FINISHING SCHOOL IN PRODUCTION ENGINEERING
Indian Machine Tool Manufacturers' Association (IMTMA) - the apex body of the machine tool industry in India - had established a Technology Centre at BIEC, Bangalore with the active support of industries. The objective is to increase competitiveness, enhance efficiency, and improve productivity of machine tool builders and the CNC users across the country, by providing technology inputs and state of the art training. The association has now taken a further step by launching a "Finishing School in Production Engineering". The training will focus on all the practical aspects of modern machining - from reading an Engineering drawing through measurements and quality control - including machining processes, CNC programming and operation, process planning, tool materials, selection of cutting tools and optimising machining parameters, limits,fits and tolerances, GD&T and selection of measuring instruments. In addition to the technical inputs, emphasis would be given to develop soft skills as necessary for manufacturing industries.
The IMTMA newsletter highlighted the following points explaining the rationale behind the Need for Finishing School: Nearly two lakh engineers and 1.32 lakh diploma holders were unemployed in 2007 - Ministry of Labour and Employment
The biggest concern now is having highly skilled manpower to run the manufacturing sector - National Manufacturing Competitiveness Council (NMCC)
Manufacturing needs 12 million people and what we have now is just one-tenth of that - Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)
One of the major reasons why engineers, even from reputed institutes, are not easily employed because they lack hands-on skills
The biggest challenge Indian educational system faces today, is employability. The country has the largest pool of educated youth, well educated yet unfortunately unemployable, and
University trained engineers lack the "feel" of how the things are made and how they fit together. They lack shop floor experience, hindering their ability to program CNC machines.
In order to equip the students with practical inputs, hands-on training in production CNC machinery, CAD/CAM systems and other accessories, is made as a part of the curriculum. Industry visits will be organised to get the real life experience of actual production environment.
The Training Methodology incorporates: training in a modern digital factory; class room sessions; measuring practice in instruments and CMM; programming examples and exercises; simulation using SINUTRAIN systems; hands-on training sessions in CNC turning centre, CNC VMC and CAD/CAM programming systems; real time machining of industry level components in CNC machines; and industry visits and project work.
The industry has welcomed the move. "This course will lay a very strong foundation for the young engineers as the training is based on "Learn by doing" method. It will increase the confidence and employability of the fresh engineers to take up challenging jobs in the manufacturing industries, " said Mr T R Parasuraman, Senior Vice President - HR, Toyota Kirloskar Auto Parts Private Limited. Adds Mr F R Singhvi, Joint Managing Director, Sansera Engineering Private Limited, "This course will be a good interface between educational institutions and the manufacturing industries. It will help the Engineering student in practically understanding various aspects of machining thereby helping the manufacturing industries in employing engineers who could be useful from day one of joining."
Contact: Ms Pooja Dixit, Indian Machine Tool Manufacturers' Association, Bangalore. Tel: 080-66246514, 66246600. Fax: 91-80-66246658. Email: productivity@imtma.in
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