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Germany’s lathe operators seek their champions at the AMB in Stuttgart – winners go to the WorldSkills World Cup
In roughly a year´s time the best skilled professionals from 60 countries will be meeting in Sao Paulo, Brazil to compete in more than 40 professional disciplines from industry, trade and the services sector to select their world champions. At the WorldSkills 2015 members of the German team will include the winner of the CNC lathe operating and milling championships. Six talented young people aged under 22 have qualified for the final and during the AMB, the International Exhibition for Metal Working from 15 (day before the opening of the exhibition) to 19 September 2014 in Stuttgart, will be competing to win the two machining competitions.
Promoting the championship Hubert Romer, Managing Director, WorldSkills Germany e.V. organiser of the event, comments enthusiastically: "An exciting competition, well worth seeing awaits visitors as talented young professionals compete against each other at the highest technical and performance level on excellent lathe and milling machines. "WorldSkills Germany greatly appreciates having such strong partners like DMG Mori Academy Bielefeld and the Chiron-Werke Tuttlingen at their side. Together we have organised a versatile programme in the atrium of Messe Stuttgart. You can look over the shoulders of the competitors as they demonstrate their skill, precision, concentration and strong nerves to win one of the two tickets to the World Cup. Aside from the daily programme on-stage, tours for vocational students and interested visitors provide information on training opportunities in the lathe operating field and professional skills competitions."
The final competitors in lathe operating and milling come from industrial companies and previously qualified for Stuttgart in the preliminary rounds at the DMG MORI SEIKI Academy or Chiron-Werken (out of 17 or 10 candidates respectively). The lathe operators have to complete three different workpieces with external and internal machining, milling and drilling in a fixed time. This entails drafting executable CNC programs with MasterCam software on the basis of production drawings, selecting the machining tools, mounting, setting-up, gauging in the machine and producing the workpieces on high-precision CNC machines. An expert jury then subjects them to a visual assessment, measures them meticulously and awards points, which when totalled on the final day, will decide the German Champion.
"The German Championships for talented young lathe operators are taking place for the fourth time in 2014, having firmly established themselves in the calendar of companies training apprentices in the industry. A growing number of companies are sending their best apprentices and talented operators to the WorldSkills qualifying rounds, as they recognise the value of participating for their own apprenticeship division", comments Jörg Harings, General Manager Training, DMG MORI Academy, summarising this encouraging development. "Even during the warm-up, training courses and preliminary rounds it was obvious that apprentices´ performance has been continuously improving. Speaking for myself and also my Chiron colleague Herbert Mattes, it´s plain that if we want to join the leaders at international level, then we must still train our candidates for the WorldSkills in Sao Paulo 2015 intensively in CNC machining and milling, coach them and prepare them mentally for the WorldSkills World Cup." The WorldSkills Germany takes place at the East Entrance, in the atrium basement, booth EO.110.
More than 90,000 visitors and around 1,300 exhibitors are expected to attend AMB 2014 from 16 to 20 September 2014. Exhibitors will present innovations and further developments from the lathe operating and precision tool industry, as well as chucking tools, CAD, CAM, CAE, software, grinding machines, handling of workpieces and tools, and measuring systems on a gross exhibition area of more than 105,000 square metres.
AMB 2014 is backed by the perfect sponsors, the VDMA Precision Tools Association, the VDMA Software Association and the Association of German Machine Tool Manufacturers (VDW).
About WorldSkills Germany:
WorldSkills Germany fosters and supports national and international competitions in non-academic professions. The competitions promote vocational training and business contacts and are a platform for presenting new developments. They show young people opportunities at an early stage and motivate them to give their best during their apprenticeship. WorldSkills Germany is ambassador for the German industrial community and organiser of the national preliminary rounds through which candidates qualify for the international WorldSkills. Founded in 2006, WorldSkills Germany focuses the commitment and ideas of currently 70 members, partners, companies and associations. It is the national member organisation of WorldSkills International and WorldSkills Europe. Chairman of the Board of WorldSkills Germany e.V. is Karl-Heinz Pfündner, Head of Training Centres at Bildungswerk BAU Hessen-Thüringen; Hubert Romer heads WorldSkills Germany as Managing Director.
