Concept To Commissioning

Description

ABOUT THE BOOK

In this book, the author has shared his life time experience in executing steel plant projects, blending it with the theories which are required for students of management colleges and the young engineers who are taking up project management in their career at various levels. The book is divided in to three parts, the project planning and approval, Project Implementation and Annexures of Case studies and compelling latest technological developments.
The planning section deals with ideation of projects, market study including PESTEL and PORTER’s Five Force Analysis, Organization SWOT analysis and action plans. It discusses on Product, Market and Demand, provides detailed Technical and Financial appraisals including budgeting, cost of production, various profit terminologies, pay back periods and internal rate of returns and other requirements of investors. The environmental requirements are also addressed.
The implementation section, project planning deals with systems and procedures, policies and guidelines, Risk Management, safety and Quality. Sections on Organizing, scheduling, procuring, execution, monitoring and control provide practical examples from large steel plant project executions. Critical path analysis and critical path crashing are discussed using examples of executed projects.
The budgets, bar charts, critical path analysis and crashing, progress review graphs etc., all are given with real steel plant figures as examples. The focus on environment in large red category projects are cited throughout the book, the key aspects of public hearing are also addressed.
Third section deals with two case studies with highly challenging budgets and time frame, citing the actual experience in executing of those projects. Book has also touched upon the latest technological development of Hydrogen usage in steel making in efforts to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

The author is a doctorate in Mechanical engineering from Anna University. He also got qualified in electrical engineering and Diploma in Business Finance.
He has started his career in project stage of Salem Steel plant under Steel Authority of India Limited. After 8 years of service, he has moved to Bharat Strips Limited, Hyderabad, where he has commissioned the Copper and alloy steel plant. He has served the JSW group for 33 years growing with the group from Rs. 20 Crore turnover cold rolling unit to one lakh crore multi vertical conglomerate with 26 MTPA integrated steel plant capacity, in key roles of project execution, corporate strategy and heading of units with challenge of turnaround.
He has played a key role as head of projects at the group’s steel plant at Vijayanagar, Bellary, Karnataka, increasing the capacity of the plant from 1.6 MT to 10 MT in four phases, all of which were done in record minimum time and very low budgets compared to the prevailing norms, with out sacrifice in quality. On completion the Plants have ramped up in short time and exceeded guaranteed production levels over a period.
He has played a pivotal role in turning around of company’s one million tonne steel production plant by changing over the product mix from commodity to special steel and achieving the position of largest long product special steel plant of India preferred by the customers. The company has won series of awards during the journey to total quality management and bagging of Deming Award under his leadership
He is currently working as visiting professor in Engineering and MBA colleges. He has published his first book on “Maintenance for Profitability in June this year.