Engineering Management Model Towards Enhancing Institutional Based Workshop Facilities

Abstract

This paper is focused on the use of technical personnel in the typical setting of a workshop in higher educational institutions in Nigeria. The essence is to fully manage tools for more creativity in technical work. The case study is focused on woodwork engineering management where vending cost analysis and implications model is presented to enhance productivity and reduction of requisition cost. So far, wood work refurbishing and repairs are being carried out with existing tools such as CNC-MDF Chain Saw Machine, and Automatic Edge Banding Machines respectively in quite a number of higher educational institutions in Nigeria. Now the trend has changed, more efficacious wood work requiring the production of durable stools and other furniture is needed. CNC works on the Cartesian coordinate system (X, Y, Z) for 3D motion control and parts of a project can be designed in the computer with a CAD/CAM program, and then cut automatically using cutters to produce a finished part. So these engineering trend has to be fully managed in such a way that the functionalities of these tools are fully harnessed to ensure full operations; particularly to produce for high-volume local content, skills acquisition and entrepreneurial development. The resultant effect will be to remove costly and repetitive manufacturing steps for office and other relevant furniture, and to create opportunities with future expansion for revenue generation. Keywords: Technical Personnel, Nigerian Higher Educational Institutions, Wood Work Engineering, Vending Analysis, Entrepreneurial Development, Computer Numerical Control Machines.