Our 1st day of internship in Phiimco start in the administration office in Human

Resource office with ma’am Ivee Rose Q. Gacho an HR officer for an interview and
discussion about the rules and regulation they have in their company. Orientation of the
different departments and their role for running the company. Moreover, after the discussion
we proceed to the maintenance office with Engr. Sharven D. Rubenecia to give more
information about the company and their responsibility for the production of matches.
Phimco started in 1962 and acquired by the Swedish Match Group. Since then, the company
carried the distinction of being the most modern and integrated match factory in the Far East.
In the following years, the company likewise diversified into forestry. In 1980, the company
changed its corporate name to Phimco Industries, Inc.

Phimco Industries, Inc. is located at F. Manalo St., Punta, Sta. Ana, Barangay 898,
Manila, is one of the two manufacturing plants that produce safety matches in the Philippines.
A total of 131 employees occupies the compound for Administration, Logistics, and
Production areas.

In maintenance office, in one possession of Engr. Sharven D. Rubenecia they are

responsible for maintaining the operation running. If there was abnormality or malfunction in
the machines present in the production area, they will immediately resolve this problem as
soon as possible. As maintenance officer, they have different maintenance categorized. First
is the Preventive Maintenance, which is the act of performing regularly schedule maintenance
activities to help prevent unexpected failures in the future. The second one is the Predictive
Maintenance, also referred to as condition-based maintenance, involves performance
monitoring and equipment condition monitoring during regular operations to reduce the
chances of a breakdown. Corrective maintenance is the process of restoring assets after
unplanned downtime. It includes trouble shooting, disassembling, readjusting, repairing,
replacing, and realigning equipment. The last one is the Breakdown & Emergency
Maintenance, is the maintenance performed on a piece of equipment that has broken down,
faulted, or otherwise cannot be operated. When a breakdown happened, it needed an
immediate respond from the maintenance office in order to minimize lose. When there is
abnormality or breakdown reports, maintenance supervisor/technician will assess & evaluate
the machine after the evaluation, is the checking of the availability of the sphere parts in the
warehouse or request a direct issue spare parts from logistics or purchasing. If none of them
still available, a fabrication of the spare parts is considered. To start the fabrication, the
draftsman will provide the reference drawing and the request of materials and tools needed
for fabrication of spare parts to logistic/purchasing followed by the withdrawal of materials at
warehouse. After, is the fabrication of spare parts made by the machinist or the fabricator.
When the spare parts are ready it is followed by the scheduling of the machine maintenance
and assembly, installation, adjustment, resetting & testing. To turn-over to the production
department and for the performance monitoring. Due to the decrepitude of the machine using
for the production, it is needing a daily maintenance to run it properly and avoid a daily for
the operation. One of the oldest units they are using is the steam boiler in which it was
overdue to its lifespan. The boiler is responsible for melting the paraffin and drying of the
splint, the maintaining temperature for the steam boiler is minimum of 145 and maximum of
165 degree Celsius.

I was also able to watch many work pieces created in machine shop, such as the
fabrication of the adjusting screw, which I plotted and drafted using 2D CAD. During my
observation, the piece had gone through several processes, including cutting the steel shaft
with a power hacksaw based on the length of the adjusting screw, turning and phasing with a
lathe machine to ensure that both sides of the steel shaft are smooth, turning to narrow the
diameter of the steel shaft based on the dimension of the adjusting screw, threading, and
finally boring with a milling machine.

For the fabrication of spare parts, they have a machine shop that contain milling
machine, lathe machine, hydraulic press, cylindrical grinder machine, flat surface machine,
gear hover machine, power hacksaw machine, bandsaw machine, shaper machine, radial drill
press. To fabricate any kind of spare parts. We spent much of our time here in machine shop
for observation and familiarization of the function and operations of every machine, tools,
and equipment. Furthermore, we are able to familiarize also the different materials they are
using to meet the quality of the sphere parts they are achieving.

I met the machinists, Sir Gerald Espino, Sir Jayson Torres, and Sir Aurelio Supan, at
the machine shop. I was able to identify and comprehend various machining tools and their
applications. The machining tools that they use for fabrication are milling machines, which
are primarily used to machine flat and irregularly shaped surfaces and can be used to drill,
bore, and cut gears, threads, and slots, lathe machines (which are primarily used for shaping
metal or wood and work by rotating the workpiece around a stationary cutting tool), and
hydraulic presses (which are used in forging). This process involves the use of a cylindrical
grinder (a type of machinery classified by rotation style and wheel device), flat surface
machine (is done on flat surfaces to produce a smooth finish), gear hover machine (is a
machine for cutting and shaping gears. The machine rotates the shaft at a high speed and
gradually cuts the gear's teeth. They are primarily used in woodworking, metalworking, and
lumbering, but can cut a variety of materials), shaper machine (is a reciprocating type of
machine used for producing horizontal, vertical, or flat surfaces. The shaper holds the single
point cutting tool in the ram and the workpiece is fixed in the table), radial drill press (It is
designed for machining large-diameter holes or large workpieces.

In our second week, while engr. Sharven D. Rubenecia was on leave, so I and my co-
trainee, Romil Mendoza, were assigned to Sir Joseph Rifa, one of the draftsmen in the
engineering maintenance office. Sir Joseph Rifa brought us to the technical room where solid
works modeling and 3D printing are done. He taught us the basic commands of 3D modeling
software as well as 3D printing, and the component that we manufactured was an impeller.

I was allocated to the logistics department, where I would spend the next six days as
an intern, three days in the inbound warehouse, two days in the purchasing office, and one
day in the finished goods office. On my first day, I was orientated by the logistics manager,
sir Jerry M. De Jesus, who also introduced me to the clerks in his office, Mr. Herbert Abelida
and Mrs. Raquel Mendoza, and outlined the logistics' roles and responsibilities. Then he took
me on a tour of the various areas under the logistics office. Sir Herbert provided me a list of
spare parts to familiarize myself with; the list contains commonly utilized spare parts by the
maintenance office. There was also a time when Sir Herbert asked me to undertake a raw
material inventory, and we traveled to several warehouses and storage rooms to see if the
actual inventory matched the data on the computer. Following inventory, he explained to me
the various slips and forms used in their office for various transactions, including the RIS
(requisition and issuance slip), RMS (requisition for material purchase slip), PRS (purchase
requisition slip), PO (purchase order), MVS (material verification slip), and MRR (material
receiving report). The following day, Ma'am Raquel directed me to sort documents pertaining
to monthly transactions, after which Sir Herbert instructed me on how to encode and make
PRS (buy requisition slips) for the orders as well as MRR (material receiving report). On this
day, I processed all slips and encoded all MRR and PRS. I also signed numerous slips on Sir
Herbert's behalf. Sir Jerry De Jesus assigned me to the purchasing office for two days, but
unfortunately sir Richard Fontanilla was not around due to its outside responsibility I was go
back to the warehouse and in the second day I met the purchasing clerks, sir Richard
Fontanilla and sir Boy Cuevas. Sir Richard explained to me the purpose of the purchasing
office, which is primarily concerned with contacting suppliers, canvassing for the quality and
fair costs of supplies, and other outside transactions. In the afternoon, Sir Richard directed me
to make a list of all purchase orders that will be forwarded for funding later; I also
photocopied purchase orders and receipts. Following that, I organized records and supported
Sir Richard with various tasks. On my last day in the logistics office, I was sent to the
Finished Goods office under the supervision of ma'am Cristina Samson, the FG office
supervisor. She explained the job of the FG office, which is to ship and track outgoing
matchsticks that will be sold and disseminated outside.

The three components of manufacturing match are the splint or the match stick, the
outer box, and inner box. Primarily, the splint or the match stick is polish by the GFA
machine for the cleaning in the FZD machine, followed by the splint leveling in the FOD
machine, and match stick making in which the splint is deep at the melted paraffin and head
composition mixture to complete the match stick. On the other hand, outer box making start
with the printing of skillet at CHAMBON VO500 machine as well as the friction composition
followed by gluing the outer box and raging at the KED4/KUB4. However, inner box making
start with slitting the cardboard jumbo roll and gluing the cardboard reels to make inner box
followed by inner box straightening by KEB6 machine. After these three components are
made, they are all combined at the ROG/ROM machine for wrapping at VAP/VAT machine
and for cartooning.