The Director-General of the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI), Professor Olusegun Adewoye, says the agency is set to mass produce the digital weighing scale developed and produced by its development institute.
Speaking on Monday in Onitsha, in south-eastern Nigeria at the launch of the ’made-in Nigeria’ weighing machine,`’DIGISCALE ’ produced by the Electronics Development Institute (ELDI), Adewoye urged the manufacturers to apply for a license to mass produce the product.
He said that there was no need for Nigeria to import some office equipment, especially by government ministries and agencies as the institute could produce them locally.
Adewoye, who handed over the machine to the government-owned postal agency, NIPOST, said that the institute had qualified engineers who needed to be encouraged by the Nigerian government to bring their experiences to bear on the overall development of science and engineering infrastructure in Nigeria.
He said that ELDI decided to produce a programmable digital weighing scale for NIPOST to actually show that Nigerian engineers were capable of producing such and other machines.
According to him, the machine produced for NIPOST is a desktop equipment with double- faced digital readout and has the capacity to weigh parcels at specified rate and cost payable by customers .
The Acting Director of ELDI, Mr Emeka Ezekwe, in his speech said that the production of a computerised version of the DIGISCALE had reached an advanced stage and that the system would help users to guard against fraud, maximize profit and serve customers better and faster.
“This version is to be interfaced with a computer system from where all weighing data and information of the sender and receiver of a letter, a parcel, or goods are stored in a database that can be queried at anytime as well as wired through a network to a central computer at the main office or other offices at different locations,’’ he said.