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FANUC and Worldskills encourage the improvement of talented staff - First international championship for robot programmers scheduled
 
The equipment specialist FANUC and the international skills competitor organization WorldSkills will jointly advertise young robot programmers in the future. In 2019 the two partners will co-host a world wide attributes match for robot system integrators in Kazan, Russia.
 
WorldSkills has been dedicated to the attention of professional skills since 1947. Through skills competitions in 80 Member countries and regions, as well as through the global championships of skills, WorldSkills boosts skills excellence near the world. WorldSkills develops confidence in young people, encourages communities, and helps to fuel economies through talents progress.
 
The next WorldSkills Competition will be held in the Russian city of Kazan in 2019. For the first time Kazan will offer an international event in the discipline of robotic programming. While this championship is a pilot, FANUC and WorldSkills expect to develop it as a traditional overseas competition in the later. In total, Kazan is anticipated to attract individuals from over 60 countries and regions as well as 250,000 visitors at all venues.
 
'FANUC brings much more than 40 years of experience in creating manufacturing robots,' says Shinichi Tanzawa, President & CEO of FANUC Europe Corporation. The company has installed more than 550,000 robots in industrial facilities globally. 'We are very thrilled to be a WorldSkills Global Partner and to give younger people an chance to learn more about robot programming'. FANUC itself has established training centers at many of its worldwide facilities. There FANUC offers training for customer employees in the operation and programming of industrial robots. 'We hope that participants in the WorldSkills competition will be able to use their insight to develop their profession solutions,' adds Tanzawa.
 
'FANUC presents that the potential of specialized skills is shaped by invention and equipment,' says Alexander Amiri, Director of Sponsorship and Partnership at WorldSkills. 'FANUC's involvement as a WorldSkills Global Partner helps young people throughout the world to develop the skills and groundbreaking spirit that are needed to respond to changes in production'.
 
WorldSkills and FANUC have already worked with each other properly in the history on the national level. In France, for example, the two partners have prepared national manufacturing robotic tournaments.