The SAP (System, Application and Products in Data Processing)

This week, I had been introduced to a new software, known as SAP (System, Application and Products in Data Processing). SAP company application provide the capability to manage financial, asset, cost accounting, production of operations, materials, personnel, plants and achieved documents.

The process flow using SAP included:

1. creating the maintenance notification
2. processing the malfunction report and identifying Paper Mill tasks
3. completing the task
4. closing the report

In order to give me a clearer understanding about SAP, my Supervisor, Mr. Ten Kok Wai had given me the PM Module terminology to me as reference:

1. Notification- a nonfinancial transaction used to report a problem, request work or record an event or activity. It contains elements, descriptions, functional location, priority, source(reported by) and main work center.
2. Work order- a financial and work management transaction used to plan and change labor, material and services.
   
3. functional location- represents the place at which a maintenance task is to be performed and basically it contains the information such as which building, floor or room.
4. Equipment- individual, physical object that is to be maintained as an autonomous unit.
   

the shut down

Last thursday was the day where the factory shutted down the Paper Mill 1 machines for maintenance and to clear the residue in the water tanks. I had been assigned to follow another senior in the department, Mr.Fendi to clear the residue and check the condition of the paddle guides.

To clear the residue, the valve under the water tank was opened in order to let the residue in the water tanks flow out from the tanks and into the drain prepared. After the tanks were emptied, the valve were closed again and the clean water refilled into the tanks again. The workers cleaned up the residue using the waterjet hose after that.

For the paddle guides checking process, it included to check the alarm systems of the paddle guides and to make sure whether the paddles are right in its tracks. There are 2 switches placed beside the paddle. 1 is the limit switch and the other 1 is the shut down switch. these2 switches are connected to an alarm system in the control room. In some cases, when the paddles are running and rotating in a very high speed, it may go out of its track and may stuck in the rods and causing process error. Therefore, the limit switch is required to make sure that the paddle is on its track. When the paddle starting to derail, the paddle will touch the limit switch and a warning signal will be sent to the control room to alert the technicians to adjust the paddle's position. However, if the technicians didn't replace the paddle into its track on a range of time, the paddle will touch the shut down switch, and the system will shut down.

To check the alarm system, the technician will pull the limit switch and the shut down switch. Then he will observe the alarm system's monitor in the control room. If the alarm system is activate, it means the alarm system is okay. If the alarm system is deactivate, then further maintenance on the alarm system should be made.

first day of mine

yesterday was my first day of my internship
well~
maybe due to some kinda nervousness and anxious
i couldnt get a sweet and nice sleep on the previous night
hahahahahaha
i think most of my friends felt tat way too
coz this is the first time we are really involving ourself in the real plant and field

unlike most of my friends who need to prepare their attire themselves
my company, which is GS Paper & Packaging Sdn. Bhd. do prepare the full and complete uniform to every single employees in the corporation

the set of the uniform included:

1. a T-shirt
2. a Hi-Vi Jacket
3. a deep colour pant
   
4. Safety Helmet
5. Safety Shoe
6. Goggle
7. Ear plug
   

and the look I'm dressing in my uniform was shown above
haha

well~
the first day
It was really challenging to me!
after reported myself on the HR department
I was allocated to the Instrument Department
which dealing with all sort of devices, components, tools, equipments which require to operate the machine of the paper mill orderly and unmistakable

before I start my job,
one of the engineer there, I called him as my senior
brought me to have an on-site visit
It was really impressing and unbelievable!
I felt like I was in a James Bond or a Jacky Chan movies on tat moment!!

I saw a HUGE HUGE HUGEx100000000 machine operated in front of me!
so unreal~
since the process of producing the paper is a one-way process or "one-shot process"
it does not separate to many parts of process...
which means the input of the machine is the paper pulp
and the output of the machines will be the end product (recycled paper) already!!
so the HUGE machines is a combination of many many many giant gear wheels, spare parts, devices, components and pulp tanks

please visualize
so many things combine together
it became Huge!
there's no other adjectives I can describe tat "thing" other than *Huge*
haha
to give u a better understanding about the size of the machine
I ll make it a little bit "solid" for u
it is about the length of 7-8 terrace houses!

believe it~
O(∩_∩)O~

After all tat
I have been introduced to all sort of components in the workshop
converter, inverter, actuator, "pressure meter", temperature sensor, power supply, driver, calibrator, transmitter, transformer, potientiometer, limit switch, motor..... etc(x10000)
and i was like a little kid staring at those materials and elements because I didn't see almost all the instruments there
no even heard about their names since I was born

it do consumed some of my brain memory spaces on memorizing tat!

And
that was my first day in my field
sound interesting rite, doesn't it?!

looking forward for more adventures on the coming days~
haha