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Industry and Engineering Students: A Winning Combination for an Industry-Oriented Present and Future - Industry Sector Sales Manager from Verind and External Industry Assistant for PoliEFUN
P
oliEFUN is the association of Politecnico di Milano that focusses
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such as the industrial organisation methods and the business challenges
on spreading business culture in the
of Speroni, now led by the third
surface treatment industry, supports the
generation of the family. Other
degree course in Materials Engineering and
aspects of the history of Speroni
Nanotechnology, and provides its member
were also discussed, such as spirit of
companies with access to a complete R&D
sacrifice, passion, shared business
program. Thanks to its collaboration with
vision, integration of innovative
the two firms Speroni SpA and Verind SpA, a few students had the chance to visit the new factory of the former and see first-hand the results of its investments in technology and Industry 4.0, which
technologies to compete on the global
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market, involvement of employees
Figure 1: The students were guided into an interesting training, cultural, and technological journey by Heros, Brenno, and Giuseppe Speroni.
as a fundamental part of the family and the company, curiosity and will to tackle new challenges, and so
are currently reshaping manufacturing
on. All participants showed great
processes.
interest and emotional involvement,
Speroni Water Pumps has recently made
The visit included as follows:
even during the lunch organised in the
significant innovation, sustainability, and
- Presentation of the company’s history;
historical headquarters of the firm, where
Industry 4.0-oriented investments, as also
- Presentation of the CS series electric pumps’
grandfather Speroni worked (Fig. 2).
reported by ipcm®1, in order to achieve
manufacturing line and product engineering
crucial objectives such as:
processes;
For further information:
- Productivity and automation;
- KPM – CAM series’ automatic lines;
www.poliefun.com, www.speroni.it,
- Quality of manufactured products;
- Visit to the test room and tests on CS
www.verind.net
- Eco-friendliness through the use of 2K water-based coatings;
and 2C series products; - Visit to the coating line with an analysis of the
- Process data control and processing.
technological solutions
The students, accompanied by Professor
implemented;
Paolo Gronchi from the Department
- Description of the
of Chemistry, Materials, and Chemical
automatic electrostatic
Engineering of Politecnico di Milano, were
2K coating systems supplied
guided into an interesting training, cultural, and technological journey by Heros, Brenno, and Giuseppe Speroni (Fig. 1).
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- Reliability;
by Verind/Dürr; - Visit to the automatic machining centre; - Visit to the automatic end
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product warehouse. During the day, important topics were analysed,
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Figure 2: Group picture with all the partecipants.