The Limburg and Antwerp Technology Centre were established at the end of 1997 in response to the need for an educational facility. The Centre was to address the new technological developments in the industry. The new training infrastructure was to ensure that training in existing and new technologies would take place in an optimum educational context. The purpose of the technological centre is: 1. to organize workshops and trainings of actual and new techniques to bring the knowledge of the employees to a higher level. The automation in the industry needs constantly training of employees. 2. to be prepared for new technological evolutions 3. to improve knowledge and experience between the different firms. 4. LIMTEC and ANTTEC are following the technological evolutions in the industry in conjunction with suppliers of automation products. 5. A training centre with high didactical material assures practical experience with new techniques of high automation. These activities are to improve the competences of the employees. Such a training centre is therefore “a must” for further development, not only for the whole sector, but also for the whole region.
