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Industrial visit

Industry: GENERAL MOTORS

Date: 26 th April 2011.

Place: Talegaon-Pune

Company visits are a part of our curriculum in the College in MBA, To introduce us to the Manufacturing

reality, way a real company functions, its activities and clients, its products/services and issues such as how

companies plan their new marketing strategy, how they deal with competitors and other such challenges.

Visit to General Motors production plant situated at Talegaon in outskirts of pune.

It is India’s second manufacturing plant of GM in India, the first being in Halol, Gujrat.

The new plant have an initial production capacity of 140,000 units per year

The new facility at Talegaon is spread over 300-acres of land and was set up with an initial investment in excess

of Rs 1400 crores.

company’s annual manufacturing capacity to 225,000 vehicles annually.

GMI produces its compact cars Chevrolet Spark and Beat from the Talegaon,

while other models such as Chevrolet Tavera, Optra and Aveo are made at Halol in Gujarat. The location choice

is based on the availability of skilled workforce in the Pune area and the existence of other auto and auto

ancillary facilities in the region.

Company profile:

GM US based company.

In 1996, entry in india with 50-50 Joint Venture with Hindustan Motors.Joint Venture failure and re entered Indian markets with their brand OPEL.

At GM Talegaon plant is equipped for production of small car segment for Chevrolet that is BEAT and

SPARK.

The plant layout was such that facilitated the movement of material from one shop to another.

The palnt is divided in 4 Sectors

Press shop

Body shop Paint shop

General assemble

The Press shop had a direct access to the incoming raw material i.e. steel, from the gate which had a directentry to the press shop, where the material is pressed and given a shape as required using a dye i.e. a cuttingdevice. The shaped panels for the chassis are then moved to the Body shop where these parts are joined



together with the help of welding and pneumatic press. The production process at the plant is a Straight lineproduction line, wherein every part of the chassis moves in a single production line.

In the Body shop have 3 stations. In the 1 st station the dashboard and floor of the car is fixed, in the 2nd station side body, rear and the roof of the car is fixed.

Finally at the 3rd

station door fixing and back dikkie are fixed.Now the skeleton of the car is ready,The body send to CMM (Car measuring machine)In this section body is checked and measure the accuracy if defect is found then they makes correction.Then they send to paint shop

Now the Skeleton Body moves to the Paint shop The body get painted by automatic machine. The color is selected as per the market design.

The body is ready to go to general assembly line . Which is next step in productionThere are 18 stations in the GA and the car takes approximately 148 sec at every station. In total it takes 6 hrs

for the first car to be ready.

In GA there are 4 operation lines, In the 1 st line, trimming of any extra material etc is done and floor carpets are fixed. In the 2 nd line the front and rear glasses are fixed. This line uses a robot to put the glue for fixing

the glass. The tyre axle are put in place in this line. In the 3 rd line, engine and lower chassis line are put in place. Finally it goes to the 4 th line where interiors and seats of the car are fixed in place, steering is put

in place Now the car is ready but some testing is required for the perfection which is:

Water testing Tyre tsting Oil filling

Now production line is ready with a brand new Chevrolet spark/beat,Now time to take test driveAfter oiling the car goes for a Sneak & Rattle test which is more like a Test Drive.Any unwanted sound or faults found during this test has to be fixed.

This visit was a great learning experience for me as a student. I was able to relate it production and operation management which I m learning this semester, and also able to relate with other subjects like

HRM : how to manage 1600 employees at a time, working in more than 1 shift. CSR activity : they are also involve in Some of the CSR activity like teaching in

school, distributing stationary to poor children etc Business communication: how to deal with external and internal work force. OB: How to behave in organization & handle certain situation. Also learn motivation, Cross culture, etc

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My learning from industrial visit are as follows:

Time mgt in every operation.

Discipline: to follow the correct path while walking in production area. which was applicable for every

one How to manage time in limited period as in the GA the time is very crucial.

Coordination among the workers.

Leadership- to give the instruction.

Use of Just in time inventory to cut on inventory cost.

Work in different working condition

Total quality management

Customer satisfaction

Motivation- the non monetary or rather say the hygiene factors that could motivate the workers were

there. The canteen was one example, which was huge and very tempting!

Least idle time between operations.

Keisen technique for Quality management.

Using a mix of man and machine wherever required.

Corporate social responsibility-

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