ERG - The Technical Training Centre

On 24 October 2018, we inaugurated the "Technical Training Centre" in Caraffa di Catanzaro, with the presence of our top management. 

This project was created with the objective of creating and developing a didactic/operating centre in which to conduct classroom training but above all practical training, involving all personnel operating on the wind and photovoltaic equipment.

In the last two years, in view of the changed maintenance strategy based on the principles of CBM (Condition Based Maintenance), it has become necessary to begin training projects to support the new operating methods (tribology, vibration analysis, boroscopy, etc.).

The Technical Training Centre aims to become a learning centre in which to develop customised training modules and will project the company towards internalised management of specialist skills, enhancing the value of our personnel and allowing technicians to be trained in the use of technologies aligned with the current industrial revolution, which will profoundly change the way we work.

The first phase regarded identification and realisation of the necessary areas and space for training: we used the buildings of our operating centre in Caraffa, situated in a nearly barycentric position with respect to our plants.

The site consists of a classroom and a wing designated for the simulators used for practical training, with real components. The subsequent phase involved realisation of the simulators, through the creation of equipped workstations for study and experimentation, reproducing real situations and problems typical of wind farms, thereby allowing simulation of the interventions necessary to resolve them.

In the classroom, technical stations were created for the simulated study of subjects such as hydraulics, electromechanics and mechanics, in order to implement training courses, updates and requalification of maintenance personnel.

ERG's experience at the webinar "The strategic value of company academies for continuous training in the maintenance field" held by A.I.MAN.(Italian Maintenance Association).

The ERG Technical Training Centre in Caraffa, Calabria, is one of the most successful examples of continuous training in the field of maintenance.

Again this year, A.I.MAN.(Italian Maintenance Association) organised a series of webinars featuring numerous speakers, called upon to share their professional experiences in the field of industrial maintenance.

Francesco Onorato, Head of Maintenance Wind & Solar Italy, discussed the objectives that led ERG and Salvagnini to build, within their organisation, Training Centres and Training Campuses such as the Technical Training Centre in Caraffa, Calabria.