 CAM – CAFE’
“
Project for training and professional employment of CAM technicians”
The CAM-CAFE' project, held between April and
October 2002,
succeed in training
24 young people with the qualification of
CAM technicians.
Thanks to European, national and regional funds, this
project has been held with great competence from a group of partners like
DST sas,
KiOSCO srl,
I.T.C. “A. Pesenti” and I.T.I.S. “A. Meucci”.
 
Description
The
CAM-CAFE’ project worked within the area of the Regional Operating
Program Ob.3 and the program for Ob.3, vocational guidance, training
and technical employment.
It
was attended by 24
people within the criteria of A2 (students), A3 (Unemployed) e D1 (Employed)
measures.
The CAM-CAFE’ project tried to face the problem of the lack of
professional figures able to work with computerized systems and technical
and technological activities (in this case
CAD/CAM) in small and middle companies that are so numerous in Tuscany.
Goals
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Prove
that working with innovative training systems (on subjects like
automation with CAM) leads to good results for what concerns the real
possibility to find a job for those who attended this course.
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 Make
clear that it is possible to reach a good balance between investing in
training courses and sharing competences thank to on-line laboratories.
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Develop a kind of training cooperation between companies and schools in
order to invest on people by improving their economic reality.
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Prove the effectiveness of the "training units" method within a project
that combines scholastic education with training courses, working
experiences and employment.
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Create new working instruments to easily spread this kind of on-line
courses on a bigger scale and for different environmental realities.
Achieved results
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Our
students achieved high levels thanks to the CAM-CAFE’ training which was
divided in on-line lessons, in class lessons and stages in different
companies.
What they learned in class and on-line found its natural development in
the Virtual
CAM-Cafe’ Lab: a place where the
students could practice with some drills.
-
 Our
students spent their stage in companies of the technical drawing
and mechanical areas. By the end of this stage, the judgements of all
the companies were positive and enthusiastic both regarding the
students' will and their accomplished technical skills.
This is shown even by the fact that quite all the companies have found a
way to employ all the students who made the stage.
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Of
the 24 students that attended this course, the 22
that were able to finish it have gained new technical knowledge, higher
working possibilities and a greater capacity to go on in the training
field.
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Some
students receive offered of job from companies operating in
mechanical areas even before the end of the course.
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By the end of the
course we were proud to see that 3 students built up an associated
society; 2 accepted to work with the companies they spent their stage in
and 3 found a job in other mechanical companies.
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Our
kind of
Sponsored training
proved to be a great one and it was
discussed and evaluated in a workshop with all the course partecipants.
This kind of course, and the changes made after this workshop, was
presented during the final meeting; here it had been highly evaluated by
the leading companies of mechanical areas, which, more than proving its
efficiency, have spoken of this kind of course like something necessary
for the small and middle Tuscan enterprises survival.
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The
final exam
tested the students' knowledge and then gave them the
Regional Certificate
for CAD-CAM Technicians.
-
 The
final meeting strengthened the relation between mechanical and
technical drawing enterprises, schools and specialized training societies
of which ATI
CAM-CAFE’ is a part. That's why we think we showed that it's possible
to invest part of the public expense in training fields in order to
produce something that, with the passing of time, will enlarge the local
training offert.
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Thanks to the final meeting we understood that local enterprises have a
great interest in new kind of training and that's why they reacted with
such enthusiasm to our proposals. We hope we succeeded in showing that
this kind of courses can be adopted even in different areas according to
territorial realities and training associations.
Course output
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The CAM-Cafe’
course (made of 900 hours): divided in 6 training sections
comprehensive of 104 hours in class, 496 on-line and 300 as a stage.
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The CAM-Cafe’
Lab: made of 4 practical drills for each student to test the
theorical comprehension:
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Laboratory 1:
Tridimensional wireframe, solids e di surfaces modelling
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Laboratory 2:
2 axis milling from CAD model to finished tool
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Laboratory 3:
Turning
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Laboratory 4:
3 axis milling
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 The
"masterpieces":
each students had his working files sent to mechanical shops that "proved"
them, that's to say that a tool machine realized their work. The
result of this was the concrete vision of the working in alluminium or
in resin .
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The
video monitoring:
a video of the machine tools while operating with different pieces for
the "masterpieces".
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The
Sponsorized training: born to enlarge the capacities of
training associations and to improve the global economic situation, even
looking at the near reduction of the European Social Training Fund
caused by the East enlargement of the European Union.
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