Workshops for repair specialists at Automechanika Frankfurt are a long-standing tradition and, this year, trade visitors can choose between twelve different professional-development courses – free of charge delivered in German or English.

Keeping up to date with new technology is essential in the motor trade and reflecting Messe Frankfurt has worked closely with exhibitors and trade associations to create an interesting professional-development programme for trade visitors from the collision-damage sector. New this year: experts will hold the three-hour courses in German during the mornings and English in the afternoons.

The three focal points of the training will be complete and precise damage assessment and cost calculation, working on hybrid and fuel-cell vehicles and taking account of driver assistance systems when calculating, repairing and re-commissioning damaged vehicles.

With this programme, Messe Frankfurt and the companies supporting the twelve workshops with speakers and equipment link up with the ‘Tomorrow´s Service & Mobility’ special exhibition in the ‘Festhalle’ where experts present their future-oriented technological ideas, such as the driverless car and a completely networked world of mobility.

The professional-development programme from 13 to 17 September also includes workshops on new body sealing technology, innovative materials and composites in automobile manufacturing and new repainting techniques. The companies cooperating with Messe Frankfurt on the body and paint workshops include Adam Opel AG, BASF Coatings/Glasurit, Beissbarth, BMW, Carbon, Car-o-Liner, DEKRA Automobil GmbH, Deutsche Automobil Treuhand GmbH, Farécla, Festool GmbH, Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, L-Tec, Robert Bosch GmbH, SATA, Sehon, Toyota, Vosschemie GmbH, Wieländer + Schill and the Technical Academy of the Automobile Trade (TAK).

In view of the high degree of interest expected to be shown in the workshops, the participants are asked to register for one or more of the courses on the Automechanika website by 19 August. Participation in all courses, all of which will be held in the Galleria between Halls 8, 9 and 10, is free of charge.

Detailed descriptions of the individual workshops and the registration form can be found on the internet at training.automechanika.com.