Pneumatics training made to measure

A new initiative offers bespoke pneumatics training to industry, complimenting SMC Pneumatics' recent accreditations from City and Guilds and EMTA Awards.

A new initiative offers bespoke pneumatics training to industry, complimenting SMC Pneumatics' recent accreditations from City and Guilds and EMTA Awards.

The bespoke courses will be fully tailored to meet the needs of the individual customer, and will cover all aspects of pneumatics from basic through to electro-pneumatics and programmable logic controllers, and will be driven by SMC's experienced, professional, training team.

The venue, to be decided by the customer, can be either on or off site.

Class sizes will vary with venue, but for practical reasons SMC recommends no more than eight people.

With the recent accreditation from City and Guilds and EMTA, the company can now offer assessment and verification of skills for students studying for professional qualifications.

A recent paper published by the Learning Skills Council claims: "The way in which skills have an impact on organisations are manifold".

"In the first instance, if employers do not have the skills required to produce products or services, this will result in lost orders or delays, or will result in the hiring of relatively expensive agency workers if they are available".

"A shortage of skills will also have more indirect or latent effects, such as failure to innovate and capture new markets".

"The empirical evidence shows that higher level skills are intimately related to a wide variety of creative activities, including research and development and innovation".

SMC's bespoke training service aims to help industry overcome some of the problems mentioned in the report.

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