prabal - factory visit

COMMENTS ON FACTORY VISIT

We visited three factories on April 21^st, 2005:

• Aluminium sheet manufacturing unit
• Wood processing unit
• Plastic small water pump manufacturing unit.

Aluminium sheet manufacturing unit:

We visited a small aluminium sheer manufacturing unit at sudarshanpura area. It is thirty year old unit. The owner mr rajendra singh rold us the process of making metal sheet from waste materials. The waste utensils, bus body parts, wire scrap etc. it is melted in an air blasted oil fired furnace at 650 degree Celsius. The impurities are taken out with the help of chlorine. The molten metal is poured into book moulds. Then it goes through hot rolling or cold rolling according to requirement and the thickness of metal sheet is determined by the amount of pressure applied in it. then it is cut into circular sheets or square sheets . Lastly the sheets ate made soft by annihilation process and it is done at 400 degree centigrade. Mr singh showed us an another unit where machinery were being made.

Wood processing unit:

Post lunch w visited a wood processing unit. Mr samir weaton, an NIDian designer showed his advanced wood processing machines, he even demonstrated us each and every and made us understand clearly how they worked. The machines were so advanced that men’s skill was hardly required. He also showed us his design studio and tools shop.

Plastic unit:

Our last visit was to a water pump manufacture at sudershanpura, who manufactured small motor pump used for cooler. Almost all works were being done manually. Plastic granules were being used to make small machine parts by the help of moulds.

Overall, the trip was very enjoyable and informative.