The CNC Training Academy, the
independent training arm of Mills CNC, has won the coveted MTA Manufacturing
Industry Award for the best Industry Training Provider.
The
announcement was made at the MTA Annual Gala Dinner (held at the ICC in
Birmingham on 27th March 2013) and the award was presented to Jeff
Hart (CNC Training Academy Manager) and Karen Early (CNC Academy Trainer) by
Sky News’ Charlotte Hawkins who hosted the event and awards presenter Professor
Alan Myers, University of Huddersfield..
The
award for best Industry Training Provider, unlike some awards where entries are
judged by a panel of experts, was decided by a public vote and relied on
previous course attendees from all shortlisted training provider companies to
cast their votes online.
Says
Jeff Hart:
“I am
delighted to have received the award on behalf of the CNC Training Academy
team.
“What’s
more gratifying however is that previous Academy course attendees took the time
and were motivated to vote for us. I think that demonstrates the positive
experience they had from attending our courses, and that they valued the
training that was delivered.
“I’d
like to thank everyone who voted for us and for their continuing support.”
Established
in 2010, the CNC Training Academy provides high-quality,
professionally-delivered and cost-competitive CNC Programmer and Operator
training to precision manufacturers in the UK and Ireland and, increasingly, to
unemployed adults looking to retrain and find employment in the manufacturing
sector.
Over
the last three years the CNC Training Academy has seen interest and take-up of
its basic and advanced Fanuc, Heidenhain and Siemens CNC Programmer courses and
its range of specialist courses soar.
In
2012 demand for its courses hit an all-time high with over 425 people from some
170 different companies being trained at the Academy’s modern, state-of-the-art facility in
Leamington or off-site at customers’ premises).
The
figures represent a 25% increase in the total number of customers trained
during the same period in 2011 and a 30% increase in the number of companies
using the Academy for their CNC training requirements.
All
indications suggest that 2013 is well on its way to being the best year ever
for the Academy.
Comments Jeff Hart, CNC Training Academy Manager:
“There has been an increase in demand for all of our
courses (from basic right through to our advanced and specialist courses), and
our new, short introductory Milling and Turning Programmer and Operator
training courses are proving very popular.
‘Reading between the lines it would appear that many UK
and Irish manufacturing companies have invested in training to improve the skills
of their people and to help them cope with and capitalise on the continuing
economic upturn being experienced in manufacturing.
Their need for professionally-delivered, high-added value
training is leading them to select the CNC Training Academy as their training
provider.’
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