Industrial Visit to Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Pvt Ltd

Venue: Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Pvt Ltd.,

Bidadi – Karnataka

Date: 17 – November – 2022

Over view of Trip

New Horizon College of Engineering had organised Industrial Visit on 17th November 2022 to Hindustan Coco Cola Beverages Pvt Ltd., Bidadi, Karnataka which is located 26km away from college. The visit was organised my Mechorizon Club.

Journey Details

• We started our journey from college campus at 9.15 am in the morning.
• We reached Coco Cola plant, Bidadi at 11 pm and meet Mrs. Jamuna B N (H R manager) she guided us to know working process.

Objectives

• To gain first-hand information regarding functioning of the industry.
• To study various operations and production of Coco-Cola. To know how the tools/machinery helps in production.
• To make better interaction and know about various process and methods used.
• To know about the industrial environment.
• To develop interpersonal skills and communications.
• To understand the logistic supply chain management.
• To understand the production planning and quality control of brand.
• To have a practical view of bottling, filling, labelling, batching, labelling and packaging technology.
• To understand the concepts of automation in the manufacturing industry.

COMPANY PROFILE

Overview

Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Pvt Ltd, is one of India’s largest FMCG manufacturing and distribution companies. It is responsible for the manufacture, package, sale and distribution of beverages under the trademarks of The Coca-Cola Company. The Company owns and operates 21 factories. It also sources from and supports 11 contract packers’ plants. A network of 4,000 distributors and over 1.9 million retail outlets distribute the high quality, great tasting beverages manufactured by Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages.

Coca-Cola India Pvt Ltd. is a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Coca-Cola Company, USA. While building the consumer franchise for The Coca-Cola Company trademarks, it also leads world class governance systems for the operations of all partners in bottling, suppliers, distributors and other stakeholders.

Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Pvt Ltd. – As part of the Bottling Investments Group of The Coca-Cola Company, HCCBPL has 21 bottling plants at strategic locations in various states spread across India. We cover approximately 65% of bottling operations for the Coca- Cola System in India.

HCCBPL has an extensive distribution system spanning more than a million outlets operating with world class execution standards. The focus of the system is to develop strong customer value while delivering preferred choice of refreshment at an arm’s length of the desire to the customer.

HCCBPL’s Product Portfolio has an extensive range to choose from:

Sparkling Beverages – Coca-Cola, Diet Coke, Thumbs-Up”, Sprite, Fanta, Limca, Kinley Soda, Schweppes Tonic Water. Still Beverages – Maaza, Minute Maid Pulpy Orange, Minute Maid Nimbu Fresh, Minute Maid 100% Juices (Apple, Grapes, Orange, Mixed Fruit), Minute Maid range of fruit flavoured drinks.

Water-Kinley, Smart Water

Over the years, Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Pvt Ltd. has focused on building world class operations based on principles of safety, profitability and solid governance to claim sustained growth. As part of our journey of moving towards being a World Class Company, we have strengthened our organization in terms of Supply Chain, Infrastructure, Market Execution, People, Processes, Compliance, Governance and Route-to-Market. This approach has enabled us to build our portfolio through launching new packs and brands, coupled with a competitive pricing strategy based on a balance of value pricing and eliminating waste.

About the Company

Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Pvt. Ltd, is company owned bottling operation and the largest bottling partner of The Coca-Cola Company in India. Part of The Coca- Cola Company’s Bottling Investment Group (BIG), HCCBPL is responsible for the manufacture, package, sale and distribution of beverages under the trademarks of The Coca Cola Company. The company has a national footprint with over 20 company owned and 09 co-pack plants. With a network of over 5000 distributors and over 2.1 million retail outlets. Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Pvt. Ltd.’s endeavour is to ensure products availability within the arms reach of consumers.

HCCBPL has always placed high value on good citizenship and to that end, is supporting communities by enhancing skills of rural youth through Career Development Centre. Improving the lives of communities around its bottling plant by very focussed intervention in the areas of access to safe drinking water, sanitation and promoting sustainable agriculture through Integrated Watershed Management Projects under Public-Private-Community partnerships.

In the recent past, Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Pvt. Ltd. has joined hands with Government of Maharashtra and Jain Irrigation Systems Ltd. (ISL) to support farmers growing oranges in the state of Maharashtra. The Ground-breaking ceremony took place on 29th December 2016, in the presence of the Hon’ble Chief Minister of Maharashtra. Under this initiative, farmers will be given training on usage of Ultra High-Density Plantation (UHDP) technique to boost orange yield of Mandarin variety, UHDP is a modem agricultural practice that ensures higher yield of agri-produce per acre of land and within a time span, compared to traditional methods of farming Project “Orange Unnati” seeks to unlock prospects of leveraging “NOGA” brand (Nagpur Orange Grower Association) of Oranges and is estimated to benefit 5,000 farmers.

HCCBPL is the largest bottling partner of The Coca-Cola Company (www.thecoca- colcompany.com) in India. It is a part of The Coca-Cola Company’s Bottling Investments Group (BIG) and responsible for the manufacture, package, sale and distribution of beverages under the trademarks of The Coca-Cola Company. The Coca-Cola Company, HCCBPL has 24 bottling plants at strategic locations in various states spread across India. We cover approximately 65% of bottling operations for the Coca-Cola System in India. HCCBPL has an extensive distribution system spanning more than a million outlets operating with world chss execution standards. The focus of the system is to develop strong customer value while delivering preferred choice of refreshment at an arm’s length of desire to the consumer. Over the years, Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Pvt. Ltd. has focused on building world class operations based on principles of safety, profitability and solid governance to claim sustained growth. As part of our journey of moving towards being a World Class Company, we have strengthened our organization in terms of Supply Chain, Infrastructure, Market Execution. People,  Processes, Compliance, Governance and Route-to-Market. This approach has enabled us to build our portfolio through launching new packs and brands, coupled with a competitive pricing strategy based on a balance of value pricing and eliminating waste.

GROUP DISCUSSION

Initially, we were told to keep our mobiles in the bus as it was not allowed in the plant. We reached there by 11 am. Heavy security check in process was done. Then all the students and faculties were taken to the waiting lounge. In waiting lounge, they show us some mandatory norms in the form of movie which must be followed by each person inside the premises of the company. The person who is not following the company norms it is considered as violation of the company norms and that person may be taken into custody.

After the seminar, we were taken into the passage to enter inside the company. There were hoardings and banners indicating certain norms of the company on both sides of the passage. There were some safety mandatory norms like environmental Policy, quantity policy. Occupational and health policy, road safety policy, safe assembly point and the site layout of the company.

We all were taken into the entrance of the company by the securities. Firstly, they said to wait outside, then security has taken us in the canteen of the company. In the canteen there were large number of tables and chairs. Almost à was a big canteen in the company. In the canteen there were also notice boards showing day to day news inside the company as well as outside the company. The notices of the company were placed in the notice board. There was also a fridge, wall arts, large serving areas for the food and a frame of annual sports meet picture of the coca cola company. The workers in the canteen serve us the coca cola cans. They had given us free coke can of 330ml which cost Rs.30 and a small can of diet coke of 200ml which cost Rs.25. The coke cans were manufactured by HCC beverages Pvt Ltd. Pune, Maharashtra.

The manager told us that there is total six lines for packing, out of which 2 lines are for plastic bottles packing 4 fines for glass bottles packing. Almost 600 bottles are packed in the line per minute. And, Maaza 165 bottles per minute are packed in the packing unit of the company

She also told that as per the demand of the consumer production is done. They collect the information from the distributors to know the demand of the consumer regarding the Coca- Col. As per the consumer demand forecasting is done by the company to produce certain litters of Coca-Cola drinks. Usually forecasting is done weekly and proper planning is made for production of the drink. The company produces more than 1000000 litters of Coca-Cola daily in peak season and in off season they produce at most 1,00,000 litres of Coca-Cola daily. We were also illustrated on how Marketing Strategies are adopted keeping in mind the changing customer preferences and increasing competition in the market and how the production in the factories are moving towards automation by using more and more superior and advance technology and machines.

Smart Water Filtration Process

Outcome of the visit

Coca-Cola Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Pvt. Ltd.

• From the visit I had a very good experience at Coca-Cola. As a visit had a good combination of technical and management exposure. Showed a more interest in asking questions about the management and supply chain system in different areas.
• A good technical exposure as we have seen the process of packing and labelling which was completely automatic.
• Had a very good experience of visit and are thankful to the industry and the management for arranging the visit.
• Had a good experience about industrial environment.
• The company has the global and international quality standards.
• The industrial visit to Coca-Cola was an enriching experience for me in getting live exposure of manufacturing which can help me with further career enhancements as well as a fin-filled trip for the entire class.
• Our sweet and small trip ended by clicking pictures in front gate of the company where all of us enjoyed and cherished each and every moment of this incredible.

AutoWorks

The Mechorizon Club, a Co-Curricular club of Department of Mechanical Engineering from New Horizon College of Engineering had conducted an event known as “AutoWorks” on 11-11-2022 in the Automobile Lab under the guidance of Mr. Kantraju, Lab Assistant in Automobile Department.

                   In this event the students had to dismantle and assemble all the parts of two and four stroke engine, at the same instance taking the measurements of the parts like piston, bore diameter, stroke length etc…. The main intension of this event was to help the students to get a hand on experience of the engine parts. Now,

What is an engine?

An engine is a machine that is designed to convert one or form or energy to mechanical energy.

An internal combustion engine is in which the ignition and combustion of fuel occurs within the engine itself. The engine then partially converts the energy from the combustion to work. The engine consists of a fixed cylinder and a moving piston. The expanding combustion gases push the piston, which in turn rotates the crankshaft. Ultimately, through a system of gears in the powertrain, this motion drives the vehicles wheels.

Mainly there are two types of engines

• Petrol Engine
• Diesel Engine

Most of these are four strokes where as some are two stroke engines.

Coming back to the event, it started at 10:00 am in the morning. First the students were briefed about the event by the coordinators, about its procedures and all the things that they are going to learn. Totally, there were 9 teams, 2 people per team. Students were enthusiastic to learn about the engines. Totally, there were 4 engines present in the Automobile lab. These engines were distributed between the students and a sheet was given to each team, so that they can note down the measurements.

All the students were given instructions about the instruments that are to be used while dismantling i.e., vernier calipers, spanner, screwdriver etc… and their different sizes that are to be used for different sizes of bolts and nuts.

Students started to explore the engine parts as soon as they were assigned to an engine. They learnt to use different tools and about the parts and their use in the engine.

For example, the function of connecting rod, that is, it connects the piston to the crankshaft to transfer combustion pressure. Here is some glimpse of the event that can be seen in these following pictures.

            Once the students completed the dismantling and assembly of the engine, all the participants were given a demonstration of how a real engine works using working engine.

                        Then, all were addressed by the Dr. Shridhar Kurse, Professor & HoD of Department of Mechanical Engineering, and were encouraged to participate in such type of events and also to conduct such type of events on high scale, if possible, to get an excellent exposure. Finally, at the end all participants received the certificates by HOD, Prof. Vinay and Prof. Manjesh.

Glimpses of the Event

PRODUCT LIFE CYCLE GUIDELINES

EVENT: GUEST TALK

SPEAKER: MR. NACHAPPA A P

DATE: 9-5-2022

TIME: 9.30 AM TO 10.30 AM

ORGANIZERS: MECHORIZON CLUB

VENUE: B103, SARDAR VALLABHBHAI PATEL BLOCK, NHCE

MECHORIZON CLUB, Department of Mechanical Engineering organized a guest talk to enhance exposure to industrial ambiance so once we reach that platform we can have a good or fear knowledge about it, the main intention of hosting this guest talk is to connect bridge between college life to corporate life. The Event was named “Product Life Cycle Guidelines”.

Mr Nachappa A P was born at Coorg, Karnataka, completed his under graduation from Don Bosco Engineering College Bangalore. He has vast experience of more than 13+ years (Singapore, United Stated of America, India), in Oil & Gas domain. Extensive experience in lifecycle approach for new product development from assessment to life time stages of product along with concept development, project scheduling, cost estimation of prototype tools within the frame work of product lifecycle

This astonishing guest talk was witnessed by around 100 Participants of 3^rd year Mechanical Department. We got to know different aspects of lifecycle with proper guidelines. The speaker gave information of product life cycle with an illustration and even what are the different steps involved to complete the product from scratch to the end product. He taught the main application of it. We knew some of the concepts in product life cycle, but after the guest talk we had gained some more auspicious knowledge.

Topics Covered:

1. What is Product Life Cycle Management?
2. The History of Product Life Cycle Management.
3. The Stages of the traditional Product Life Cycle Management
4. The importance of Managing the Product Life Cycle
5. Estimation, Planning and Forecasting

CARRIER OPPORTUNITY AFTER UG

EVENT: GUEST TALK

SPEAKER: Mr. VISHWAS A

DATE: 09-05-2022

TIME: 10.30 AM TO 11.30 AM

ORGANIZERS: MECHORIZON CLUB

VENUE: B103, SARDAR VALLABHBHAI PATEL BLOCK, NHCE

MECHORIZON CLUB, Department of Mechanical Engineering organized an guest talk to know how to reframe the future after under graduation so that an individual can know what are the carrier opportunities like GATE for higher education in India and even for PSU, GRE for abroad education and so on, the main intention of hosting this guest talk is to frame the bright future. The Event was named “CARRIER OPPORTUNITY AFTER UG”.

Mr. Vishwas A completed B.E (Mechanical Engineering). With 9 years of experience in field of  Research and Development which involves Structural Design & Analysis of Aerospace , Mechanical components and GE Aviation and Renewable Turbines.

  Current Role and Responsibilities

• Providing Design & Analysis supports to Renewable industries.
• Perform detailed structure analysis of complex Gas Turbine components.
• Prepare informal and formal documentation of Proposals and Reports.
• Connecting with Different teams and coordinating  on progress of work
• For E.g. Blades Team, Pitch Bearing Team to give final update to the client regarding progress.

     This astonishing guest talk was witnessed by around 100 participants of 3^rd year Mechanical Department. We got to know different aspects of carrier opportunities with proper guidelines. Speaker gave information of what to do in near future and not to repeat the mistakes that there colleagues have done in there past as that we don’t make such omission.  Speaker gave some of the guidelines how to prepare for GATE with some techniques and also what are the opportunities like PSU and different high rank holders post some of them are as follows:

With the help of this we got to know more about what are the advantage of taking GATE exam and speaker told the benefits of cracking GRE and perusing masters in abroad. This was really informative to many of them so the can frame the future with some ideals shared by speaker.

PARADIGM SHIFT IN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

Date of Webinar: 4/12/2020

No.of Students Participated:80

Department of Mechanical Engineering organized a Webinar in association with Mechorizon Club on “Paradigm shift in Research and Development” with Dr.Girish G P, associated with IBS Bangalore and a research coordinator. He is actively involved in Research and is currently a Reviewer for world renowned journals such as IAEE, Elsevier, Taylor and Francis and many more. He has also been guiding doctoral students on topics related to asset pricing, market microstructure, finance etc.

Highlights of discussion are below:

Dr. Girish G P delivered a major insight for Masters in various countries and different ways to approach. The field of research and the leading requirements in the current industry. The various aspects university aspirants must have before applying to universities and the major requirements which make a candidate stand out from the rest.

The most important necessity is the zeal a candidate must have towards research. The entirety of attaining and completing a graduate level course is dependent on how well versed the papers are, the publications and the citations involved which provide the candidate a better upfront and higher chances of success.

He also spoke about the various research paper publication websites which are well known and provide high value all around the world like Scopus and Elsevier indexed. The speaker educated the students about forums and websites which are trusted and provide all the information with regard to the hunt of universities with specific course choices. Lastly, he concluded the session by providing us his insight on investing and trading and the strategies involved in it.

SetBack to ComeBack

Department of Mechanical Engineering organised program through MECHORIZON and ROBOHORIZON students club on “SetBack to ComeBack” in association with ISKCON –Bangalore on 10^th September 2020from 11.00-12.45 PM through Online Mode using Zoom app. Program got well response from students community with 140 participants of third semester.

The program went as follows;

• Prof.Vinayak Balehittal, introduced speaker profile
• Program handed over to speaker –Sri Rama Sevak Dasa

Topics covered by the speaker as follows;

• Importance of personality development
  • Spiritually enriching personality
  • Relationship management
  • Self management
  • Work-Life balance, Attitudes, Yoga and Habits
• Program ended with  Q&A  along with vote of thanks by Prof. Santosh A N

Job or Entrepreneur

Date: 03-01-2022

Time: 10.00am to 12.00pm

Organizers: MECHORIZON CLUB, NHCE

Venue: Falconry Seminar Hall

MECHORIZON CLUB, Department of Mechanical Engineering organized an Interdepartmental Guest Lecture. The Lecture was titled “Job or Entrepreneur”.

This astonishing event was witnessed by 150 Students from all semester irrespective of branches of engineering, a discrete participation of all students actively participated. The Guest was the Alumni of NHCE Mr. Narasimha Naidu who was from Mechanical Department (1NH12ME734).

The leads taken to conduct this event from the club were Santhosh A (President) followed with Mechorizon Club of New Horizon College of Engineering, under the guidance of the Faculty Co-coordinator Mr. Vinay D R (Asst. Prof), Mr. Manjesh B C (Asst. Prof) and Mr. Vinod Kumar G S (Asst. Prof) Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, NHCE.

The guest lecture was all about whether to choose Job or to become an Entrepreneur and the talk was a little diabolical as the guest spoke about both the paths.

The guest spoke about his journey of how he became an entrepreneur and how he managed his business at his young age and the difficulties that he faced about him becoming an entrepreneur. The start-up named StemX India (an Ed-Tech firm) which was inaugurated on 2020 (by his mention a Covid Company). There they teach about STEM (i.e., S-Science, T-Technology, E-Engineering and M- Mathematics) with robotics and many other coding to young minds of age 08-16.

The Guest Lecture was started with a flute song and then Head of Department Dr. Sridhar Kurse enlightened us about the Talk and encouraged the students to reach great heights and attain success. Then the guest spoke and enlightened us about the whole Talk Show.

They demonstrated a small workshop too on how these robots are designed and how it worked and this demonstration was done by one of his best asset as a student of his firm named Vishruth Ganta and the director of the firm named Mr. Suresh and Mr. Manjesh B C gave us conclusion about the lecture and it made the show to come an end and then the guest was given a small memento by Mr. Ravi Kumar and the session finally ended with a group Photo

Students who attended got good Exposure on how the Journey paths has to be decided and to make a proper decision on what next to choose in career.

Feedbacks by Students were asked and they told that they had a good exposure to the event. They found this event very useful by knowing the basic to difficult questions on technical stuffs. Even got appreciated the standard of questions.

NEURO COMBAT

Date: 13-12-2021

Time: 9.30am to 2.30pm

Organizers: MECHORIZON CLUB, Department of Mechanical Engineering, NHCE

Mode of Conduct: OFFLINE

MECHORIZON CLUB, Department of Mechanical Engineering organized an Interdepartmental competition for testing the general knowledge and on other hand vocabulary of the participants in a mode of quiz and debate. The Event was named “NEURO COMBAT”.

This astonishing Quiz Event was witnessed by 48Registered Students from all semester irrespective of branches of engineering, a discrete participation NEURO COMBAT by team of 4 participants with 12 teams participating and 48 students actively participated.

The actual objective of this quiz was to check the general knowledge and knowledge regarding current affairs moreover letting them knows the trends and current scenario. With the second round we conducted debate. In this new normal to create a Quiz Competition in a way to make students free from academics and to bring in practical knowledge in the current technological affairs to this competition. There was a Question Paper made in such a way, all Department Students could answer and there were15question.The resource persons to conduct this event from the club were Santhosh A (President) and Nahush P N (Vice President) followed with Mechorizon Club Members (Students) of New Horizon College of Engineering, Under the guidance of the Faculty Co-coordinator Mr.Vinay D R (Asst. Prof, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, NHCE).

Whatsapp Group was made to Co-ordinate with the Students regarding the time and Instructions were given prior day of Event Conduct. Schedule regard quiz was sent in the group. Schedule as prepared in word format.

Alerts were given prior the commencement of the event. The event began sharp at 9.30am with commencing batch 1 quiz.

There were 6 batches each batches had 2 teams and there were 4 different sets of quiz questions where prepared and each set had 15 questions. After completion of quiz at 11.00 am, we shortlisted top 8 from the 12 participated teams. Debate commenced at 12 noon HOD of mechanical department addressed the event in presence of life skill faculties as judges there were 8 teams and we had issued 4 topics for each batch there were 4 batches. The entire competition terminated at 1:00 pm.

The Participation Certificate was issued to all the 36 Participants as soon as the entire event got completed.

Feedback by Students were asked and they told that they had a good exposure to the event .They found this event very useful by knowing the basic to difficult questions on technical stuffs. Even got appreciated the standard of questions.

The Winner Certificates for the Event were distributed on 15-12-2021 and there were12 Winners in total, i.e. 4 Student– 1^st Place, 4 Student – 2^nd Place and 4 Students – 3^rd Place holders in this event irrespective of all Department. Gifts were issued to all winners on the same day of the event.

ONLINE CAD QUIZ COMPETITION 2021

Date: 19-07-2021

Time: 2.00 pm to 2.30 pm

Mode of Conduct: Online (Google Form)

MECHORIZON CLUB, Department of Mechanical Engineering organized an Interdepartmental Designing and Imagination Skill test in form of “QUIZ COMPETETION”. The event was named “ONLINE CAD QUIZ COMPETITION 2021” This astonishing Quiz Event was witnessed by 100 Registered Students from all semester irrespective of branches of engineering, a discrete participation Online Quiz by individual Students and nearly 90 students actively participated.

The actual objective of this quiz was to check the designing and imagination skills of an individual. As design is “one of the most powerful forces in our life, whether or not we are aware of it, and can also be inspiring, empowering and enlightening”. Good design is so much more than creating a good-looking product. Create a Quiz Competition in a Way to make students free from academics and to bring in practical knowledge in the CAD Quiz. The resource persons to conduct this event from the club were Santhosh A (President) and Harish Kumar T (Treasurer) and other core team members –  Students of New Horizon College of Engineering, Under the guidance of the Faculty Co-coordinator Mr. Vinay D R , Asst Prof., Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, NHCE.

The Winner Certificates for the Event were distributed on 23-07- 2021 and there were 9 Winners in total, i.e.1Student– 1^st Place, 4 Student No’s–2^nd Place and 3^rd Place Holders in this event irrespective of all Department.

CRITICZ IQ QUIZ CHALLENGE .

Date: 20-05-2021

Time: 11.00 am to 11.40 am

Mode of Conduct: Online (Google Form)

Mechorizon Club, Department of Mechanical Engineering organized an Interdepartmental IQ Challenge with a technical Skill test in form of “QUIZ COMPETETION”. The Event was named “CRITICZ IQ CHALLENGE”. This mind blowing Quiz Event was witnessed by 199 Registered Students from all semester & branches of engineering, a discrete participation Online Quiz by individual Students and nearly 158 students actively participated.

The aim of the IQ Challenge with a Technical Skill test was actually based on how to test your personal IQ and in this new normal to create a Quiz Competition in a Way to make students free from academics and to bring in practical knowledge in the current technological affairs and IQ Test. The resource persons to conduct this event from the club were Santhosh A (President) and T Harish Kumar (Treasurer) Students of New Horizon College of Engineering, Under the guidance of the Faculty Co-coordinator Mr. Vinay D R (Prof. Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, NHCE).

There was a Question Paper made in such a way, all Department Students could answer and there were 25 questions which consist of 10 IQ Questions and 15 Technical Questions. Feedbacks by Students were asked and they told that they had a good exposure to test their IQ Levels and they found this event very useful by knowing the basic to difficult questions on Technical stuffs.

The Winner Certificates for the Event were distributed on 22-05-2021 and there were 30 Winners in total, i.e. 10 Student No’s – 1^st Place, 2^nd Place and 3^rd Place Holders in this event irrespective of all Departments.