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encouragement from an employer to further
their professional development.
Teaching Technicians
Kansas City-Mo. based equipment
manufacturer MULTIVAC offers its
business partners the perfect solution for
companies who want to increase the skill
set of their labor force, further employee
education, create experts on the machines
used to sustain productivity, and secure
profit margins. MULTIVAC University,
located at the company's headquarters,
provides hands-on training to MULTIVAC
customers by professionally certified,
full-time trainers committed to delivering
dynamic instruction. The team at MULTIVAC
University dedicates itself to transferring
its expertise to those who attend their
courses.
MULTIVAC University consists of four
dedicated classrooms at the Kansas City
headquarters and a fifth at the Great
Lakes office in Chicago. In Kansas City, two
classrooms contain packaging equipment
for hands-on and theoretical training. A
third room is theoretical and used mostly
for corporate training and the fourth uses a
simulator to teach programming and controls.
The classroom in Chicago is used for both
theoretical and hands-on training as well.
" Our number one objective is always to make
people better at their jobs, " said Ted Aubut,
training department manager at MULTIVAC.
" That's always what we're looking for. How can
I make the next student better at what they
do? Whether it's a customer or an internal or
external technician that we're training, we're
always just trying to make people better. "
Brendan Salzman, a maintenance technician
at Lake Country Dairy, Turtle Lake Wis., a
production facility for Schuman Cheese,
The MULTIVAC University staff is committed
to delivering expert training and transferring
expertise to maintenance technicians and
machine operators.
completed the five-day Thermoformer
Advanced course. The different types of
cheese wheels packaged at Lake County
Dairy have varying levels of moisture. This
variance caused some inconsistencies in the
tightness of the packaging. The advanced
course gave Salzman a better understanding of
vacuum flash point and helped the packaging
department identify and correct specific
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