An industrial visit to Atlas group

12 August 2015 SME-NED local chapter arranged an industrial visit of Atlas group of industries which are located at LANDHI Karachi for the students of industrial and manufacturing department. Some ATLAS industries that are located at Landhi with in the specified tertiary are Atlas Autos, Atlas Engineering, Atlas Hitec, and Atlas Metals. But we got a chance to visit only Atlas Autos and Atlas Hitec.

Atlas Autos:

First we went to Atlas Autos which manufactures three main parts of bike. Two of them are the main components of Honda bike engine and one is fuel cock. In short the Atlas autos consist of three department’s i.e.

• Die casting department
• Drum gear Department
• Clutch Department

 Clutch Department who does the complete machining and the assembly of the CD-70 clutch for Honda motorbike. Atlas autos also using its efforts and capacity to assemble the clutches of

·         CD-70

·         CG-125

·         CG-125 DLX

·         Pridor

All parts of CD-70 are manufactured in Pakistan, whereas of other bikes some parts are imported and some of them manufactured in Pakistan. Below is the list of those parts that are manufactured at Atlas Autos Karachi.

·         Drive plate

·         Clutch outer

·         Pressure plate

·         Lifter

·         Cutch outer

The machining of Drive plate which is used in the clutch of CD-70 comes within a very a long process of 7steps i.e. Casting .turning , after that indexing, spot facing, drilling, broaching and in the end balancing and after that it goes through the inspection where the part is finally inspected and goes ahead when 100% correct.

Drum gear department, where they manufacture drum gear for three models of bikes;

·         CG 125,

·         CD 70 and

·         Pridor 100.

 Almost more than 13 process are involved in the manufacturing of drum gear. Atlas autos finds the casted Drum gear as raw material then they perform the following processes to perfectly manufacture the drum gear. Centering, turning, gang drilling, drilling, cam grooving, tapping, hardening, washing, tempering, centerless grinding, angular grinding and at the last they perform 100% inspection for quality product.

In the die casting department fuel cock is made from zero to end product. In this department LPDC is used to cast different parts of fuel cock and then further processes are performed.

Atlas autos is the vendor of Atlas Honda Karachi and also of Atlas Autos Shakuipura.

 Atlas Hitec:

Atlas Hitec is another industry of atlas group whose purpose is to manufacture the CDI (capacitive discharge ignition)

CDI and regulator are the two main bike parts which are prepared there; they go through a complete process. PCA circuit comes from japan and they get checked. The material is aluminum. CDI is from Dynamic tester and waveform tester than this bike part is baked following aging and at the last they are stamped with the company details.

Hitec plant consists of 2 shops i.e.

·         ACG shop and

·         Corner CDI shop

The visit to atlas industry was some serious piece of information as we all got to know about the ATLAS WAY. (People, culture and systems of ATLAS industry). Their main products are CDI for CD70 and CG125, and ACG for CD70, CG125 and CG125DLX. China and Malaysia are their name worthy importers. Whereas parts like case, bracket, and nameplate are manufactured locally. The visit was quite interesting as we discovered the dust free environment in the CDI area where workers were instructed to wear antistatic gloves and shoes.

The ACG shop which consisted of three different sections;

·         Rotor line-1,

·         Boss rotor line-2

·         Stator line.

The steps that are involved for its manufacturing are; facing, pressing by pool magnet , preheating the metal , then is passed through 3 bond lubricant and then placed in an oven, boss rotor where rotor is riveted, projection , date stamping , balancing check and then the process is completed. Similarly for CD-70 the procedure is different but it is likely done in the same steps like winding, from which connection is made, soldering, bond is made then through buffer wire and then the machine part is placed in oven for 2 hours at the Last the part is inspected.

We ended our visit by visiting the store which comprised of imported parts and local parts. The imported parts were in bulk quantity which is enough for 2 to 3 months but the local stock wasn’t like more than a week.

ATLAS Hitec plant is the vendor of Atlas Honda plant Karachi and Atlas Autos Shakuipura plant. 

Note: This visit was only possible by the efforts of Director Industrial liaison (SME-NED). MUHAMMAD ANAS QADRI.  Sir Students of IMD and members of SME thanks to you for your great efforts.

                                                                                Javeria Saleem

                                                                                IMD (S.E)

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