RSSSwiss mechanical engineering company Ammann is increasing the frequency of its successful global paving campus training courses in the Czech Republic.
These four-day-long expert knowledge sessions are run at the Ammann International Training Centre (AITC) in Nové Město nad Metují and, according to after sales projects manager and training centre boss Martin Sedláček, the idea is “to ensure that Ammann has a globally consistent (approach) to presenting, selling and servicing” the company’s fast-developing range of road pavers.
The first Ammann paving campus was held in 2014 with a further two taking place this year. “More are already planned for 2016,” adds Sedláček, because “we want to be confident that everyone in the Ammann road paving sales and service operation has the highest possible level of product expertise and that we are all using the same methodology.”
The campus, which is jointly led by the group’s two leading commercial managers for pavers, Marcus Utterodt and Ferdinando Dell’Orto, looks at every aspect of selling, servicing and operating paving machines with sessions on topics such as aggregate, bitumen and asphalt mixes; asphalt plants; tracked pavers versus wheeled pavers; jobsite management; the principle of floating screed; different screed types; process parameters; how to set up the paver and the screed and how to inspect the machines. Utterodt and Dell’Orto are based at the company’s Langenthal HQ in Switzerland.
They do not go it alone either. Ammann also brings in outside experts from partner companies Trimble Sitech and MOBA towards the end of the week to do a series of highly detailed and hands-on sessions on how levelling systems work. Trimble and MOBA allow the course participants to take part in outside demonstration runs and to operate the units first hand. Delegates at the most recent campus came from all around the world representing countries such as China, South Africa, Singapore, India, Brazil, Russia, Italy, Malaysia, Germany, Colombia and Switzerland.
The paving campus is one of a range of progressive and modular training courses run at AITC. Sedláček is determined to help Ammann “develop a strategy designed to educate the sales and service staff of our distributors around the world” as well as run a comprehensive training operation for the Swiss-based group’s own in-house engineers and sales staff. “Dealers build their own courses from our modules,” says Sedláček, “and they can progress their people through basic study units to the advanced and then expert level courses.”
Ammann offers seven pavers ranging from 1t to 15t in weight and from just under 1m to 6.5m in terms of paving width. The AFW 150 G mini-road wheeled paver is the baby of the family and is followed by tracked and wheeled options called the AFW/AFT 270 E/G; the AFW/AFT 350 E/G and the AFW/AFT 500 E/G.
These four-day-long expert knowledge sessions are run at the Ammann International Training Centre (AITC) in Nové Město nad Metují and, according to after sales projects manager and training centre boss Martin Sedláček, the idea is “to ensure that Ammann has a globally consistent (approach) to presenting, selling and servicing” the company’s fast-developing range of road pavers.
The first Ammann paving campus was held in 2014 with a further two taking place this year. “More are already planned for 2016,” adds Sedláček, because “we want to be confident that everyone in the Ammann road paving sales and service operation has the highest possible level of product expertise and that we are all using the same methodology.”
The campus, which is jointly led by the group’s two leading commercial managers for pavers, Marcus Utterodt and Ferdinando Dell’Orto, looks at every aspect of selling, servicing and operating paving machines with sessions on topics such as aggregate, bitumen and asphalt mixes; asphalt plants; tracked pavers versus wheeled pavers; jobsite management; the principle of floating screed; different screed types; process parameters; how to set up the paver and the screed and how to inspect the machines. Utterodt and Dell’Orto are based at the company’s Langenthal HQ in Switzerland.
They do not go it alone either. Ammann also brings in outside experts from partner companies Trimble Sitech and MOBA towards the end of the week to do a series of highly detailed and hands-on sessions on how levelling systems work. Trimble and MOBA allow the course participants to take part in outside demonstration runs and to operate the units first hand. Delegates at the most recent campus came from all around the world representing countries such as China, South Africa, Singapore, India, Brazil, Russia, Italy, Malaysia, Germany, Colombia and Switzerland.
The paving campus is one of a range of progressive and modular training courses run at AITC. Sedláček is determined to help Ammann “develop a strategy designed to educate the sales and service staff of our distributors around the world” as well as run a comprehensive training operation for the Swiss-based group’s own in-house engineers and sales staff. “Dealers build their own courses from our modules,” says Sedláček, “and they can progress their people through basic study units to the advanced and then expert level courses.”
Ammann offers seven pavers ranging from 1t to 15t in weight and from just under 1m to 6.5m in terms of paving width. The AFW 150 G mini-road wheeled paver is the baby of the family and is followed by tracked and wheeled options called the AFW/AFT 270 E/G; the AFW/AFT 350 E/G and the AFW/AFT 500 E/G.
