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ENGEL wins GOLD with e-trainer

Business is just like sport: If you want to succeed you have to train hard. But it is often difficult to train operating staff properly in the machine construction industry. This is due to a lack of training machines on site in many cases. The ENGEL e-TRAINER provides practical and realistic material that gives companies the ability to train their staff without needing to dedicate a machine. Just like a "flight simulator" for injection moulding machines, machine operating staff take part in virtual PC training sessions, anywhere, interactively and using multimedia material. And integrated online help gives the participants detailed descriptions for any topic. In addition to this, "e-TRAINER live" – an innovation throughout the industry – serves up short, 2-hour intensive training sessions via an Internet platform to train skills and help operators refresh their knowledge live on the Internet with a trainer monitoring the sessions. Now, for the first time, it is possible to provide comprehensive machine and robot training, without having a machine on site. This will help to familiarise trainees and newcomers to the industry with the topic of "operating plastics processing machinery" without any danger. The training program guarantees a positive learning experience and practicability. Both the technical implementation and the whole didactical framework are unique selling points throughout the industry.  At the BDVT "International German Training Prize 2007" awards at the DIDACTA trade fair in Cologne, Germany, the ENGEL e-TRAINER approach won GOLD in face of competition from a large number of international training approaches. The BDVT award can be seen as honouring the annual professional seminars, workshops and training sessions which have been held since 1992, fulfilling specific criteria and backed up by evidence of successful application. "Following the "Initiative Prize for Vocational Training" in 2005, this prize can be seen as further confirmation of the excellent approach of the ENGEL training programme", said Carsten Stölting – Head of Training ENGEL Germany, who accepted the prize on behalf of ENGEL in Cologne.