Precision shows teachers how technology helps furniture-making

Stabroek News
Friday, May 11th 2007

Technology teachers paying keen attention at a workshop hosted for them at Precision Woodworking Limited factory.
Precision Woodworking Limited on Monday hosted 25 technology teachers from Georgetown at its Ruimveldt Industrial Estate factory to demonstrate how they use modern technology to create their furniture.
According to a press release the visit was facilitated by the Ministry of Education which wanted the teachers to see first-hand the advanced technology used to manufacture furniture for export. The factory said it was "pleased to be afforded the opportunity to impart technology from our operations into the Education curriculum." In fact, it said, the visit was simply an extension of its current practice of assisting in technology education for Guyana. Precision said it accommodates students from several post-secondary institutions such as the Univer-sity of Guyana, Government Technical Institute, the Kuru Kuru Co-operative College and the Mercy Wings Vocational Institute on work study attachments.
The factory said it treats its products as "engineered articles as opposed to a craft product" and the exercise allowed the teachers to witness their course lectures in actual practice and may have provided new information for their curriculum. Precision's products start with computer aided design drawings and the company has a database of all the furniture produced along with their associated parts, fittings and machining operations the release said. When an order is received printouts of all the parts drawings, machining operations and sizes are prepared for the factory floor. The parts are then "rough cut" using templates, then kiln-dried and machined to exacting specifications before being sanded. Each part is then inspected before assembly and packaging, the factory said.