SUMMARY OF INDUSTRIAL VISIT

On receiving the letter of permission from TVS Motor Company, Hosur. A Batch of 24 students
of 2nd semester M-tech from Product design & manufacturing, Computer integrated
manufacturing & Machine design departments along with 1 faculty member visited one of the
plant of TVS Motor company which is located in Hosur, Tamilnadu. On 22/04/2019.

The Visit was Guided by Associate professor Dr. P.V.Srihari from Mechanical dept. & co-
ordinated by Mr.Raghu kumar H.S. from 2nd semester of PDM branch.

Mr Sandeep Kumar (Manager – HRD Learning centre of TVSM) was the industrial visit
approval authority to whom a visit request letter was drafted from the college . Mr Vishal P
(HRD -Learning centre TVSM) was the single window contact from TVSM, who coordinated
with the college in making arrangements of industrial visit. Contact details of the company are
enclosed in the report.

The TVSM plant is around 48.5 kms from the college & we started our journey from the college
by 12.50pm on 22/04/2019 by a private mode of transportation (a 25 Seater mini bus). The
journey lasted for around 1 hour & 15 minutes. There were some speculations about restriction
of state permit vehicles entry into Tamil nadu border. However since the TVSM plant is located
exactly at the state border check post, there was no worry of crossing the check post.

We reported to the security of TVSM at 2.10PM .After completing the security formalities, Mr
Vishal P received us in the gate & gave us a brief introduction about the company’s history ,its
Products, awards, achievements & the current manufacturing capabilities.

All the visitors were instructed much earlier to wear shoes compulsorily before entering the
plant. Aprons were provided for the women visitors at the gate.

Mr.Vishal guided us to inside of the plant by around 2.50pm & gave a introduction about the
two wheelers which were displayed at the entrance. Later he took us to Automated CNC
Machining cells which were used for machining engine components like crank cases, cylinder
heads etc. These cells were fully automated & robots does the job of loading & unloading the
parts into the machine without any intervention of Human operators.

Then we were taken to Radeon engine assembly line & the visit was concluded at Vehicle
assembly line.

Below given are the key learnings by the students during this visit.

OUTCOMES OF THE INDUSTRIAL VISIT

Key learning’s by students :

 Overview of the organisation’s capability in producing two wheelers.

 Awards & recognitions of the company in the two wheeler sector.
 Introduction to Best practices that are being followed by the company.
 Main Plant visit at Hosur gave an overall insights of how a two wheeler manufacturing
company operates.
 Witnessed Fully automated machining cells , which carryout machining operations on
engine components like Crankcases, Cylinder heads etc. Component loading into the
machine & unloading from the machine is carried out by robots without the intervention
of operators.
 Basic information about cycle time & Takt time.
 Witnessed online quality control monitors & charts.
 Witnessed SOP( Standard operating procedures) & QCPC ( Quality control process
charts) displayed near machining bays.
 Witnessed Radeon Engine assembly line where the components of the engine are
assembled on the moving conveyor by the operators. Understood the concept of line
stoppage & the efforts of the engineers to keep it up without any issues to meet the
planned production targets.
 Witnessed Radeon Vehicle assembly line where the entire vehicle is assembled on the
moving conveyor by the operators. Inspection activities that are carried out on the vehicle
during its assembly was observed.
 Understood that the vehicles which has more demand by the customer has to be produced
in large quantities & hence conveyor line is used for assembly of such vehicles.
 Though Paint shop visit was restricted, the overhead conveyor of painted petrol tanks was
observed.
 Witnessed BMW Vehicle assembly line where the vehicle is assembled on moving bots
unlike conveyor line. Since the production quantity of such vehicles are less & it involves
lot of meticulous assembly operation the vehicles were found to be assembled on
transbots.
 Appreciated the stringent quality measure taken to test each & every vehicles on test
track.
 Witnessed material transportation by moving transbots (Automated guided vehicles).

On completion of the visit & security formalities we came out of the plant by around 4.15
pm .We started our journey back to the college, on the way we had a little refreshment at
A2B restaurant on Hosur road & later reached the college on time as planned.

Key contacts for Industrial visit at TVSM (Hosur):

 Mr Sandeep kumar
Manager- HRD-LC
Mail : v.sandeepkumar@tvsmotor.com
 Mr.P Vishal
Industrial visit coordinator- HRD-LC
Mail : industrial.visit@tvsmotor.com
Ph : +91 (4344) 276780, Extn: 3613

Address : TVS MOTOR COMPANY, Haritha,

Post Box no 4, Hosur,
Tamil Nadu 635109