Programa de Formación: Fecha: Ficha:

Automation mechatronic

Unidad focalizada: where are you from?

Objetives

 To recognize country names, their nationality and most appropriate pronunciation related to some technical
aspects of their training program.
 To inquire about additional information related to cultural aspects of the selected countries.

Dear apprentices: watch this video NATIONALITIES AND VERB BE

https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/lets-learn-english-lesson-16-where-are-you-
from/3355849.html

Useful vocabulary

Activity 1: Recognize each of the leading brands in industrial tools and enter the tool name and nationality, according to its
country of origin.

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 Nationality German
Example
Tool´s name
Chainsaw
Inventor Andreas Stihl

Nationality Australian

Tool´s name DRILL

Inventor Joseph Whitworth

Nationality Spanish

Tool´s name Screwdriver

Inventor Henry Phillips

Nationality German

Tool´s name Polisher

Inventor Hermann Ackermann y Hermann

Schmitt

Nationality
Tool´s name

Inventor

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 Nationality United Kingdom
Tool´s name Pliers
Inventor

Los anteriores son ejemplos de algunas herramientas que muy seguramente no todos hacen parte de su
campo laboral; de aquí la necesidad de que retomen la información que como equipo de trabajo
realizaron sobre herramientas, equipos y materiales y tengan en cuenta lo siguiente:

Reorganizarce en equipos más pequeños de 3 integrantes y seleccionar sin que se repitan los elementos
que ya consultaron y llevar a cabo la consulta como lo muestran los ejemplos anteriores.

Nationality
Tool´s
name

Inventor

Una vez determinado que va a consultar cada grupito, entonces se idearán la forma de presentación
de esta evidencia (poster, plegable, video, flahcards…. .), incluyendo la actividad 2 contemplada en esta
unidad focalizada.

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Activity 2. Read the following article and according to the information it contains, mention the nationalities who

were part of this research, then place the main countries on the map. With a color and country name

TOTAL PRODUCTIVE MAINTENANCE IMPACT ANALYSIS

IN HIGH PERFORMANCE MANUFACTURING

Research design and methodology

The data used in the statistical

analysis, were collected as part of
the third phase of the study:
―High Performance
Manufacturing (HPM),
conducted by a team of researchers
from various universities in the
United States, Europe and Asia.
The Spanish study team is
made up of
research groups from four universities: University of Seville, Polytechnic
University of Valencia, Complutense University of Madrid and Public University
of Navarra, covering all geographical areas of the country. The HPM database
that has been used for this research includes 265 industrial plants in six countries
(Germany, Austria, South Korea, Spain, the United States, Finland, Italy, Japan
and Sweden), which represent the three main regions of the world (North
America, Europe and Asia). The sample includes plants from the industrial
sectors of electronics, machinery and automotive manufacturing in each of the
previous countries. The sample of industrial plants distinguished two types: (i)
High Performance Plants (HPP) and (ii) Standard Performance Plants (SPP).

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Example:

1. Germany –(Red)

2. Spain(Green)

3 The U.S.A (Yellow)

4 Japan (Pink)

5 South Korea (Black)

6 Italy(Orange)

7
Sweden( Purple )

8 Finland ( Gray)

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