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Day 7
Day 7
Day 7
Day 7 was an exhausting yet fun and exciting day for the students of the machine and
equipment program. This was another day where they applied their knowledge in the field. It
began with the students reporting about what they had observed in the maintenance inspection
they performed the day before. The reporting took approximately 2 hours. After their break time,
the students went back to their respective rooms and they were lectured about the importance of
acquiring assembly and disassembly skills in performing maintenance. The next few hours were
then used to teach them about the parts of an applicator and how to perform a complete assembly
or disassembly of the item. After one of their instructors, Sir Rey, showed them the step-by-step
process of assembly and disassembly, they were given an hour and ten minutes to perform the
process with their partners. Here, the students learned and enhanced their skills in following
instructions, and performing a task with care and precision. The students then took their lunch
after everyone was done. After taking their lunch, the students, along with Sir Rey, tested the re-
assembled applicators. Each student was given a chance to try crimping terminals into the wires.
After testing all the applicators, the students were given a short quiz about the parts of the
machine they had disassembled/assembled, and the importance of having the proper skills in
performing maintenance. The students were then given an assignment to create a detailed step-
by-step process in the standard replacement of crimping dies. Their last class was Nihongo
wherein they had another quiz and learned new Japanese phrases and words which would help
them to be a globally competitive person someday. A lot has happened for the students of
machine and equipment maintenance for this day. They all went home tired but also packed with
new knowledge and skills that they may use in the near future such as active listening, following
The trainees under the Machine and Equipment Maintenance program’s fifth day marks their
first day out of lecture rooms. It was the start of applying what they learned throughout their stay
in the lecture rooms. The machine trainees, along with two other programs which were the
Logistics Management and Product Design and Development, had experienced the production
management. The day started with an hour of lecture about the things they will encounter such as
the main product of the Yazaki-Torres, which is the wiring harness, and the process on how it is
made. The lecture also included the part of wires, its colors and symbol, the tapes, the terminal
insertion, the organizational hierarchy, and the quality policy which is to accept, make, and pass
no defect. The instructors had an activity prepared for the trainees. It is an activity wherein they
will be graded based on the target quota. the activity has three rounds, and it gets harder in every
round as the target quota rises. The activity helps enhance the trainees' skills and tests whether
they will be able to finish the task and reach the target quota in a limited time. The target quota
rises while the time limit stays as 10 minutes per round. And that was what excites the trainees
under the Machine and Equipment Maintenance program as it was a challenge for them. The
instructors chose seventeen girls to work on the ‘Pre-Assy’ process, most of the girls came from
the Machine and Equipment Maintenance program. The Pre-Assy process is where terminal
wires are inserted into the connectors. They discovered that a system called “Suksok-Tunog,
Hugot-Hugot System” is used to make sure harness they are making would have no defect. The
remaining trainees, including the others at the Machine and Equipment Maintenance program,
were assigned on the ‘taping’ process wherein the wiring harness is being sealed with tapes.
Similar to the Pre-Assy process, the taping process also has a system, it is called the “Hagod-
Hagod System.” It was already afternoon when the three rounds were cleared. Although not all
reached the target quota, the trainees believed that they did good for a complete beginner. At the
end of the day, the trainees learned about teamwork. They learned how to devise strategies to
avoid delays and defects in the production. The day had been a blast for them. The experience
was unexplainable. The trainees under the Machine and Equipment Maintenance program
On the November 25 2019 declares the sixth day of Immersion in Torres Technology, the
trainees on the program “Machine & Equipment Maintenance” felt nervous as well as excitement
for this day this is the start of exposing their selves on activities that are related to their track and
the path that they will take in the near future. The first trainer who met them was Mr. (name)
Villanueva. He studied Industrial Engineering and currently working at the Yazaki-Torres Group
The trainees learned that the main responsibility of a Maintenance Engineer is to ensure that any
type of equipment that are used in order to form one product is working properly and have no
daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly, Performs routine maintenance, troubleshoot problems, and
make repairs and adjustments as needed, responsible for component and tooling control,
responsible for removing old equipment and installing new machine, and responsible for
machine improvements. They also learned that the three stages in organization are: first,
Emergency Maintenance where one is doing an action on the time of needed; second, Preventive
Maintenance, where one knew that one unexpected thing might happen that is why he/she
where the basic knowledge about maintenance was taught to the operators so that they may
immediately make an action to a minor failures that they can solve without seeking help with the
Professionals or Engineers. The trainees were enlightened as they discovered the answer to why
the maintenance should always be on the firefighting mode. And the answer to that is because a
minor failure or problem can be the root of big problems. It reminds them that they should care
on every little thing and think an action to solve in order to prevent huge problems and delaying
of production. Lastly, they have also learned the simple machine and the compound machine.
They were given some examples of these machines. After the lecture, they were given two task.
The first task is to draw three simple machine that they had encountered inside the production
workplace. They walked in some production places, investigate, and encounter different kind of
simple machine. The second task is to inspect some of the Machines inside the Torres-
Technology. The 20 student in the Machine & Equipment Maintenance Program were divided
into three groups. Every group were assigned to different workplace and given different criteria
for different machines. They started to inspect the machine as well as the workplace from 10:00
am. They inspected the machines (namely the Komax 488 ACCTM, the Kodera Casting
machine, the YCM 3, the YCM4, the Twisting Machine and the Tube Cutting machine)
thoroughly to make notice if there are any defects, errors, or disturbance on the workplace that
may cause accidents or delay of production. On the afternoon, the data that they gathered must
be presented. In every group, they applied the division of labor in order to easily finish the task.
They made a powerpoint presentation that are all about business context, scope of the report,
objectives of maintenance and inspection, their finding, the analysis about what they have
gathered, the general conclusion, and Kaizen improvement that they can recommend. Before
making a journal and going home, they have discussed some Japanese Phrases.