The purchase of an aseptic line by a new customer has always come along with a training week for line operators and technicians, held at GEA Procomac headquarters during machine acceptance tests.
After a few months the same customers, which attended the preliminary training, develop their own experience and realize the importance of having qualified personnel running the plant. Thus more and more of them are now requiring for new on site trainings.
These second sessions have the advantage of providing a general awareness of the procedures of the plant to the personnel who was not present at the preliminary training, to provide deeper knowledge of the machines to those technicians who are already accustomed to them, to answer the doubts that may have occurred, to immediately show practically on field what has been explained theoretically in the classroom.
Usually the benefits of these classes are subtle and difficult to spot at first sight, since the plant before and after the training remains the same: no change is made to the installation. Nevertheless the effects are impressive compared to the effort made: during these lessons it was possible to detect and get rid of unnecessary time consuming procedures, to remove hazardous behaviours, to bring awareness of built-in automatic procedures that were usually performed manually. All of this led to an increase of the efficiency and microbiological safety in operating the line.