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trends in automation
Editorial
1
Knowledge
development
Gary Wyles,
Managing Director, Festo GB
Dear reader,
How lucky our forefathers were: what they learned at school
and university prepared them well enough for their entire
professional life. This certainly is different today. The “half-life
of knowledge” is steadily shortening, and this means in turn that
we continuously have to increase our learning effort in order to
keep up to date with the exploding universe of knowledge that
is relevant to us.
On the other hand, we now have a much better understanding
of how we learn, see page 6 for the interview with Prof. Spitzer
on this point. We have more sophisticated training programs,
training media and learning tools to support us in our endeavour
to learn throughout our professional and personal life. And we
understand the importance of learning, we recognise that
knowledge is a strategic resource that is indispensable to
succeed in a competitive environment.
Smart people keep up to date. Festo Didactic addresses the
needs of both internal and external customers, developing
attitude, knowledge and skills. Perfecting the technical aspects
of a process is only part of a productivity solution; to achieve
success, the overall process as well as the skills and attitude of
employees must also be world class. New training products and
learning methods from Didactic such as the Synchro Game allow
participants to experience the extraordinary results that can be
achieved by optimising processes – opening their minds to
change in their own sphere of influence. In a nutshell, while
Festo Automation provides the technical solution, Festo Didactic
provides the customer with all relevant competencies,
completing the Festo productivity equation: “Productivity =
Technology + Competence”.
Festo is your partner for all aspects related to improving
productivity.
Yours,
Gary Wyles