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Hammad Hafeez Ahmad Raza: The Islamia University of Bahawalpur
Hammad Hafeez Ahmad Raza: The Islamia University of Bahawalpur
By
Hammad Hafeez 2012-IU-603
Ahmad Raza 2012-IU-604
JUNE, 2016
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Acknowledgement
All praises be to Allah who guides us in darkness and help in difficulties. If ocean
turn into ink and all of woods become pens even then the praises of Allah almighty
cannot be expressed. He, who created the universe and everything in the universe,
Nothing can happen without Allah permission and every one in universe is
answerable to him. Numerous blessing for Holy prophet (PBUH), who’s preaching
are right pathway for our success in the both lives.
This scholarly endeavor would have been futile without the cooperative attitude and
constructive minded and aluminous guidance of Dr. M uhammad Ammar Khan
(Lecturer) Department of food science and technology.
It is matter of great honor and pride for me to have the opportunity of internship in
the Mitchell’s fruit farms limited. I would like great gratitude for Mr. Shoaib Awan
(Production Manager) and Mr. Muhammad Idrees (Assistant Production Manager)
for their kind permission to complete my internship under their supervision.
Also special thanks to the Mitchell’s management and working staff for sincere
cooperation.
Last but not least, I feel pleasure to extend my heartfelt unlimited thanks to my
loving parents, dear brother and sisters for their moral and financial support and
countless prayers for my success.
Hammad Hafeez
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Dedication
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Table of Contents
1 INTRODUCTION 8
1.2 Aim: 9
1.3 Vision: 9
1.4 Mission 9
2.2 Management 11
3 MITCHELL’S PRODUCTS 12
4 FACTORY TOUR 20
4.1 Sections 20
5 PRODUCTION DEPARTMENT 24
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5.1.3 Chickpea 27
5.1.4 Golden Mist Marmalade 29
5.1.5 Mixed Fruit Jam 32
5.1.6 Orange squash 34
5.1.7 Saag 36
5.1.8 Ginger Garlic paste 36
5.1.9 Ginger paste 37
5.1.10 Apple jelly 37
6.1 Laboratories 51
2) Incubation Lab: 51
7 MY SPECIAL TASKS 55
7.1.1 Downtimes 55
7.1.2 Boilers 57
7.1.3 Water treatment plant 58
7.1.4 Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) 59
7.1.5 Syrup Section 60
7.1.6 Weekly Progress Reports 61
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Abstract
Mitchell’s Fruit Farms is a public limited company. It focuses on the strategy of giving
consumers high quality products at low price. Mitchell’s follows focused differentiation. As their
target market is, all the people looking for quality products. The Production and Quality control
departments use different procedures for production and analysis of several products like jams,
ketchup, toffees, drinks and squashes. Sophisticated food processing machinery was installed and
additional products were added to a growing range of preserves, fruit, drinks, juices, canned
fruits, sauces and vinegar. I applied my theoretical knowledge into practical work. I learned how
to tackle with people in professional life.
During these eight weeks, I analyzed the work of Production department and Quality department.
I performed different analysis in production that is Filling Temperature Analysis of jams, jellies,
mango pulp and squashes. I also analyzed the temperature after cooling because it affects the
quality of the product during storage. I did work in Quality Control Department in which I
studied different quality parameters (pH, acidity, filling temperature, viscosity) of each product.
pH of Jam-e-Hayat, mixed fruit jam, chili garlic sauce and mango pulp was 72, 72, 45 and 17
respectively. Acidity of Jam-e-Hayat, mixed fruit jam and chili garlic sauce was 0.14, 0.64 and
2.5.
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1 INTRODUCTION
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1.2 Aim
It is aim at Mitchell's to provide you with healthy, innovative and best quality food that
will tempt your appetite at all times.
1.3 Vision
1) To be market leader in this industry by keeping in view the importance of healthy
hygienic nutrition food to customer for their delightness.
2) To be a company which optimally combines its people, technology, management systems
and market opportunities to achieve profitable growth while providing fair returns to its
shareholder.
1.4 Mission
1) To be a leader in the markets, we serve by providing quality products to our consumers
while learning from their feedback to set even higher standards.
2) To be a company that continuously enhances its period technological skills to remain
internationally competitive in this day and age of increasing challenges.
3) To be a company that attracts and retains competent peoples by creating a culture that
foster innovations, promotes individual growth and rewards initiative and performance.
4) To be a company which optimally combines its people, technology, management system
and market opportunities to achieve profitable growth while providing fair returns to
shareholders.
5) To be a company that endeavors to set the highest standards in corporate ethics.
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2.2 Management
Managing Director Mr. Mian Mohsin
Department HOD
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3 MITCHELL’S PRODUCTS
With nine categories encompassing over 140 products, we are proud to present the Mitchell's
family - products to grace your dining table on the breakfast and dinner occasions as well as
products to appease your sweet tooth.
3.1
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Total Products: 2
3.2
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6) Luxuree 30g
Enjoy a taste of the exotic tropical! Luxuree is a wonderful treat consisting of a pure, white
coconut core wrapped in rich, milky smooth chocolate.
7) Luxuree 8g
Enjoy a taste of the exotic tropical! Luxuree is a wonderful treat consisting of a pure, white
coconut core wrapped in rich, milky smooth chocolate.
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18) Jaam-e-Hayat
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Keeping in view the growing demand of Red Syrups, Mitchell's has launched New Red Syrup in
810ml and 1.5Litres Pet Bottles. Be ready to taste the refreshing experience.
22) Anniversary
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To commemorate the company's Platinum Jubilee, we take great pride in the launch of
Anniversary - a delectable selection of chocolates especially created for the discerning consumer
- as our way of saying "Thank You" to our loyal clientele for their support and patronage
spanning three generations.
Mitchell's new Super Milk Toffees are bigger in size and better in taste than any other Milk
Toffees, which will bring lots of fun and excitement for you to share with your friends and
family.
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4 FACTORY TOUR
4.1 Sections
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5 PRODUCTION DEPARTMENT
5.1.1 Jaam-e-Hayat
Ingredients
Sugar, glucose syrup, citric acid, sodium benzoate, polysucralose, Natural
Extracts; Rose, ushna, aniseed, kewra, color.
Procedure
1) Issue all the ingredients required for Jaam-e-Hayat from grocery and confectionary
store.
2) Take sugar and make sugar syrup of 80 brix.
3) Store Sugar syrup Into a storage tank for a specific time .
4) Transfer the syrup to a mixing tank and all natural extracts add to it.
5) Heat the syrup for a specific time then send it to filler.
6) PET bottles washed by a pressurized water spray in washer.
7) Fill the bottles with Product through the filler at 60˚C filling temperature.
8) After filling, Capper put the caps on the bottles and sealed them.
9) Cooling took place in cooling tunnel.
10) Progressively , Labeling, Coding and secondary packaging occurred.
Quality Standards
˚Brix 72
Acidity% 0.14
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Quality Standards
˚Brix 45
Acidity% 2.5
Viscosity (cps) 2500
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Flow Diagram
5.1.3 Chickpea
Ingredients:
Water, Salt, Chickpea
Procedure:
1) Issue chickpeas from grocery store.
2) Chickpeas soak in water tank for at least 4 hours.
3) After which these are put into Blancher which is working at 100˚C and completes one
turn in about 25 minutes.
4) Blanched chickpeas are weighed and fill in cans manually.
5) Then brine solution of 2-3 ˚Brix is filled by filler in remaining space.
6) Filled cans are passed through a closed conveyer which provides heat of 100˚C by hot
air.
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Retort Functioning
Venting 66-100˚C 3 minutes
Heating 109-126˚C 8 minutes
Sterilization 126˚C 15 minutes
Precooling 100-90˚C 6 minutes
Cooling 70-30˚C 35 minutes
Flow Diagram
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Cooking 04
Jar feeders 04
Filler 01
Capper 01
Inspection 02
Labeling 02
Label checker 01
Printer 01
Secondary packaging 06
Juice transfer 01
Total workers 31
Quality Standards
˚Brix 72
Acidity% 0.65
Filling Temperature 75
Quality Analysis
Date Parameters F1 F2 F3 F4 F5 F6 Average
Brix 72 72 71 71 72 72 71.67±0.52
25/6/2015 Acidity 0.65 0.61 0.62 0.65 0.64 0.64 0.64±0.02
Filling Temp. 75 76 76 79 77 76 76.50±1.38
Brix 71 72 71 72 71 72 71.50±0.55
29/6/2015 Acidity 0.65 0.61 0.62 0.63 0.64 0.64 0.63±0.01
Filling Temp. 76 76 75 74 76 76 75.50±0.84
Brix 72 71 72 72 71 72 71.67±0.52
7/7/2015 Acidity 0.65 0.64 0.63 0.66 0.62 0.64 0.64±0.01
Filling Temp. 72 76 74 75 75 76 74.67±1.51
Brix 72 72 72 72 71 72 71.83±0.41
15/7/2015 Acidity 0.64 0.63 0.63 0.56 0.62 0.64 0.62±0.03
Filling Temp. 75 76 75 75 75 76 75.33±0.52
Brix 72 72 71 72 72 72 71.83±0.41
19/7/2015 Acidity 0.65 0.64 0.63 0.66 0.62 0.64 0.64±0.01
Filling Temp. 75 76 74 74 74 76 74.83±0.98
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Procedure
1. Issue all the ingredients required for mixed fruit jam from grocery and confectionary
store.
2. Take the Raw apple, mango and orange.
3. Wash them and make pulp through the pulper.
4. Take sugar and make sugar syrup of 80 ˚Brix.
5. Mix fruit pulp with sugar syrup.
6. Make a mixture of sodium benzoate ,pectin , vitamin C and add it into a water in
chemical mixer at above 90 ˚C for 20-25 minutes.
7. Transfer the syrup into the vacuum pan and create the vacuum of 600 bars and set the
temperature at 100 ˚C for 45 minutes.
8. When we achieve our required brix add chemical mixture and citric acid.
9. After completion of cooking, transfer the product into the storage tank.
10. Fill jar with product through the filler at 80 ˚C of filling temperature.
11. Progressively, capping, inspection, cooling, labeling, coding, and secondary
packaging (Shrink wrap) has been Performed.
12. Then final product stored in go down.
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Capper 01
Screening 03
Labeling 02
Label Checker 02
Printer 01
Secondary packing 07
Total Workers 33
Quality Standards
Brix 72
Acidity 0.64
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Quality Standards
Brix 40
Acidity 1.65
Quality Analysis
Date Parameters F1 F2 F3 F4 F5 F6 Average
Brix 41 41 40 41 40 40 40.50±0.55
9/7/2015
Acidity 1.65 1.63 1.63 1.66 1.59 1.63 1.63±0.02
Brix 42 41 41 40 42 40 41.00±0.89
10/7/2015
Acidity 1.66 1.65 1.65 1.64 1.66 1.65 1.65±0.01
Brix 40 40 41 40 40 41 40.33±0.52
25/7/2015
Acidity 1.66 1.65 1.65 1.65 1.66 1.65 1.65±0.01
Brix 39 40 41 40 40 40 40.00±0.63
3/8/2015
Acidity 1.65 1.65 1.65 1.66 1.65 1.67 1.66±0.01
Brix 40 40 41 40 40 40 40.17±0.41
10/8/2015
Acidity 1.67 1.67 1.66 1.65 1.65 1.65 1.66±0.01
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Flow Diagram
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5.1.7 Saag
Ingredients
Saag, Spinach, Green pepper, Corn flour, Salt
Procedure
1) Take 80 kg saag and 20 kg spinach, wash it combine and cut with cutter machines.
2) Blanch it at 100˚C for 25 minutes in blancher.
3) Add green pepper, corn flour and salt in Stephan mixer and grind it.
4) Pour the processed material into a storage tank and provide steam within it to avoid
heat loss and fouling problem during filling.
5) Material transfer to the filler from storage tank and fill the cans at filling temperature
75˚C and speed of 67 cpm.
6) After filling of cans, upper seal of can is inserted by steam pressure which seals them
through a seamer.
7) Then cans are filled into iron pallets to insert them into a Retort. In retort following
operations occur.
8) Sterilized cans then stored for labeling when required.
Retort Functioning
Venting 66-100˚C 3 minutes
Heating 109-126˚C 8 minutes
Sterilization 126˚C 65 minutes
Precooling 100-90˚C 12 minutes
Cooling 70-30˚C 40 minutes
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3) Mix the ingredients at 80˚C and create a vacuum of 700 mbar and running time of
machine is 13 minutes.
4) The final product should have 11˚Brix.
5) After that, Paste transfer to the preserve line where filling process is done.
6) Progressively, filling, capping, precooling, cooling, inspection, drying, coding, labeling
and secondary packaging occurred.
Ingredients:
Vitamin C, Citric Acid, Pectin, Sugar, Allura red (Color), Apple flavor, Apple pulp,
Sunset yellow (color)
Procedure:
1) Issue all the ingredients required for Apple jelly from grocery and confectionary store.
2) Take Sugar and make the sugar syrup of 80˚Brix.
3) Take apple pulp and dilute it with water and achieve a 2-3˚Brix and give the stay time of
one day which results in settle down of fiber and other coarse material.
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4) Cleared floating juice is separated out and mix with the sugar syrup.
5) Make a mixture of, pectin and vitamin C and add it into water in chemical mixer at 90˚C
for 25- 30 minutes.
6) Add syrup in vacuum pan and create the vacuum 600 mmHg and set the temperature at
100˚C.
7) When we achieve 72˚Brix, stop heating and add chemical mixture, color, flavor and citric
acid.
8) Start heating again and create vacuum.
9) After completion of process, pour the product into storage tank until all entire product
consumed on the filler.
10) Fill the glass jars with product at 85˚C of filling temperature.
11) Progressively, capping, inspection, cooling, labeling, coding and secondary packaging
(shrink wrap) has been performed.
12) Then final product stored in go down.
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Seal Ok
Coding Ok
Number of candy /pouch 43
Line CIP Ok
Hygienic conditions Ok
Area Temperature 24.5˚C
Area humidity 36%
Flow Diagram
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Quality Standards
Viscosity (cps) 5000
Particle size (µ) 24
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5.3.3 Jubilee
Ingredients Composition
Nougatine Hyfoama Versa whip*
Salt
Ground Sugar
Water
Fat mix Cocoa powder
Skimmed milk powder
Socfat**
Syrup Sugar
Glucose
Water
Caramel Glucose, milk powder, water, salt, sugar, socfat, calcium,
lecithin,
Chocolate SMP, CBS***, sugar, cocoa powder, lecithin, vanillin****,
condensed milk flavor, butter flavor, chocolate cream flavor
*hydrolysed soy proteins (combined vegetable proteins) which expand at specific temperature.
** Socfat trans free shortening is a palm based blended fat specially texturized to impart plasticity and
smooth consistency that facilitate mixing and ease of us at ambient temperatures.
***cocoa butter substitute.
**** Vanillin is a phenolic aldehyde
Procedure:
1) Take ingredients for Nougatine preparation from grocery and confectionary store.
2) Prepare hyfoama by mixing versa whip, salt, sugar and water in defined quantities and
heat them at 79˚C (Company standards = 80˚C)
3) Prepare fat mix by mixing cocoa powder, skimmed milk powder and socfat at same
conditions as hyfoama.
4) Prepare syrup by mixing (180 minutes) water with glucose and sugar at same conditions.
5) Combine all three recipe in a mixing tank and product is called Nougatine .
6) Take ingredients for caramel and prepare caramel by cooking at 113˚C for 30-35 minutes.
7) Prepare Compound chocolate by mixing all ingredients in chocolate room.
8) Transfer nougatine and caramel to their specific feeders at conbar machine.
9) Lower layer is of nougatine and upper layer is caramel and both will combine and pass
through first cooling tunnel.
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10) After this dividers divide this material into layers of our required width.
11) Cutters will cut the layers into small pieces of specified length.
12) Chocolate enrobers provide the coating of chocolate to the product then coated conbar
will pass through second cooling tunnel.
13) Product is ready to pack on wrap machine.
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15) After homogenization, pulp moves to the sterilizer where sterilization takes place for 40
minutes at 110˚C.
16) Product is suddenly cooled by chilled water (10˚C) which cools down the product at 35˚C.
17) Now product is ready to fill the pouches under Aseptic conditions and moves to the filler
and fills the pouches aseptically.
18) Finally pouches are placed into drums which are stored for a long while.
Flow Diagram
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6.1 Laboratories
There are 5 labs which are as follows
1) Main lab
2) R& D lab
3) Incubation lab
4) Microbiology lab
5) Line control lab
1) Main Lab:
All the incoming raw materials are tested for their predefined Mitchell’s quality
standards. If the incoming raw material full fills the quality requirements then the product is
passed if not then the product is failed and returned to supplier as no compromise on quality
inputs. Viscosity of products, pH & TDS of boiler water are tested and a daily report is sent to
the Boiler Engineer. pH, Acidity of jams and jellies. Moisture %age. Particle size is tested. Li,
Na & K is tested in ppm with the help of flame photometer. FCMP is tested in main lab and
incoming glucose is tested in the main lab Vacuum testing of the canned products is tested in the
main lab.
2) Incubation Lab:
Samples are taken from the line from production section and these samples as one
sample per batch is tested and kept in the incubation lab chronically for two years and studied for
their behavior in storage. If any complain comes from market about product then the product that
comes from market is compared for its quality with the reference sample from the incubation lab
of the same batch code.
3) Line Control Lab:
This is very critical lab for checking the online production in the grocery hall for
its best defined quality. The instrument that is used in the lab is calibrated according to the ISO
standards. The titratable acidity, Brix and filling temperature of the product is noted if it matches
with the predefined standards then well and good if not then the production supervisor is given
the suitable suggestions to adjust the acidity , Brix and filling temperature.
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4) R& D Lab:
The products that are prepared by the R & D section are evaluated by the sensory
evaluation panel in the sensory evaluation lab and a Performa is given to the panelists and a blind
evaluation is done and their observations are recorded in the sensory evaluation Performa and
submitted to QAM.
5) Microbiology Lab:
Microorganisms’ plays very important role not only deteriorates the products but
also create health hazardous. Microbial testing is carried out to determine safety of workers,
products and process and working environment. Moreover water and Air microbial load is also
checked on monthly basis. All microbiology tests are carried out in micro lab.
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Calculation:
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7 MY SPECIAL TASKS
7.1.1 Downtimes
The time during in which a machine is out of action or unavailable for use is called downtime.
Purpose
To calculate our real total production in comparison with ideal production.
Types
According to Mitchell’s standards there are two types of Downtimes.
1) Major downtimes; Stoppage of more than 10 minutes
2) Minor downtimes; Stoppage of less than 10 minutes or 10 minutes
Further downtimes are classified technically as
1) Electrical stoppages
2) Mechanical stoppages
3) Utility stoppages
4) Supply chain stoppages
Working
1) We worked on processing lines to calculate all minor and major stoppages.
2) Sum up all minor and major, electrical, mechanical and utility stoppages.
3) Subtract the sum of all the stoppage times from total processing time.
4) For example, we have a total of 480 minutes in one shift and our production rate is 120
jars/minutes, so if we calculate our ideal production, it will be 480 x120.
5) If there is a break of 30minutes then remaining working time is 450 minutes, so now is
the need to subtract the downtimes, in this way we calculate during processing of
complete shift.
6) If we calculated the downtimes of 70 minutes then our remaining working time is 450-70.
7) Now our production will be (450-70) x120.
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Actual
Downtimes
Minor Stoppages
Point Electrical Mechanical Utility Total
Time (min) Time (mins) Time (mins) Time (mins)
Jar Feeders 0 16 0 16
Conveyors 0 0 0 0
Washer 0 0 0 0
Filler 0 0 0 0
Capper 0 8 2 10
Cooling Tunnel 0 7 0 7
Labeller 0 4 0 4
Jar Coding 0 0 0 0
Tray Coding 0 0 0 0
Shrink Wrap 0 0 0 0
Total 0 35 2 37
Major Stoppages
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7.1.2 Boilers
1) Boilers are necessary for any industry to produce steam for two major purposes, to
produce pressure and heat.
2) For these purposes, in Mitchells, there are two types of boiler i.e. oil/gas boiler and
coal/wood boiler.
3) There are two gas boilers having a maximum capacity of 4 tons/hour each.
4) Coal based boiler is a new one imported from china just two years back, with very high
capacity of 10 tons/hour.
5) In coal boiler, we can achieve a maximum pressure of 10 bars at 182˚C but usual
operating pressure is 7 bars at 173˚C.
6) In boiler, there is a water considered as optimum that is +20, while its has a range of -50
to +50, water level should not be down to +20.
7) Usually the temperature of feed water is 40˚C which is increased by an economizer
(increase temperature of feed water by exhaust gases) to 90˚C just before feeding.
8) The pressure of feed water pump should be more than the pressure in boiler to prevent
back flow.
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9) The pH of boiler water should be between 10.5 to 11.5 to prevent the attack of oxygen
and rust.
10) Maximum TDS of boiler water should be below 3500 ppm. When the pH of exhaust
water (containing exhaust gases of boiler) lows down to 2-3 then change the water or add
caustic soda to increase it pH.
11) Feed water analysis includes the hardness of water and TDS.
12) Boiler water analysis contains the tests for Hardness (CaCO3, MgCO3, phosphates,
sulphates), pH, and TDS.
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Aeration tank:
A compressor is set up near the tank which compress the air and provides that air in
the aeration tank .In this tank, we also provides media ( DAP 5 kg and Urea 15 kg) for the
growth of microorganism like Bacteria . After that process, bacteria growth starts in the presence
of oxygen and fertilizers. Bacteria decompose the organic matter which is present in waste water.
Gradually, water moves to the Clarifier tank.
Clarifier tank:
In this tank, agitator is worked out at 3 rpm through this agitator water moves slowly
due to which sludge is settle down. Clarified water float up and moves out of the tank by small
spaces present on top the tank. This water drained out in a nearly situated canal.
Availability %:
It is the ratio of running time of machine and total available time and multiplies
with100.
Availability% = Running time/Total available time x 100
For example, Total shift time is 480 mints and our planned time is 80 mints (50 mints for CIP
and 30 mints for brake time) and in this way our available time is 420 mints. In available time, if
running time is 365 mints and remaining time is lost due to down time losses then our
availability % is following
Availability% = 365/420 x 100 = 86.90%
Performance %:
It is the ratio of actual production by a machine and a standard production by a
machine and multiplies with 100.
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Syrups and syrup juice mixtures are prepared by using Pearson’s formula.
Q. Make a 650 kg juice of 40˚Brix from sugar syrup of 72˚Brix and mango pulp of 16˚Brix.
Pulp %age:
= 32/56 x 100 = 57.14
Pulp Required (Qty)
= 57.14/100 x 650 = 371.42 kg
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2) Confectionary plant
3) Pulping plant
And give us detailed instruction about processing. Then internship letter was issued from HRM
office which contains timing, instructions and schedule of our working days.
Introduction is briefly described above.
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2) On Tuesday, our duty was on preserve line where we observe the processing, filling
speed, capping, coding, labeling, and packaging of Ginger paste.
3) On Wednesday, we worked on processing of Garlic ginger paste and quality parameters.
4) On Thursdays, We perform the different quality analysis tests in main lab.
5) On Friday, our task was in pulping plant where we saw the whole processing and
chemical mixing of mango pulp.
6) On Saturday, our incharge has assigned a duty to check the quality parameters of Mango
pulp.
Conclusion
The production & quality control Department of Mitchell’s Fruit Farms Ltd. seems to be catering
to the needs and wants of the customer & employees very effectively and efficiently. But issues
like decentralized- decision making is still lacking. The control is mostly in the upper levels. But
the good aspect is that they treat their lower levels in a nice manner. Also the production and
quality control department is still going under its initial changes and need time to get settled in
the organization. As the technological advancement, is getting more intense with the passage of
time, the production department & quality control of Mitchell’s Fruit Farms Ltd. is trying its best
to settle the employees within the organization according to this advancement. The practices they
are performing in the organization and its rapid growth shows its effectiveness and the accepting
behavior of their employees shows they want this new change in the environment and want to
grow with the organization. Overall production & quality control department of Mitchell’s is
performing well; it is also providing its employees opportunities for their career development
and for their better future. I conclude
1) I did work in all 4 sections of Mitchells
2) Grocery, jam-e-hayat, orange squash, chick pea
3) Confectionary, soft and hard candy
4) Pulping plant, mango pulp (aseptically filled)
5) Chocolate Moulding Plant (Jubilee)
6) Case studies (OEE, Downtimes, Syrup Preparation)
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Suggestions / Recommendations
1) There are some machines/motors which are not covered, so they should be covered to
reduce accidents.
2) Some powerful motors when on they produce high vibrations due to which nearly present
pipes and other things shakes, which is dangerous.
3) The free friendly environment of workers during working can harm them. Worker’s
concentration should be totally on their work.
4) Washing the machines during filling of product produce splashes which can cause
contamination of food products, it should avoid.
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References
Resource persons
1) Mr. Shoaib Awan (Plant Operation Manager)
2) Mr. M. Idrees
3) Mr. Muhammad Umair Butt (Quality Assurance Manager).
4) Mr. Shoukat Ali (R & D Lab Supervisor)
5) Mr. M. Ashiq (QA. Lab Supervisor)
6) Mr. Zohaib Ayub (Quality Assurance Officer)
7) Mr. Fazal Abbas (Quality Assurance Officer)
8) Mr. Qasim Sikandar ( Microbiologist)
Website
www.mitchells.com.pk
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