Impact of Computer Aided DraftingTechnology on Industrial Organization in North West Nigeria

Abstract

Computer Aided Drafting has been available to the industries in practically useful form for a close to a century. It has evolved from being a complicated simulation tool available to mainframe computers and exclusively by experts working on special “CAD projects” to being accessible to any interested individual on personal computer. CAD plays a vital role on industries and academia in recent years. The aim of this thesis is to presents the findings of a research on The Impact of Computer Aided Drafting Technology in North West Nigeria Industries. The geographical area of the study is North West Nigeria zone which comprises seven (7) states, while the area of the study is three (3) selected states from the zone. The study sample is forty eight (48) computer operators in industry where purposefully selected. The instrument was face – validated by three (3) CAD experts in Kaduna Polytechnic. Cronbach’s alpha was used to establish the reliability and validity coefficient of 0.83was obtained. . Computer aided design is a modern method of design which has a shortage of personal to handle the program, the collected data was analyzed by using SPSS 16.0 versiona simple survey research design was use for the research work, The result shows that (1) All CAD operators surveyed in the study have different types of Educational background it depend on the types of industries or firm they work for, but it revealed that most of the operators of the CAD were usually trained CAD Draftsman and Draftsperson retrained for CAD. In conclusion (1) CAD should be approach as a necessary skills for a wide variety of occupations and not as a vocation in itself, this would require a conscious effort to open secondary school drafting to all students, not just in industrial programs.