1. Students’ Placement Office, IIT Kanpur
Project Verification Form

2. Title of the Project General Management to Increase System Efficiency
Commencement Date 6th
May, 2016
Completion Date 5th
July, 2016
Project Supervisor Mr. Sudarshan Lodha
Organization/Institution where the
Project was accomplished
JM Industries
Project Description: The Project “General Management to Increase System Efficiency” was focused on
general management which included capacity planning, implementation of a new system to increase
production, improve quality, data collection formats which can be used in future, updating old data,
improving material handling methods, storage solutions. During the project duration, I also focused
my time to merge two different processing departments into one common fabrication department.
Merger also included common floor planning of both the departments.
As a management internee, I also worked on ERP implementation. This included requirement
determination, GAP assessment, ERP- customization and configuration, readiness review and
delivery.
Department wise project detailed are as follows:
1. Casting Department: JM Industries is committed to manufacturing of Aluminium Extruded
Sections. Aluminium Logs are used as raw material in extrusion process. So Log casting is one
of the main factors of the company processes. Changes in technology and current casting
systems were suggested to eliminate problems like diameter variation of logs, log bending,
surface roughness, shearing & overflow.
Some key factors are;
I. New casting technology like “AirSlip® Air Casting Technology” will eliminate the
problem of diameter variation, rough surface, shearing and overflow.
II. Changing the cast moulds on regular interval and proper maintenance can also reduce
the variation in log diameters.
III. Double rope type casting bed has minimized the log bending problem to the lowest.
Proper maintenance of water quenching system will further reduce the problem.
2. Production Department: The goal here was to increase recovery thus daily production.
I. Online material rejection is decreased by more than 15% by fixing the die assembly.
Wear out die rings were replaced by new one which resulted in much shorter butt
discard. This increased the annual production by 200 Ton.
II. Rejection of extruded section can further be reduced by changing Conveyor belts of
parking bed as old (burned) belts leads to scratches. This will again reduce the
rejection by 5%
III. A new method (Software- Algorithm) is designed for production planning eliminating
manual work thus possibility of human error and man power requirement. This digital
data stored can also be used for future references.
IV. Daily Production Report was extended to collect important data like rejection quantity
and reason.
3. Fabrication Department: Currently, two different departments exist for fabrication.
Fabrication dept. provides services like Straight cut, Taper cut, Drilling, Punching, Bending,
Embossing, Part assembly, Notching.
I. A new floor plan is designed to merge both the existing departments and increase
efficiency.
II. Material handling & storage solutions are implemented in terms of Plastic Crates,
Wheeled Shelves, Racks, Trolley and Fixed Almira.
III. Changes in machine operating cycle are made to reduce the cycle time by 5%
IV. A stopper is attached to the double head cutting machine to cut small lengths. This
reduced machine setting time by 50%
V. Manual mode is promoted for single cut, which allows single saw action thus reducing
power consumption by 40% and 2% less material wastage.
VI. System was implemented to keep daily track of raw material and finished good.
VII. Production planning method is changed to profile (in house die profile) wise planning
instead of party’s part number. This will fasten up the fabrication process.

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• This form along with the certificate would serve as the official document between the project supervisor and
Students Placement Office, IIT Kanpur regarding verification of the student’s project work
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the Students’ Placement Office
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necessary action including de-registering the student from the placement season and reporting the misconduct
to the Institute Authorities.
Submitted by:- Project Supervisor Details:-
Name: Ankit Bansal Name: Sudarshan Lodha
Roll No: 13115 Designation: Manager
Signature: Signature: