On April 12, Simone Mosca, Managing Director of Mosca, officially opened the learning factory in the presence of representatives from local politics, representatives from schools in the district and representatives from the employment agency. An important part of the strapping machine specialist's concept is the so-called junior factory, in which trainees and students from all departments work together on real customer orders. At the ceremony, Mosca's training work was honored with a training certificate from the Federal Employment Agency.

The training factory is expecting 41 apprentices in the fields of industrial mechanics, mechatronics, electronics, technical product design, industrial clerks, IT and warehouse logistics as well as seven students from the fields of mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, business administration and international technical sales management at the start of the training year in the fall. This will increase the total number of trainees and students employed at Mosca from the current 35 to 48. Mosca is also moving the first-year training, which previously took place at the inter-company training center in Buchen, to the learning factory. This will allow trainees to get to know the real tasks and fields of activity at Mosca at an earlier stage.

"With the new training factory, we are offering our young employees training at the highest level," Simone Mosca was pleased to say at the reception. "Not only do they acquire important basic knowledge here, such as the machining of materials, but they can also demonstrate a sense of responsibility in independent projects. This means they are ideally equipped for their tasks in our company."

The new training factory will provide a shared learning environment for all Mosca apprentices and students. Apprentices in the industrial and technical professions of industrial mechanic, mechatronics technician and electronics technician for industrial engineering will learn basic skills such as mechanical material processing at 22 modern workstations. These skills are also on the curriculum for technical product designers and students on technical degree courses.

Mosca also invested in new machines for the training factory, so that two lathes and two milling machines can now be used solely for training purposes. In the new electronics laboratory, trainees can learn how to measure and analyze electronic functions, while a separate classroom focuses on the theoretical basics of the respective subject area. The new area is also available to technical product design trainees and students of mechanical engineering, electrical engineering and international technical sales management.

Collectively mastering customer orders

The central part of the new facility is the so-called junior factory. Here, trainees produce individual milled and turned parts through to small batches, which are then used in actual production. To carry out these orders, the apprentices and students from all departments work closely together, giving them a feel for internal processes and collaboration. "Independence, but also the ability to work in a team and a sense of responsibility play a decisive role in our daily work," explains Simone Mosca. "