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NEW INNOVATION IN TECHNICAL SKILLS DEVELOPMENT

A TOOLING MANUFACTURING ENTRY

PERSPECTIVE TYPE REQUIREMENTS OUTCOME

B ENG.
Dirk van Dyk, CEO, National Tooling virtual factory may itself evolve MECHANICAL MASTERS IN TOOLING) (M.ENG)
Initiative Programme into the reproducible factory in ENGINEERING INDUSTRIAL MASTERS IN TOOLING (M.TECH)
the future. QUALIFICATIONS
B ENG. Universities TOOLING ENGINEER
he challenges of the global To become and remain MECHANICAL & Industry
business environment internationally competitive, the INDUSTRIAL MASTER TOOLMAKER
Thave made traditional South African manufacturing
manufacturing systems sector will have to take MECHANICAL DIPLOMA
QUALIFICATION OR
increasingly obsolete. It is cognisance of future trends TOOLMAKER TRADE & Universities
impossible to foresee all the in global manufacturing. The MINIMUM OF 4 YEARS & Industry
changes that will characterise tooling industry, as a key support TRADE INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE TRADE TEST TOOLMAKER
manufacturing in the future, function of manufacturing QUALIFICATIONS MATRIC WITH:
but many trends are already should be re-engineered to align MATHS SCIENCE +
apparent and technological and among others the local skills and ASSESSMENT MODULAR
skills development will have to enterprise development model Colleges CREDENTIALS NIMS
follow these trends to succeed to international best-practice
in the future manufacturing standards.
environment. Traditional MODULAR TOOLROOM
manufacturing was characterised The direct tooling industry in FOUNDATION Colleges & Schools CREDENTIALS ASSISTANT
by many features that are no South Africa, which represents QUALIFICATIONS
longer viable in a modern market a R15 billion market, suffers
place. Virtual manufacturing from an endemic skills shortage. Tooling Sector Example: TDM Powered Articulated Qualifications Structure
systems will be extremely agile, South Africa’s manufacturing
but they will also be intelligent. and Tool, Die and Mouldmaking counterparts. Ageing skills skills requirements of industry. directing towards international
They will not only ensure rapid (TDM) sector skills pipeline capacity in the sector was not Modularity, stackability and competitiveness. The Programme
response, but integrate customers suffered a few cycles with very replaced timeously, which led to international standards will be furthermore has a strong focus
within design, testing, and service little input and output from a serious skills shortage in the key characteristics. on the development of young
delivery. Work will be more the existing educational system TDM industry. industrialists by means of
flexible and knowledge intensive contributing to the skills gap. The NTI Pilot Programme additional exit/entry and funding
than ever before. Scientific and South Africa has over the past Since its onset a few years ago – 2010 to 2022 was therefore support and assistance with
technical knowledge will be 25 years lost considerable the Intsimbi National Tooling introduced to pilot the advanced ownership migration. It facilitates
driving product and process tooling capacity. Local Initiative (a multi-stakeholder manufacturing sector solutions black ownership buy-in/buy-out
innovations. Work will therefore companies satisfy less than 15% initiative initiated by the required for skills, enterprise and skills transfer support.
require a much greater degree of of the local and less than one Toolmaking Association of SA development and transformation.
technical skills and experience, per cent of global TDM demand (TASA) and the Department Without an innovative
problem solving, multi-tasking, as they have failed to adopt the of Trade and Industry (the dti) The building blocks of the TDM approach to future enterprise
teaming and collaboration. The technology and production sought to not only halt the decline training pipeline are: and skills development in the
efficiencies of their developed of the sector but to embark on a manufacturing and tooling
robust rehabilitation programme. ■ Active pan-SA regional sectors in South Africa the
KEY NTI PILOT OUTCOMES / At the core of the initiative stakeholder involvement and closing of the skills gap is
the dti support
ACHIEVEMENTS TO DATE are the TDM Powered Skills ■ Best practice international unlikely. Significant growth
Development and Enterprise
and global competitiveness
Development Programmes. The curricula development and will remain a pipedream.
Capacity Building programmes aim to upgrade local deployment South Africa’s manufacturing
tooling companies to world class ■ Initial focus on tool-making sector needs a revival on
competitiveness levels. with expansion to other the back of an aggressively
New Qualifications The TDM Programmes are, technical skills at leading modernising and growing
tooling sector, supported by
however, confronted by many edge technical training an international standard
challenges presented to human facilities, including a number of technical skills pool. Skills
tooling centres of excellence
Student Throughput resource development by re- ■ Practical training in member and enterprise development
industrialisation. Rapid technology
implementation acceleration places organisations’ facilities remain key components and
will play a pivotal role in the
very high demands on companies ■ High quality trainee output tooling and manufacturing
Successful Placement to multi-skill their workforce, with independent quality industry’s growth plans. The
retain skilled workers, and to assurance creation of a national supply
create a constant supply to meet ■ Successful track-record of skills line of highly skilled workers
Demographics growth demands. The imbalances produced for SA with high from entry level to post
in skills development and supply
graduate MSc and PhD tooling
are caused by the retirement future employability support engineers will ensure
of millions of experienced and future SUSTAINABILITY of
Gender knowledgeable workers globally, The aim of the TDM innovation and competitiveness
technology advancement, Enterprise Development improvement in the SA Tool,
misalignment of competencies Programme is to take existing Die, Mould and Advanced
businesses on a successful
Industry Participation required and outdated training journey to transformation into manufacturing sectors. This
and apprenticeship models. It
will lead to a new generation
is estimated that more than ten internationally competitive of young entrepreneurs and
million manufacturing sector re-industrialised businesses. business owners who will
International Partnerships jobs are unfilled globally due to The three-pronged approach transform the SA tooling and
skills gaps. comprises a global standard manufacturing sectors to
comprehensive benchmarking
It is obvious that old exercise, evaluating company become a significant supplier
International Interest training models with straight performance against local and into global supply chains. 
educational hours and a lack international peers, intervention
of uniform industry standards projects and re-benchmarking. For more information contact Dirk van Dyk,
Enterprises Supported will have to make place for a Intervention includes dirkvd@ntipweb.co.za
comprehensive consulting
competency-based approach
Cell: 082 904 3327
aligning the knowledge and projects aimed to derive measures www.ntipweb.co.za

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