Internship @Schaeffler

Internship Brief

The internship at INA Bearings Pvt. Ltd, which is a part of the Schaeffler Group and is the HQ of India, was a stipend internship. As an intern trainee my major project contribution was in Value Stream Designing. I made the value stream designs of the following product lines:

1. Chain Knitting Line
2. Segment 2 Products (Plastic cages and guide rails for the chain assembly)

My other secondary project was pertaining to the design of a Poka-Yoke for the Chain knitting line.

Value Stream Designing(VSD)

In simple terms, it is the study of the product, tracing all the processes, value added or non-value added, that are carried out on the product. Starting from the supplier end to the customer end, every process and inventory accumulation is studied.

Why use VSD?

• Helps in understanding various flows of product and the information in a firm
• Improves resource allocation for common resources
• Reduces the wastage defined by the Japanese TQM princinples
• Reduces inventory in the plant
• Increase the overall profitability of the inventory
• Improves logistics and flow of information