Submitted by, Muthu Kumar B Sebastian John Manu Rajeev

The basic & main purpose of every organization is to coordinate the effort of many people towards the achievements of a common objective. Every organization has got its own objective & plan to attain its common goal. A company can attain its common goal only through hard work & co-operation achievement of target & goals. An organization can survive for long unless it takes core of utilization of resources.

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To study about the overall functioning of the organization. To understand the decision making process in business organization. To study about the resources of the company like man, machine, material etc. To find out the relationship between superior & subordinates in the organization To find out the environment existing within the organization. To see various production facilities used in the day to day functioning.

Casting is one of the most ancient ways of forming metals. Casting may be a very small weighting of the order of tones. Casting may be custom made and mass produced. The first steps in casting are to melt the metal.

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The data are obtained from primary & secondary sources ; Primary data -personal interview -observation Secondary data -journals -magazines

1. The study is limited to my experience and knowledge. 2. The confidential nature of data in the firm. 3. The time was major limiting factor for detailed study of all the aspects. 4. There are some errors in the information from few of the respondents. 5. Since some of the officials were busy it was difficult for a detailed discussion. 6. Latest data is not available.

There are about 4500 units out of which 80% classified as small scale units & 10% each as medium and large The various types of casting ;ferrous, nonferrous, aluminum Industry directly employs about 50,000 people, indirectly about 1,50,000. Since 1976, country iron foundry specializes in cast iron fire backs used in colonial times to protect the bricks and orator of fireplaces.

Autokast is a leading foundry, which can cast a wide range of production in grey iron It is a fully owned subsidiary of SILK with capital investment of Rs.3000 million and 320 dedicated workforce It supplies essential components for engineering & manufacturing operations such as automobiles, agriculture, electric, iron, and steel production of casting Substantial progress have been made in the past, but it facing problem like shortage,poor quality and price of input material like pig iron, steel scrap etc

HRM FINANCE MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING QUALITY CONTROL PURCHASE MARKETING

HR department is an important part of every organization It performs a number of function like recruitment, selection, training,placement,job evaluation and merit rating. Time office-: Main function is attendance keeping & payroll preparation & maintain the leave record of the employees.

Attendance & payroll are maintained. Fingerprint recognition is used for permanent employees.

Punching system-:

It is done by a corporate personnel & administration department. All the permanent employees are recruited during the starting stage of the company.

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Autokast employees welfare fund is formulated to carry out various welfare activities. Medical grand of 5000 is provided to the members in service. Retirement benefits. SSLC awards to the employees children. Loan facilities for employees Recreation club-: It is started on 4th oct 1986.for enhancing various activities to employees & their family members.

Library Sports Indoor games Painting competition Health programs

It is concerned with the maintenance of books, accounts & the financial statements. It keeps the transactions of sale of castings, purchase of caste materials, payment of salaries & wages, overtime payments, leave surrender & bonus. The company maintains a detailed account of its assets & liabilities and income & expenditure.

1. Engineering 2. Gating System design

3.Pattern Shop

Divided into 4 sub divisions HP Line Conventional moulding Melting Fettling

Primary duty of marketing department is to take decision of product mix, price mix, promotion mix The objective of marketing department is to improve the customer satisfaction & reduce the rejection & complaints.

Quality checking is conducted at every stages of production. It also checks the quality of product & result are informed to the marketing department. Quality of the product is standard,it is accepted otherwise it is rejected. Quality control involves the function of inspection

Vendor selection Prepare a proposal of tender & put it to the tender committee After approval by the tender committee, purchase order is prepared & registered. Sub contracting of purchasing procedure.

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Highly sophisticated machinery, facility and equipment 2. Availability of good quality sand 3. Nearness to seaport infrastructure 4. Good reputation for quality 5. Well established customer base 6. Good potential for export
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Weakness Long development time for new products Low productivity High fixed overhead Low corporate image Financial constraints Heavy burden of past liabilities Absence of cost control mechanism

opportunities

There is high potential for export due to better quality of products Reduction in input cost is possible. Composite foundry can produce 5k.g. to 5000k.g casting for different application

General recession in the market Survival of the company depends on government policy regarding revival More bargaining power of customers and suppliers Political intervention in the company

Autokast Ltd. Has the potential for producing good quality castings It has got all sorts of modern casting equipments All the departments are well established The infrastructure of the organisation are not properly organised The promotional activities are not conducted effectively The company now in loss due to its heavy past liabilities. The company has lost a major portion of its equipments due to inefficient maintenance The company provides motivational factors to its employees The company is not trying to expand its market

The organization study conducted at Autokast Limited Cherthala. Autokast Limited was started on with the aim of manufacturing all types of ferrous casting under the same roof and was setup in 1981 with the name integrated casting unit under the Steel Industries Kerala ltd(SILK). On may 21, 1984 incorporated as a separate subsidiary on SILK, and renamed as industrial casting unit as ISO 9002 company. The unit has an optimum capacity of 18,000 tons per annum and covers an area of 21,500 square meters. The plant comprises of two distinct production lines via, the conventional molding line and high pressure molding line. The company can manufacture ferrous casting of all grades and sizes ranging from 5 kg to 8,000 kg.

1. The company can diversify its operations into other related areas. 2. More effort must be made to get big international orders. 3. Maintain better industrial relations with the trade unions. 4. Continuous & proper monitoring of weak performance can be made. 5. Incentives & increments should be given based on the performance of the employee rather than their & experience.