Immediately after finishing school in 2011, Petr Brandýs started working as an operator in production at the ViskoTeepak plant in Brno, Czech Republic. A few years later, he progressed to maintenance and started working as a mechanic of shirring machines. Since 2019, Petr has been working at the ViskoTeepak Innovation Center.
Developing and Improving products
Petr is taking care of gel, soy, and meat stuffing tests on our products. Thanks to these tests, ViskoTeeapk can further improve our tailor-making capabilities as well as improve and develop new products. In Petr’s everyday work, he also analyses defects that happen during strand production or analyses the results from stuffing tests. If a problem occurs, he works to identify the root cause. He also explains and shows the different steps to our processing of casing to colleagues and visitors.
Benefits for customers and ViskoTeepak
“The benefit of testing new products is that we can find problems at an early stage, even before they occur in our customer’s production processes, which is a huge benefit for us as well as the customer. Next to this is the knowledge improvement of our employees. Thanks to training that allows our colleagues to see with their own eyes what happens with the casing after it leaves the plant, they get a better understanding of the importance of our everyday work and duties. The microscopic analysis of defects aids in the production of pinholes in our strands, solving complaints and helping our customers. We can simulate all the production processes our customers go through such as stuffing, cooking, and peeling. We can simulate exactly what they are doing and find out how our casing behaves during their production. By doing this we constantly get better at finding and solving problems”, says Petr.
