An industrial trip was organised by the Department of business studies on 8 august 2013 to Ray Ban (luxottica) and Orient Syntax , both situated in the RIICO industrial area of Bhiwadi The group consisted of 40 students from B.com and M.com and 2 faculty members (Dr Ruchi Jain, Head of the Department and Ms. Tanvi Gaur).
Visit to Ray-Ban (luxottica)
The first visit was to the Ray-Ban factory, a subsidiary of the Luxottica Group s.p.a. (the worlds largest eyewear company) , the producer of the famous italian brand of aviators , designer frames and prescription eyewear. The factory premises was lush green and well maintained. It has a workforce of around 120 employees. The factory imports all its raw material from abroad.

The students learned about the manufacturing process of the sunglasses. The factory is divided into two departments: The production department and The water treatment plant. At the production department, the students witnessed the whole manufacturing process right from cutting of the wire ,moulding, shaping , buffing ,electroplating, brazing, lens processing,durability check ,lens edging ,printing, assembling of the final product. The brand takes care of the quality control at each level of the production process. The sunglasses then are then labelled and packaged.

The second department was the water treatment unit. The unit consists of 6 treatment tanks. It treats the contaminated water which is transported from the production department and is treated to balance its pH level and remove harmful chemicals and is further used for gardening purpose within the factory premises, thus minimising wastage of water.

Visit to Orient Syntex
Next the students visited a Yarn manufacturing factory called Orient Syntex. This factory is the producer of spun-blended yarn and is famous for producing quality yarns since 1979. This particular factory uses synthetic fibre (polyester) to make yarn.It imports its raw material from Noida. It is equipped with most modern and state of the art spinning machinery, including auto corners from Savio Italy and Tfo's, dyeing machines and colour computers. It has recently installed spindle capacity of around 40,000 spindles and producing approximately 12 billion yarns per annum.

The yarn spinning process starts from dyeing the white polyester fibre into various colours, is washed and then dried in the Blowroom. The next step is carding where the fibres are separated and pulled into a paralel form .This is then sent to the daufer to condense them to web.Then its combined to make it more uniform and smoother.In the end roving is done and finally the fibre is spun on ring frames to produce big rolls of yarns.

The students had an enthralling experience after visiting both the factories and enjoyed the visit very much . The trip helped the students in enhancing their knowledge.