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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.

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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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