The iQ weight control and iQ flow control smart assistance systems are available for trials, along with other systems.
Reyre added: "The pandemic has shown us how important it is to stay in close contact with our customers, also with virtual training courses. The future is hybrid. Remote offerings and webinars will have their place side by side with on-site training courses. This will enable us to respond even better to the individual requirements of our customers, for whom we are increasingly becoming a partner over the entire life cycle of our injection moulding machines and system solutions".
