A group of employees of the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority at the Mechanical Engineering Department has successfully completed a five day course on Automotive Diagnostic Systems to refine their know-how in the ever-evolving automotive sector.
This has come in at a timely moment when the Authority has in recent months procured and taken delivery of new machinery, most of which have automated components.
According to management of the Authority this is a crucial step for the workforce deployed at the mechanical workshop to appropriately diagnose, repair and provide strategic engineering solutions on the plethora of port machinery and vehicles.
“In the past, diagnosing problems with equipment requires a lot of work. However, modern diagnostic machines provide the solution you need, you feed data into the system, and it identifies all problems the equipment has encountered. In the process, you can identify issues that have been ignored for a while, which you can then rectify to get your equipment back” the Tema Port Mechanical Engineer of GPHA, Ing. Isaac Aryee added.
Course facilitator and Director of Programs at the Institute of Automotive Engineering, Ing. Emmanuel Yevugah said in addition to keeping the staff abreast with new technology, the training will go a long way to save time and reduce cost at the port.
