Portrait SVI ACADEMY

The SVI offers aExcellent practice-oriented skills transfer on all topics of the packaging industryby practitioners for practitioners - level-appropriate and industry-specific!

Knowledge is the success factor for companies. It is not only the added value for the individual employee, but for the entire company. This poses a major challenge for employees and companies: Processes, technologies and framework conditions are changing at breakneck speed. Continuing education, further training is a factor in meeting this dynamic and using it to one's advantage.

Continuing education, further training offers employees who want to survive in the working world of tomorrow the opportunity to continuously develop their qualifications. It opens the door to more interesting tasks, more responsibility and also personal fulfillment.

The SVI ACADEMY guarantees well-founded and market-oriented teaching with professionally qualified and methodically experienced lecturers. With technical and management experts and our own specialists, we are able to train employees and managers in a targeted and sustainable manner. For many years, SVI members, members of the Association for the Promotion of Training and Further Education in the Packaging Industry and other interested parties have benefited from the broad and level-appropriate range of courses, seminars and in-house training to keep themselves professionally fit.

Those companies that encourage and motivate their employees through continuing education, further training will have the best know-how. An important prerequisite for entrepreneurial success.
Only highly trained specialists can help to create economically viable and environmentally friendly packaging and thus give your company a decisive advantage in the competition for customers and market share.

Packaging managers with a federal diploma

Packaging managers with a federal diploma take on demanding specialist and management tasks in the packaging industry. They develop and optimize packaging, plan production, manage and advise working groups.

Objectives:
Packaging managers are packaging professionals. They work wherever packaging is produced or used, e.g. for packaging manufacturers and bottling plants, but also for larger companies whose products need to be packaged.
They combine the various functional and aesthetic requirements that packaging has to meet and gain in-depth knowledge of the materials, complex systems and technologies used. They also have the necessary know-how to take on business management tasks.
As generalists, they assess packaging solutions holistically and sustainably. They consider ecological and economic aspects as well as functions such as protection, logistics and marketing when developing or optimizing packaging solutions.
With their holistic expertise in packaging solutions, qualified packaging managers make a sustainable and important contribution to the protection of products, people and the environment.

Packaging managers with a federal diploma are capable:

• Develop or optimize integrated packaging solutions, taking into account standards, specifications and other requirements.
• Apply the methods and possibilities of visual communication of packaging.
• problems of the interaction between the filling product and the packaging.
• Assess the sustainability of packaging solutions.
• Coordinate, support or manage packaging projects or their sub-processes.
• create or interpret specifications and documentation.
• use information and communication technologies in a targeted manner.
• advise and manage working groups in a goal-oriented and business-oriented manner.

Number of participants:
The number of participants is limited. Registrations will be considered in the order in which they are received. Registrations must be made in writing.
The SVI's written decision on admission will be made within approximately 10 days. The course costs will be invoiced by the SVI in 3 installments.

Admission to the Advanced Federal Professional Examination (AFPE):

Admission to the examination is granted to those who:
a) has a Federal Diploma of Vocational Education and Training, a Matura/Vocational Baccalaureate or an equivalent qualification and can then demonstrate a total of at least five years of practical experience in at least one specialist area of the packaging industry as well as sub-project, project management and/or management experience.
b) holds a Federal Diploma of Higher Education or a Higher Professional Examination or Diploma from a College of Higher Education or University of Applied Sciences in one of the business areas of marketing, business administration, production or corresponding sub-areas, has additional practical experience in at least one area of the packaging industry and can demonstrate sub-project/project management and/or management experience.
c) has successfully completed the module examinations.

Training center:
Hotel Olten
Bahnhofstrasse 5
4600 Olten

Introduction day to the packaging industry

The 1-day seminar is held twice a year.

Contents:

• Fundamentals and interrelationships in the packaging industry
• Functions and aspects of packaging
• The life cycle of packaging
• Packing plan SVI
• Types of packaging
• Ecology and sustainability and legal issues
• Terms in the packaging industry
• Packing material types and their properties
• Influencing factors
• Trends and trend influencers in the packaging industry
• Packaging at the point of sale (POS)
• Case studies

Program:
08.30 a.m. Welcome
Holistic packaging thinking: from creation to supply
Packaging: typologies and terms
Packaging materials and their properties, part 1
12.00 noon Lunch
13.30 Packaging materials and their properties, part 2
Influencing factors
Workshop
16.30 End of the seminar

Course objectives:
Participants gain an overview of the numerous aspects of packaging, recognize connections and thus gain a better understanding of packaging. Guidance for holistic packaging thinking forms an essential part of the content.

Target audience:
New employees (career changers)
Junior Product Manager
Clerks in the areas of purchasing, production, marketing, sales and development

Methodology:
The topics are dealt with by means of presentations, learning discussions as well as partner and group work.

Participant badge:
Each participant receives a confirmation that the SVI seminar "Introduction to Packaging" has been attended.

Course costs (excl. VAT):
CHF 480.-- for members of the SVI or the SVI Sponsors' Association
CHF 700.-- for non-members
The seminar price includes all course materials, lunch, drinks and refreshments during breaks.

Basic packaging seminar

9 course days, total 68 lessons

Initial situation:
Today, packaging has to satisfy an enormous number of sometimes conflicting demands at the same time. Great importance is attached to both ecological and economic aspects. Solving a packaging task holistically requires in-depth knowledge of all aspects, functions and materials of packaging as well as the associated production processes.

Objective:
In this generalist course, participants gain an overview of all materials, functions and aspects of the packaging industry. Graduates are able to deal with packaging issues in their entirety and understand how to recognize and exploit the potential for success of different packaging solutions. The seminar concept complies with the training guidelines of the World Packaging Organization WPO. During numerous company visits, participants have the opportunity to deepen their theoretical input and make practical connections.

Target group:
All those who want to bring their packaging knowledge up to date across all areas, in particular:
Career changers in the packaging industry
Specialists at various levels (packaging development, purchasing and sales, product management, marketing, production)

Teaching blocks:

• Paper and cardboard packaging
• Corrugated cardboard packaging
• Transport and postal packaging
• Plastics in packaging
• Dimensionally stable plastic packaging
• Flexible plastic and composite packaging
• Stretch blow molding of plastic bottles
• Tinplate packaging
• Aluminum packaging
• Glass packaging
• Packaging and product protection
• Labeling
• Adhesives in the packaging
• Prepress and packaging printing
• Packaging machines
• Marketing
• Packaging design and layout
• Ecology, recycling
• Packaging development and quality aspects
• Logistics
• Legal basis
• Conformity work

Exam:
At the end of the seminar, participants can take an exam to prove that they have learned the content taught. In addition to knowledge questions on the content, solutions to a packaging problem must be developed and existing packaging solutions assessed.

Certificate:
Upon passing the exam, a certificate is issued that identifies the graduate as a packaging generalist. This certificate is recognized by the Swiss Packaging Institute SVI and the World Packaging Organization WPO.

Speakers:
The speakers are proven specialists in the packaging industry. In their contributions, the information is enriched by examples from business practice. Questions can be answered in a practical manner. The methodology includes presentations, group work, videos and excursions.

Number of participants:
The number of participants is limited. Registrations will be considered in the order in which they are received.

Conditions:
The seminar costs (excl. VAT) are:
CHF 3'280.- for members of SVI and sponsoring association
CHF 3'610.- for members of SVI or sponsoring association
CHF 4'950.- for non-members
The seminar price includes all course materials, lunch, drinks and refreshments during breaks. You will receive a detailed seminar program with a location plan and invoice when you confirm your registration.

Price: CHF 9,700.- Non-members of the SVI
CHF 8,970.- Members of the SVI and the SVI Sponsors' Association

Address for written registration:
SVI ACADEMY
Andreas Zopfi
Mühlestrasse 20
3173 Oberwangen