BIW fixture design is having its limitations. BIW Fixture Designer will have some good knowledge about how to design fixtures for BIW panels. But product design requires additional skills. But it is not that a BIW fixture design engineer can't become a product designer. By acquiring some additional skills and good surfacing skills in CATIA v5, a fixture designer can become a designer. It all depends on the interest in the job and interest in acquiring additional skills and getting updated from time to time.
If you want to be in a better position you have to opt for courses that are available at various online portals and training platforms. These courses will provide masterclasses in BIW, Plastic trims, Electric vehicles, CAE, etc.
You can go through various job portals like naukri.com and also LinkedIn etc so that you will know what are jobs available in this line.
So keep a tab on the job portals also so that if you see some good company advertising jobs in your line of experience, you can apply there.
The following are some companies where you may have some good openings in the line.
1. Parimal Tooling Systems, Nanded, Pune.
2. Kudale Engineering Works, Bhosari, Pune.
3. Adh Drawings, Kurla, Mumbai.
4. Inventive Engineers, Bhosari, Pune.
5. Collinear Design Solutions, Thirunindravur, Chennai.
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