On 14 April 20011, UMT-IIE Student Chapter arranged a visit to Sanpak Pvt. Ltd. The visit was for academic and learning opportunity. The visit was coupled with a tour of the facility along with a chance to work as an IE and perform Work Study and Method Engineering tools at some of the work stations. It was a great opportunity as an undergraduate student to get hands on exposure to the things that we are learning in our university. The leading person of the whole program was Prof. Salman Butt who is also the Co-Advisor of the student chapter.
We were received at Sanpak by Mr. Atique Tipu who is the Operations Manager. We were seated in a nice meeting room. After a brief introduction of all the students and the Sanpak staff we were introduced to GM Technical Mr. Amir. After the introduction it was the presentation session which was quite interesting.
The first presentation talked about how Sanpak Pvt. Ltd is a joint venture with Japanese Company Sanden and that they manufacture Automobile Cooling systems. With over 70 years of Sanden Corporation's technical, management and manufacturing know-how, Sanpak created confidence throughout the region as an OEM supplier capable of meeting stringent technical specifications of some the world's most prestigious automobile manufacturers. Their customer portfolio includes every Automobile Manufacturer in Pakistan such as Honda, Suzuki, Nissan, Toyota and Hyundai to name a few. Their line of products in this field is MFC (Multi-Flow Condensers), Aluminum Heat Exchangers, Compressors, Receiver Driers, HVAC, Coreless Pancake Motors. All Products and of Sanpak are certified by ISO: 9001, TUV CERT, ISO: 14001-2004. They use Nocoloc Heat Exchanger, Hose Crimping Machine, Automatic CNC Bending Machine and Automatic Paint Oven.
After company’s introduction we had Mr. Asif who is an industrial engineer their and is working for productivity and efficiency enhancement. He presented to us various methods that their team is applying their and how it is improving their productivity. His presentation was of the Process Engineering Department. The department follows 4M as their top priorities i.e. (Man, Machine, Method and Material). This basically comes in Ishikawa diagrams where causes of events are drawn on simple charts but they help get to the cause of events. In applying Six Sigma they are using DMAIC approach i.e. (Define, Measure, Analyze, Control and Implement). Using these techniques they are keen for productivity improvement. Using these techniques in the manufacturing of Alto and Mehran systems they have achieved 15% productivity enhancement. They also perform Method studies where they are doing process study, motion study and total research. They are also performing Work Measurements where they are calculating Working Hours of their works and dealing with them in Work, Time ratio. Using Kaizen and Lean Manufacturing thoughts they are improving their lines and their efficiency.
The visit was of an intense educational experience and I believe for any undergraduate student such visits and hands on experience is necessary. These things help student frame their mind to understand their responsibilities that they will be expected from in the future. Industries and Universities should combine themselves together where Students should be taken to such places and perform Case Studies then in their classrooms students should be given tasks to solve problems. In this way understand of student can reach up to a new level where not only they are learning the techniques they are also at the same time applying them to real world problems.
