The German subsidiaries of the Danobat and Soraluce cooperatives of the Danobatgroup industrial group, Danobat-Overbeck and Bimatec Soraluce, yesterday opened their doors to the future of advanced manufacturing with the visit of four students from the Master's Degree in Industrial Engineering at Tecnun, the School of Engineering of the University of Navarra.
This unique opportunity is the prize won by the students last December in the Advanced Manufacturing Hackathon held at the Danobatgroup facilities in Elgoibar (Gipuzkoa) as part of the collaboration agreement that the group and Tecnun have maintained since 2015 to strengthen the links between the academic and professional spheres.
The visit of the group made up of Kimetz Burutaran, Iker Elizetxea, Alexander Pardo and Daniel Cornejo, began at Overbeck, a benchmark company in the European country in industrial grinding.
Part of the Danobatgroup since 2002 following the acquisition by the Danobat cooperative, the manufacturer Overbeck showed the Tecnun students the result of 100 years of experience and specialisation in high-precision internal, external and radius grinding machines capable of meeting the highly demanding technical requirements of components such as bearing rings, gears, etc.
The group then visited Bimatec Soraluce, a centre of excellence and Soraluce subsidiary that has been a leader in the German milling market for more than 25 years, to get a closer look at the advanced solutions in areas such as milling, boring and multifunction solutions that Soraluce has at its facilities in Germany.
In this space, the students toured a 3,800 m2 workshop for testing and trials, which includes a complete range of Soraluce machines for testing, its own technical department to develop customised solutions for the local market and the Soraluce Academy, a platform that allows customers to connect with experts in different fields to share, learn and implement solutions and projects, and other key departments of Bimatec.
During the Tecnun students' visit, he also highlighted the opportunity to interact and share experiences with Basque professionals from the sector working in Germany, as well as German people linked to the activity of cooperatives in the Basque Country.
‘This innovative format has allowed us to show the students how internationalised companies such as those that form part of Danobatgroup are managed, sharing experiences on a day-to-day basis in a multicultural and global environment, checking how cooperation between different cultures influences the management of projects and the success of the companies’, emphasised Iker Usabiaga, Director of Social Management at Danobatgroup.
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