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Textile Institute of Pakistan now offers a set of 20 short courses, workshops and seminars targeted specifically towards executives seeking basic knowledge in textiles. These courses will be conducted at TIP city campus by some of the most distinguished textile and business experts from TIP’s faculty and the industry.

Courses offered include: Spinning, Weaving, Knitting, Wet processing/Finishing, Textile CAD, Towel and Denim Manufacturing, Apparel Manufacturing, Applied Industrial Engineering, Technology Transfer, Executive Skills (Communication, Quality Mgmt, Branding, Supply Chain Mgmt etc.), Leadership, Project Management

Starting April 14, ‘08

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By Parvindar Lal, AMM4

Anthropometry ((Anthro = Man, Pometry = Measurement, literally meaning “measurement of humans”), in physical anthropology, refers to the measurement of living human individuals for the purpose of understanding human physical variation.

Importance of Anthropometry

• Evolutionary significance-changes in humans overtime
• For medical usage such as; weight control and plastic surgery.
• To determine best design for both the weapon and the uniform fit for the army.
• It also plays an important role in industrial design, clothing design, ergonomics, and architecture and in your everyday life.
• Working examples: Hand geometry, face verification, finger print recognition and many others.

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Unlike my last article on the poster display, this time I have no intentions of frolicking around with statements that might throw a shadow over the facts. I recall that last time I had congratulated the organizers for taking such an initiative constantly reminding them that there were glitches in the organization which they should try and overcome. Seems like what happened now was quite the contrary. Read the rest of this entry »

Pious announcements by the government are not enough; they have to be followed by timely action commensurate with the scale of the problem.

By Kaleem Omar

Pakistan’s history is replete with examples of policies that were announced by the government of the day and then came to naught. This sorry state of affairs has sometimes been witnessed even in the case of policies that were meant to deal with such key economic sectors as textiles, the backbone of the country’s economy and its biggest export earner. Read the rest of this entry »

I have a bird. And he sometimes gets angry and bites really hard. But it’s not his fault.

It’s not his fault cause he’s just a bird in a cage.

“Work Study for Garments Industry” is a training workshop organized in Karachi by ASI/URS Pakistan. The goal is to allow organizations to lower their operating costs and increase profits while reducing production time. Read the rest of this entry »

TIP is holding a 6 week workshop on Garment Production Management from 14th August 2007. The workshop will be conducted by Bharatha Egalahewa. See the program outline and registration form for more details. Read the rest of this entry »