Makino

On Friday, I visited Makino, the last of the four companies. This company was different in the sense that this company had bigger machines and had their products their machines instead of the other three companies. The trip started out with a talk by Mr Wong on Makino, what it does, specialises. After that, they brought us to the production plant, where we walked an area and things were explained along the way. After the plant, we went to where to junior engineers do basic training "so to speak" and after everything, we went back to listen to 4 senior engineers about several of the things and had a short Q & A session.After the session, we went out for light refreshment and a short interaction session.

From this session, what I learnt is that engineers have a very tough job as they deal with all the complicated machines everyday, either troubleshooting or fixing and creating. Engineers undergo hard training before they are actually working inside the production plant making the real stuff.

From this trip, I learnt a lot as frankly I had trouble findng information of Makino from their official website as it had been a bit complicated and too technical for my understanding in terms of the products and what they were advertising/ marketing etc.

Finally, what I feel is that Makino is a very important company as they provide a lot of services for people as deserve to be commended. Their devotion as emphasis in the R & D department is also very impressive as they place around 80-90 people in that department to think out of new ideas and products everyday. For all of this, I truly wish Makino success in the future and thank them for the opportunity that they gave me.