Punjab Small Industries Corporation (PSIC) has planned to set up a 'support center' for the development of auto parts, designing of tools and dies as well as provision of testing facilities, at Lahore.
Sources in the PSIC told Business Recorder here on Sunday that this support center would provide services to the private sector auto parts manufacturers through dissemination of latest processing techniques to produce quality parts as per specifications for the local market and exports.
The center would help in the product designing and inspection, designing of moulds and dies and its production. Proper die making raw materials would be identified to ensure better results. Proper heat treatment facilities would be available to ensure quality production with increased life of the dies while raw material and product testing facilities would also be provided.
This center, the sources maintained, would also provide on job training through short-term courses. Technical and marketing advisory services would be ensured and the manufacturers would be encouraged to form co-operatives to procure necessary and cost effective raw materials of desired quality in bulk.
The sources pointed out that the proposed center would not process any of its own products but would provide 'common facility services' to the private sector auto parts manufacturers to help them produce goods conforming to the desired specifications.
It would provide machining, die making and heat treatment facilities. The center would also help in the development/production of new parts. An advisory service backed by necessary literature and latest manufacturing techniques would be available through experts. The center would have a liaison with the automobile assemblers in order to develop and improve the production of auto parts to achieve the targets of deletion policy of the government, the sources concluded.