What I liked
I was assigned on a different projects and has day-to-day operations to work on. Need to operate the Safety and work instructions. This made me to understand the process flow and work with the shop floor employees easily. The project which I was working on is to check and standardize the gauge which used to verify the size and thickness of the product formation. I worked and analyzed on 10 different sample with 5 different types of spirals and also compared with 3 different types of gauges and did analysis part in Minitab Software. I reported the analysis part and finalized the Gauge which makes precise readings and implemented to use it in the production. The report is sent to other plants which makes the same production so that they can refer based on the their requirements and added in the SOP in the work instructions. I also worked simultaneously on the risk assessments made for the safety in the plant.
I updated the risk assessments for safety into the HSE+ portal for the entire plant during the summer semester, which led to an internal audit score of 89%. When the problem with the spiral department's breakage of bands first surfaced in early May, I was working on another project at the same time. The bands will be used on the machinery to create spirals out of raw materials before being used to create fabrics. The bands breakage got very huge issue which make an inefficiency of spiral and having quality issue. I created a data entry form to measure how many bands were used daily on each machine, allowing us to quickly determine that three machines are using more bands than the others. Then, we did TPM on the equipment, swapping out the standard rollers for neuro rollers, which help the bands move, and the heater box and pressure appliance, which affect temperature and tension. After making these adjustments, our band-breaking rate has decreased from five per day to one per day/week, which is a steady situation. As a result, $5300 in monthly costs are saved. Based on the thickness of the raw materials, I also advised the supplier to produce thicker bands.
I resumed my remote part-time internship with the same employer in the fall semester. My daily tasks will include updating the employees' Monolink bonus work and working toward the plant-wide standardization of work instructions, which I hope to have completed by the end of the first week of December. If there are any machine specifications that need to be mentioned, the work instructions need to be updated and drawn in CAD. The updated work instructions must be uploaded in a certain format to the Quality Share Point site, which is accessible at all times to all VOITH employees. New hires should be able to comprehend the future extent of the standard operating procedures.
