
“One of the few winners from the pandemic is digitisation and sustainability. Because of COVID-19, the current transformation has accelerated to two months. Reflecting on events from the past year, Mr Thones quoted Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella: “Digital transformations tend to take place over a time period of two years. “We have a broad portfolio of 154 machines and 53 automation solutions and we see it as our responsibility to build digitisation and automation into the entire process chain to enable our customers to be ultimately more productive and profitable,” Mr Thones affirms. “2020 was an unprecedented year for entire world and every person and every business was affected, but as we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly after the summer, I can see our customers – and the machine industry in general – becoming very busy,” Dr Mori predicts.īoth Dr Mori and Mr Thones emphasised that automation would be vital moving forward.

DMG Mori’s live streamed global Digital Event, which spanned three days during February in seven languages featured a number of technical presentations, world premiere product releases, digital showroom tours, Q&A sessions and one-to-one online meetings.īroadly, the three days focused on separate topic areas: world premiere products and enablement automation and digitisation.Ĭhairman of the Executive Board Christian Thones and Dr Masahiko Mori, president of DMG Mori Company Limited kicked off proceedings with an opening keynote speech which focused on the latest trends and innovations. The agreement also includes the company's assistance to the Ministry of Education and Technical Education in establishing a number of applied technology schools in the areas of the fourth industrial revolution mechanisms in a number of governorates, and the development of 10 technical schools with the latest CNC machines and curricula to train and empower students to meet market requirements in the field of metalworking and the localization of industry. The agreement between the ministry and the German company includes the establishment of a distinguished competency center in Egypt in the field of fourth industrial revolution mechanisms, in cooperation between DMG MORI, Siemens and the German Agency for International Cooperation GIZ, and the training of a number of technical education teachers in the company’s factories in Germany to work as trainers at the Egyptian Competence Center They train their fellow technical education teachers. Tariq Shawky, Minister of Education and Technical Education, will sign with the company during the first quarter of 2022. The ministry's delegation held intensive discussions with senior officials of DMG MORI in order to reach the terms of the final agreement between the two parties, which will determine the steps for implementing the cooperation program, which Dr. The memorandum of understanding stipulated the German company's commitment to exploit all its expertise in the fields of technical and vocational education applied in Germany in order to achieve the development goals required to localize the industry and raise the efficiency of learners to meet the needs of future labor markets at all local, regional and global levels. Khaled Galal, the Egyptian Ambassador to Germany. Mahmoud Adel, Director of the Egyptian Academy, in the presence of His Excellency Mr. Mahmoud Ali, Regional Director for Africa of the company, and Mr. Jan Meinhof, President of the International Academy, Mr. Christian Tunis, President of DMG MORI, Mr.

Amr Basila, Head of the Central Administration for Technical Education, Mr.

Mohamed Megahed, Deputy Minister for Technical Education, Dr. The signing of the memorandum of understanding was attended by the ministry's delegation consisting of Dr. The Ministry of Education and Technical Education signed a memorandum of understanding with the German company DMG MORI, to cooperate in order to modernize technical education to provide skilled technical labor in the fields of automated metalworking, CNC control, automation and digital transformation as a step to localize industry in Egypt. "Education" signs a memorandum of understanding with the German company DMG MORI to develop technical education
