Assignment 1 

 Example Reflection – Learning Launch 

 A. Challenge : 

 I am a Project Engineer in one of the Oil and Gas company . During one of the Oil and Gas 

 project , we were at the stage of pre - commissioning activities have initiated and are getting 

 completed system by system . After completion of pre - commissioning activities commissioning 

 activities were scheduled . However , there was a protocol to conduct internal as well as 

 external ( peer review ) technical audit of the installed facilities before the commissioning and 

 start - up is initiated . During the technical audit one of the most renowned audit engineer , who 

 had performed technical audits for several oil and gas facilities across the globe for last 30 

 years had pointed out a very minute error that seal cooling liquid to all the installed centrifugal 

 pumps is not a controlled flow . As a best engineering practice , it was recommended to install 

 flow restriction orifice in all the seal cooling liquid inlet lines . 

 Based on the recommendation suppliers were contacted to provide some 50 nos of flow 

 restriction orifice on urgent basis . Most of the suppliers replied with the minimum delivery 

 period of 3 months subject to various overriding considerations and exorbitantly high cost . 

 Challenge was to install the recommended item and start the plant at the earliest to save lot 

 of service cost being paid on daily basis and start the earning wheel . 

 B. Tool Selection : 

 After looking at the situation I had carried out calculations to know the restriction orifice hole 

 size required for the installation and proposed to my leaders to locally fabricate the orifice if 

 possible . Broadly speaking , the learning launch is an experiment meant to quickly test an idea 

 and prototype . There for the requirement to identify the fabricator was like a learning launch 

 to locally manage such issues . 

 C. Application : 

 After getting nod from our managers and leaders sketch or orifice was prepared by our 

 draftsmen and a team of 2 shop floor supervisors were sent to various fabricators to check 

 whether it is possible to quickly fabricate the restriction orifice . To which most of the fabricators 

 said yes but they were pre - occupied with work which they were awarded by various clients 

 and they were willing to do it after completion of ongoing work and it was expected to get 

 completed in 3 - 4 weeks ’ time . Which we can not afford to wait . Finally , one of the fabricator 

 who had capability to do such fine works was ready to take the job and deliver the product in 

 2 days ’ time . There came the next challenge when he informed that he does not have 2 mm 

 to 4 mm stainless steel plate with him and it will take min 2 weeks ’ time to arrange the plate . 

 We have come back to our ware house to locate a stainless - steel plate , fortunately we have 

 located a 4 mm thick stainless - steel plate of 1 square meter size . We took permissions to lift 

 the plate and transport it to the fabricator . Plate was delivered to fabricator and in presence 

 of floor supervisors ’ plate was cut into desired size pieces . There was a requirement of 50 

 nos , where to avoid any failure a 20 % contingency was considered and 60 nos restriction 

 orifice were fabricated in just one day with the fabrication cost of merely Rupees 5K. This has 

 saved couple of hundred thousand Rupee and time of 3 months . 

 D. Insight & Approach : 

 By applying the learning launch tool , our team identified and learned that there are some 

 fabricators available in the nearby area are capable in performing such fine fabrication works . 

 Moving forward , our team who will operate the plant had decided to review such opportunities 

 in future at least as a stop gap arrangement , whenever there are such sourcing issues . 

 In view of above the learning launch is the appropriate tool used to overcome the issue . As 

 mentioned above , our team needs to review the insight gained from this learning launch and 

 incorporate this insight into future projects . 


EMAIL: 
ID_NUM: 
NAME_STUDENT: 
PHONE_NUM: 
STREET_ADDRESS: 
URL_PERSONAL: 
USERNAME: 

### Task: You are a PII (Personal Identity Information) Detection. Given a essays written by students, you have to identify ONLY the following:
NAME_STUDENT - The full or partial name of a student that is not necessarily the author of the essay. This excludes instructors, authors, and other person names.
EMAIL - A student’s email address.
USERNAME - A student's username on any platform.
ID_NUM - A number or sequence of characters that could be used to identify a student, such as a student ID or a social security number.
PHONE_NUM - A phone number associated with a student.
URL_PERSONAL - A URL that might be used to identify a student.
STREET_ADDRESS - A full or partial street address that is associated with the student, such as their home address.
### Input: Assignment 1 

 Example Reflection – Learning Launch 

 A. Challenge : 

 I am a Project Engineer in one of the Oil and Gas company . During one of the Oil and Gas 

 project , we were at the stage of pre - commissioning activities have initiated and are getting 

 completed system by system . After completion of pre - commissioning activities commissioning 

 activities were scheduled . However , there was a protocol to conduct internal as well as 

 external ( peer review ) technical audit of the installed facilities before the commissioning and 

 start - up is initiated . During the technical audit one of the most renowned audit engineer , who 

 had performed technical audits for several oil and gas facilities across the globe for last 30 

 years had pointed out a very minute error that seal cooling liquid to all the installed centrifugal 

 pumps is not a controlled flow . As a best engineering practice , it was recommended to install 

 flow restriction orifice in all the seal cooling liquid inlet lines . 

 Based on the recommendation suppliers were contacted to provide some 50 nos of flow 

 restriction orifice on urgent basis . Most of the suppliers replied with the minimum delivery 

 period of 3 months subject to various overriding considerations and exorbitantly high cost . 

 Challenge was to install the recommended item and start the plant at the earliest to save lot 

 of service cost being paid on daily basis and start the earning wheel . 

 B. Tool Selection : 

 After looking at the situation I had carried out calculations to know the restriction orifice hole 

 size required for the installation and proposed to my leaders to locally fabricate the orifice if 

 possible . Broadly speaking , the learning launch is an experiment meant to quickly test an idea 

 and prototype . There for the requirement to identify the fabricator was like a learning launch 

 to locally manage such issues . 

 C. Application : 

 After getting nod from our managers and leaders sketch or orifice was prepared by our 

 draftsmen and a team of 2 shop floor supervisors were sent to various fabricators to check 

 whether it is possible to quickly fabricate the restriction orifice . To which most of the fabricators 

 said yes but they were pre - occupied with work which they were awarded by various clients 

 and they were willing to do it after completion of ongoing work and it was expected to get 

 completed in 3 - 4 weeks ’ time . Which we can not afford to wait . Finally , one of the fabricator 

 who had capability to do such fine works was ready to take the job and deliver the product in 

 2 days ’ time . There came the next challenge when he informed that he does not have 2 mm 

 to 4 mm stainless steel plate with him and it will take min 2 weeks ’ time to arrange the plate . 

 We have come back to our ware house to locate a stainless - steel plate , fortunately we have 

 located a 4 mm thick stainless - steel plate of 1 square meter size . We took permissions to lift 

 the plate and transport it to the fabricator . Plate was delivered to fabricator and in presence 

 of floor supervisors ’ plate was cut into desired size pieces . There was a requirement of 50 

 nos , where to avoid any failure a 20 % contingency was considered and 60 nos restriction 

 orifice were fabricated in just one day with the fabrication cost of merely Rupees 5K. This has 

 saved couple of hundred thousand Rupee and time of 3 months . 

 D. Insight & Approach : 

 By applying the learning launch tool , our team identified and learned that there are some 

 fabricators available in the nearby area are capable in performing such fine fabrication works . 

 Moving forward , our team who will operate the plant had decided to review such opportunities 

 in future at least as a stop gap arrangement , whenever there are such sourcing issues . 

 In view of above the learning launch is the appropriate tool used to overcome the issue . As 

 mentioned above , our team needs to review the insight gained from this learning launch and 

 incorporate this insight into future projects .
### Output: 