Now, how often is it that a summer trainee gets to do something which has never been done before, on a machine which has been imported fairly recently from the United States of America, which is still awaiting its first ever specimen to be tested? Whether it was our college name or something else, in either case we have become the only students this summer in BFL, who have been granted the privilege of developing the testing procedure for this brand new machine for creep testing. Thus, our project would not only benefit us, but would also help the company tap into the growing demands of this newly developing field. After our project is done, Bharat Forge will become one of the only companies in Western India to have successfully implemented a creep testing facility, which has already received standards and customer specifications from major companies in India including giants like BHEL!.....
The centrally air-conditioned building and the state of the art research library, which quite frankly looked more like an executive lounge, were a pleasant change compared to the heat treatment furnaces and the other challenging and physically exhausting work environments we'd visited in the company plant so far. The library had books, research papers and articles varying from the tiniest details of fracture mechanics right to recent developments made in aerospace engineering, automotive parts, etc.
The canteen was awesome too! Today was the first time away from home that we feasted on such quality rice as is only found in high standard hotels, which is the least expected from an office mess. Quality sure increases with decrease in quantity! With the number of people lunching there limited only to about twenty, we took several helpings of that delicious cereal and chatted for a long time over our luncheon.
If only KCTI wasn't located in so isolated a locality so far from our houses, it would have been the perfectly ideal work place for would-be engineers like us. In fact, the Research & Development Centre has been so recently developed that it did not even properly feature on our GPS devices. The rocky terrain which needs to be traversed every day to reach the place causes a back-breaking journey, but it pales in comparison to the excitement of our project ahead.
But all said and done, working here is a treat! Taking our time to understand the machine and getting familiarized with its working, with no signal in our mobiles to distract us; and with so much being expected from us by the company, that its even ready to provide us with vehicles for our transportation, its a whole new level of professional work experience.
So, I hope this wonderful and enlightening project of ours goes through without a hitch and meets with the best end possible, with us developing a tried and tested method for creep testing, that can be used with minor modifications in future tests as well. Wishing everyone all the very best for achieving all their future goals, until next time, take care!!!...
BE THE FORCE!!!...
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