Squealing drills are eating their way through steel as thick as a thumb Keeping an eagle eye on them a lineup of trainers is watch ing the manual dexterity of their apprentices Schaeffler continu ously trains some 600 of them in China in the same way appren tices have been trained in Germany for decades one third of their time is spent in the classroom of a vo cational school two thirds at the company the usual split At the be ginning of the 2000s the situation in the Far East still looked different chines rusty defective and hardly usable Poorly trained trainers and a system in which apprentices were filled up to their ears with theoretical knowledge but hardly gathered any practical experience Schwab The quality of the vocational training did not meet our requirements However in 2003 Schaeffler was in dire need of skilled workers in or der to expand the plant in Taicang Manufacturing operations were to be ramped up and a quick deci sion had to be made Schwab and DUAL SYSTEM AN EXPORT HIT Hiring skilled workers proved a real challenge A needle in a haystack would have been easier to find This prompted Schaeffler to export the proven German vocational educa tion system At Schaeffler mastering this mas sive challenge is closely linked to the name of a man who has since retired former training manager Bernhard Schwab Schwab recalls Actually there was a lack of ev erything Hopelessly overcrowded vocational schools and ancient ma 48 49

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