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 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 18 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 

          YV06- No Bake Resin, CO2 Sand System and Coatings

          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 Dig Casting

          YV17- Aluminium High Pressure Die Casting Process

          YV18- Defects & Remedies of Aluminium High Pressure Die Casting

The Modules have been written by foundry experts with over 40 years of shop floor experience. 

The Yogyata Vikas Modules have been translated in 8 Indian languages and till date 120 training programs have been conducted in over 80 foundries involving over 2000 workmen by Faculty members (Experienced and qualified foundrymen) all over India.