How Electronic Companies Can Improve Employee Abilities in the Fields of Precision and Automation

The electronic companies of Taiwan are well known to have the capacity of producing great products in high volume. These companies, including IC and 3C enterprises have played a very important role in the world market, because of well-trained staff, innovative products and processes, and sufficient high performance facilities. However, due to increasing global competitiveness, in order to maintain an edge, these companies have realized that multi-disciplinary training and education of employees is of great importance. Therefore, cooperative work with educational institution has been paid more and more attention on both sides. To meet the needs of electronic companies and to improve their capabilities in precision and automation, the National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences (KUAS) has developed a series of training and education courses to help these companies in enhancing the capabilities of their employees. These courses consist of: (1) Systematic design, (2) Computer-aided geometry design, (3) Computer-aided engineering of precision trimming processes, and (4) Image processing and machine vision. The courses have been conducted successfully and have been recognized by the chief executive officers with awards for effectiveness.