High pressure die casting is often the process of choice because of its cost effectiveness and superior quality. The process produces components that have tight dimensional tolerance, good and consistent surface finish and near net shape. This enables manufacturers to make cost-effective small volume runs and is also cost competitive for large production runs. Aluminium die cast components have the property of being very light weight with significant mechanical properties and are used extensively in the automotive industry.

However, defects are the real challenges for any die casting industry and the quality of a foundry can be increased by minimizing the casting defects during production. Industry's margin (profit) lies in rejected parts! Hence all the casting industries have a need address these issues on priority.

Keeping this in view, Indian Machine Tool Manufacturers' Association (IMTMA) is organising a training  programme "Defects Analysis and Trouble shooting of Die Cast (PDC) parts".

This programme will be conducted by Mr Padmanarayanan, a technology professional with over 5 decades of high quality experience in the areas of High pressure die-casting, gravity diecasting, Low pressure diecasting, SMED, Setting up tool rooms, productivity improvement and rejection reduction. During his professional career, he was associated with several companies such as Sundaram Clayton, Semoc Electric, Columbia Wheel manufacturing, Eqic Dies and moulds, Rapsri Engineering Industries, Dietech India, AR Die Casts, Hyderabad Engineering Industries, and Endurance Technologies.

He possesses over 60 certifications in areas such as Six sigma, Cost of quality, TQM tools, Understanding benchmarking methods, Time management, Quality management and several other areas.