TDM Centre team leaves for Singapore

22 Oct, 2005

Led by Chairman executive committee, Tools, Dies and Molds (TDM) Centre, Karachi, Munir K Bana, a seven-member TDM delegation left for Singapore on Friday on the first leg of its visit to South East Asia.
The team comprising country's leading technopreneurs will visit TDM centres in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Korea in a bid to have first hand knowledge about the state-of-the-art technologies in the field of tooling and dies and molds making.
Chairman Technology Up-gradation and Skill Development Company (TUSDEC), Almas Hyder would also accompany the delegation during its visit to Singapore and Malaysia, said a TUSDEC spokesman.
"We want to benefit from the South East Asian experience while establishing country's first TDM project in Karachi," Munir Bana said before departing for Singapore.
He said that the delegation would use this opportunity to meet South East Asian consultants in this vital field of engineering sector to seek their input for the development of a strategy to promote tools, dies and mold sector in Pakistan.
Talking about Rs 450 million TDM Centre, Karachi project, Bana said that the TDM Centre would provide training and consultancy to Pakistan's engineering sector. "In the long term, it will provide manufacturing services to the engineering industry," he said.
Bana said that the centre would disseminate hands on training to the employees of the engineering firms besides launching full-fledged technical courses for the fresh engineering graduates.
To begin with, TDM centre Karachi would launch classes in the fields of Computer-aided Designing (CAD), Computer-aided Manufacturing (CAM) and Computer-aided Engineering (CAE).

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