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Festo established its own company training centre in Jinan in the autumn
of 2012. It belongs to the Festo Global Production Centre and provides
1,300 square metres of laboratory and workshop floor space where currently
30 trainees are being tutored in the field of industrial mechanics. In addition
to its function as a training facility, the training centre also serves as a
platform for the qualification of all employees at the Jinan location, whether
on an ad-hoc basis or as part of long term qualification programmes for
selected target groups.
Training in Jinan
Festo Didactic opens a new training centre
China
Inspiring enthusiasm for
technology
at Worldskills
2013.
Practice-oriented
training:
Trainees
hard at work at
the training centre
in Jinan.
Germany/International
WorldSkills 2013, took place from 2 to 7 July 2013, where international
trainees under 23 years of age put their professional skills to the test in 45
disciplines. With 1,046 competitors taking part, the event was the world’s
biggest ever competition for trainees. Along with the 1,000 or so
participants, more than 3,000 specialists from over 60 countries and
regions, as well as around 200,000 visitors attended.
Festo Didactic is a main sponsor of WorldSkills and supported and provided
equipment for the competitions in the “Mechatronics” and “Mobile
Robotics” disciplines as a skills presenter and in the “Polymechanics”
discipline as a sponsor.
International shows of strength
WorldSkills 2013 in Leipzig
