PRESS RELEASE
Release date:
August 11th 2015
Award winning
manufacturer inspires young engineers with WMG Academy
A Queen’s Award-winning manufacturing
business is inspiring engineers of the future by working as a partner of the
WMG Academy in the Midlands.
T A Savery & Co, which trades as
energy absorption specialist Oleo International and hydraulics expert Savery
Hydraulics, has become an employer partner of the WMG Academy for both arms of
the business and is working to educate budding young engineers on what a career
in UK manufacturing looks like.
Oleo International gave a talk to
students at the Coventry based WMG Academy for Young engineers on July 1, which
focused on the corporate structure of an engineering company and how its
departments all work together on a single project. This is the first part of
Oleo’s contribution to the examination process where the company will deliver
several unique modules to students, one focusing on product maintenance and the
other on quality.
This September, the whole of WMG
Academy’s Year 10 group will visit the Oleo site in Coventry for a factory tour
before the new project is delivered to them. Oleo has planned for students to
dismantle an elevator buffer and reassemble it, using a spares kit and
instruction pack, under supervision at the WMG Academy. Once reassembled they
will be collected and returned to the Oleo factory where they will be filled
with oil and gas. Later in the month the students will be return to the Oleo
factory to test their buffers and measure the output, with Academy tutors and
OIeo engineers working together to decide what will be measured and how. In
order to keep the students on their toes and thinking like engineers, Oleo will
deliberately sabotage two buffers to show students what happens in a test if
the buffers are not assembled correctly.
It is hoped that a hands-on project
like this being delivered exclusively by WMG Academy and one of its employer
partners will give budding young engineers both practical experience of as well
as educating them about the processes in UK manufacturing organisations.
Sandy Andringa, Marketing Manager at
T A Savery & Co commented: “By helping young people understand how
diverse an industry manufacturing is in the UK, and giving them the chance to
gain real hands-on experience, we are hoping that Oleo does its bit to help
overcome the current skills gap that exists in the UK. Often, it takes direct
experience for students to really learn about manufacturing processes,
inter-department activities and how individual projects come together to create
a single manufactured part.”
T A Savery & Co has been
manufacturing its products in the UK for a number of decades and was recently
awarded the Queen’s Award for International Trade. Both arms of the company are
no stranger to education and run their own respective successful apprenticeship
programmes.
The company has already taken part in
a careers day for Coventry WMG Academy to help motivate Year 10 and 12 students
about engineering, and showcased some of the hydraulics projects both sides of
the business work on for sectors ranging from the Ministry of Defence to the
rail sector. The company is also playing a role in helping to launch a new WMG
Academy site in Chelmsley Wood, Solihull, and recently took part in a taster
day for prospective new students.
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About
T A Savery & Co
T A Savery & Co
trades as energy absorption specialist Oleo International and hydraulic
solutions provider Savery Hydraulics. The company is based in Coventry, in the
UK and has over 60 years of experience in engineering excellence throughout the
two companies.
Oleo is an
established UK engineering company and a leading expert in energy absorption
technology, designing and manufacturing energy absorption solutions for the
rail, elevator and industrial sectors and for end stop solutions. Oleo has been
producing hydraulic energy absorption solutions for over sixty years with over
1,000,000 units in circulation.
Savery Hydraulics is
a world leading designer and manufacturer of high performance hydraulic
equipment. Savery hydraulic systems are manufactured to customer specifications
and range from small individual units to complex electro-hydraulic systems.
Savery also supplies custom power packs and bespoke manifold assemblies and is
a UK distributor for the Hydraforce range of valves and electro-hydraulic
components and Delta motion control units.
For
further information, please contact:-
Editorial
– Sandy Andringa, Marketing Manager, T A Savery & Company Limited on 024
7601 5129 or John Edden, Bridge PR & Media Services on 024 7652 0025, or
e-mail john@bridgepr.co.uk.