Pakistan needs a workforce that is trained in essential and emerging networking skills, as well as non-technical skills like proficiency in English, team work, problem solving, creativity and innovation, and communication. But as of now we lack the right kind of faculty trained in these skills. So we need to find the teachers schooled in teaching these particular skills. One is not even sure if the Government of the day or those other political parties opposed to the ruling political party are aware of this skills gap. What is urgently needed is to set up state of the art digital training centers in the country on the lines of internationally recognised networking academies. We need digital skills in all career paths therefore we need to plan to make courses available for all students in technical institutions, regardless of their area of specialisation. At these academies, partners, customers, start-ups, accelerators and venture capitalists need to be brought together to solve business challenges with new technology and in the process create job opportunities to the trained manpower. Tiny start-ups are able to get their products to market faster, and reach a wider audience by leveraging established sales forces. Customers who come to the Innovation center for help need to be exposed to innovative solutions which lead to improved business outcomes. All of this means economic growth, and more jobs in the digital sector.

1. Future of Digital Fabrication and
its impact in Pakistan Market
By: Shams Uddin Khan

2. INTRODUCTION
• A new digital revolution is coming this time in fabrication
• It draws on the same insights that led to the earlier digitization of communication and
computation, but what is being programmed in the physical world rather than the virtual one.
• the extended toolkit available to designers via digital design and fabrication processes and
techniques, and their application in relation to architecture
• The proliferation of advanced modelling software and hardware has enabled architects and
students to conceive and create designs that would be very difficult to do using more traditional
methods
• The use of CAD technologies in the production of physical models, prototypes and individual
elements is increasingly widespread through processes such as CAD/CAM, CNC milling and rapid
prototyping

3. What is Digital Fabrication?
• CAD > Fab
• Machine is controlled digitally (computers)

4. An Introduction to 3D Printing, Laser Cutting and CNC
Milling

5. Technologies
• 3D Printing
• Fused Deposition Modeling
• Material for FDM
• Stereolithography
• Selective Laser Sintering
• Laminated Object Manufacturing
• Electron Beam Melting
• 3D Metal Printing
• 3D Glass Printing
• 3D Ceramics Printing
• Big Size 3D Printing-Endless chair

6. Technologies

7. Technologies

8. What uses Digital Fabrication?

9. Digital Fabrication In Pakistan
• In Pakistan, digital fabrication has started reshaping businesses
and the way the work is done.
• It has impact architecture, fabric, wood, agriculture and many
more industries.
• In Pakistan, Organizations know that if they are to stay relevant,
they have to embrace the digital age. But the way they execute
this transformation makes a big difference in whether they
achieve what they've set out to.

10. Digital Fabrication Challenges in Pakistan
• Transportation of all kinds, road, rail, sea, air as well as through pipelines has become digitally hi-
tech. And that is perhaps what we have to cope with as China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC)
project gets into top gear by perhaps 2020. China, the lead partner of the CPEC, is already one of
the world leaders of digital age while Pakistan across whose land the Corridor is being built is yet
to get through even the doorway leading to the digital age.
• Indeed, digital technology is becoming the central axis, rapidly redefining the way we live and
work. Countries, companies and social organizations are enhancing their use of technology to stay
competitive in the race to the future.

11. Conclusion
• Digitalization also necessitates new ways of working, as organizations become more collaborative
and disregard hierarchy, employees must adapt to new team structures, responsibilities and
deliverables. This can be done, but only if management and leadership are genuinely convinced of
the value of adapting the organisational structure and invest in this new way of working.
• Again, any company can digitally transform, in its own way. However, if they make every other
change but employees are not empowered, the digital transformation will not be successful.
Empowering people is the key to achieving profound and lasting digital transformation that
provides sustainable growth and inclusion.
• Pakistan, it appears, has so far failed to anticipate these changes and has remained more or less
indifferent to the need of vigorously embracing the digital age.

12. Action Plan
• Pakistan needs a workforce that is trained in essential and emerging networking skills, as well as
non-technical skills like proficiency in English, team work, problem solving, creativity and
innovation, and communication. But as of now we lack the right kind of faculty trained in these
skills. So we need to find the teachers schooled in teaching these particular skills.
• One is not even sure if the Government of the day or those other political parties opposed to the
ruling political party are aware of this skills gap. What is urgently needed is to set up state of the
art digital training centers in the country on the lines of internationally recognised networking
academies. We need digital skills in all career paths therefore we need to plan to make courses
available for all students in technical institutions, regardless of their area of specialisation.
• At these academies, partners, customers, start-ups, accelerators and venture capitalists need to
be brought together to solve business challenges with new technology and in the process create
job opportunities to the trained manpower. Tiny start-ups are able to get their products to market
faster, and reach a wider audience by leveraging established sales forces. Customers who come to
the Innovation center for help need to be exposed to innovative solutions which lead to improved
business outcomes. All of this means economic growth, and more jobs in the digital sector.

13. THANK YOU