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Young manroland Engineer Awarded
Thursday 14. August 2008 - Bernd Ott receives Doepfert prize
25-year-old Bernd Ott has received the prize of the Adolf Doepfert Foundation for his bachelors thesis. Every year, the foundation awards prizes for the three best final papers at the Stuttgart Media University in Germany.
In his final paper, Bernd Ott has systematically researched the start-up waste produced on selected manroland customer presses, and thereby demonstrated new methods of effectively reducing waste. The subject was selected for Bernd Ott by his task manager Martin Endisch, head of Material and Process Optimization Web-fed, from his knowledge of current needs in the market. Pressures of economy progressively force printing companies to optimize processes in order to remain competitive. In short-run work, particularly, the start-up waste is of decisive importance for whether or not a print job can be produced profitably.
Newly qualified printing engineer Ott now works on the staff of Matthias Heymann in the department for printing technology webfed presses. It was Heymann who, after recognizing Bernd Otts potential during a preceding period of practical training, had prevailed on him to prepare for a bachelor thesis at manroland. Bernd Ott has the ideal qualifications for the task. Before studying printing and media technology, he had completed training as offset printer at C. H. Beck printers in Nördlingen, Germany.
Multifarious commitment to training and education
The Doepfert Foundation wants to contribute to qualifying future engineers by professional knowledge, the will to perform and by broadening their horizon on a global scale. These qualities manroland also wants to develop in its young people. And printing press manufacturers many years of active commitment to training and education has proved to pay: last year, too, a manroland student received the prize of the foundation.