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9.
Looking to the medium term future, there are
technologies in the field of electronics that can usefully
be acquired in this way. These include surface mounting,
digital electronics, pattern recognition and networking.
There are also relatively mature technologies that can usefully
be imparted via more conventional methods of manpower training.
These latter include better management training for staff
at supervisory and middle management levels in the garments
industry, in such areas as production control, cost control
and reduction in lead times, and the provision of extension
courses for training engineers employed in the plastics
conversion industry in the design of moulds and dies and
the application of CAD/CAM.
10.
Our productivity enhancement services are provided
mainly though not exclusively by the Hong Kong Productivity
Council, in the form of management and technical consultancy
services and bureau services, and funds have been provided
for the first time this year to enable the HKPC to introduce
As a result of the techno-economic studies
new services.
that have been completed or are nearing completion, the
suggestion has been made that further management consultancy
services might be developed in support of the textiles,
garments and metals industries, and that technical consultancy
services might be developed to encourage the wider application
of surface mounting in the electronics industry.
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