Narrative Report

Work Immersion
Torres Technology Corporation
Brgy. Makiling, Calamba

We, the machine and equipment maintenance program, conducted a narrative report

regarding the work immersion of Talisay Polytechnic Institute in Torres Technology Corporation

at Brgy. Makiling, Calamba, Laguna from November 18, 2019 to November 29, 2019. This

narrative report will help us to apply the knowledge we had taken in the program.
 DAY 5

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

concluded their first day with high spirits.

 DAY 6

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.

Their trainer discussed the Importance of Maintenance in to Organizations, the tasks,

jobs, and responsibilities of a Maintenance Engineer, and the Maintenance Stages in

Organization. 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 defects. The other responsibilities of Maintenance Engineer is to perform routine

inspection-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

doubled-check everything in order to prevent maintenance; lastly, Total Productive Maintenance,

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 fire fighting 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. 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.

 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

and creating instructions, and better communication skills.

 ]0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000DAY 8

On the 8th day of work immersion at the Yazaki-Torres Group of Companies, the trainees from

the Machine and Equipment Maintenance were grouped into two. Ten trainees were designated

to the Lubrication Area while the other ten went to the Inventory. In the Lubrication area, the

trainees were given a task where they need to learn the proper way of cleaning and lubricating an

applicator to maintain it in a serviceable state and to prevent it from rusting and having defects.

Sir Joseph, one of Torres-Technology’s employee, taught the trainees the step-by-step process on

how to lubricate the applicators. After the short tutorial, the trainees were assigned to lubricate

14 applicators in which they successfully performed. Meanwhile, the other half of the program

was assigned on to the inventory where the trainees were given a task to list down the part

numbers of the machines in the stock room and sort them according to their rows. This group

was later on divided into two, 5 boys and 5 girls, by Sir Rey, the Machine and Equipment

Maintenance instructor. The activities started at 8:30 AM and was finished just before lunch

break, 11:30 AM.

After the lunch break, Sir Rey met up with the Machine trainees and taught them on how to

properly measure terminal wires using a micrometer. He then stressed the importance of

checking the measurement of these wires as a single minor defect can cause inconvenience to the

user of the product, specifically automotive drivers. The operators of the program, Sir Erdig and

Sir Rey, also performed a simulation of assembling, disassembling and replacement of crimping

dies using the trainees’ steps and key-points list.

At the end of the day, the Machine trainees were joined by two other programs which were

Logistic Management and Product and Design Development to make their daily journal and

reflect about the things that they’ve learned.