In the eighth installment of the international Scania Top Team event, the world’s 10 most skilled Scania service teams will gather to compete for the Top Team championship title, formally recognizing them as the best the world has to offer.
Participants – who hail from Argentina, Australia, Austria, Finland, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, Peru, Slovakia and Switzerland – have already risen through a crowded field, beating out more than 8,000 fellow hopefuls.
Christian Levin, Executive Vice President, Scania Commercial Operations, says the goal is to recognize the companies top performers, but the residual benefits of honoring excellence are plentiful.
Scania Top Team is used as a tool to improve the working methods in Scania’s workshops. Efficient working methods result in a more motivated staff that rotates less, which leads to a more professional and skilled workforce, Levin says. Consequently, this workforce increases the quality of the work performed at workshops all over the world.
The ten competing teams will face both theoretical exercises and practical assignments. The three best teams will compete live on stage this weekend against each other in a knock-out challenge to determine the winner.