Courtesy of Nidec
Hiroyuki Yoshimoto has been appointed president and COO of Nidec. In the company’s 45-year history, he is the first person to hold the position after Shigenobu Nagamori, the company’s founder. Nagamori will remain with the company as chairman and CEO. Yoshimoto plans to further boost the growth of the company by focusing on post-merger integration. The appointment was approved on June 20 at the 45th regular general meeting of shareholders and a subsequent meeting of the board of directors.
KROHNE adds new courses to its online training platform for process industries
KROHNE Inc. adds new courses to KROHNE Academy online, including courses on entrained gas management, ultrasonic flowmeters and basic principle gases. The online academy gives users direct access to audio enhanced, interactive courses on a wide range of industrial process measurement technology, including measuring principles, basics of gas measurement, and pipeline leak detection, as well as explosion protection and principles of hygiene for the food processing industry. KROHNE Academy online courses include measurement technologies such as variable area, vortex, ultrasonic, electromagnetic, mass flow or level measurement. In cooperation with other companies, KROHNE also delivers courses on applicable standards and regulations, including functional safety/SIL (safety integrity level).
KROHNE Academy eLearning material is vendor-agnostic and relevant to all industries. The course and commercial-free instructional material are available in up to five languages – English, German, French, Russian and Chinese. Registration and use are completely free of charge. Users receive a certificate of completion when they have completed each course. They also gain online access to a technical knowledge library with resources and solutions for industrial process instrumentation. To register, visit the KROHNE Academy Online registration page.