Vision 2012/1 - Rolls-Royce
Vision 2012/1 - Rolls-Royce
Vision 2012/1 - Rolls-Royce
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New European training centre in Norway<br />
The move in to the new <strong>Rolls</strong>-<strong>Royce</strong><br />
Technology & Training Centre, Ålesund in<br />
Norway, has started. It still looks like a<br />
building site outside, but inside classrooms<br />
and workshop area are taking shape. The<br />
primary goal is to provide customers with<br />
familiarisation and technical training for a<br />
broad range of <strong>Rolls</strong>-<strong>Royce</strong> equipment in a<br />
modern central location. This will be the head<br />
office for all the <strong>Rolls</strong>-<strong>Royce</strong> Marine training<br />
centres in the world.<br />
Located in the heart of the Norwegian<br />
maritime cluster in Ålesund, within the<br />
University area of the city, the new <strong>Rolls</strong>-<br />
<strong>Royce</strong> training centre occupies over 3,000m 2<br />
on two floors of a brand new building now<br />
nearing completion. The centre is ready to<br />
receive and train customers, while the official<br />
opening takes place, later in <strong>2012</strong>.<br />
“The new centre enables us to provide<br />
customised and tailored training that focuses<br />
on the customer’s needs and demands, and<br />
also fulfill our own service engineer’s training<br />
needs”, says Knut Johan Rønningen, VP<br />
customer training. The training will be done<br />
in different sized groups and will normally<br />
last from two to three days, up to two weeks.<br />
Around 5,000 man-days of training is<br />
expected per year.<br />
The main attraction is a state-of-the-art<br />
simulator, a 140m2 replica of an offshore<br />
vessel bridge with 360⁰ field of vision. This<br />
includes a <strong>Rolls</strong>-<strong>Royce</strong> winch operating<br />
system that can be programmed to simulate<br />
all aspects of vessel operation, as well as<br />
many more scenarios that would be<br />
impossible to train for on board, for example,<br />
a total ship power black-out. In addition,<br />
simulator domes are installed complete with<br />
LCD screens.<br />
Realistic training examples of equipment are<br />
housed on the 800m 2 ground floor workshop<br />
area, including engine sub-assemblies,<br />
steering gears, waterjets, thrusters and deck<br />
machinery. Previously, product training was<br />
performed at the production sites but now<br />
everything is gathered in one place. This<br />
gives a better overview of the totality.<br />
When fully operational, the centre will have<br />
around 15 full-time employees.<br />
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