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The Institute provides consultancy services to the industries in the field of foundry, forge and allied fields on payment basis depending on quantum of work involved, beside pre-consultancy charges.

NIFFT faculty (individual or group) holds discussions with the concerned industrial representative in order to identify and define the problem and to develop consultancy proposal based on quantum of work involved. If needed, specialists may conduct pre-consultancy survey for 1 to 2 days in the organization to overview the infrastructure available and ongoing processes. Institute and the concerned industry will then enter into an agreement with terms of reference, estimated consultancy fees and time schedule. 75% of the consultancy fees is payable in advance, before commencement of work.
Terms and conditions for pre consultancy survey are as follows:

Rs. 1000/- per consultancy per day (negotiable for small scale industries).

Traveling expenses of consultants both ways by Air or AC-1 class rail.

Boarding and lodging expenses including local hospitality / transportation of the Consultants.

The Institute was awarded National Consultancy by IMTT Batala under UNDP assisted programme to improve the condition of Foundries in Punjab.

TESTING AND PROTOTYPE DEVELOPMENT FACILITIES
 

The Department of Foundry Technology has Cupola(3 tonnes per hour), Crucible furnace(2 Nos.- 50 kg each), Electric Arc Furnace (20 kg) ,Skelener Furnace (15 kg Aluminium), Induction Furnace (100 kg), Electric Pit Furnace ( 5 kg Aluminium), Pressure Die-Casting Machine( 60 tonnes), Complete Sand Plant (Pioneer), Sand Mullers, Jolt-and-Squeeze Moulding Machine, Shell Moulding Machine, Permeability Meter, Compressive Strength Tester, Mould Hardness Tester, Thermolab, Surface Area Measurement Equipment, Universal Testing Machine for sand, AFS Clay Determinator, Shatter Index Testing Machine, Gas measurement Euipment, Moisture Teller, Sample Preparation Machine etc. The Department of Forge Technology has 750 kg Friction Drop Hammer, 150 tonne Hydraulic Press, Pneumatic Power Hammer (150 & 250 kgs.), 120 tonne Trimming Press, 1" Multiforge Upsetter, Carbolite Furnace, Oil-fired Billet Heating Furnace, Surface Roughness Tester, Tensometer and software DEFORM. The Department of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering has major equipments such as Servo Hydraulic Dynamic Testing Machine, Differential Thermal Analyzer, Scanning Electron Microscope, X-ray Diffractometer,Impact Testing Machine, In-situ Metallography Equipment,  Universal Tensile Testing Machine, Metallography Image Analyzer, Portable X-ray Fluorescence FIM,Optical Emmission Spectrometer,Orion Ion Meter, Atomic Absorption Spectrometer, Photovac Air Analyzer, Nano Pure Water System, Automatic Particulate Matter Detector, Magnetic Crack Detector,    Induction Heating Machine, High Temperature Muffle Furnace, Ultrasonic Flow Detector, Fluorescent Penetrant Inspection Equipment, The Department of Manufacturing Engineering has well equipped Pattern and Machine shops, Metrology , Flexible Manufacturing System ,Electronics,CAD ,Welding and Electrical Laboratories. The Institute has Centralized Computer Center equipped with a workstation, a NOVELL Netware based LAN with 10 nodes and Windows NT based LAN with 10 nodes . Some of the softwares available at the center includes Pro/Engineer, Visual C++, Turbo Pascal, Fortran, AutoCAD, NISA-II FEM Package, and Oracle.The CAD/CAM center has 4-axis DENFORD CNC Milling Machine, a Compaq AP250 workstation. Software available at the center includes MATALAB R 12, Micro Station Modeller SE, FEMAP 7.0, CSA / NASTRAN and CSA / GENSA, ESPIRIT, M Sc Marc 2001 and M Sc Mentat 2001.

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES

One of the main objectives of the Institute is to carry out industrial research and development work in Foundry, Forge & related fields to help the industry in their growth. R & D programmes cover the areas like Pattern design and manufacture, Sand system design, Die life estimation, Forgeability-determination, Evaluation of Lubricants, Melting, Methoding of Castings, CAD & CAM of Casting and Forging, Failure Analysis, Mechanical and NDT Testing, Chemical & Instrumental Analysis, Environmental & Pollution Control, MMC & P/M Forging.

DOCUMENTATION & INFORMATION SERVICES

NIFFT houses one of the best libraries in the technical field. This vast reservoir of knowledge is a source of constant value addition to the students and faculty members. The four-storeyed library's rich collection includes over 31000 books, 3560 bound volumes and 215 current periodicals in Manufacturing, Metallurgy, Materials Science and allied areas. In addition, it has CD-ROMs on various aspects of engineering, up-to-date standards both Indian and foreign, technical films, tapes, slides, microfilms, microfiches etc. OPAC facility to the user through the software 'LIBSYS" is also available. The Institute has entered into reciprocal understanding with the International Library and Cultural Center, Ranchi.

TRAINING, PLACEMENT AND LIAISON CELL

The cell is a centralized agency of the Institute for liaison with Industries to provide in-plant training and placement to students of various courses through campus interviews. The Cell also arranges to obtain industrial problems to be taken up by the students as their project works as well as consultancy/continuing education assignments from the Industries.

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