Picutres from SKF Technical School

Hi,

The name's Joakim Taxén and I work as a teacher in several knowledge areas at the SKF Technical school in Gothenburg, Sweden. The school is owned by the company AB SKF Group, probably most associated with roller- and ball bearing units, even though that's only 20% of the product & service range... Anyways, the Gothenburg plant is where the company was founded in 1907 (the school was actually founded in 1937) and the production is today heavy industrial large bearing units in the range 100-3000 mm in diameter. The school educates our students in mechanical machinery, CNC-machining, electrical wiring and electronics, maintenance, linear power equipment (pneumatics & hydraulics) and also prepare them for university studies. Quite a tight schedule and a lot to deal with during three years, but it works good, according to the students themselves. I've been in my current role since 2011 and enjoy working here.

This is the entrance to the Kristinedals fitness center (also owned by SKF, providing free of charge exercise abilities for employees and students at our school). The school is located at the top floor, with the workshop in another building, seen in the background to the far right.

This is the entrance to the workshop, the long hallway is about 70m long. Plastic plants by the way.

Milling machines to the left

Turning machines to the right

At the right side of the hallway is the lathe machines, Storebro GK195 (typical training machinery), We've got seven of them. At the opposite side are seven milling machines placed

Here is a student turning what lookes like a cone or nozzle of some sorts. It's for one of the third year student projects before graduation, in which they are working on real projects to assist the company production with new improvements.

At this station, students are practicing different techniques in mounting skills. The picture shows the most common way, the hydraulic pressure method. I've included a diagram to the right of how it works.

Here are some students disassembling a lathe chuck for inspection and reconditioning. The large (35,0") floppy disc in the right corner was part of a student performance during a project called "The Opera". (And yes, it was hilarious) Never mind that. =)

To the left is a electrical wiring station where students connect equipment and practice troubleshooting (trouble intentionally caused by the teacher, not accidentially by students themselves of course).

To the right is the hydraulic equipment station where we learn them the basics of a hydraulic powered system. In the background is our CNC-lathe.

Fine mechanical section of the workshop in our school

Fine mechanical section in SKF GmbH School Schweinfurt 

As a small bonus picture, I've attached a workshop image from our last visit to the SKF School i Schewinfurt in February this year, when our third year students went on their vocational training for nine weeks. They left Gothenburg in early february to SKF Factories all over the world, and are back home again this week. Very interesting experience and good for their CV's when applying for a job in the future.