Challenges Faced by Manufacturing Engineers in Covid Situation

This research focuses on identifying the challenges faced by manufacturing engineers in the Covid situation, specifically in the case of Unilever. It discusses the impact of the pandemic on the manufacturing industry and the difficulties faced by engineers. The study also explores strategies adopted by engineers to manage these challenges. The aim is to provide insights for the industry and society to overcome the obstacles and continue operations effectively.

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................3
Background............................................................................................................................3
Research problem...................................................................................................................3
Benefit to the industry and society.........................................................................................3
Aim.........................................................................................................................................3
Objective................................................................................................................................3
Scope of research...................................................................................................................4
LITERATURE REVIEW...........................................................................................................4
To understand the meaning of manufacturing engineer and their role in Unilever...............4
To identify the challenges faced by manufacturing engineers in Unilever regarding this
Covid situation.......................................................................................................................4
To identify the strategies available for managing the challenges faced by manufacturing
engineers in the Covid situation.............................................................................................5
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY...............................................................................................6
Time scale..............................................................................................................................7
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INTRODUCTION
The current covid-19 has direct impact on the manufacturing organisations as well as
manufacturing engineers in the current time (Hill, 2017). It is identified that there are a
number of problems and challenges which are faced by the manufacturing engineers due to
the covid-19. Due to white spirit of covid-19 there are lots of troubles which are faced by
manufacturing industry especially faced by the manufacturing engineers within the
organisations in which they are working. The current research will address all these issues
which are faced by the manufacturing in genius within the covid-19 organisation in this
Unilever.
Background
Unilever is a British multinational manufacturing organisation which is also selling its
products and services at global level. In the current scenario of covid-19 company is wasting
lots of problem in its manufacturing sector where it is also facing trouble with manufacturing
engineers within the organisation for stop the manufacturing engineer of the organisation are
facing challenges regarding the coalition which are directly impact fall on their working.
There is low level of innovation as well as improper availability of raw material to produce
the product and services are the major causes of trouble faced by the manufacturing engineer
within this pandemic.
Research problem
It can be defined as a issue which are faced by the researcher while conducting the
research. In context of the current time the major research problem faced by the researcher is
based on collection of data. This is because my spirit of covid-19 restricted the researcher to
use the limited sources and order to collect the data. It is also identified that researcher is not
able to collect the data from primary sources such as questionnaire and other because not of
the individual doesn't replied due to threat of covid-19.
Benefit to the industry and society
This research is based on the identification of the problematic areas faced by the
manufacturing engineers while performing their business in manufacturing industry such as
my Unilever. This will help the manufacturing industry in identifying the core problems
faced by the manufacturing engineers while working in the situation of covid-19 as well as it
also helps in suggesting different strategies to motivate them and make their work easier.
Along with this it will also benefit to the society where society can save itself from the
impact of covid-19 as well as continue its work by reducing the impact of lockdown.
Aim
"To identify the challenges faced by manufacturing engineers in the covid situation." A Case
study of Unilever.
Objective
 To understand the meaning of manufacturing engineer and their role in Unilever.

 To identify the challenges faced by manufacturing engineers in Unilever regarding
this covid situation.
 To identify the strategies available for managing the challenges faced by
manufacturing engineers in the covid situation.
Research questions
 What is the meaning of manufacturing engineer and their role in Unilever?
 What are the challenges faced by manufacturing engineers in Unilever regarding this
covid situation?
 What are the strategies available for managing the challenges faced by manufacturing
engineers in the covid situation?
Scope of research
This research is based on identifying the problems faced by manufacturing engineers
in Unilever. The project scope is directly related to identifying the problem and providing
solutions & strategies to solve this issue. This can be used in near future and order to
understand the concept of manufacturing industry and issues faced by engineers and
resolving these issues as an example to solve the particular problems.
LITERATURE REVIEW
To understand the meaning of manufacturing engineer and their role in Unilever
According to view point of Han, (2017) Manufacturing engineer can be defined as a
person within the organisation which is operating from the branch of organisations such as
mechanical chemical electric and industrial engineering. It is the person who used to perform
the functions within the organisation related to development of tool process machinery and
equipment. The major task is to provide appropriate system in order to producing quality
products with optimum expenditure of capital.
According to the viewpoint of Black, and Kohser, (2020) There are different rules of
manufacturing engineer within the organisation for staff manufacturing engineer usually
work inside the factory of the other production sites. Manufacturing engineer also help in
developing and if appropriate system process and machine which result in high quality
product. In context of Unilever there are different jobs which are performed by the
manufacturing engineer within the organisation. The primary job manufacturing engineer is
to evaluate the manufacturing process in order to ascertain better quality of the products and
services while production. It is also evaluated that one more function which is played by
manufacturing engineer is related to testing in new and existing production procedures to
meet the requirement of product quality as well as performing organisational working in
effective way. This will help in getting appropriate results and finding better system.

To identify the challenges faced by manufacturing engineers in Unilever regarding this Covid
situation.
According to the viewpoint of Paul and Chowdhury, (2020) There are different
challenges which are faced by the manufacturing engineers within this covid-19 pandemic.
These challenges are directly associated with the manufacturing industry and also faced by
the Unilever while working. According to the author, these are some challenges which have
their direct impact on the productivity as well as profitability of organisation.
As per the view point of Ivanov, and Dolgui, (2020) The major challenges faced by
the organisation are related to improper supply chain. Covid-19 adversely impacted on the
supply chain network of organisation where manufacturing engineer face number of
difficulties. These are related to improper management of inventory as well as increasing in
the cost of distribution. Here, manufacturing engineer has to design some and innovative
approaches in order to improve the supply chain network.
As per the analysis of Czifra, and Molnár, (2020) It is viewed that one of the major
problem which is faced by the manufacturing engineer is related to meeting the demand of
essential products. It is identified that Unilever is also dealing with the essential products in
the covid-19 period. Under this there is a high demand of these essential products which has
to be managed by the manufacturing engineers. Hear the role of manufacturing engineer is to
manage automated machineries as well as non-automated systems in an appropriate way so
that the demand can be meet by the organisation at global level. This acted as a major
challenge in front of manufacturing engineers working within Unilever.
According to the viewpoint of Agrawal, Jamwal and Gupta, (2020) One of the major
issues faced by the manufacturing engineer within the Unilever is related to non-availability
of raw material and essential ingredients in order to strengthen the process and functioning of
manufacturing within organisation. Due to mass scale of lockdown and non-availability of
transport, manufacturing engineers of Unilever has to face difficulty in performing the
process of manufacturing within the organisation as well as managing an appropriate
systematic approach to produce the products and services.
To identify the strategies available for managing the challenges faced by manufacturing
engineers in the Covid situation.
Along with different challenges there are also some strategies which are adopted by
the manufacturing engineers in order to resolve the issues and implementing appropriate
functions to survive within the covid situation.
In findings of Paul and Chowdhury, (2020)Most appropriate strategy which is
followed by manufacturing engineer within Unilever is related to using the limited resources
as well as producing an appropriate plan to only produce the required goods for staff at the
time of covid, manufacturing engineer come up with a appropriate program of producing only
essential goods and services which require limited resources as well as also held in managing
the supply chain in effective way. Using the local resources is helpful to the organisation in
fulfilling the demand without spreading the threat of covid-19. This also helps in providing

employment to the local individuals so that they can easily earn their livelihood in the
situation of lockdown and pandemic.
In viewpoint of Paul, and Chowdhury, (2020) Manufacturing engineers within this
industry used all the local resources as well as try to maintain an appropriate system which
helps in utilising the local resources to produce all the essential goods for staff here the plant
appropriately according to the requirements of the industry and try to enhance the capacity by
building cost effective techniques.
According to the viewpoint of Elavarasan and Pugazhendhi, (2020) Manufacturing
engineers within the Unilever also used to follow appropriate guidelines provided by the
different governments of the area. It does help the manufacturing engineers in saving
themselves from the impact of covid-19 virus and also performing their functions regarding
manufacturing process within Unilever.
As per the reference of Paul and Chowdhury, (2020) Is also identified that
manufacturing Engineer with it Unilever also focus on increasing their logistic facilities and
improving this in an effective way for stop in order to doing so organisation used to
continuously employers employees in logistic where company can deliver the product from
one place to another in efficient way. This helped the organisation in meeting the demand of
that period as well as achieving better results by performing in the period of covid-19.
Company also used trade drivers as well as appropriate staff so that company can deliver the
product from one place to another in effective and safe manage. By the use of safe passage
and continuous dealing with other members working within this covid situation company
achieved its goals and objective of teaching to each and every individual and providing them
essential services as possible.
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
It outlines the processes and measures that the researcher will take to complete the
study. It aids in the identification, selection, and analysis of data collected in order to perform
research on the topic (Rafiq, Hackett and Brentjens, 2020). This section assists the reader in
gaining a thorough understanding of the researcher's methods. It is important that the study be
carried out efficiently. Management is responsible for a variety of activities in order to
execute the study efficiently. It is critical to establish project deadlines and guidelines, as well
as to complete the project on schedule. If the research is carried out using effective tools, it
will be effective and will aid in obtaining valid results.
Research Approach: Inductive and deductive analysis techniques are the two types of
research methods. The researcher gathers data relevant to his interest using an inductive
analysis method. The researcher focuses on theory creation in this approach. The deductive
research approach is the next method. The already known hypothesis is put to the test in order
to draw a conclusion from the analysis. This research is completed using inductive research,
which aids in obtaining positive results from the data.

Research Methods: The primary and secondary data collection methods are the most
popular. It is essential to comprehend the study title in order to obtain reliable results. The
first is primary research, in which the data is fresh and obtained by the researcher. This
approach needs more time (Burgelman, 2020). The data were collected by the researcher
himself. Experiments, questionnaires, interviews, case studies, and other forms of primary
data are examples of primary data. The second approach is to use data and knowledge that
has already been written. There has been previous research in the same area. It is a cost-
effective data collection tool since it saves both time and money.
This study employs both primary and secondary analysis methods. In terms of the
primary process, information is gathered through a questionnaire distributed to Amazon
employees. Secondary data is gathered through a literature review and citations from
previously published articles, journals, newspapers, and magazines.
Participants include: Since data from the whole population cannot be collected, a
sample size must be determined. The sample size for this study will be 50 Amazon
employees who will be chosen by random sampling. Since simple random sampling has a
lower risk of bias and discrimination.
Validity and reliability: The research's validity is determined by the data collection
source. It is important to remember that the study is conducted using a questionnaire, which
means that the data is obtained directly from the employees. It aids in the collection of data
from credible sources, resulting in a true and reliable study outcome. Along with that,
authentic data from papers and journals is used, demonstrating the data's reliability.
Data analysis: Data processing is the method of analysing the information gathered.
Quantitative and qualitative data are the two types of data. The data obtained in this study is
mathematical, and it will be analysed using graphs and pie charts. The method of analysing
the collected data is known as data analysis. Quantitative and qualitative data are the two
types of information. The collected data in this study is mathematical, and it will be analysed
using graphs and pictographs. It will assist in the average person's understanding of the
results. The research can be effectively completed by data analysis.
Time scale
Time scale can be defined as that function within the the research which help in
providing different task in appropriate time frame work. This help in dividing the task and
understand each and every aspect of the test by performing it in appropriate way..

Resources

In order to conduct the researcher at an appropriate way, there are different methods
which can be used by the researcher as a resource of fulfilling the research. These resources
related to time internet laptop cost communication and various other which are required to
achieve the positive outcomes of the research in conducting this it in effective way.

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