Week 9

This week, i was busy with the packing of the Protos 90er, which was ready for shipping. The machine was separated back into four parts, VE,SE,MAX and the filter packer HCF. Me and Mr Jega did the dismantelling which took two days. By then the other Protos 80c which i help assembled the MAX was ready to be joint. There are four Protos 80c being rebuilt in the workshop for now, this out of the 12 Protos 80c with was sent by Gudang Garam.

Week 8

For the whole week,i was helping out Mr. Jega with the Protos 90er. The cigarette production slowly incresed up 9000 but it was not still up the maximum capacity of the Protos 90er. There was a series of open seal on the cigarette rods whenever the production went up to 10000 cigaretes per minute. Mr Jega inspected the cigarette rod which was made at the SE station,he thought maybe something is wrong with the glue setings. Even tho after he had adjusted it,the problem still arised. It went on for a few days,until he decided to change the size of glue nozzle to a bigger one. So that it would shoot more glue,which will seal the cigarrete rods firmer. At last this solved the problem,but there was many other minor problems such as the tipping paper(filter paper) not wraped properly and many other problems, but Mr. Jega managed to solve all of it. At the end of that week, the customers(buyers,dhaka tobacco from Bangladash) came to have a look on the machine they were buying, they were quite satisfied.That week i had also learnt how to measure the finished cigarrete`s weight and diameter using the Quality Testing Machine(QTM)

Week 7

Hey people,i`m back dis week,feeling much better and have 3 more blower fan units to be done. But this time, i finished each unit in a day, it took almost three days and i really enjoyed it! Now i was confident with my hands on skills, which was not taught to me in uniten. Then i join my senior Mr. Jega aka Black Jack to help him out with a test run of a Protos 90ER. It was for the Dhaka tobacco company in Bangladesh. I was helping him out to feed tobacco for the machine and to clear the cigarettes trays. But i learned how the process of making the final cigarette product by watching the machine work. Watching all the drum rotating simultaneously was thrilling. I just could not believe this technology was created by the Germans 30 years ago. It was just amazing While i was excited , Mr Jega was having a tough time trouble shooting because the machine was suppose to run 10000 ciggarettes per minute but hardly reached 8000. So he was adjusting the settings again and again until he was sure what was the problem. After he settled one problem, another new one poop up. It was an endless story.