Together, girls and boys, for a High Education School for Applied Mechanics.
Merry Christmas!
Last Saturday, 11 December, we opened the Factory to students from the Trissino Training School to show them how the technology that we are introducing into their classrooms and into their laboratories is the same that we use every day in the company. It was wonderful to see so many of them interested and curious. They were amazed at EXAGON’s articulated arm for laser scanning of solids, supported by VERO SOLUTIONS softwares, with which we played at scanning their faces. They are girls and boys with the world ahead of them who, as well as taking their three-dimensional portrait home, left even more attracted by technology and its advanced applications, excited for their futures in which they can now see the possibility of preparing for a dynamic and profitable occupation.
The Veneto mechanical industry – the second largest in Italy with 6,000 enterprises and 55,000 employees – is one of the world’s leaders in terms of its presence on the international markets, turnover and technological innovation.
Unfortunately, the presence of women, already very low in all sectors of Italian industry, never deviates from single-digit percentages in the Veneto mechanical industry. A widespread mentality, with a certain closed mind, is to blame. Tradition has been and is the strength of Veneto entrepreneurship but it has some legacies that occasionally hold us back.
We have always been a company open to women who want to be treated the same as their male counterparts, attentive and capable women – perhaps even more so than men -, women who want to make the best of themselves at all levels in equal relationships. The environments are clean and tidy and neither women nor men are required to have any particular physical strength, as is the case now in any metal mechanics company. Instead, we need to be able to work together, be attentive, precise, organised and work well in a team, giving an important sign to young people – an opportunity for growth for young women and young men – so that they can choose the best for themselves, free from prejudices.
The specialist magazine for manufacturers of moulds for metal and plastic, models and precision equipment is dedicating an article to the new Higher Education Technology Centre for Applied Mechanics project that we are developing in conjunction with the Professional Training School in Trissino. The difficulty encountered by entrepreneurs in finding skilled workers led to the idea of training them by finding a way to have in the school the very same high performance machines as they will then find in the most advanced companies. The mastermind behind the project is Giampietro Franco, owner of NUOVA FRANCO, with the collaboration of Aldo Peruffo, President of the Youth House Foundation of Trissino, and the support of the biggest supplier companies of machines, software and accessories for mechanics. The project is now becoming reality: the machines and workstations are ready and there is very little left to do. As it is important to work as a team, the customised uniforms have also been prepared: trousers, overalls and t-shirts with the logos of the school and of NUOVA FRANCO as the sponsor. We hope that it won’t be long until the first students will pull them on, thereby starting this training path that will best meet their expectations, preparing them to face the labour market or offering them other opportunities for growth.
Read the full article of “COSTRUIRE”
“An idea of school for the future”