Industrial Training / Visits
HMT Ltd. & Autokast Pvt. Ltd
Date of visit: 16/01/2015
B.Tech 2nd and 3rd year students
Guided by Faculty
- Dr.K.G.Samuel, Professor & Head, Department of Metallurgy
- P.V.Thomas, Lab Superintendent, Department of Metallurgy
- Manu Harilal, Assistant Professor, Department of Metallurgy
- Siva Prasad.M, Assistant Professor, Department of Metallurgy
- Jeleshmon.P.P, Lab Instructor, Department of Metallurgy
- Harikumar.K.R, Welding Supervisor, Department of Metallurgy
Learnings from Industrial Visit
- HMT Limited, formerly Hindustan Machine Tools Limited, is a state-owned manufacturing company under the Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises in India.
- HMT Founded in 1953, with state-of-art technology as its key strength acquired from world leaders in machine tools, offers a wide array of high technology machine tools solutions to cater every manufacturing requirement.
- HMT ‘s wide marketing network & six manufacturing units spread across the country meets the highest customer expectations.
- The machine tool unit at Kalamasery has a captive foundry of capacity 2500 MT per annum, Size of Grey Cast Iron casting up to 9.5 MT & S.G. Iron up to 2 MT
- The unit has an In-house heat treatment plant facility with an efficient online production monitoring and material management system.
- Thus, the machine tool unit applies engineering at its best and is one of the leading foundry units in kerala.
KMML (Kerala Minerals & Metals Ltd.)
Date of visit: 19-07-2014
B.Tech 2nd year and 3rd year students
Guided by Faculty
- Nageswara Rao N Assistant Professor Metallurgy
- Manuharilal Assistant Professor Metallurgy
- Siva Prasad Assistant Professor Metallurgy
- Ms.Surya satvayan Assistant Professor Chemical
Learnings from Industrial Visit
- Practical Ore separation process of illemenite and how Rutile is obtained through different mineral dressing process are seen
- Separation Uranium oxide and the way how it is stored underground to minimise its radiation effect
- Separation of lead oxide and methods that are followed to minimise its effect on drinking water in the surrounding area in Kollam District
- Metallurgical problems faced during the proccess are clearly understood and profound explanation is given by experienced engineers.
- Safety Issues are explained to students
Steel & Industrial Forgings Ltd. Thrissur
Date of visit: 22-02-2014
B.tech 2nd year students (2012-2016)
Guided by faculty
- P.V.Thomas, Lab Superintendent, Department of Metallurgy
- Jayasree P.K, Assistant professor, Department of Chemical Engineering
- Surya Sathyan, Assistant professor, Department of Chemical Engineering
Learnings from Industrial Visit
- Steel and Industrial Forgings Limited (SIFL) is a Government of Kerala undertaking commenced commercial production in 1986 and gradually forged ahead to become a name to reckon with.
- Surface conditioning through shot blasting/grinding
- Calibration of electrical furnaces
- Destructive test including tensile, jominy and impact testing, wet analysis, carbon-sulphur determination, insitu metallography(where microstructure can be observed without destroying the job) and non-destructive tests using Spectrometer, Microscope, Magnaflux crack detection, Die Penetrant,Ultrasonic flaw detection etc.
- Batch furnaces, both oil fired & electrical, continuous electrical heating furnaces etc. to carry out annealing, normalising, hardening, tempering, iso-thermal annealing, solution treatment and other operations.
Sesa Sterlite, Goa
Date of visit: 11-09-2014
Guided by faculty
- Dr. K.G.Samuel, HOD, Metallurgy
- Nageswara Rao N, Assistant Professor, Department of Metallurgy
Learnings from Industrial Visit
- Sesa Sterlite, a Vedanta Group company is one of the world’s largest global diversified natural resource majors, with operations across zinc-lead-silver, oil & gas, iron ore, copper, aluminium and commercial power.
- Sesa Sterlite is largest private sector exporter of iron ore in India which has the seventh largest iron ore reserves in the world.
- Sesa Sterlite is the largest aluminium producer in India.