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The eBearing News
November 8, 2006
SKF Establishes Chicago Learning Center
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SKF AB (Sweden; Stockholm:
SKFB)
announced it has set up a new, high-tech "SKF College" near Chicago,
the fifth such center worldwide and the first in North America.
Located in its Elgin, Illinois former CR Industries / CR Services site,
the "Elgin Learning Center" is being run by Wally Brodeur, Manager of Competence
Development.
Tom Johnstone, SKF's President and CEO, was present at the ribbon cutting ceremony and first
training class session. Mr. Johnstone said:
SKF, as it grows to become the Knowledge Engineering Company, must also grow the capacity of its
people in several key areas of technical and business competence.
We have decided to run our own
SKF Colleges in different parts of the world to ensure we can train our own people as well as our
customers and distributors in the necessary technologies and other competencies to ensure we can
offer the market the best solutions.
Now we have such SKF Colleges in
five countries including the United States. Our experience from the colleges already working is
extremely good and in priority markets like North America it is very important to ensure that SKF
can provide this training.
Mr. Johnstone noted the CR location was chosen, partly because it already has a training
facility (CR University, predating SKF's 1990 acquisition of CR) at North State Street. He
said, "What this will do is give SKF employees around the world the same opportunity to
develop themselves to their true potential. Because they had the university structure, they
were used to handling international people coming here."
While the training staff in Elgin will grow, existing training staff will stay in place but
be bolstered by staff from other SKF operations, bringing specific expertise.
Examples of courses offered during the first week were the new Value Through Knowledge program,
Design for Six Sigma, and Zero Loss.
Emphasizing the company's global orientation, employees attending the first sessions
were from the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Europe. Customers also attend many classes.
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