PART ONE

CHAPTER ONE

1.INTRODUCTION

Amhara metal industry and machine technology development enterprise(AMIMTDE) is

located in Amhara national regional state, south wollo zone, Kombolcha town, which found
380km away from Addis Ababa. Amhara metal industry and machine technology development
enterprise is a government owned company mainly applies reverse engineering principle and
sometimes it modifies machines. Reverse engineering principle is design any machine (which is
design before) without any modification and manufacture with available material. The main aim
to establish AMIMTDE has been to make a fundamental difference through a lead role in the
industrialization of Ethiopia. The intension of specialization of AMIMTDE is to design and
develop industrial plants of a paramount importance to the growth of the economy of Ethiopia.
AMIMTDE undertakes problem oriented agro-ecological based research on pre harvest and
irrigation technologies, post harvesting and processing technologies, animal husbandry
technologies and alternative energy technologies for developments, testing and popularization of
need based farm implement and machinery to increase productivity of the land labor through
time line of operations efficient use of resources, improvement in quality of products and safety
and comfort of farmers and reduce drudgery.

1.1 Background

AMIMTDE had established by Regulation no 127/2014 in order to Carrie out the task of
manufacturing and Commercializing metal and Machine technology product and Which is
capable &bringing about technological transformation to the Region by the way & resolving
those impediment having to do with the technological need for, Provisional and Vitalization &
teleology Within the manufacturing industry and Agricultural Sector.

Amhara National Regional State metal industry and machine technology development
enterprise was established in 1977E.C as origination by the name of “Kombolcha Rural
Development Technology Center.” (KRDTC) during that the center started to support farmers in
North-West Ethiopia for providing small scale machineries, bio energy sources, and rural
development technologies.
In the year 1978-1991 the center introduces the following farm machineries for farmers to get
more products. such as: animal drawn plow, tie ridge, broad bed maker, maize shaver, wheat and
barley thresher, rice thresher, bio gas, solar pump and milk churl.
But after 1991, the center has been re-organized with the objective of supporting the
sustainability of the agricultural development in the region through design, testing and promoting
agricultural implements. During this time, it was rearranged in prototype design and studies and
production and maintenance team. Finally, in 1993 the name of the center changed to
kombolicha Agriculture mechanization and Food Science research center and started to conduct
research on generating/selecting, developing, adopting and It promotes appropriate agricultural,
and mechanization technologies at the regional level.

1.2 Mission
Developing globally competitive technologies and manufacturing industries that are capable of
solving bottle necks in agricultural and industrial sector and insuring sustainable growth by
developing, producing and machine technologies.
1.3 Vision
To become one of the top ten technology capabilities in Africa up to 2025 and seeing the
developed region in near feature with great motto “Building Competitiveness.’’

1.4 Objectives
To realize the economic structural transformation of the region by supporting the agricultural and
manufacturing industry sector with a technology.

The major activities include;

 Agricultural technology generation
 Adaptation of agricultural technologies to the mandated areas
 Promotion of agricultural technologies in collaboration with other research
departments and other stakeholders in the region and outside the region.
The main products of the organization are;

 Manufacturing and selling of different technologies of metal machines

 Manufacturing and selling of spare parts
  Advising and training services
 Different water lifting, harvesting and irrigation technologies
 Harvesting technologies
 Threshers and Sheller’s
 Infrared food oven
 Milking equipment
1.5 The main customers and end users of its products or services.
 Comminutes, researchers and private sectors
 Health sector and different factories
 Agricultural research institutes
 Different governmental and nongovernmental organization
1.6 Organizational Structure of the Company

Figure 1 Organizational structure of the company

 CHAPTER TWO

2. OVERALL INTERNSHIP EXPERIENCE

2.1 Description on entrance of the company

As we know, WOU industry linkage technology coordinating center given as a letter to spend
our internship practice for three months. This letter links us with industries in order to practice
and acquire technical and operational knowledge in various sections of the industry. As a result
we had selected AMIMTEDE, because of the following reasons.

It has different workshops for mechanical engineering.

It is metal production company.
It is nearest production industry for our university.

2.2 Sections of the company we had worked

The company AMIMTEDE has different sections which are arranged based on their proper
order and arrangement of manufacturing industries.

Those are:-

 Metal cutting section

 Metal bending section
 Machining section
 Welding section
 General assembling section

During the internship period we had participated in all sections. The general working flows of
the shops are on the bases of mutual benefit.

2.3 Work piece

The work pieces we had worked in AMIMTEDE are;

 Sheet metal with thickness of 2mm to 6mm(for our garbage project)

 Bar metal with diameter of 40mm to 60mm
  Aluminum bar for training

2.4 Work shop

2.4.1 Metal cutting shop
We had worked on cutting metals by using
 CNC plasma cutting machine (up to 150mm thickness)
 Shearing machine
 Hack saw

2.4.1.1 CNC plasma cutting machine

CNC plasma cutting machine is a cutting machine that is used for cutting a sheet and plates.
CNC plasma cutting machine is operated in two ways
 By using electric current
 By using oxygen
 So by using these machines we had cut different sheets and plates to do
something for different purposes.
 We used mostly oxygen because it has high penetration power and cut easily
 CNC cutting machine is operated with acetylene gas which used to cut different
shapes such as, curve, circle and ellipse.