Amersfoort - VEGA, supplier of high-end measuring equipment from Germany, invests in the technicians of the future by donating a series of sensors to Technisch Trainingscentrum Vakwijs and training company Goflex. The pressure transducers and radar level meter will be used in process skids for the Maintenance courses. 

VEGA supplies a number of pressure transducers from the new 2020 series and an 80Ghz radar level meter to Vakwijs, where technical training is offered. The sensors will be used in the test stands (skids) where technicians in training can gain experience with industrial installations.

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However, training institutes do not have the budgets to equip their skids with the latest equipment. "With these modern sensors from VEGA we think we can make a better connection to practice for our students and technicians in training," says Michaël Elsenbach, advisor at both Vakwijs and Goflex.

The VEGA sensors were ordered earlier this year on specification for a customer in the industry. "But it turns out they are no longer needed," says Thomas Hendriks of VEGA. "You can then wait until you find a new customer looking for exactly that process connection and pressure range, or you can invest in the technicians of the future and give them to an educational institution."

Elsenbach has the sensors built into the skids, but also has plans to use the sensors for demo setups to be used on open days for Goflex's vocational training (BBL) courses. "It is difficult to interest enough people in a technical education. We have already experienced that you can get young people enthusiastic if you show them that you can put a pressure transducer into operation with a smartphone. With these modern VEGA sensors, we can recruit aspiring technicians more easily than with analogue gauges and screwdrivers."

VEGA also hopes for some spin-off from the cooperation. Hendriks: "It is important that the technicians of the future become familiar with modern measuring equipment during their education, but we also hope that they will experience that our VEGA measuring instruments work intuitively and pleasantly. In the end it is the students of today who determine what the factories of the future will look like.

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