GF AgieCharmilles inaugurates new training academy
Geneva-based machine tool manufacturer GF AgieCharmilles today inaugurated its new GF AgieCharmilles Academy, a state-of-the-art training environment with the singular goal of setting the industry’s training standard and exceeding customers’ expectations for expertise and quality.
Located at GF AgieCharmilles' Geneva headquarters, the academy features an enlarged machining center area with space for training, and an updated metrology area, technical and training labs and classrooms. Site renovations to accommodate the new academy be-gan in July and were completed in November.
The enhanced facility and newly developed academy curriculum positions GF AgieCharmilles to accelerate and expand training opportunities for applications and service engineers worldwide, and to leverage the Group’s an ever-expanding knowledge base to the direct benefit of customers.
Those customers include leading tool and mold makers and manufacturers of precision components across a wide range of industrial areas, including aerospace and aeronautics, automotive, medical technologies, information and communications technology (ICT), electronic components, and jewelry and watchmaking.
Leading the inaugural activities was GF AgieCharmilles President Jean-Pierre Wilmes, founder of the academy. The opening of the academy sets the stage, through investment in GF AgieCharmilles employees worldwide, to build on a culture of excellence. The Group employs; 2,712 on 50 sites worldwide, including 254 employees in Geneva.
In addition to meeting GF AgieCharmilles’ internal experts and observing live demonstra-tions on the Group’s machines, guests heard from special guest speakers. Pierre-François Unger, State Councillor in Geneva and Professor Øystein Fischer, initiator of the Geneva Creativity Center and head of the University of Geneva’s Centre of astronomical, physical and mathematical sciences, who spoke about knowledge transfer. Making a link to the history of toolmaking was archaeologist Marie-Isabelle Cattin, who demonstrated flintknapping, the shaping of stone to make tools.
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Geneva-based machine tool manufacturer GF AgieCharmilles today inaugurated its new GF AgieCharmilles Academy.
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Elke P. Magnin
Media Relations & Communication Manager
GF AgieCharmilles
