There are 2 challenges which I faced in my life which might not be very big but gave me learning for life and has made me who I am today.
1. I studied in Gokhale Education High School which was a normal English medium school till my 6th standard in 2006. In 2007 we had to shift to the main Nashik city and I was forcibly made to change school which I did not want as I was going to lose out on my childhood friends. I was an introvert child at that time and preferred to be with my group of friends. The sudden change of school without my intent made it more difficult for me to accept the situation. I was admitted to Rasbihari International School from 7th which involved a completely different culture. The student intake was just around 40 per class which ensured personal attention to each child. It was getting difficult for me to digest everything all at once. My academics were affected and health also got affected, I fainted twice in assembly hall out of nervousness. After 2-3 months, the situation started getting better when I started to accept the truth and made a firm decision to bring myself out of it. I made few good friends and got well known by many others because of my performance in football games. Later I got to know many students and became good friends with them. I participated in almost every Elocution competition of English, Hindi and Marathi language, writing competitions and Olympiads and won a place almost in all of them. I realized thereafter that I wouldn’t have got an opportunity to develop my skills in the previous school which I got here. I also made friends with who will stay with me my entire life. I cherish the decision now and I am happy it helped me to change and made me an ambivert! It helped me to learn how to be an adaptable, social and quick learner.
2. The other challenging situations would be our final year project that we carried out in Sharda Industries Pvt Ltd. Our college had made it compulsory to the students to make the project as an industry-sponsored project only. So, we had reached to many industries to look up for potential projects that we could work on and finally, we approached Sharda Industries which is a major vendor of Mahindra and TATA Industries that produces mufflers and silencers for Xylo, Verito, Tiago etc. Our project was to avoid operator error of forgetting to insert glass wool in the muffler assembly in the hydraulic press machine and make the operation full proof. We provided a solution using laser sensors which involved using adding additional AND gates and giving additional inputs to the existing PLC ladder diagram of the machine so that if glass wool is not inserted, the press machine will not work and there would be no defective mufflers produced with zero rejection. Initially it was approved by our project guides which involved selection of proper sensors, creating 3D model in modelling software, fabricating supports for mounting sensors, taking trials and deciding optimized position of sensors for a particular muffler setup, testing new PLC inputs in PLC simulation software, changing the actual PLC inputs, creating maintenance sheet and troubleshooting for the setup. The project got completed well in time but just 1.5 months prior to the project vivas, our guide said it was not enough as there must be stress/ load calculations involved in your project and thesis as per the university guidelines. We had already completed our project and were in the Manufacturing process of making the thesis and now we had to find a way to make a project which involved mechanical load and stress calculations as the existing project wasn't purely mechanical but Mechatronics based which involved design and load calculations of only the sensor supports and major part was PLC. There was nothing that we could do to include stress calculations in the existing project and so we were in a difficult situation. After a week of brainstorming in the company, we came up with an idea, instead of this project we could work on the scrap pneumatic press machine which we used to see every day in the scrap yard every time we had visited the company and make it functional for stuffing that would involve design calculation as well as a pneumatic circuit. We took permission from our guide in the company to work on the machine to make it functional and he got us permission to work on it to make it operational for Tiago muffler. We took the inputs and design drawings of the Tiago muffler and designed the ram, supporting columns, calculation, and selection of pneumatic cylinder, base plate, and selection of DCV. It involved the design of the base plate, ram, and columns based on the force required to punch the muffler assembly cover. We had to work late in the company but managed to make it functional just a week before the project viva. It was quite challenging for us to find an alternate solution and complete it on time. But it was all worth it when we were appreciated by the external invigilator in our project viva. I learned the importance of critical thinking, teamwork, delegation and hard work.
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