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FEATURE: MILLING EDUCATION REVIEW

Students from across the world have been trained in the lab at Ocrim’s Milling Training Center in Cremona, Italy. Photo courtesy of Ocrim S.p.A.

principles of the milling process, understanding the relationship between wheat quality and the effect of the milling process, gain knowledge of what wheat types and products each can produce. • IAOM-KSU Managing Mill Performance, Jan. 30-Feb. 3, 2012. Course covers the analysis of practices to improve the management of people and process to improve proﬁtability. • IAOM-KSU Mill Processes I: Basic Milling Principles, June 4-8, 2012. This course provides a better understanding of what is being accomplished in the milling process and how the participants’ job functions ﬁt into the process as wheat moves from the ﬁeld to the table. • IAOM-KSU Mill Processes II: Advanced Milling Principles, June 11-15, 2012. This course provides a better understanding of what is being accomplished in the milling process and enhances the troubleshooting skills of mill personnel. The short courses are educational programs that provide hands-on training in state-of the-art facilities. Training is led by KSU faculty and industry professionals. In 2010, IGP offered 27 courses to 477 participants from 43 countries. As of July 1, IGP had led 18 courses impacting 272 professionals from 21 countries, putting it on pace with another record-setting year. IGP said interest in its courses continues to grow because instructors keep their materials current and offer great hands-on experience in top-notch facilities, including state-ofthe-art laboratories and a pilot mill. KSU grain science department said it is continuously working to update its facilities. The Hal Ross Four Mill was completed in 2007, and the IGP Conference Center offers a modern, comfortable teaching environment. KSU will start construction of the O.H. Kruse Feed Mill and Bioreﬁnery this fall. The multi-million dollar mill will serve as the feed research, teaching and production facility through which grain science and IGP will be able to ex-

pand its feed curriculum. Through the mill, KSU hopes to address the urgent needs of the livestock feed industry today, particularly as it relates to feed safety and proﬁtability. KSU grain science department said it is continuously working to update its facilities. The Hal Ross Four Mill was completed in 2007, and the IGP Conference Center offers a modern, comfortable teaching environment. KSU will start construction of the O.H. Kruse Feed Mill and Bioreﬁnery this fall. The multi-million dollar mill will serve as the feed research, teaching and production facility through which grain science and IGP will be able to expand its feed curriculum. Through the mill, KSU hopes to address the urgent needs of the livestock feed industry today, particularly as it relates to feed safety and proﬁtability. In 2011, grain science and industry through IGP and it’s partner organizations, such as AFIA and GEAPS, expanded their distance learning courses available for undergraduate and graduate credit. This fall, IGP is building on the grain science distance learning initiative by introducing its ﬁrst online course for ﬂour milling. Each participant who successfully completes the course will receive one continuing education unit. IGP has been asked recently to address topics such as new technology in the industry, food safety and HACCP. Personnel management and energy management are also key areas of interest. Last October, IGP and AIB International introduced a course targeted toward the development of a HACCP program for a grain processing facility. It is also developing online distance courses to meet the growing demand for training that can be completed without the cost of travel and time away from work and family. OCRIM Ocrim S.p.A. organizes a variety of educational courses to educate the milling industry at its Milling Training Center in Cremona, Italy. Ocrim ﬁrst started educating the milling industry at a facil-

ity outside Cremona in 1965. More than 2,800 students have been trained to become chief millers, laboratory analysts and maintenance foremen. The courses attract students from across the world. Ocrim offers a wide range of courses including mechanical, electrical maintenance, automation and speciﬁc courses for millers and lab workers. Courses are continually updated with new technologies and new market demands. Subjects vary from the simple maintenance of a machine to more difﬁcult questions related to the sustainability/resource management inside the milling complex. This includes sanitation, personnel, food safety and product traceability. Special courses can be developed to a customer’s requirements. Ocrim said it is always looking for new ideas to improve its efﬁciency and the beneﬁts it can give customers. It strives to offer high quality for the machinery students practice on, the school mill, the laboratory and the didactic programs. SFT The Swiss Institute of Feed Technology (SFT), Uzwil, Switzerland, was founded in 1979 by the then-owner of Bühler AG, Dr. René Bühler. Its purpose was to impart primarily practice-orientated specialist knowledge on feed production to professionals from the feed manufacturing and related industries. The showcase of the SFT is the diploma course on feed manufacturing technology. It includes a preparatory course on a correspondence basis and an intensive course at the SFT headquarters. The recently released “Concept 2012” divides the course into two blocks, which makes absence from work even shorter. The courses are taught in German and English in three-year intervals. The main emphasis is placed on ﬂow sheet and process technology, but also electrical engineering, automation, animal nutrition and feed science. Students who successfully complete the course are awarded a diploma as feed production engineer. SFT also offers two- to 10-day short courses in different languages, if required
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