Chapter 1: Background of The Campany: 1.1 Brief History
Chapter 1: Background of The Campany: 1.1 Brief History
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Meher Fiber Products Factory was first established in 1951 GC as Nicolas Papasinos
PLC in Akaki; located 20 kms southeast of Addis Ababa. It was primarily designed to produce
sacks made only from the locally available raw materials, processed from the fiber of false
banana. In 1965 GC, the company started to manufacture twine and ropes as well.
In 1973 GC, the ownership of the company has been changed from private limited
company to share company and the name to unifiber. The jute bags manufactured by the
company were used for flour, cotton, coffee, salt and pulses. Later in 1975 GC the ownership of
the company was completely transferred to the government and the name was changed to
Meher Fiber products Factory (MFPF) and organized under the national Fiber products
corporation. The company was then upgraded by installing 12 weaving and 3 sliver machines. In
general, the factory contains 70 weaving, 10 weft spinning, 4 twine and ropes spinning
machineries.
After the fall of the socialist regime the public development enterprise was
assigned to run the factory to curb the packing style of twines and enhance its competitiveness
in the market in terms of quality and to strengthen the capacity of the maintenance
department a spool binder and laze machines were bought in 2002. Furthermore, to overcome
and used in the factory starting from the year 1993 to 2004 GC.
At this time, the ownership of the factory is transferred from government to private
and owned by G- Seven Trading and Industry PLC. It has also a sister company called Ethiopia
Fiber Products Factory. The company has created employment opportunity for about 1300
employees.
The major products of the company are made of 100% Jute. Currently it is the sole
manufacturer of twine and ropes from the fibers of sisal and false Banana in the country. It
supplies its products to local markets, at reasonable price striving to satisfy the requirements of
its customers.
Besides the fact that Meher Fiber Product Factory is a major Jute bag producer,
Twines and Ropes are also produced as a product by which the raw material is imported from
Brazil.
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Some of the main products of Meher Fiber Product Factory are listed below:-
Grain Jute Bag (50 and 100 kg), Salt Jute bag,
Bag
G- Seven Trading and Industry PLC is a sole Jut bag producing factory. This makes all
grain, coffee and cotton distributors and exporters to be its customers. Among the many
Mehdin Hassen
Mussa Ahmed
Mekonnen Asmare
Zaki Hassen
Temam Muzein
Techno-serve/NGO.
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A. Managing Director (MD)
- Acts as a Managing Director, when the MD is not in the company except for
financial issues.
- Has the power to control raw materials.
- Daily observe and give information about production for the Managing Director.
- Prepare yearly budget.
- Consult the MD about all company’s issues, problems and give the possible
suggestions, etc.
D. Finance
- Controls the overall company’s cost and gives information for the MD.
- Collect insurance payments for the company.
- Pays employees’ salary.
- Allows Money (Cheques) for Purchase (Foreign and Domestic).
E. Project Research and Development
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- It helps the company to bring new technology which can help to increase
production.
- Research and Development and Human Resource Development are found under
this department.
- Helps to increase Machines’ efficiency and durability, etc…
- It is the responsible department for any domestic and foreign purchases, which
are the raw materials, spare parts, etc…
I. Administration
- Controls the overall quality of the raw materials before passing through different
processes, during processing and after the product is achieved. Different
measures are taken to minimize the defects etc…
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there are two ways of allocating students to industries for their internship program. One
of the ways was a chance given to students to find industries by their own and apply for
internship. The second way was choice of industries by the students from list given by
I have chosen G-seven Treading and Industry PLC from the list of companies given
by UIL office and been allocated to do my internship program. At G-seven Treading and
Industry PLC I have been working in Spare Part Engineering Consumption and Stock Control
Section Department.
Section
by senior mechanical engineers, who have long time experience in the company. Most
of the Fabrications in the Machine shop or repair of machines have to pass through
Spare Part Engineering Consumption and Stock Control Section Department. The senior
Mechanical Engineers give technical suggestions and solution to the problems pointed
The work flow of Spare Part Engineering Consumption and Stock Control Section
department is as follows:-
On the first week of the internship program the Department together with other
department gave internship students a chance to be in group and point out problems according
After we had well over view of the company Spare Part Engineering Consumption
and Stock Control Section Department set up four month Action plan for Mechanical
internship students and given us two projects to work on. The two projects given were
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Modification/Installation of stop motion in spinning machine and Design Die and punch
From all the projects I have given more attention to ‘Modification/Installation of Stop
Motion in Spinning Machine’ for the reason that the project mainly concentrate on
manufacturing.
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CHPETER 3: Modification/Installation of
Stop Motion in Spinning Machine
3.1 INTRODUCTION
Spinning machine is one of the most important and the bottle neck of the factory. And
its primary function is:
reduces the number of fiber strands per cross section area accordingly count
of the yarn
imparts twist to form yarn
Winds the yarn on bobbin case by maintaining yarn To twist the sliver to
yarn, this increases the strength of the yarn.
To change the sliver in to yarn.
To wind the yarn on the bobbin.
For drafting the sliver.
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are functioning in proper way. Proper functionality can no longer exist if the machines are not
Stop motion is a simplified geometrical mechanical element that is easy for maintenance
and handling. This element is installed at the spinning machine which is used to protect yarn
breakage by stopping the feed during operation of machine in irregular flow of sliver. The
working principle of the element is by weight balance mechanism that is it stops when the tip of
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In this stage we have dealt with the major hindering factors for lesser operation of
spinning machine stop motion spare part. In parallel there are other causative agents due to
human made sanctions. These and other related problems are listed below.
3.3 OBJECTIVE
General Objective
suggesting solutions for related problems in Meher fiver products factory to increased
Specific Objectives
Introducing the handling of the stop motion mechanism while operation.
Give training for spinning machine operators by research and development department.
Stop
Motion
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3.4 GOAL
Past our objective and by reaching the aim of fully working stop motion this project will lead
to the following advantages to the company.
Customer care of the company will be improving since the ordered product will be
3.5 METHODOLOGY
In the project of Modification of stop motion mechanism, to reach the objective and
goal we have passed through consecutive stage of operation.
The stage that we have started which was observing and following up the existing stop
motion lead us to realizing that some stop motions have their own problems which couldn’t be
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found on the other one. Hence we tried pointed out the most common and severe one that is
being an obstacle for the stop motion to operate properly.
The second stage is suggesting and designing different modifications for stop motion
mechanism the suggested designs can be manufactured easily and doesn’t damage the original
size of the spare part.
The last stage of our mechanism is trial and error; here modified elements are
manufactured and installed for taste at the machine. Since it operated well, we continued
modifying using the sample for mass production.
As a summary:
Observation: - follow up of the stop motion to identify where the problem lies.
Trial and error: - suggesting different solutions for the observed problem.
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Experimentations:-analyzing the difference of waste before and after
implementation.
3.6 ANALYSIS
The first phase of the analysis is recording data, before installing the modified stop motion
element throughout the machine. This is done to know the waste present because of absence
of effective stop motion and to compare it to the waste of yarn after implementation of the
project.
Doff Waste by Kg
1 1.5
2 1.3
3 1.3
4 1.4
The average waste per kg in each Doff ( single round spinning) is calculated
as follows:
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4
1.5+1.3+1.3+1.4
W av = 4
5.5
Wav = 4
Doff Waste by Kg
1 0.4
2 0.6
3 0.5
4 0.4
0.4+0.6 +0.5+0.4
Wav = 4
1.9
Wav = 4
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We can compare from the above numbers that after the modification the waste is highly
reduced with an amount of a difference 0.9 Kg waste, which is a great change on the
machine productivity.
3.7 RESULT
The result reached due to the implementation of the modified stop motion is
that the waste of yarn on spinning machine has decreased.
Before Implimentation
1.55
1.5
1.45
1.4 Before
1.35
1.3
1.25
1.2
Doff 1 Doff 2 Doff 3 Doff 4
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From the graph of waste before implementation of modified stop motion we can see
that that there is big amount of yarn waste. Also there is huge fluctuation of waste form
round to round.
After Implimentation
0.7 Fig. 6 waste after implementation of
0.6 the modification
0.5
0.4 After
0.3
0.2
0.1
0
Doff 1 Doff 2 Doff 3 Doff 4
The above graph of the
measured waste after the
implementation of the modified stop motion shows that there is a dramatic decrease of
yarn waste. Also the fluctuating waste has smoothed out. So this implies that the
modification has good result.
Comparison
1.6
1.4
1.2
1
Before
After
0.8
0.6
0.4
0.2
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The above bar graphs also demonstrate or compare and contrast the waste of the
3.8 SOLUTION
Mainly the testing of our different suggested designs (i.e. trial and error) had leaded us
From the suggested designs the ones listed below are chosen to be best working modifications
Increasing the angle of the tip by 110 as presented on the technical drawing.
Filling up the grove of the connecting link with thickness of 2mm. this is also
The increasing of the angle can be done by heating the tip by the help of oxyacetylene torch
The grove is filled up with arc weld, with thickness larger than 2mm. After that grinding the
3.9 CONCLUSION
From this project we have identified the most recognizable problems, collected data for
analysis and finally reach ground breaking solution on the modification of stop motion and
By going through our methodology, step by step we have reached to best solutions on
modifying stop motions. Also from the analysis (i.e. comparison of waste per kilogram before
and after modification) it is clear that there is much difference of reduction of waste. This
3.10 RECOMMENDATION
In this project we achieved a great result that we proved it practically which we got an
reached solution to the stop motion element modification. Hence, the company will be able to
what we have learned theoretically for this to happen, we have done different kinds of
project works by which the different theoretical knowledge have been applied.
Ü Sliver count,
Ü Yarn count,
gear).
Product Tests
In general, these all tests have been practiced and the equipments used for
testing are:-
Balance,
Meter,
work place. Almost all kinds of work require communicating with your partners.
When we communicate, we don’t actually swap ideas, we swap symbols t stand for
ideas. Words are just symbols that do not have inherent meaning, we supply use
them in certain ways to convey an idea or give it a meaning and no two people use
bring and culture which will pretty much vary invite widely in today’s work
environment.
Any communication is based not just on words but also on body language, tonality,
Operators,
Mechanics,
Engineers,
Every day in my work I made contact with these people to help me know the
different kinds of things about their working environment. This makes me to have a wide
knowledge and can easily communicate with their relatives about the different problems
different workers. This is because each and every department in the factory is dependent
one on the other. So to be fruitful there has to be good communication between each and
a good company, regardless of its size and service. A company with properly functioning
dedicated working team will always have a graph going up words. With different workers,
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working as different teams, such as management team, sales team and project team.
For the proper functioning of a team, each member must be sure of his mission,
vision, behavior, work style and goal. He must be personally professionally and
Team members must believe in one another and must be ready to work hand in
self –confidence and a well being feeling are important for all team members engaged.
Different project works have been conducted through research and development
department of the factory. The projects are made in group so that different kinds of
In our project works, different kinds of problems have been assessed from
different perspectives. I.e. I have made the project works in collaboration with an Industrial
Engineering Intern Student and this helped us to see things from industrial and textile
In general this internship program had contributed a lot in making students work different
kind of projects in group. This helps to share different kinds of knowledge from different
perspectives.
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4.6 Leadership skills
“There are leaders and there are followers” as the saying goes and developing good
leadership skills can create the distinction between the two. Many people believe a strong
leader is born and not made. This is not necessarily the case.
A leader is a person who has strong principles, courage and dedication to a clear
vision. Developing a powerful vision, building a strong team and bringing out the best in
group. This person is often a well-principles individual who is focused on a common goal
valuable to me. It is also essential for me to understand ethics. Great leaders will shoe case
their ethics and values in their behavior. A common problem that many leaders have is
One thing that all great leaders have in common is strong beliefs, once I
understand by believes I can next look at may group to determine if those beliefs are being
promoted.
To be a great leader I don’t want to waste to me worrying about things that are
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One thing that all great leaders have in common is vision. If I want to improve my
leadership skills I will need to have a powerful vision. But is not just enough to retain it in
The most top managerial position in the factory is Managing Director (MD). The person in
charge is the head of all departments in the company and so he is responsible for all the
I have observed that during every meeting it is the Managing Director that:-
talks, shouts, screams and reflects his own ideas. I think this comes from his personal
behavior besides the fact that he is the head. Although such kind of behaviors are
necessary, it is invite fair that every issues have to be discussed with those mangers/
Managing Director secretarial Office (MDSO), General Mangers and Administrative Manger.
So, here I want to point out that before making any decision it is better for the
future employments. Many employers indicted that a strong work ethic ranks at the top of
1. Arrive to work at least 15 minutes before the schedules start time this offers the
ability to mentally prepare for tasks. plan to work the time and days agreed up on.
2. Maintain a professional demeanor at all times. Be cordial and friendly to all staff in
the company. Refrain from allowing your home if to skill over into your employment
responsibilities.
responsibility. Seek to serve the interests of the company’s goals, objectives and
6. Strive to do the job right the first time. Quality and Quantity of work is a direct
work ethic takes the time to reproduce quality work. Take provide in your work.
7. Respect what others contribute to the work environment. Concentrate on your job
asset to any organization. Use empathy and self control when diffusing
disagreements.
Find the good in every situation. Negativity is infections and ruins norale .
productive; all of the employees have to be disciplined and ethical in their working
environment.
Punctual/on time
Not absent (except during special cases (death of family members, sickness etc…)
entrepreneurs are people who are able to develop new business and affect the
overall condition of the global economy. Given this, it is obvious that being an
entrepreneur is no joke. Aside from the stress of creating and running business , the
I given to them.
These skill are abundant; some, more important than other. All of them , however
are needed for a person to fully nature as an entrepreneur. But there is no pressure
though for any a spring business man to learn everything before he starts his
venture. Most of these skills are not even developed without experience. So it is
expected that a stat up entrepreneur is half prepared when he decides to pursue his
files. But then again, there are abilities innate to human beings that can be very
1. Self Awareness
This ability basically denotes having a sense of one’s self and knowing what
one’s strengths, weaknesses and biases are. This is pretty important for
entrepreneurs as this help them sort out through personal rubble and came up
with informed and reasonable decisions. Though this skill is inborn some
by other people’s influences that their own beliefs and preferences are forgotten.
2. Ingenuity
Ingenuity here is not only the ability to think of out of the box. It also means
being able to work out one’s way to the achievement of a goal despite
service or good and how they find alternative (feasible) ways to solve problems.
But entrepreneurs should not assume that ingenuity ends with them. Part of
learning and applying this skill is recording the ideas of others. This is how they
3. Love
Few consider this entrepreneurship skill important. But actually, this ensures a
more harmonious, accomplished and long lasting business. love means seeing
my employees and co-workers. Love means being able to bring out the best from
Entrepreneurs, who are able to create worthwhile goods and services, give a
greater impact to society, have loyal and well-trained employees and finally,
CHPETER 5: CONCLUSTION
CHPETER 6: RECOMMENDATIONS
References
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