DEBRE MARKOS UNIVERSITY

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL & COMPUTER

ENGINEERING POWER STREAM

INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND OF BAHIR DAR PP BAG

FACTORY
Bahir dar pp. bag factory is a new venture in
Amhara region established by fully private owned,
Mr. Bayih Mekonnen. It costs about 150milion birrs
to establish it
The company is located 6 kilometers from the center
of bahir dar, which is the former capital city of
Amhara region; on the western end of the city on
kebele 14 special names Meshenty
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The factory has one transformer which rates

630KVA apparent power that feeds five main CB

namely; for loom machine, CB for tape plant , CB for
singers, and CB for recycling machine with a
maximum voltage of 400volts.
Objectives of the company
To solve the shortage of bags for textile products in
the country
To bring socio-economic changes in the region in
particular, for the country in general
To increase foreign exchange earnings
To create employment opportunity
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Mission
Reducing loss and gradually become profitable
through customer needs by providing best quality pp
woven products at a reasonable price with efficient
delivery service
Vision
Contributing to the growth of the national economy by
producing and exporting different Pp woven products
that satisfy customers need in quality, quantity and
price

Raw Materials
Polypropylene (pp)
Calcium carbonate (caco3)
Master batch (colorant)

Raw material suppliers

Saudi Arabia
Turk

Machineries and their operational principles

Tape plant
Tamp plant is a huge machine that has different

parts having different working principles. Those main

parts of this plant are
Suction (raw material input) zone
Melting zone
Orientation zone
Oven dry region and
Final winding zone

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This plant has different motors on its processing zones,
it has waste particles collection mechanism by using
pneumatic system, it uses pneumatic system to suck raw
materials from the raw material box, then melts at about
300-350 degree centigrade
This melted matter goes to orientation zone of having
three rollers, thus rollers transfers it in to oven dry zone
having heat to remove cleaning water from the surface
of the oriented tape yarn, thus tape yarn pass on five
rollers having three of them freezing air and the rest
two having heat and both of this gives the tape yarn
enough dryness, then finally this dried tape yarn go to
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winding zone manually

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Circular waving machine
This machine is done 42 up to 72 diameters

ring adjustments to satisfy customer wants

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This circular weaving loom has three motors, six
shuttle boxes, electrical sensors, and creel zones.
The three motors are:
1. Main motor: used to give power to the circular
loom to rotate and produce fabric.
2. Reverse Winding motor: used to wind the
produced fabric in both directions as required.
3. Hall off motor: used to transfer the produced
fabric in to winding zone.
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cutter
These bag cutting machines are manually operating

machines having auto transformer of 24 volts

Since the machine is manual the efficiency is depend
on operator efficiency
The transformer has an input voltage of 220 volts
The machine is electrical resistance wire system
These electrical machines are used to sew bags . The
factory has 13 singers which have the same electrical
ratings listed as follows
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Singers

A voltage of 230 volts AC

A speed of 2850/3450 RPM
A frequency 0f 50/60
A current of 2.0/1.5Amper
A power of 0.4KW
2 poles single phase
The efficiency of these machines is depend upon the

operators
Since the machine is single phase induction it has 40
micro farads in order to start
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12

Printer machine
It uses star delta starter

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Packing machines
This machine is used to pack the bag by using

packing sacks which the process of the company

ends
It is direct on line starting. The packing machine
efficiency depends on operator efficiency
Recycling machine
Recycling process is used to recycle waste materials
of tape plant , loom and end product. This recycling
process has the following parts

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Creature that is used to cut wastes in to small pieces

that can be raw materials of eaglo machine.

Eaglo machine is recycling machine that heats small
pieces of creature.
Recycling machine uses heated small pieces of eaglo
machine as raw materials and ends recycling
process of the company. This machine has different
parts.

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Thus are: Heating

zones
Pressure zones
Melting zones
Die zones
Stretching unit

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The process flow of the company

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OVERALL INTERNSHIP EXPERIENCE

How good I am in performing the task

In my inter ship program

I try to have a better relationship with everybody in
the company
I try to exercise the theoretical knowledge that I have
been thought
I was good at interviewing, technicians and operators
of the factory

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The section I have been working on
Electrical

resistance wire
Autotransformers
CBS
Cutter
The work task I have been executing
how to operate every machine in the company
how to minimize amount of wastage in production
process of the company, to increase the
production of the company by using clean and
comfort raw material
produce a good quality bags products
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Challenges
It was very difficult to get informations like,

Company back ground

It was very difficult to get measuring instruments like
wattmeter
Language translation
There is no internet access
Naming of materials

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Measures to overcome these challenges
I have used internet caf
I have interview human resource administer to get

back ground of the company

I have translate Amharic language in to English.

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OVERALL BENEFITS FROM INTERNSHIP

gained in terms of improving practical skill
gained theoretical knowledge
interpersonal communication skills
gained team playing skills
gained leadership
work ethics
gained entrepreneurship skills

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CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION

CONCLUSION
Based on my observation I found that Bayih

Mekonnen Pp bag factory have an unlimited

advantages both for the country and for the
foreign countries
But the factory has many problems like lack of
senior operators, unqualified management

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Recommendation
The production and maintenance workers should work

synchronized
They should represented/assign qualified, experienced
and skill full production and maintenance man power
to solve the problem immediately
Cutter modification by reduces smokes of resistor
wire
The company gives appreciation (rewards) for the best
employers for better production
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THANKS!!!

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