Industrial technology, electrical, welding technology, vehicle, transport
Monday, 19 November 2012
Practice in workshop
Many solutions of the problems must be found by help of computers. Here you can see an Volvo V70 with engine problem, communicate with a system called Vida.
Are these thing difficult for students to learn? How about your level in school material if you mean the latest technical things in the cars, do you manage to be up to date?
Hello Ingemar! I think that the students haven`t any problems to work with this system after that they have get some instructions. This system called Volvo Vida, is a system who is windows internet-based so the users can identify there self in the Vida environment.
Here we have some big problems for our education in the future ill think. If our education targets is to do a full blooded mechanics of our students, so must we work much more together with the vehicle trade. Every car manufacturer has it´s own systems and special tools for possibility communicate and repair their vehicles. Probably the best would be that we give them the basic elements of a workshop here in school. Then the student will get a practical place in some certified workshop and do much practical work there.
Hello Bjorn! Yes you have right in that, there are only five female students of all 54 students in the 3 grades of our program. We will gladly accept applications from girls. All vocational education programs in our house has a fellowship for girls called "girls in the workshop". They have meetings and help each other whit different things to thrive.
Hello Glen! Volvo Vida is a system for Volvo cars only. We have a very good interaction whit a certified Volvo car workshop in our city and get much information and updates to the system from them, we can also get consultations and borrow special tools from them. Our Vista access lets us communicate with all Volvo models from year-00- -13, we can also get repair instructions and part numbers. Company notifications and download software is operations that we can´t do.
Another more all round system we use to communicate and for trouble shooting the vehicle is a system from a big company in Sweden called Mekonomen. They have submitted a proposal tool that works on most of the cars rolling on our roads. In that system the student also do their job orders and notice parts that they use for the repairing. Finally they record the job documents and produce a bill of the work, that the customer will pay. I have heard a little about Snap-on and Hantech scantools but we don`t have them. Saab has an system that is called Tech 1. Sometimes we use that but only for older cars, no more updates of that system will be done of obvious causes.
Are these thing difficult for students to learn?
ReplyDeleteHow about your level in school material if you mean the latest technical things in the cars, do you manage to be up to date?
Hello Ingemar! I think that the students haven`t any problems to work with this system after that they have get some instructions. This system called Volvo Vida, is a system who is windows internet-based so the users can identify there self in the Vida environment.
DeleteHere we have some big problems for our education in the future ill think. If our education targets is to do a full blooded mechanics of our students, so must we work much more together with the vehicle trade. Every car manufacturer has it´s own systems and special tools for possibility communicate and repair their vehicles. Probably the best would be that we give them the basic elements of a workshop here in school. Then the student will get a practical place in some certified workshop and do much practical work there.
Hello Jonas!
ReplyDeleteI can imagine that your students are most men or? Are there any girls who take the course?
Hello Bjorn! Yes you have right in that, there are only five female students of all 54 students in the 3 grades of our program. We will gladly accept applications from girls.
DeleteAll vocational education programs in our house has a fellowship for girls called "girls in the workshop". They have meetings and help each other whit different things to thrive.
Hello Jonas, do you use any interfacing software/tools other than Vida? I haven't heard of that one before, we use Snap-on and Hantech scantools here.
ReplyDeleteHello Glen! Volvo Vida is a system for Volvo cars only. We have a very good interaction whit a certified Volvo car workshop in our city and get much information and updates to the system from them, we can also get consultations and borrow special tools from them. Our Vista access lets us communicate with all Volvo models from year-00- -13, we can also get repair instructions and part numbers. Company notifications and download software is operations that we can´t do.
ReplyDeleteAnother more all round system we use to communicate and for trouble shooting the vehicle is a system from a big company in Sweden called Mekonomen. They have submitted a proposal tool that works on most of the cars rolling on our roads. In that system the student also do their job orders and notice parts that they use for the repairing. Finally they record the job documents and produce a bill of the work, that the customer will pay. I have heard a little about Snap-on and Hantech scantools but we don`t have them. Saab has an system that is called Tech 1. Sometimes we use that but only for older cars, no more updates of that system will be done of obvious causes.