Are skills a problem? So waiting only for the evolution of the training market is not enough, it is necessary to intervene personally.
This is the basic reasoning that pushes four valve and tap companies in the Novara area to get together to launch a training academy. Scheme open to other companies and institutions which aims to reduce the gap between job supply and demand, retrain employees and offer them opportunities for specialization suited to the needs of companies.
Promoters of the initiative are four exponents of the local district of taps and valves: Giacomo Cimberio, Carlo Nobili Rubinetterie, Giacomini and Fratelli Pettinaroli. Companies flanked by the Municipality of San Maurizio d’Opaglio, Confindustria Novara Vercelli Valsesia (which develops the project) and Foraz, the training agency that heads it.
The project envisages the creation of a training center to meet the need for advanced professional skills that all the companies in the district have been reporting for some time. A recent analysis of training needs carried out among manufacturing companies has in fact revealed the urgent need for technicians specialized in programming and running operating machines, installation and commissioning of industrial plants, data collection from 4.0 machines for quality assurance and process control. and production maintenance management. Skills that are difficult to find in the area and that therefore lead companies to intervene directly.
The Academy will be based in the delegation of the local Confindustria in Borgomanero and will be able to carry out some courses also in neighboring places, such as San Maurizio d’Opaglio and Borgosesia, which belong to the largest world brass transformation center. Area in which over 30% of national production and more than 15% of the world export market for valves and taps are made. Hundreds of companies that overall achieve an aggregate turnover of almost two billion euros, two thirds of which are thanks to exports, employing 11,500 people, between direct and indirect production.