Transformation can only succeed with the involvement of the employees
Delegation led by Andrea Nahles visits the Delligsen-based company Bornemann Gewindetechnik
Whether a craft business, medium-sized company or large corporation – if you want to be equipped for the future, there is no way around digitalisation, artificial intelligence, robots and employee commitment. The process of transformation has long been a reality at Delligsen-based Bornemann Gewindetechnik. Also with the help of the “Transformation Pilot” qualification project (see below). Andrea Nahles, Chairwoman of the Federal Employment Agency, came to see this for herself on Wednesday morning.
The Delligsen-based family business is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of threaded parts. Nahles and other members of the delegation were given a tour of the production halls to find out what the company specialises in – including customised solutions, special profiles and one-off productions.
Lower Saxony plays a pioneering role
Mit dabei waren auch der Vorsitzende des Deutschen Gewerkschaftsbundes Niedersachsen (DGB) Mehrdad Payandeh und der Hauptgeschäftsführer der Unternehmerverbände (UVN) Volker Müller. Denn: Das Qualifizierungsprojekts „Transformationslotse“ wurde gemeinsam von DGB, UVN und der Bundesagentur für Arbeit Regionaldirektion Niedersachsen-Bremen auf den Weg gebracht.
Mehrdad Payandeh, Chairman of the German Trade Union Confederation of Lower Saxony (DGB), and Volker Müller, Managing Director of the employers’ associations (UVN), were also present. This is because the “Transformation Pilot” qualification project was launched jointly by the DGB, UVN and the Federal Employment Agency Regional Directorate for Lower Saxony-Bremen.
“Lower Saxony is taking on a pioneering role in the process of transformation and further training as well as the involvement of employees and companies,” praised Nahles. The former SPD Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs advises all entrepreneurs to develop smart strategies at an early stage if they want to be competitive. The Federal Employment Agency will help with the implementation.
“Robots and digitalisation are not a threat”
In Müller’s opinion, it is very important for the success of the transformation process, also with regard to demographic change, that employees recognise that robots and digitalisation are not a threat to them, but an opportunity to move the company forward together with the employer.
“The mammoth task of transformation can only succeed with employees. They contribute their expertise and thus become shapers of change,” emphasises Payandeh.
“The team sets sail together with the management”
Kathrin and Moritz von Soden, both managing partners of Bornemann Gewindetechnik, and Hans Gereke-Bornemann have been pursuing precisely these strategies for years. “We can’t do it without our employees. Yes, we set a path, but we explain and involve the workforce in the process,” says the entrepreneur. The family business is proud of the fact that “the last 3.5 million euro project was supported by all employees.” The team set sail together with the management.
Johannes Pfeiffer, Chairman of the Management Board of the Lower Saxony-Bremen Regional Directorate of the Federal Employment Agency, was full of praise for this: Here, everyone involved in the work process realises that machines do not threaten jobs. “Transformation must not be seen as a fear, but as an opportunity,” emphasised Pfeiffer.
Transformation pilot qualification project
Transformation: Companies are facing technical and personnel challenges and fundamental changes in order to remain fit for the future. Alongside technology, people are the most important factor here.
Transformation pilot: Employees become specialists in digital transformation and change management – enabling them to implement change processes in the company independently. A wide range of options for optimising systems and processes are taught.
The training takes place in an in-service online training programme.
Bornemann Gewindetechnik
Company: Bornemann Gewindetechnik GmbH & Co.KG Delligsen, inhabergeführtes Familienunternehmen in der dritten Generation.
Foundation: Gerhard Dietrich laid the foundation stone for today’s company in Stroit in 1964.
Relocation: 1997 from Stroit to the Klus industrial estate in Delligsen.
Employees: 52
Apprentices: seven.
Products: For example, special threads and special threads, trapezoidal threaded spindles and nuts, worm shafts and modular threads as well as the production of customised threaded parts.
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