We woke up very early today like 05:30 am, to get ready to leave. The company is a while away from the place we stay at, so we have to get ready fast and have breakfast to go so we have enough strenght for the day.
The factory is 0:45 min away with the shuttle service provided by the company. We were anticipating that not much attention would be given to us since the company is a big firm and they have to run like a well oiled machine, but we were wrong. The people were very friendly to us and went to great lenghts to get to know us, especially to me since I can’t speak Turkish at all so they tried to speak as much english as possible.
The company was established 1931 in Oberderdingen, Germany. The company produced electrical appliances such as coils for stoves, fridges and their grills etc. After becoming a huge success they moved in 1988 to Ćorlu, Turkey. They have been successfull ever since and have many different branches through out Europ. They also have customers all over the world like Spian, Usa, Uk etc.
We met the section chief of the electrical side. He told is that we are going to have a tour around the factory to day and get introduced to our workplace. The administration asked us for the insurance papers, and gave us some i.d cards. We were also given factory appropriate shoes and vests, so we can be part of the firm. We have to log in at work when we arrive and log out afterwards, one can also get lunch in the Caféteria witg the card. There are lots of vending machines as well through out the factory.
We saw how the electrical coils were made from just a thin pressed strip of metal like substance to the coils we are used to see. The metal strip is put into a machine in which it is heated in over 100° C to form into a pipe. The pipe comes in different sizes such as 7 to 10 m. The pipe is than weighed and sorted out accordingly. In the pipe than is added a transistor for heating purposes. The pipe undergoes another check by machines, because the firm wants to uphold the best standert possible for their customers. The pipe is than send to a different machine operated by other people. Inside the pipe they fill MgO (magnesium oxide), for better heat conduction so no energy is lost and a max amount is obtimized. The MgO filled pipe is than on its way to a check up, afterwards which they heat the pipe again so the MgO is than solid and can’t fall out of the pipe. The pipe is than complet and ready to be put in form. Every processing machine has an human interface panel to monitor the process.
The forms are done by machines,who are controlled by a worker constantly. The different forms have serial no. which are fed to something like a computer which than executes the order.
The finished forms are than send for the finishing touches.
The coil are worked on depending on the form, each form has an different purpose. Some coils are put together, a small coil inside a bigger coil with a safety bar in the middel so the coils don’t move around. A thermometer is added as well for Temperature monitoring. Silicon is than used on the almost finished products to glue littel caps on the ends as well as littel metal plates, which are further processed later.
After the metal plates are attached the details are worked upon different stations and later the metal plates are veld together by an automaton (automatic machine) with 110 V, an operaton is controlled by a single person who manages the machine manuelly, and than the ware is packed and ready to be sent.
Afterwards went to get lunch in the cafeteria and went to play table tennis in the break room, we lost(Ertugul and I). Afterwards we were onlookers as some machines got maintainence. Than we were allowed to help with changing the flags, afterwarts the day enden for us at 15:30 pm, and we went home via shuttel.
I liked the company a lot, they were very dedicated to their work and they had a lot of female workers their too. Unlike in Germany they have çai break where as we usually have smoke breaks.
Back home we told the family about what we experienced today. We had lunch and went to bed early since we have an early day tommorrow too.