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Technical visit in the factories of EBM Papst - Germany

Visit an industrial plant such as EBM Papst in Germany is something to behold. They are highly automated production lines and strict and precise quality controls, allowing the production of thousands of pieces a day very close to zero defect rate.

Hundreds of treadmills and work cells, among which in several of these production is carried out solely by machines. People have control functions of these automated mats, or complementary roles in the process, as well as critical analysis functions, feedback, fine-tuning, etc.

This concept that are the machines to produce and people should act in the machinery behind the scenes, makes the different lines produce on a large scale, where clearly realize it is all the people working in agile rhythm, but in a totally environment under control and without unnecessary stress.

In order to achieve tranquility in an environment where thousands of machines work at the same time, where complex systems and pneumatic and hydraulic devices operate fully synchronized, it is easy to understand that the focus of the maintenance sector is to fulfill rigid and disciplined manner efficient schedule of preventive maintenance.

Believe it or not, the EBM has to forklift working completely without operator, leaving the people doing the programming of this type of machine and the machine it is running what was determined by the person.

In sub. developed countries, then one would think that this kind of as automated process would lead to unemployment, as examples like the EBM totally contradict this thesis, after all, the company employs around 13 million people worldwide and the number keeps growing.

In companies like German EBM, instead of people engaging your body and mind for physical work and menial, they are dedicated to smarter work to plan, design, coordinate machines and the day to day, and constantly improve what they do.