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NEWS<br />
HELLA Academy officially opens<br />
with IMI approval presentation<br />
HELLA’s brand new training facility HELLA Academy was<br />
officially opened yesterday (Wednesday 17 April) in a ceremony<br />
that also saw the facility formally receive Institute of the Motor<br />
Industry (IMI) approval.<br />
Representatives from the IMI were<br />
at the event, where the certificate<br />
and plaque confirming IMI centre<br />
status was presented to Steve Fox, Training<br />
Manager at HELLA Academy: “This is a<br />
momentous day for all of us at HELLA<br />
Academy, “said Steve. “Much work has<br />
gone into putting together this brandnew<br />
training centre. We can now work<br />
to support the sector up-skill, with the<br />
initial focus on Advanced Driver Assistance<br />
Systems (ADAS).”<br />
HELLA Academy is based at HELLA’s UK<br />
office in Chipping Warden, near Banbury.<br />
<strong>The</strong> all-new academy is based around<br />
a modern classroom and state-of-theart<br />
workshop that enables attendees to<br />
experience both desk learning with handson<br />
training.<br />
<strong>The</strong> day started with an address from<br />
HELLA Managing Director Neil Grant. “<strong>The</strong><br />
opening of HELLA Academy is the beginning<br />
of an exciting new chapter for HELLA.<br />
While bodyshops in the crash repair sector<br />
already understand being ADAS-capable<br />
is a must, many garages are still catching<br />
up. Through the training we will deliver via<br />
HELLA Academy, they will be able to seize<br />
the ADAS opportunity.”<br />
In a presentation from Steve Fox,<br />
the significance of the ADAS focus was<br />
addressed in the context of the continuing<br />
sector skills gap. He went on to show<br />
how Hella Gutmann’s latest CSC-Tool<br />
Digital provides a flexible solution for<br />
front camera and sensor calibration, with<br />
targets downloaded from the CSC-Tool<br />
Digital App and displayed on an integrated<br />
200cm screen.<br />
ADAS TRAINING<br />
LtR_ Neil Grant, Managing Director at Hella ; Stephen Fox, UK Technical & Training manager at Hella Academy; Michelle Barrett, Business Development<br />
Manager at the IMI; Julian Goulding, Head of Sales at Hella Gutmann<br />
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