11 december 2012

During his working trip to Kaluga Dmitry Medvedev visits the Kaluga Personnel Training and Re-training Centre for the Auto-Making Industry

Participants:

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev visited several study rooms, including one in which students are taught dexterity. Here, students develop their motor skills and learn to handle equipment that is used in manual car assembly. The centre's Director Alexei Nikitin said the students are taught to disassemble a car to the last cog and then put it back together without leaving any spare parts behind.

Mr Medvedev was shown an electronic simulator for training students to paint cars. In order to avoid wasting real paint, students perform all operations virtually. Once they are done, their work is rated by a computer. Mr Medvedev volunteered to play the part of a student and put on a special mask with a built-in screen showing parts of a car. He took a paint spray dispenser and covered part of a virtual car with yellow paint in about a minute.

In the next room Mr Medvedev saw how cars are painted in a real shop, where two students were working at the time. He watched them with interest and even photographed them with his iPhone camera.