7-8 April 2010

It is unimpeachable that honesty is a virtue; and I intend to uphold that virtue in me. That is why I am going to say that the third and the forth day of my industrial training had been absolutely humdrum! Not to mention physically and mentally tormenting!!!

Upon arriving at the New Product Introduction Unit, I was introduced to my direct supervisor, Miss Manggala by my other supervisor, Mr. Melvin. She is an affable person with a warm smile emblazoning her face.

Then, both of them briefed me about documentation of bonding diagrams as well as the ratification of the flat location. What are those? Bonding diagrams are actually meant to show how the individual die or crystal containing certain circuitry is connected via tenuous gold wire to the bondpad on lead frames. There could be five connections or four connections, depending on the specifications. At the other end of the spectrum, flat location is the position of the wafer as it is used by the machine for die extraction. According to them, this is a momentous task as the assembly line hinges on the information that was about to be recorded. Any mistake that may be indiscernible may culminate in an execrable effect to the assembly line. Not to be rattled, I am a meticulous person. So I performed the task given after detailed explanation and demonstration from the Document Room's colleagues, Miss Dahlia and Miss Shree.

When I say it was mundane, I am not trying to pontificate. I really mean it as what i did for these two days was to face the computer whole day, copy, paste and edit approximately 200 diagrams. I would be preposterous if I had mentioned that I did not feel like I was a machine because what I did was just repetition of steps. My eyes were sore due to the prolonged exposure to the computer which is devoid of any means of harmful rays filtering. The only cheer that had brightened up my day was that I received compliments about the phenomenal rate of my work. To reward that, I was given more work of the exact type. To round it off, the work of these two days had been so monotonous that I had decided to create this new blog post which encapsulates these two days instead of individual post for each day.