National Centre for Skill Development (NCSD) - is a Centre of Excellence of The Institute of Indian Foundrymen (IIF) to promote training and education activities among Indian Foundrymen, pertaining to metal casting and is located in Chennai. The faculty comprises of Industry experts and other resource persons from all over the country
YOGYATA VIKAS / SKILL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM is another NCSD IIF initiative which brings to foundry industry a unique training program for foundry workmen in English, Hindi, Tamil, Telegu, Kannada, Marathi, Gujarati and Bengali. Yogyata Vikas is a program exclusively designed to impart technical knowledge with practical orientation to young Entrepreneurs, your Foundry Staff i.e. Foundry Supervisors & Workmen.
NCSD, IIF has prepared 23 Modules in Power Point slides on different foundry topics like
YV01 – Casting Defects in Grey & SG Iron and their Remedies.
YV02 – Melting Grey Iron, SG Iron and Steel in Induction Furnace.
YV03 – Sand Quality and Testing.
YV04 – Mould Making Processes.
YV05 – Basic Metallurgy of Steel Castings
YV06A – No Bake Resin & its Economics
YV06B – Foundry Refractory Coating Application & its Techniques
YV07 – Defects in Steel Castings and their Remedies.
YV08 – Metallurgy of Grey and SG Iron for Foundrymen
YV09 –. Pattern-making and Methoding of Castings.
YV10 – Melting Practice of Grey Iron by Induction Furnace
YV11 – Production of SG Iron by Induction Furnace
YV12 – Basic Metallurgy of Aluminium Alloy
YV13 – Sand Casting process for Aluminium Casting
YV14 – Sand Casting Defects of Aluminium Alloy & Remedies
YV15 – Aluminium Gravity Die Casting Process
YV16 – Defects & Remedies of Gravity Die Casting
YV17 – Aluminium High Pressure Die Casting Process
YV18 – Defects & Remedies of Aluminium High Pressure Die Casting
YV19 – Heat Treatment of Steel Castings
YV20 – Foundry Testing Fundamentals: Chemical, Mechanical & Metallurgical
YV21 – Best Practices in Investment Casting Process
YV22 – Mental Metallurgy: Strengthening Minds for Better Workplace Performance
YV23 – Core Making Process
YV 24 – Customized Training Process
The Modules have been written by foundry experts with over 40 years of shop floor experience.
This is an on-site programme conducted at foundries, in which case the trainer will visit the foundry.
