Nupur Mungikar completed an internship at Volvo Group Trucks Operations in 2016. As a Lean Management Intern, she helped the Volvo Production System department extend their capabilities by assisting teams with daily meetings and KPI boards. As a Scrum Master, she estimated and managed sprint cycles to facilitate effective communication within the team. The internship helped her understand lean manufacturing concepts and how operations management supports the manufacturing process through continuous improvement.

1. Nupur Mungikar
Lean Management Intern
Volvo Group Trucks Operations
Introduction
In 2016 Fall, I pursued internship at Volvo Group Trucks
Operations. Volvo Group is a Swedish multinational
manufacturing company headquartered in Gothenburg. While
its core activity is the production, distribution and sale of
trucks, buses and construction equipment, Volvo also supplies
marine and industrial drive systems and financial services.
Currently, Our company have different focus areas and pillar
owners for supporting production activities beneficial for
manufacturing engines, transmissions and axles. As an
internship project, we helped the Volvo Production System
(VPS) department to extend their capabilities and supporting
all the pillar owners in their daily activities.
Role: Lean Management and Scrum Master
My duty is to assist the teams in daily meeting expansion and
KPI boards contributing to continuous improvement. Being a
Scrum Master, estimating and managing the sprint cycles to
have effective communication within the Team.
Internship Objectives
Agile Methodology
Analysis and Result
Conclusion
Contact information
Goal and Responsibilities:
 Facilitator for the meeting expansion for all the Value Team
Captains for all the focus areas
 Facilitator for the KPI boards expansion for all the Value
Team Captains contributing to plant level KPI board
 Acting as a liaison between Go Teams and the Volvo
Production System team
 Driving the sprint cycle and review estimates to plan the task
allocation within VPs team.
 Facilitator for the Target Image cascading and Go Team
assessments
Agile in Manufacturing domain:
 Agile practices were followed through out the Fall project
including daily Scrums and Sprint Planning for planning the
manufacturing activities.
 Scrum practices were set in place for the VPS Team to check the
feasibility of the agile practices in manufacturing domain.
 Agile project management worked well for VPS Team as different
and numerous tasks were coming our way in Fall.
 Understand continuous
improvement and VPS role
on a plant level
Learn lean practices in
manufacturing domain
including different Kaizens
and Gemba walks
Analyzed different KPIs and
increased the assigned
KPIs at the internship end.
Setup efficient communication practices for the VPS team
focusing on the collaboration and visibility while also
increasing accountability among team members.
Agile Scrum Board
Scrum sheet
VTC interviews and analysis
KPIs for Board usage
KPIs for VTC meeting expansion
Kaizen for Scrum practice
Artifacts
The Fall internship helped me to understand the lean
manufacturing concepts and how operations management and
supply chain management plays important role in the
manufacturing domain. This aided me in understanding the
existing production processes and how to leverage the
management skills to optimize the existing processes. I have a
sound knowledge of manufacturing domain now and how
continuous improvement plays an important role in order to
attain good results.
Nupur Mungikar
Email: nxm150830@utdallas.edu,
nupur.mungikar@gmail.com
Reference
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volvo