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"My apprenticeship at DESMA".
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Matthias Schwanz has entered the profession of a tool technician at DESMA and was awarded a prize as the best graduate of his year.
 In September 2006 Matthias Schwanz started his professional training as a tool technician at DESMA. Soon it became obvious to him: "That was the right decision!" He immediately managed to integrate himself into the DESMA family and was a part of it from the very beginning. With the excellent average grade of 1.2 he is today the best of 203 "Ferdinand-von-Steinbeis" school-leavers and was awarded a prize for this achievement.
DESMA provides a versatile tool technician apprenticeship
The kind of training and the structured execution enabled Matthias Schwanz to gain a very broad knowledge. The first year of his apprenticeship taught him the basic techniques such as turning on a lathe, milling or drilling. Throughout the following years Schwanz could extend this basic knowledge by passing through various departments. Here he worked in production, in the mould shop and for the pre-assembly and final assembly departments. Decisive of the success of the apprenticeship was its versatility. This means, Matthias Schwanz became not only familiar with one field such as milling or the assembly of a machine, but also with the complete range of the DESMA production. He found this extremely important to obtain appreciation of the different workflows. Projects like a tipper lorry in the first year of his apprenticeship or building an engraving machine by the trainees themselves for the Education Fair contributed to a better understanding of the mechanical processes. The trainees therefore developed an awareness of the meaning of a precise planning and of working thoroughly in the production of the components.
"Experience promotes safety " - key factors to a successful apprenticeship
For the successful trainee Matthias Schwanz the daily learning process began fully unconsciously. This can be put down to three reasons: the feeling being a member of the team from the first day on, his own outstanding commitment as well as his interest in the work. Schwanz states that there were basically two main conditions for learning successfully: his own interest and his own aims. This was completed by the willingness of the DESMA experts to pass on their knowledge and to place trust in the trainees, i.e. "giving them rope from time to time". For Matthias Schwanz this DESMA outlook is also being depicted by the poster at the entrance to the production. This poster represents an old and a young fox with the heading "Experience promotes safety".
A special team spirit and a high-value apprenticeship
It is not only the good cooperation between trainers and trainees at DESMA that plays an important role, fellowship, helpfulness and tolerance among the trainees themselves are equally essential. This is particularly provoked by the feeling being part of the whole. This picture is also being completed by the supervisor's providing the ability and willingness professionally and personally to support the trainee as trustful contact. Each of these components was given during the apprenticeship of Matthias Schwanz at DESMA. Thus, he was able to graduate from his apprenticeship as tool technician within three and a half years just like he imagined it at the beginning. Due to his excellent diploma he meets all requirements for a perfect start into today's working world. DESMA is very glad about a highly skilled technician whom the company could prepare for the job challenges in mechanical engineering.
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