Industrial visit 18,19 January 2010

18 Jan, we go to Motorola in Penang Island for industrial visit. This is the first visit in this semester and we do this visit is due to the company need our help to solve some problems in the production line. Actually we can’t say it as solve, but more correct one is learning in the real case of industrial, because I didn’t have the steady basic about the knowledge regarding with the thing the request us to do. The engineers in the department seem pour a very high hope on us to solve the material handling problems, they thought that this project is our FYP, by the way, this is only the smallest subject of us in this semester, which is only 2 units. Each of us have our own FYP to do, plus some of the core subjects to clear before graduate, and a lot of us have skip our class to attend the visit.

Haha, seems it soon will becomes a complaint thread. People there request us to do everything, including help them to calculate, solve, balance the production line, reduce 7 types of wastes, educate the operators in the line how to do to increase the performance, travel every week there to get the data and information… more and more they ask for, we had no idea with how we going to travel every week to there, seem different individual having their different time of class to attend, again the transport problem. When we become their employees? Maybe our bapa ayam (lecture) get a lot of advantages from that already ==’’’. However, cannot deny that we can learn something from there, need to emphasis here is to learn and try to solve, so don’t put too much hope on us, since if it is easy to solve, you all already solved it… haha, try our best ya.in Queenbay, lunch before go Motorola

Another visit to Seagate, in 19 Jan. In this visit, we can see a lot of testing and examination process is held on the very tiny component that will use in the hard disk. The purpose of this visit is to know more about how they use the technology of the optical measurement machine to do for the checking.

After expose to 2 of these factory, now we start to realize that the boring life of an engineer, haha… and very soon we will become one of them. If we make comparison within two factories, both of them need us to wear smock and their special shoes to get in the production line. Motorola with tighter security procedure, and the guard aunty is very fierce and ganas one, we all very scare. We need to take out everything and undergo temperature test before get the authority to go in. Em, I will say that Seagate is more well organized, more systematic, whereas the production floor in Motorola is quite messy, and also a lot of machines breakdown. There are many old folks in Motorola, but in Seagate, we hardly see them. This may imply that the benefit provided from Motorola is better, so many of them wish to retire from there… haha, this is only my ‘bias’ opinion, forgive me if I am wrong.

Yahoooo~~ today when I pass by the notice board in my school corridor, finally I saw my name is there—kindly collect your cert in office. Haha, I don’t want to make this thread again become complaint and show off thread, before I get banned. I say say only ma…

Actually we got take some photo after the visit, but I haven’t get it yet, will post back later… stay tune