The undergraduate program of School Industrial Management (SIM) includes courses requiring field trips, internships, and on-the-job training at enterprises. Before finalizing their graduation projects and theses, third-year students have an off-campus internship during the summer semester. This is an opportunity for students to work full-time at enterprises for 8 weeks or longer, depending on the job requirements. This internship not only helps students familiarize themselves with work in enterprises but also guides them in developing their graduation projects and caption projects in their fourth year.
Long Huei Vietnam Co., Ltd. – a company specializing in the production of helmets with reputable brands such as Andes, Zeus, and Sunda. Longhuei is known as a leading manufacturer in terms of quality and prestige, with international output accounting for 80% of total sales. Longhuei has attracted many SIM students for internships, field trips, and group assignments in recent years. This summer 2024, 13 third-year students joined the internship at the company and experienced a professional working environment. The students contributed by identifying issues and proposing improvements through measurement, evaluation, and applying knowledge learned at school that they had not had the opportunity to implement. Interns were assigned to various departments of the company, from glue pressing, fiberglass, padding, foam, and assembly to quality inspection, contributing to the diversification of process improvement and synchronization. In the first week, interns were provided with research topics on process improvement in their respective departments by the company’s senior management. The research topics will revolve around improving product productivity and quality or reducing remaining waste.
Afterward, students will work directly at the factory with employees and supervisors to learn the process, from which they will collect data, identify issues in production management and quality most accurately. In the research process, analyzing processes and measuring production time helps to quantify and qualify stages and operations, balancing production lines for each product code. Students will have many opportunities to improve daily, implement 5S in each stage and production process, and interact directly with workers on the line to solve bottlenecks in the process. Students can perceive the concepts they have learned more closely, such as Lean, Kaizen, Kanban, GEMBA Walk, line balancing, lead time, cycle time, takt time, DOE, SOP, statistical process control tools such as fishbone diagrams, Pareto charts, and checklists. Additionally, students are guided to use mind mapping software, fully exploit tools, Excel functions, and other software in analysis and evaluation.
At the end of each week, students will present their reports. The presentations will be attended by the highest-ranking leaders of the factory, department heads, and supervisors who will provide feedback on the presentation and suggest directions for the students. In addition, the leadership will directly supervise the students’ research and improvements and set requirements for their research. The students’ improvement proposals are applied immediately in the working week and the results are observed and adjusted accordingly. During the internship, in addition to the allowance, students are also provided by the company with accommodation in the dormitory area for foreign experts, three meals a day at the enterprise, and transportation from the company’s dormitory to the workplace. At the end of the internship, the company will suggest opportunities for students to continue implementing their graduation projects and theses at the enterprise and at the same time offer to recruit students after graduation.
