One of the world leaders in CAD space, PTC, is joining hands with CADD CENTRE to promote CAD education in India.

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INTERVIEW
“ Our Indian customers
need 1,00,000 PRO/E
trained engineers ”
Mr Rafiq Somani,
Country Manager, India Operations, PTC
Parametric Technology Corporation demand supply gap industries say
(PTC) provides discrete manufacturers they have software but no trained
with software and services for product manpower.
development. The company's Product
Lifecycle Management and CAD Every time I meet customers, especially
solutions are widely used by big automobile manufacturers, they
organizations in industrial, high-tech, tell me, “Mr Somani, if you are going to
“From aerospace & defense, retail, and give us trained manpower we will give
medical industries. PTC's major you more business.” In India, we have
twenty years products include: Pro/ENGINEER, about 3000 customers. In our
of my Windchill, Matchcad, ProductView,
CoCreate and InSight.
understanding, they require about
1,00,000 engineers who are trained to
industry In an interview to CADD Connect
use our software.
experience, Mr Rafiq Somani, Country Manager, What are the key challenges in
India Operations, PTC, talks about the reaching CAD training to students?
I believe career opportunities for trained PRO/E I think the key challenge is to spread
engineers in India and PTC's awareness among younger generation
CADD partnership with CADD Centre. about the career prospects in
engineering profession. Unfortunately,
Centre is Mr Somani is responsible for driving students do not understand the
one of the PTC India's growth in Product Life Cycle
Management (PLM) and Enterprise
benefits of good engineering
education. They want instant
best, Content Management (ECM) across key
verticals. Mr Somani is passionate
gratification quick graduation and a
BPO job with double digit salary. They
dedicated about about working towards social don't think long term.
causes. He is also the Chairman of the
and “The Aga Khan Economic Planning What are you doing to promote
Board for India.” awareness and increase trained
committed, manpower?
Excerpts from his interview: PTC is trying to encourage youth in
engineering India to take up engineering as their
design What is your outlook about the CAD
market and job opportunities in CAD
profession. We run lots of school
Programmes and let young students
training in India?
The Indian market is growing leaps and
explore our products. If they get
fascinated by designing technology
institutes bounds. India is becoming a back-end that create great cars, buildings,
knowledge hub for the world. However, watches,…they will choose
if it can improve its design productivity, engineering.
it can become a global leader. The
challenge is in creating more number I feel the product developers need to
of trained engineers. There is a very big invest also in training. For PTC, training

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is an investment. In India we are partnering training partners. We trained all CADD
with you (CADD Centre) and we are not Centre engineers and equipped them to
looking this as a business. We are ready to offer good training to the students.
give our products to you at cost price. Our
main objective is to increase the What are the advantages for students
availability of skilled manpower in the who are trained by an officially
industry. recognized institute?
Students get access to well-trained tutors,
In training partnerships, how do you authorized course materials and original
ensure the quality of course delivery? software, all of which should provide them
First of all we choose good partners. There a good learning experience. There are
are hundreds of training institutions
offering CAD courses. The reason why we The tutors at many unauthorized training hardly two to
are working with CADD Centre is because, institutions may not have full
you are the best. I believe from my twenty understanding of the products they teach. three training
years of industry experience, you are one They may be using illegal version of the
of the dedicated and committed software, which means the student is not
companies
engineering design training institutes in
India. Our customers have told me that
going to see full features of the software.
Also, such institutes may not have updated
that provide
good CAD engineers are coming out from course materials. authorized
your institute. We closely work with our
Pro/Engineer
courses for
advanced
modules
anywhere in
the world.
The average
cost of CADD
Centre
Mr Rafiq Somani launching new courses at Chennai
courses is
INR 6000,
which is very
CADD CENTRE Introduces Advanced much
affordable to
PTC courses at Indian Price Indian
CADD Centre-PTC partnership assumes
great significance to Indian students,
year. In 2009, the CADD Centre bought
1,000 copies of the software and
students.
considering the fact that across the globe, deployed them in over 100 centres. In the
there are hardly two to three training same year, CADD Centre trained 8000
companies that provide authorized people on PRO Engineer foundation
Pro/Engineer courses for advanced software this number is expected to
modules. CADD Centre is introducing increase to 22,000 by end of FY 2011.
these courses at Indian price. It is pricing
the PTC advanced courses of 40-hours at CADD Centre has recently introduced
just INR 6000 to make the course three new courses in addition to the
affordable for Indian students. foundation level programme - to teach
advanced modules of Pro/Engineer. The
Looking back, CADD Centre introduced new courses include: Advanced Modeling,
training of PTC products in 2002 with 17 Advanced Sheet Metal & Tool Design and
copies of Pro/Engineer software. From Mechanism Design (each is a 40-hour
this modest beginning, the partnership programme).
keeps strengthening by each passing