A Report on Industrial Visit (8th Mar. 15th Mar.

2012)

Companies Visited: Kandhari Beverages Pvt. Ltd.(Coca Cola bottling plant) Hindustan Closures Pvt. Ltd. Micro turners LSI Ltd.

No. of Students : 71

Faculty coordinators: Asst. Prof. Ms.Tejal Dhulla Asst. Prof. Ms. Pallavi Chandwaskar Asst. Prof. Mr. Reji Kuruvilla

REPORT

1. Industry : Kandhari Beverages Pvt. Ltd.(Coca Cola bottling plant)

Location: Baddi, Village Katha, Dist.- Solan (H.P.) Franchise owner of: Hindustan Coca Cola Beverages Pvt. Ltd. The founder of the company: Jaspal Kandhari. They have 3 plants one at Punjab, Haryana, and Baddi. Products: They produce 6 brands of soft drinks namely Coca Cola, Sprite, Kinley (water and soda), Soda, Fanta, Thumsup, Maaza of 200ml and 300ml and Kinley water bottles of 1 litre. They have 2 separate lines. One line is for manufacturing soft drinks and another line is Plastic water bottles . Operations: Company has PET i.e. Poly-ethylene tetraphthalate plant. Plant runs on total automated system. Every operation is carried out by machines. They have shipping department, washing conveyers, bottle loading conveyer which loads 96 bottles at a time. Bottle rinser cleans bottles and same conveyer belt carries those clean bottles ahead where sensor prints names, labels and other details on cap of the bottle. Company has raw syrup room. Here water and sugar gets mixed up under pumping process. Before mixing, bags of sugar are unloaded and it goes through dust cleaning process. Sugar mixing is done at the temperature 86-87oC. Under high flow machines activated carbon get mixed with solution. Then syrup having the colour of water goes to next plant which is water treatment plant. Bacterias killing is carried out under this plant. Then syrup goes to next plant of flavour mixing. For every different flavour, different level of sugar is required. There are 4 tanks where flavour mixing takes place. For each new order company designs process separately. Company also has Ammonia refrigeration plant and Retainable glass bottle plant. Company maintains hygiene and takes care of employees. Quality philosophy of the company is:

Its our heritage. Its our promise to consumers. It adds value to our system. It makes us different, better and special.

Faculty with the plant employees

2. Industry: Hindustan closures Pvt. Ltd.

Location: Baddi, Village Katha, District. Solan, Himachal Pradesh. Plant head: Mr. Charanjeet Singh introduced us to the company. Products: Bottle preforms especially for Coca Cola Company, which are blown later to form a bottle. This plant produces 26,000 bottles in an hour. Preforms for Bottles of 1 liter, 2 liter and 5 liters are produced in this plant. Operations: Company uses a raw material known as Filets- Granual. This material proceeds to tank and it melts under heat. Then melted material is molded to shape like small test tubes. It is known as Preform. This Preform can be stretched to capacity as per requirement and then it finally forms a shape of a bottle. As per mould and pressure Preform changes and bottle of 1, 2 or 5 liter can be created. To store bottles is much difficult, so storing them in the form of preform as like test tubes is easier and convenient for any company. This company is mainly supplying bottles to Coca Cola and is situated nearby Coca colas Kandhari Beverages Pvt. Ltd. Company.

Faculty & Students with the plant manger and employee

3. Industry: Micro turners

Location: Village Jharmajri, Barotiwala District- Solan in Himachal Pradesh. Products: Mechanical spare parts for automobile companies. Operations: Companys clients are Yamaha, Honda, TVS, Bajaj, Suzuki, Kawasaki and CBZ. The spare parts are produced in different sizes according to their clients. They have standard measurement for maintaining their quality. They have 20 machines to make such spare parts and in a minute they produce 25 parts. In 1st department it consists of 6 cells plus grinding cell, Cold forging, Ratchet cell, Ratchet and bush cell etc. In 2nd department there is Bush cell and Driven cell. Other important cells are Cyl- grinding cell, Shaft cell, sprocket pop and sleeve cell. Working of departments is interdependent and every cell is connected to another so as to ensure that work would be in flow and would be complete on time.

Students with the manger and employee

4. Industry: Life Style Industries ltd.

Location: Village- Bairsen Post- Manjholi, Nalagarh, District- Solan, Himachal Pradesh. Products: Textile and apparels. The industry basically produces T-shirts for many national and international brands . Operations: It is a huge plant of investment around Rs. 300 crores. It consists of spinning unit, embroidery section, cutting section, printing section and production department. 30% of production operations are performed manually and remaining by machines. Company has expensive and upgraded machinery with them and some of them are software based. Company has knitting section in which there are 2 different types: Flat knitting and Circular knitting. Machines having CAD software are used for cutting. Use of machine helps in cost- reduction and reduction of human resources as well. At the end there is a person who performs the quality check after which the clothes are sent to the pressing section. At pressing section they use steam iron to save electricity and for fine pressing. In order to avoid duplication of their products they have a barcode system. On each fabric, company uses barcode tag which will help to identify each and every fabric.

Faculty & Students with the HR of ISL