The managing director of a small company in France who had invented a new technology in plastics moulding was approaching retirement. His children didn’t want to take on the business so he had found buyers in Vietnam.
Objectives
- To communicate with the buyers while the machinery was being shipped over
- To be able to explain to the workers and engineers on-site in Vietnam how the machines worked
- To request tools, or other technical help in order to install the machines
- To discuss the ground plans for the factory
Key elements of his course
- Use of diagrams and plans to practice describing the machines
- Simulating telephone calls with the buyers to confirm orre-negotiate terms
- Learning the names of industry-specific tools and processes
- As the project progressed (in a later course) dealing with problems which arose