This course is a part of a journey started in previous years with projects aimed at vocational training: it consists in an Innovation Plan composed by several courses related to topics connected to foundry and production, the development of language skills and therefore managerial skills.

For an overview of past initiatives, we suggest reading the articles Continuing vocational training: Bruschi’s new course Innovation Plan and Continual Improvement: employees training and other courses in Bruschi.

2020 saw the continuation of an initiative linked to training and, in particular, to the development of managerial skills among employees. The course, which started in 2019, sees as trainer Ph.D. Luca Varvelli, management consultant and university professor.

The training of Mr. Varvelli in managerial fields, consisting of workshops, tests and debates, has the aim of stimulating reflection and guiding in the achievement of three important goals: collaboration, propensity for change and orientation towards the result.

The results of this work materialized already in 2019 with the definition of the “Bruschi cube”, an object born from the collaboration of Bruschi employees and which contains six keywords, expanded concepts and explanation sentences, to be kept in mind in order to achieve the three targets.

The six keywords of the “Bruschi cube” are:

• Confidence
• Method
• Flexibility
• Availability and involvement
• Goals and organization
• Proactivity and reactivity

In 2020, the course for the development of the managerial skills of Bruschi employees did not stop, on the contrary the company wanted to deepen the training and, after the first lessons conducted in the Bruschi plants, the lessons have been conducted in the new form of webinar. This form of teaching, not foreseen, is now proving extremely effective thanks to the collaboration of all.

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PMI Day at Politecnico di Milano: Bruschi meets students and graduates

The event, that will be held in the PoliMI branch of Bovisa, is a career day designed for small and medium sized business where students, graduates and undergraduates interested in the manufacturing sector can meet industrial companies. The participation of Bruschi in this important recruiting event confirms Bruschi and PoliMi collaboration through the years.

Bruschi boasts a partnership of several decades with Politecnico di Milano and also this year will welcome PoliMi students and graduates to its stand, in order to answer questions, exchange information and present opportunities to cooperate. PMI Day represents a growth prospect both for Bruschi and students: the latter will thus have the chance of meeting professionals, applying for job opportunities and potentially implement their knowledge in the field, whereas Bruschi will seize the opportunity of welcoming new resources, confirming its interest in innovation and research.

Bruschi’s interest in the new generation of graduates at Politecnico di Milano does not include only mechanical engineers, but also the branches of industrial production engineering, automation & control engineering and design & engineering.

Bruschi looks forward to interact with students and recruit new talents, sharing its expertise and offering concrete job opportunities.

For further information Bruschi invites you to its stand.

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This is the reason why every year the company organizes many update and formation courses:  not only they allow us to grant that the most recent safety standards are respected, but they also contribute to the professional growth of our employees, by giving them a chance to specialize, adding an extra value to their working time: a value marked by their newly obtained skills.

In 2017 all kinds of courses were held, involving our whole working force: classes on new simulation tools, training courses for foundry workers and forklift drivers, skill strengthening courses for management and safety courses.

Metallurgy course

At the end of 2016 began a course on metallurgic techniques and production processes, held by Eng. Andrea Panvini. In each module some of the fundamental steps of die casting where discussed and explained, from the design of the channels to complex calculation of parameters and injection sections, up to recognition of defects in the quality of die casted products.

One of the main topics was how to identify the causes behind the defects, to strategically intervene and prevent porosity and other defects.  The majority of the common defects in casting can actually be solved either in the design phase, or by adjusting the mold or the injection system. During the course the focus was on how to evaluate the efficiency of the injection system, depending on the pressure of the stroke, the duration of the filling process and the surface quality required.

It was an advanced level course, oriented at improving the knowledge and skills of our technicians and our Engineering department.

Simulation course

During the autumn some of our engineers, experts in the use of simulation software, attended an update course aimed at comparing different programs available on the market. The newly acquired knowledge of these programs will make it possible to better exploit their functionalities, by integrating and comparing the data obtained, securing more precise results.

Lean manufacturing course – 5S

In order to improve the organization and ease units management, from the beginning of June 2017 a cycle of lectures were held by Eng. Bruno Vicaretti, aimed at applying the 5S methodology in the whole plant. The 5S methodology was born in Japan with the goal of speeding up processes of integrated logistic by improving the workspace, reducing the operational time. The system is named after the 5 steps that compose it:

1. Seiri, sort
2. Seiton, set in order
3. Seiso, shine/sweeping
4. Seiketsu, standardize
5. Shitsuke, sustain

 This course involved the warehouse, the tool shop and the foundry. The results achieved are already visible:

Toolshop
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Foundry
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Warehouse
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Management skills strengthening course

In the autumn another course took place: it was dedicated to the analysis and strengthening of management skills of Bruschi’s team. It was a series of meetings with workshops and tests, with the goal of defining and developing a cross-field skill set, spacing from intellectual/cognitive skills to achievement/management and relational proficiency.

Foundry workers course

In parallel to the previous metallurgy course, formative lessons for foundry workers were held. The goal was to cover theoretical and practical basic notions of die casting, in order to support and simplify everyday activities related to the functionality of the plant and machineries. The topics discussed ranged from maintenance to safety, from the correct use of tools to quality control.

At various times of the year health-and-safety courses were organized, aimed at avoiding workplace injuries and reducing fire hazard, in addition to specialization courses for forklift drivers and technicians.

All these investments in employees training take us further in our path of constant improvement, both in productivity and working environment, and allow us to meet our clients demands with innovative and original solutions. These moments are not just necessary to learn new notions, but are also fundamental shared moments of reasoning and confrontation on future plans with a new, shared vision.

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Bruschi innovation plan

This training system is oriented to people that want to update their professional competences linked to organizational and technology innovation.

Bruschi has ready taken the first steps toward this continual training through different means.

In the last months Bruschi had an important collaboration in terms of research with Politecnico di Milano, that involved many employees and project managers, and had also organized internal trainings aimed to obtain a certification that can be an important element for professional knowledge of employees.

Bruschi had also organized many courses inside the company where teachers were Bruschi’s employees, experts in die casting that could pass down knowledge among different departments.

Out of technical department Bruschi set up many languages courses and make use of external consultant for strategic planning.

In these days a course named “Piano d’innovazione – Innovation Plan” has started: almost 30% of Bruschi’s employees are involved in it.

This initiative has been arranged to allow people to understand better their work in particular is focused on a depth analysis of die casting topic. The course is taught by Eng. Andrea Panvini of the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering of the University of Brescia. A unique opportunity for employees to wide and deepen their knowledge.

The continual learning is a key point for Bruschi, because widen their knowledge employees can expand their techniques and focused them on creating a better product in a cost and time saving way, to reach excellence.

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