The real work begins

Week 5
Start of Project Work

After a month of observations of different departments of the BRD, now begins the era of the project work. The last week saw meetings with AOC R.K Srivastava and Group Captain M.F Alam, both meetings aiming at the betterment of the start & consequent working of projects. And both officers wish me luck for my project. I had an option of five projects but only three of them were feasible as other two involves software programming. These 3 projects were ‘Six sigma analysis of the AI-20 engine’, ‘Fatigue analysis of aircraft’ and ‘Modernization of the Flushing Rig’. Out of these I choose the first project.

My project is basically to find the defects that are occurring in the engine, their frequency and the Sigma level at which the engine division is working. After this I had to suggest some measures to improve the current system prevailing here. After deciding about the project I had a meeting with Wg Cdr S.Shukla and Gp Cpt S Singh. I must say that, of all the officers that I have met here, I found Gp Cpt S Singh the most intelligent & practical of all of them. He is the men who has a lot of knowledge and wants to improve each & every system to the best possible. He gave two lectures regarding my project, its need & requirement and on Six sigma. After all this introduction & briefing of the project, I started working on it. The initial part involves collection of a lot of data from various places and this itself is an enormous task. Most of the data has been collected and I had started working on the project.

Another thing to mention is that I was very much interested in doing some project on industrial engineering, so I talked to WC A Bharti and Gp Cpt Alam. They guided me to talk to Grp Cpt Y Sathe. I had a meeting with him and he suggested me to do a project on the provisioning of ARS (Automated Replenishment System), which is the most important & fast moving part of the helicopter. I had asked the provisioning division to provide me the data for last 5 to 10 years and they asked me to wait as it will take around 2 to 3 days.

I am very much enthusiastic about my projects and will work to my best potential to do the projects as efficiently & effectively as possible. And I also hope that my projects will benefit to 3BRD & IAF and thus to my country.