Today is our second day in Bangalore and our assigned company is Timken. The Timken Company is a leading global manufacturer of highly engineered bearing and other related components as well. The company has applied its’ knowledge to better serve its’ customers and make products move smoother and more efficiently, as well as allow for safer landings. Timken has many locations around the globe in various countries on every continent. The company is a member of Forbes Platinum 400. It was founded in 1899 by Henry Timken in St Louis and was relocated to Canton in 1901. When Timken first started doing business in India it was a joint venture, which later changed. There are now four sales offices located in India. The values of the company are Ethics & Integrity, Quality, Innovation, and Independence. Timken’s functions include Product technology, Manufacturing technology, Information technology (hardware & software), and Corporate shared services. As for the product technology, there are 7 technology centers. Two are located in New Hampshire, one in Ohio, one in France, one in Romania, one in Shanghai, and one in Bangalore.
As for the bearings and power transmission portion of the company, it includes mobile industries, process industries, aerospace and defense. The culture of the company is what interested me the most. It is amazing what the company does for its’ employees. For their culture, they have an associate dialogue, which is a formal type of meeting between the associates where they get to talk to each other and get to know more about not only about one another but the company as well. There is also a chit chat club which is more of an informal version of the associate dialogue. There is a newsletter which is distributed electronically to the employees every month. Not only does the company have meetings, but they also have great interactive activities everyone can participate in. Some include International Women’s Day, Family Day, Timken Premier League and Ethnic Day. There are also fire drills, vehicle emission tests, blood donation camps, and safety runs which are included in the Environment Health & Safety.
Timken also has WIN, Women’s International Network. It focuses on equality between men and women on campus. There is a throwball tournament and even an essay competition. They also have a committee for sexual harassment. For their yearly CSR there is a Day of Caring, Week of Sharing and Junior Achievement. Their social responsibility includes Habitat for Humanity, Women’s Day and Father’s Day as well.
Everyone at Timken was very welcoming; they treated us like we were a part of their company and served us coffee/tea and cookies. At the end of the presentation, we were each presented with a Timken pen, which will really come into handy once classes start back up on the 27th of August. The campus was absolutely beautiful and very well maintained. It was great to see our very own Timken at work in India; I learned so much that I had never known about the company before traveling to Bangalore.