Eaton Hydraulics invests heavily in a new state of the art training facility at its Havant location in the UK

Power management company Eaton has recently completed a major investment into its UK training centre in Havant UK. Eaton has been offering hydraulics education for over 60 years globally –built on the heritage of Vickers, well known in the Hydraulics business.

However, fluid power is evolving as it embraces the challenges and the opportunities that the increasing complexities of electronic controls and industry 4.0 brings. Whilst Eaton is engineering products and solutions, it also recognises the importance of ensuring hydraulic professionals whether in sales, engineering, maintenance, quality- plus many more functions working within Hydraulics- have the correct knowledge to be able to reap the rewards that new smart hydraulic technologies can bring. The facility offers hands on training for systems and products and the new facility represents Eaton’s commitment to industry education.

“Here at Eaton Hydraulics we are dedicated to ensuring that both our staff and partners are ‘fully rounded’ when it comes to knowledge in the field of hydraulics” stated Graham Sanders, Training manager, Power and Motion products, Eaton Europe, Middle- East and Asia.

“Keeping pace in a rapidly evolving market can be difficult and we feel that it’s important that companies such as Eaton, who are seen as leaders in smart hydraulics, offer as much support as possible. New technologies within hydraulics can bring many application benefits, such as increased efficiencies leading to reduced power consumption, increased productivity and reduced downtime. In my mind there can be no doubt that properly trained personnel can add real value to their employer’s organisations.”

The new training facility is based at Eaton’s plant in Havant, the key Power and motion factory for Eaton, which works intensively with product development and also hosts the quality centre of Eaton. This close proximity to manufacturing brings several benefits, such as a close link between the Training Centre and the design and manufacturing teams working on revolutionary new products such as CMA, a CAN-enabled closed-loop controlled mobile proportional valve and Eaton’s X20 mobile pump and it is a new range of advanced electro-hydraulic controllers.