In recent years, the Basque machine tool sector has specialized in large machines and parts and in complex solutions. The medium-term objective will be to improve processes to increase competitiveness and expand the training of current and future employees.
A. Aramendi Elduaien | EITB media
This Monday, June 3, a new edition of the Machine Tool Biennale starts at the BEC with a view to new knowledge, technology and opportunities that anticipate the future of the industry. See you next Friday, June 7th 1,500 companies from 29 countries They exhibit their new products, products and services at the largest fair organized by the BEC of Barakaldo.
The sector is evolving at great speed. Until a few years ago, it was a strong sector that worked with traditional machining and mechatronic techniques, making standard machines, working with small parts and offering general solutions.
However, within a few years the change has been significant. Ixaka Egurbide, General Manager of IMH Campus, explains that the technology has evolved to adapt to “the increasingly complex needs of manufacturing processes.” The automation of processes and machines, digitalization and robotization They are already the present. Machines have been able to work in a network for years and monitor the entire production process of a product, in order to anticipate and correct possible problems that may arise. In the same way, other techniques have also been added, such as additive manufacturing (3D printing).
In the same way, in the words of Egurbide, in recent years, in Euskal Herria The sector has specialized in large parts and complex solutions that have added value and that respond to very specific sectors such as aviation or wind energy.
In fact, during the presentation of the Biennale, the director of the Association of Machine Tool Manufacturers (AFM), Xabier Ortueta, was satisfied with this specialization of the Basque sector, for the advantage it represents over other competitors such as China.
Many of our companies have invested in these transformations and technologies and centers such as IMH Campus have specialized in their training. Egurbide even believes that the short and medium term trend will deepen and innovate in these solutions and extend this to the entire sector.
However, in the words of the director of the IMH Campus where future employees in the sector are trained important what technological progress is like continuous training of employees.
At the Elgoibar center, in addition to the young students pursuing their university engineering or vocational training in this field, they receive every year more than 1,500 workers who want to acquire new skills and knowledge. In the same way, the education center also offers the opportunity to provide training in the companies’ work centers, especially using the resources and materials at their disposal.
Source: EITB
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