A 24 hour journey and I got to Nasik; Nashik if I say it in Marathi. First thing that came to bite me was the tax that I had to pay to Nasik Municipal Corporation for my computer, escaped it by fooling the guy on the chungi naka.
Then I met a friend of my senior, who worked in Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. He helped me getting a accommodation. Nice place for a public show with two walls of my room full of windows, all 5 feet high. I passed Sunday by visiting some nearby markets.
On the first day of company I met HRD people, who had no immediate plans for me. So on the first day I just read some reports of previous trainees and had some information about the company. I left from the company a little early as I had to look for a better place (remember those big windows, which worked like solar heater in the daytime). Second day I visited the Scorpio assembly line, but my plans were still in process, with HRD people. I got my schedule of orientation program at the plant, scheduled for the next two days. I had to visit the whole plant and then chose a department for the project.
Next two days I visited the plant. I visited:

1. Scorpio PU (production unit)
TCF (Trim, chassis and final line)
Press shop
Body shop
2. CME (Central Manufacturing Engg.)
3. PVT (Plant vehicle Team)
4. Body PU
Body shop
Body Supply module
5. Vehicle PU
Vehicle Assembly
Bolero Assembly
6. Improvement Cell
7. PPC (Production, planning and Control)

These two days were not like first two days and were very tiring. After visiting all departments next day I was told to make report on what I saw. So I spent half of my day in writing the report. In the rest half of the day I went to the Scorpio TCF as I could not visit it thoroughly in the time given to me.

I chose PVT to work in as it is the most challenging department in the plant. It deals with the customer concerns of all severity. Work in this department is not a routine engineering exercise. I met Mr. Venugopal, Head PVT, and he put me under Mr. Atul Patil, who gave me several problems to choose from which bothered customer as well as company regarding Bolero and Scorpio models. Out of many I chose to work on following problems:
1. Bolero exhaust pipe insulator twist (which I am working upon with Tanpreet)
2. A-pillar trim uneven gap.

On the same day I went to assembly line to observe the problem and this is how my first week went.




Week 2

Now I had something to work upon. First day I just observed the problem on the assembly line for a sample of chassis of Bolero to have an idea of the causes of the problem. On the next day I worked upon the cause and affect diagrams and got some engineering drawings. After that my work has been quite monotonous. I have been observing the assembly sequence of exhaust system to body and taking dimensions of different mountings on chassis.

Plant runs in two shifts 7:30 to 15:30 and then 15:30 to 23:30. Second shift is rarely operational. So the production in the plant stops at 15:30, but the important thing is that the set target for the day has to be achieved also so the workers sometime overtime without getting overtime wages to achieve the target.

My observation related to my project stops at 15:30 but I continue thereafter for the observational part of the training.

We had to visit the vendors of chassis and exhaust system for the correctness of dimension with the drawings but the trip has been not scheduled yet by our project guide.