COOPERATING AGENCY

Takata has been engineering the precision of our products to the millisecond for over 70 years. We
have been driven by our dedication to save human life while embracing a pioneering spirit in developing
innovative products. Takata has spread this same thought process to all of our locations worldwide.
“Somewhere on earth, Takata products have saved the preciousness of human life today”. We continue to
challenge ourselves and our affiliates all over the world to develop new technologies so that people will be
able to experience the joy of life. Our dream is that some day there will be zero victims due to traffic
accidents. And we hope the day will come when the word “TAKATA” becomes synonymous with “safety”.

 1933 - Takezo Takada establishes Takata Company, a textile manufacturer in Shiga Prefecture.
The firm uses its weaving technology to manufacture lifelines.

 1952 - Stimulated by American research on equipping cars with seat belts, Takata begins its
own research on using parachute technology to manufacture seat belts. (At the time, the total
annual production of automobiles in Japan is 39,000 units.)

 1956 - The company incorporates as Takata Kojo Corporation.

 1960 - Production and sales of the first two-point seat belts begins.

 1962 - Public disclosure of Japan’s first seat belt crash tests conducted in cooperation with the
Ministry of Transport’s Technical Research Institute and the National Research Institute of Police
Science, ignites huge public response due to extensive media coverage.

 1963 - Japan Installs the first dynamic test facility to test our seat belt protection systems under
real-world conditions in Hikone. Takata embarks on mass production of seat belts as standard
options.

 1965 - Begins a series of crash tests with dummies which receives nationwide media coverage.

 1997 - The company (Takata Philippines Corporation) was founded in 1997 and is based in
Binan City, the Philippines.

We launched our operations in 1933, as a maker of woven textile fabrics. In the 1950s, we began to
develop seat belts for automobiles, and after that, we developed airbags, child restraint systems and
additional safety products. To prevent the rise in the number of accidents accompanying the progress of
motorization, Takata has worked to achieve its dream of “a society with zero fatalities from traffic accidents”
by improving automotive safety systems.

At present, we have 46 plants in 17 countries around the world and have put into place integrated systems
for development, production, and sales. Takata is a specialized supplier of automotive safety systems and
provide automobile safety components to our customers. In 1977, we became the first company in Japan to
begin the full-scale manufacturing and marketing of child restraint systems, Takata enjoys a strong
reputation for safety around the globe.

In its R&D centers in Japan, the Americas, and Germany, Takata is engaged in the development of new
safety products. Currently, we are emphasizing efforts to further develop total safety systems. We continue
working on systems to protect passengers directly: like seat belts, airbags, and child restraints (passive
safety) as well as new systems to prevent accidents from occurring in the first place (active safety).

Mission Statement

 Develop innovative products and provide superlative quality and services to achieve total customer
satisfaction.
 Respect various personalities and cultures and keep associates highly motivated under the Takata
name to pursue common goals.
 Be an active member of the community and contribute to a better society.
ASSIGNED UNIT

Airbag Production

FABRIC SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION

AIRBAG SEWING AND PUCNCHING

PROCESS 1 -12

Airbag Maintenance

PRODUCT SPECIALIST

QUALITY CONTROL/QUALITY ASSUARANCE

STITCH AND DIMENSION

STAMPING UNIT/SERIAL CODING

QUALITY CONTROL FINAL

QA TESTING/QUALITY TEST

FOLDING

The airbag maintenance section is the one who maintains good production of the machine to produce
proper stitches and good quality airbags without fluffs, filaments, loose and tight stitch, overfeed, twisted
thread, oil marks, improper dimension of stitch, stitch not interlocked and etc. we as maintenance ensure
that the machine works properly in order to ensure the safety of the operators and most importantly the
road safety of the costumers and to save lives. We have the ability to analyze every details of the stitch
leading to the nature of the problem and creating countermeasures and resolving the problem with proper
techniques and operations done.

3. The Duties/Task Assigned – a summary description of the work done within the required training hours
as stipulated in the work plan.

 Preventive – Cleaning and checking of the machine if there are parts that need repairs and
reconditioning and replacement, in order for the machine to be properly prepared on production to
prevent any casualties and irregularities on the product and maintain safety. This is done when a
line has a vacant time or a line has no production. Ex. Breaktime, and Holidays.
 Change Program – The setting of correct and compatible program according to the desired shape
and dimension of the stitch.
 Change Lay-out – The setting of machines on their desired places and position according to the
line leader and production leader techniques and ideas of speeding up the production. It must be
based on each process and must be well organized for the continuous flow of production. Must
secure properly the connection of the wires and air pressure hose in order to maintain safety.
 Change Needle – The replacement of over-used needles and broken needles.
 Repair of Templates – The fixing and polishing of edgy templates that is used to guide the sewer
and prevent the misalignment of stitch. Using sandpaper and loctite, polishing the sharp edges and
sticking the replaced part in order to maintain safety and prevent irregularities on the product.
 Troubleshooting – The repair of machines under the production and time pressure, whereas the
machine needed to be repaired immediately to prevent downtime in production. Applying different
counter measures on different nature of problem based from the own analysis about the irregularity
of the product. Every troubleshooting has an action paper for recording the machines condition and
parts.
 Fabrication – Applying the knowledge and skills on welding, grinding, assembly of parts, and
innovation, the maintenance makes innovation based on the ideas of the production leader or the
complaints and recommendation of the operator in order to ease the production and reduce hassle
that causes ‘No Good Products’ and also to maintain the safety of the product and the operators.
 Receiving and Delivering of Parts – This is where one plant of the company is lacking in supply on
a specific part of the machine and orders someone to deliver or request to the other plants of the
company where they still have some stack of the specified part.
 Checking of machines and Control boxes – This is where the maintenance crew has to check
every machine based on the machine list in order to know if the machines are in used or not, also
checks if the machine is running properly without any wiring complications and electric current
leakage that is dangerous and harmful to the operators safety.
  5’s – maintaining the company’s cleanliness and orderliness to prevent foreign materials and other
particle contaminations in the production and especially on the product.

4. An Assessment of the On-The-Job-Training experience in terms of:

4.1. Insights gained about the actual operations of industrial workplace/government offices;

The insights that I have gained over the past months on my OJT or training is that I learned on how to
socially interact with other people maturely and professionally especially on people and co-workers inside
the company, and to understand more deeper than what I see and know, to think outside of the box.

4.2 New development of skills/competencies acquired in the course training.

I develop my attitude and personality to handle things professionally and to react accordingly with the
situation, cause sometimes there are employees and operators that will throw unnecessary words to you
because of the pressure and that they have a lots of works and tasks to finish within a limited amount of
time but rather than me, getting offended, I accept the fact and did my very best to finish the tasks assigned
to me and the problems I accepted voluntarily without any hassle, pressure, and stress. And in terms of
competencies, I did not see the training as competition but rather I think of it as a playground whereas I did
not deal with the problems seriously but rather I enjoyed every situation, cause I know I have a lot to learn
because of the reason that I entered the training ground without a proper experience and with zero
knowledge about the works done in the Company. The only competition I conquer to win is within myself
that I tend to gain focus on every situation I’m in and think rationally and logically on solving the problem
without disappointing the production leader, the maintenance leader, and the Company’s expectation on
our school.

4.3 Usefulness of other technological courses to the training program; and

With Technological course experiences, it helps me a lot to survive my training program in terms of
theoretically analyze the nature of the problem, and by logically know each of the mechanism of the
different parts and how it was functioning and what is the purpose of that specified part, and also to
critically noticed and figure out the problem and error in order to know what countermeasure will you apply
in order to solve the problem and from producing more no good outputs and waste products. The
Mechanical Technology course helps me a lot on dealing with the machines without prior knowledge and
experience to it.

4.4 What did he/she like best and least in the training program.

What I like the best was dealing with the different members of the Airbag Sewing Maintenance Plant 3,
Operators on different lines, leaders, production leaders, product specialist, and etc. Even though they
have duty, work, and tasks assigned to finished early, they still did not forget to enjoy and love their work,
they still tend to face their work and problems positively by learning everyday, and by sharing their
knowledge and experiences to others especially to us trainees, OJT’s, and beginners. They tend to inspire
us despite the fact that they sacrifice most of their time and lives working, and also I like the best was
encountering the different culture, personality, and emotions of my co-workers and operators, I am happy to
discover and know their everyday lives, past lives, experiences, and their culture.

What I like the least was the time frame in work of schedule. The Japanese culture tend to wake-up early
and must be on time, you know, as a Filipino, I honestly enjoy dealing with Filipino time, it is a struggle for
me to adjust on the schedule, but I think this is part of maturity, to follow my duty and obligation on work.

RECOMMENDATIONS ON THE FOLLOWING:

The cooperating agency on the tasks assigned and on the management of the training program;

I suggest to them that it will be more effective if they teach us formally and with actual presentation and
practice rather than just letting us observe all the time, I think it will be more effective and in order for us
trainees to prevent of mistakes and unwanted error that can cause of ‘No Good Product’ which can be
prevented if they taught us properly and clearly. Also the time, if they gave us more overtime experience,
we could learn even more.

The would be student-trainees, if they want to make the most of the training experience;

I would be the trainee student who is eagerly wanting to learn other aspects and fields in industrial
manufacturing, I would like to be the student that would gain skill on other fields like electrical, and the
student who would want to learn more about PLC (Programmable Logic Computer), learn how it works and
functions, learn how to program the PLC machines and also I would want to acquire the skills that I haven’t
got on my course program.

5.3 The faculty members handling the course to further improve learning experience; and

I recommend to our faculty to support us more and be more patient on our requirements, and be more kind
talking to us students, because we are a rational thinking human being with a heart.

5.4 New technology to be adapted for instruction and research purposes, if any.

The new technology to adapt was about the Programmable Logic Computers where it is related to
Computer Numeric Control but I think PLC was a deeper subject and wider in terms of scope and use.
Combining the knowledge on the two subjects the CNC and the PLC, there are more things and wider
capabilities of innovation, we can learn more about robotics and other mechanisms, if we extend our
knowledge further and our idea, and research more about these subjects, there a lot to make, and it will be
a big help for the next researchers for improving the lifestyle in the society and helping the environment.

-Allan Nunez
TERMINAL REPORT

By: Allan T. Nunez Jr.

BSMT-4A