OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT-II

Scheduling in NBC Bearings

Presented By:
Gaurav Bansal(191024)
Submitted To: Naveen Kumar(191034)
Dr. Neeta Gupta
Neeraj Chadawar(191035)
Nishanth P(191037)
Sanat Kumar(191052)
Shounak Mondal(191055)
 Company Profile

NATIONAL ENGINEERING INDUSTRIES LTD.

Founded in the year 1946 by the renowned industrialist, late Shri
B.M. Birla, under the name of "National Bearing Company Limited."

The first bearing was manufactured in 1950 with a modest start of

30,000 bearings in 19 sizes.

The company is now manufacturing nearly 3.8 million bearings per

month in over 500 different sizes

The name of the company was changed in 1958 to "National

Engineering Industries Ltd." retaining its original trade mark NBC.

Has three factories located in Jaipur, Gunsi (Newai), Manesar.

Technical Collaborations:
BRENCO Incorporated, U.S.A.;NTN Corporation , Japan; Izumi Kinzoku
Kogyo Co. Ltd., Japan

Products of N.E.I:-
 Spherical Roller Bearings (SRB).
 Ball Bearings.
 Roller Bearings Axle Boxes.
 Tapered Roller Bearings (TRB).
 Cartridge Tapered Roller Bearings (CTRB).
 Steel Balls.
 Large Diameter Bearings (LDB).

 List of Customers:-
Ashok Leyland, Maruti Udyog Limited , Hindustan Motors, Telco, Mahindra
& Mahindra, Escorts, Eicher, Crompton greaves, SPIL, Hero Honda etc.

Competitors: SKF, FAG etc.

The Manufacturing Process
Scheduling Practices at NBC

Raw Material
 Production Processes
 Maintenance Procedures
 Human Resources
 Finished Goods
 Raw Material
 Material like hollow pipes for races, wire for the balls, cages are
procured

 MRP is done before for the raw materials

 ERP is used for it

 Aims at that there should not be the shortage of material as well as

over-stocking of the raw materials

 Saves money, stops wastage, assures quality

 Procurement is done in batches based on Fixed Order Quantity

 Every Batch is given a number or tag which reads it day of

procurement and other supplier related details

 If the batch or a part of it is seen to be affected it is scrapped under

TPM
 Flow

Customer Demand Receive of the Inspection of the

from Sales Dept. Quotation Lot is done

Due Date, Quantity, Made Available to

Availability of Raw
Specification etc is the Production
Material is checked
conveyed Dept.

If its deficient, a
Purchase Trusted Vendor is
Production starts
Requisition to Contacted
Purchase Dept.
 Production Processes
Ball Bearing Division:

Consists of 4 main components Inner, outer race, balls &

cage

Cage is outsourced whereas rest 3 are in house

produced by Batch Manufacturing

Taking the case of outer race it has 3 surfaces to be

finished

Since same machine is used the setup times are

sequence dependant

Eg…
 Following Job is

Time in
OUTER INNER FACES
Min

OUTER 35 XXX 20 40
Preceding
Job is
INNER 25 15 XXX 40

FACES 43 30 30 XXX
 Sequence Setup Times

Outer-Inner-Face 35+20+40 95

Outer-Face-Inner 35+40+30 105

Inner-Face-Outer 25+30+40 95

80
Inner-Outer-Face 25+15+40
(Best Alternative)

Face-Outer-Inner 45+30+20 95

Face-Inner-Outer 45+30+15 90
 Human Resources
The plant is run 24x7 so managing the work force is an
important ask ERP is used

The scheduling is done in slots or shifts; Day divided into

three 8 hours shifts

The members of work force allotted has their week off at

different days of the week

This shares the load, rotates the workers, and sequence

the operations done by each of them on a particular day

Module for Learning & Development for employees

 Maintenance Procedures

Has a ERP module of preventive maintenance

All the equipments are registered in it and all the required

maintenance by the machine is registered in it

It has iterative six day schedule

Also maintenance module for breakdown and shutdown

are also present

A list of all Removable & Replaceable are available in the

ERP
 Finished Goods

The bearings that are produced are in batches.

Each batch is color coded with respect to the day or the

shift it has been produced

This is done to stock out the inventory before a certain date

and avoid wastage and spoilage
Inventory
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