Week Update - From 07/11 to 07/15

At the beginning of the week, we finished the preparations for the InterSolar North America Conference 2016 in San Francisco. On Tuesday we went to San Francisco to attend the conference,  where we had the opportunity of understanding a little more about solar energy, expend our network, find pontential sponsors and also present a little bit of the work that is being done here in the Spartan Superway facility (this part was presented in a different location, on a hotel).

In order to increase the number of companies known, we divided our team in subgroups. My subgroup was responsible for the 3rd floor. We  talk to representatives from companies like Runsol, Harensolar, and Japan Solar, and we discussed about our project and how the work of the company could be part of it.

In the rest of the week we continued our activities: I continued to construct the safe plan for the shop, included on the blueprint where the fire extinguishers and medical kits should be placed, finished the design of the risk map, mad an inventory of our current first aid supplies and what do we have to procure, checked the current portable fire extinguishers existing on the shop and how much we should acquire, and looked for signages for the harzards in each areas.

Week From 07/04 to 07/08

For this week, we kept doing some progress regarding the 5S organization philosophy. Also, Gabriel and I had some help to work on the implementation of the lighting plan. We discussed with David Araujo about the ideas about the type of light we would use, the quantity and location of them, and we came up with a budget for the materials and purchases.

In addition to that, I started working on the shop safety plan, drawing the blueprint of the facility, mapping the potential risks of each area (the type and the intensity) and representing on the blueprint. The representation can be seen in the following figure.

The types of risks represented above are divided on physical, Chemical, Biological, Ergonomic, and Accident. The details of each of these groups are on the tables as it follows.

Another activity of the week was the preparation for the Solar Conference in San Francisco that occurred 07/12. All the team was involved on that preparation of the poster that Gabriel presented on the conference.

Update for the Week!

The ISE team has been splitted in order to accomplish our tasks for the last weeks. Me, Djonatan and João as responsibles for the 5S facility organizational part made some considerable progress during the week. With Eric's help, a board  is being constructed and organized to hold some tools and facilitate the work in the workstation. Also, we organized some power tools by type and labeled them. Something that was on our way to complete the 5S activities was the large amount of bolts and threads to be classified and organized. With great part of the facility organized, I started to think and research about a safety plan,  how I could present it to the professor and how to put it into practice. In addition to that, us from the ISE team had a meeting with two professors with the objective of getting some help in our activities and ensure that we are in the right path. With all of this being said I hope to be more engaged in my own activities in the following week and complete successfully my tasks in the right dates.