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Federal German Chancellor Angela Merkel
addresses the employees at the Scharnhausen
Technology Plant.
In the thick of things
Federal German Chancellor visits the
Festo Scharnhausen Technology Plant
Demonstration
of direct human-machine
cooperation.
In March of this year, Federal German Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel
visited the Festo Scharnhausen Technology Plant. The visit focused
on direct human-machine cooperation, future-oriented production
technologies and training employees for the production tasks of
the future. Dr. Wilfried Stoll, Managing Director of the Festo Group
holding company, former Chairman of the Management Board
Dr. Claus Jessen, plant manager Stefan Schwerdtle and the owner
family welcomed Chancellor Merkel and her delegation. She was
given a presentation about the company and a tour of the plant.
The tour took in the VUVG system, human-robot cooperation, the
think tanks and the training factory.
Chancellor Merkel met many of the plant’s employees during the
tour and took the time to exchange a few words with them. The visit
ended with a statement by Chancellor Merkel to over 400 plant
employees. As a special gift, Chancellor Merkel was presented with
a personalised VUVG valve directly from the assembly system.
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The delegation at the VUVG assembly line:
Monica Mæland,
Norwegian Minister of Trade and Industry, and Stefan Schwerdtle,
Head of GPC Scharnhausen (right)
Norwegian Minister of Trade and Industry, Monica Mæland,
along with a delegation of representatives from politics,
research and industry, visited Festo in Scharnhausen, where
she learned about technological innovation and training for
Industry 4.0. The Minister and her delegation spent an hour
talking with Festo experts about the unique challenges of
digitised production and the training programmes at Festo,
in particular the requirements with respect to flexibility,
availability and short training courses in production.
Industry 4.0
Norwegian Minister visits Festo
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