Recognizing you have been at internship for almost a week, you probably have a good handle on the project(s) you will be working on for the remainder of your internship. Describe what your project(s) is/are, the development of your project so far, include any links, documents, or photos about your project. Please also describe your next steps. ** Remember to be descriptive with your project details. We want to be able to fully understand your project(s) by what you write in your blog.
Wow! Already a week at my internship and it seems like its only been about 2 days. From the beginning of internship, my mentor already had a project for me to work on. I came in at the right time where one of the machines had a non-working part that affected its products. It might not seem as great for the company but how convenient is it that I was looking for a place to intern at, that involved engineering where one of the equipment parts wasn't working properly.
I will be working on an Automated Filling Machine and a pump filling process. Behind the machine are two bowls where small vials and caps are placed in. The machine places the vials correctly which then slides down to where liquid is placed in the vial. Next, the bowl with the caps, is given the correct value that spins the cap on the vial. The 2nd to last step would be where to machine give the right amount of torque to make sure the cap will not fall off or is neither too loose or too tight. Then the vials are slided across to workers who place them in boxes.
Before I even began my project, there were a few terms I had to start memorizing.
1. Cp- Process Capability
2. Cpk
3.SD- Standard Deviation
4. Six Stigma- DMAIC: Define/Measure/Analyze/Improve/Control
They are all connected from the data to the machine. Even though this is such a new environment and subject that I've needed to become used to, I still need to understand how all of these components connect with each other. I've learned so much, but I haven't been working at this as long as my mentor has, so I still got a long way ahead of me.
I will be working on an Automated Filling Machine and a pump filling process. Behind the machine are two bowls where small vials and caps are placed in. The machine places the vials correctly which then slides down to where liquid is placed in the vial. Next, the bowl with the caps, is given the correct value that spins the cap on the vial. The 2nd to last step would be where to machine give the right amount of torque to make sure the cap will not fall off or is neither too loose or too tight. Then the vials are slided across to workers who place them in boxes.
Before I even began my project, there were a few terms I had to start memorizing.
1. Cp- Process Capability
2. Cpk
3.SD- Standard Deviation
4. Six Stigma- DMAIC: Define/Measure/Analyze/Improve/Control
They are all connected from the data to the machine. Even though this is such a new environment and subject that I've needed to become used to, I still need to understand how all of these components connect with each other. I've learned so much, but I haven't been working at this as long as my mentor has, so I still got a long way ahead of me.
For the past week I've been entering data on a Torque and Weight Excel Sheet. The yellow bars indicate the UCL (Upper Control Limit) and the LCL (Lower Control Limit) or the max and min. If any of the values go beyond the yellow bars then that gives us the warning that later in the future there would be an amount of rejected products which is what we are trying to avoid. It also shows that the machine would need to be fixed in order to receive data that will be more consistent. But as you can see the majority of the points are centered. The graph shows the values that were collected from the Filling Machine. Now I will be working on the second Lot. On this graph (which we still have to input data in) the yellow bars indicate the WARNING SIGN. This means that when a point reaches on or above that range we would need to recalibrate the machine parameters so we wouldn't receive any more complications. The black bars are the UCL AND LCL. |
Now on to Measuring- Pump Our new pump for the Filling Machine arrived just a few days ago and has been working fantastically. Since one of Sekisui's regulation is quality, I was able to experiment some tests to indicate whether the pump was able to give exact and consistent results to each vial that was being filled. This requires numerous tests in order to know that in the future no complications will occur. Unfortunately the scale I was using was giving me appropriate results but not accurate ones. So I might have to start from the beginning. But as you can see from the sheet, we were receiving amazing results that was in the range we wanted it to be, meaning the pump would be qualified to use. |