N Sathyanarayanan, ProCitius Research
From a background of process development
for APIs, Sathyanarayanan has quickly
adapted to the needs of
custom synthesis and
completed all projects
allotted to him,
winning praise from
key customers. The
lengthy and difficult
Quinazoline project for a US based small
pharma company was completed with
improved purity. Another difficult project,
Pentobarbital reference standard for United
States Pharmacopeia, enabled us to supply
material to a forum where the quality
expectation is the highest. Sathyanarayanan
played a crucial role as a senior scientist in
an FTE based project with a biotech
company in the US West Coast.
S Ramasubramanian, ProCitius Research
Ramasubramanian has
completed all projects
within set timelines.
A difficult project for
Pfizer delivered in good
quality and in a timely
fashion received praise
from the customer.
A proactive member of the ProCitius team,
Ram played an active role in establishing Lab
3, whose design was different from Labs 1
& 2 and enabled the maintenance team to
tackle the initial teething problems. He
played a crucial role as a senior scientist in
an FTE based project with a biotech
company in the US West Coast.
V S Ramesh, Corporate Accounts
With his clear
understanding of the
group’s accounting
principles and policies,
V S Ramesh ensures
that they are
implemented in letter
and spirit. A member of the Core Team for
SAP implementation, he has been able to
make full use of the SAP functionalities in
all accounting areas. He had the audited
accounts of Chemplast for the year ended
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31st March 2004 ready by 7th April. They
were immediately presented to the Board for
its approval. As a member of the Business
Executive Committee of Chemplast,
Ramesh has been contributing continuously
in various business discussions. His
analytical approach and care for details have
helped him to carry out his tasks to the
satisfaction of everyone.
V Ramasamy, Sanmar Speciality Chemicals
The Phytochemicals
business witnessed
rapid growth
under V Ramasamy’s
stewardship of the
production and the
plant has won
accolades from visiting
dignitaries. The many systems instituted by
VR at the production site speak for
themselves as you walk through the facility.
Last year, VR assumed the additional
responsibility of organic chemicals
production with ease. He displayed his
leadership skills across both the
manufacturing plants at Berigai and the
business performance scaled impressive
heights. His participation helped the plant
commission the solid block. His inputs
ranged from a GMP- compliant layout
design to identification and installation of
all the key equipment. Very high efficiency
levels led to record-breaking production in
the first half of 2003-2004. He has deftly
designed and implemented expansions
commensurate with market demand for the
products.
B Shivakumar, Sanmar Speciality Chemicals
B Shivakumar has a
proud scholastic record,
obtaining the third rank
in Chemical
Engineering from
Karnataka University.
He is the key person
involved in the scale-up
of newly developed processes. He forms the
vital link between laboratory and plant and
plays his crucial role with dexterity.
Shivakumar has brought about
improvements in the not-so- easy process for
a promising product, Tyramine. His
contribution resulted in reduction in the raw
material consumption leading to product
cost reduction by over Rs 500 a kg, longer
equipment life and the customer’s stringent
quality requirement being met. Shivakumar’s
perseverance has yielded similar benefits in
other emerging products as well.
J Sivakumar, Sanmar Speciality Chemicals
Sivakumar is a Chemical Engineer from Sri Venkateshwara Engineering College, Sriperumbudur. Affable by disposition, Sivakumar very quickly picked up the nuances of shift management. Assuming the mantle of shift coordinator in a very short time, he quickly gained the confidence of his colleagues and subordinates. Last year, he achieved an 8.1 % reduction in the raw material cost for a key product MPBM and played an active role in the commissioning of the MPBM production block and scale up of the product that now gets sold in container lots to a key customer in the US. Sivakumar played an important role in the team that achieved a reduction of 5.8% of the budgeted quantity of solvents, a focus area for cost reduction and environment protection.
P T Anoop Ramachandran, Fisher Sanmar
Anoop joined Fisher
Sanmar in August 2001
as a Sr. Application
Engineer. OEMs
demand a very high
degree of technical
support and fast and
effective response to
their requirement. Hence it was a big challenge to Anoop when he was put in charge of building relationships with the OEMs. In the last 3 years he has shown strong commitment in meeting their expectations.
Thanks to his unstinting efforts, Fisher is the first choice with all leading OEMs like Thermax, Daniel Measurements, IJT, Enpro, Krupp etc. In fact in 2003-04, the OEM order booking has grown by over 50% and this is a significant achievement to Anoop’s credit.
K S Suraj, Fisher Sanmar
Suraj joined Fisher
Sanmar in 2002 and in
this short span has
developed into an
excellent Application
Engineer with a high
degree of commercial
acumen. He has won
kudos from his customers for his knowledge
of various techniques and application
aspects, particularly with regard to the
Refineries, Petrochemicals and Oil & Gas
sectors. Coordinating some large jobs, he has
not only understood the technical
requirement for many LSTK contractors like
EIL, Samsung, Hyundai and L&T, but also
provided effective solutions for their process
improvement. This has led to several key
project orders being placed on Fisher and
the bookings from the HCI sector growing
by over 20% in 03-04. Suraj is an excellent
team player.
S Ramasubramanian, Fisher Sanmar
Over the years,
K Manikantan has
become an ace
Application Engineer
with a high degree of
technical expertise and
knowledge. He has been
instrumental in forging
the Power Division in Fisher India and Fisher
is now becoming a force in the power sector.
We have also been able to get the approval
from BHEL. During the year 2003-04,
Mani took over the leadership of the
Application Engineering team at HO. The
performance of his team is there for all to
see from the order booking and the fact that
two of his team members are also receiving this award. Last year, Mani was also called upon to negotiate some large project orders, which he handled very well. Apart from his technical strengths, Mani shows an excellent temperament, good judgment and a positive attitude in all aspects of work.
A Ravikumar, Fisher Sanmar
Ravi’s commitment to
work and his knowledge
and skills in problem
solving have been
widely appreciated by
Fisher units worldwide.
His excellent work was
also recognised last year
when he won the “Employee of the Year”
award. The citation last year said, “Ravi has
now been given the operations responsibility
for the Valves Division. The challenge before
him is to take Fisher Sanmar operations to
world-class standards and help it become the
largest supplier to Fisher worldwide”.
Ravikumar has risen to this challenge and
done an exceptional job in providing the
right leadership to the Fisher India
operations team and gaining the confidence
of Fisher plants in Asia to source valves from
India for large, prestigious projects.
R Ramesh Babu, Xomox Sanmar
Ramesh Babu has
several significant
achievements to his
credit. He was
responsible for
changing the Xomox
plant from a process
layout to a product
focused value stream cellular manufacturing
set-up. Deputed for LBB – Six Sigma
training to our JV Partner, Crane, USA, he
is today a certified “Lean Black Belt”.
Ramesh Babu has not only helped transform the Xomox plant by implementing 5S but also helped Tyco launch their 5S project. He initiated various other projects for improving performance against customer metrics and operational effectiveness, including one to set up Kanban with all key vendors. Ramesh Babu has been instrumental in creating an atmosphere of total employee involvement through training and communication at all levels of the organization.
Deepesh Nanda, Flowserve Sanmar
Deepesh joined SEC as
a Graduate Engineer
Trainee in July 1995. In
October 2002, he
became the Group
Leader of Flowserve’s
Chennai branch. He was earlier recognised
as Employee of the Year for 2002. His achievements include selling the Seal
Tester for the first time in the domestic
market at an excellent price, and setting the
benchmark for pricing with other customers,
picking up orders from GAIL at a good
contribution, developing the Flowserve
Pump Division as an excellent customer
through good processes in both the Pump
Division and at our end. As Product
Manager for GTS seals, Deepesh promoted
it actively throughout India. As a result, we
are now receiving orders from Reliance
Jamnagar. This should set the basis for such
orders from other refineries in India.
Supriyo Bhowmik, Flowserve Sanmar
A 1992 Chemical
Engineer, Supriyo
Bhowmik joined
Flowserve in August
1996 at our Kolkata
branch, moved to Surat
in April 2003. Rated Employee of the Year
in 2002, Supriyo’s strength is his excellent
technical knowledge of applications and a
strong relationship with all his customers.
His achievements have been: Increasing
Flowserve’s share at RIL Hazira with a
higher contribution than previous years and
getting Reliance Hazira to specify Flowserve
seals and obtaining a copy of the
specification. This is the first time Reliance
has given a specification of seals in writing; surfacing issues to raise service and performance levels;reviving many dormant Flowserve customers by continuous interaction with them.
Supriyo has been promoted and moved to Kolkata branch as a Group Leader.
Anupama Rao, SEC - Corporate
Anupama Rao is
effectively the quality
assurance head for
all management
information reports
originating from SEC.
She takes this
responsibility very
seriously, as most SEC accountants have
found out, sometimes the hard way! A single
person department for well over 18 months
now, she has not let that come in the way of
meeting deadlines or ensuring accuracy. She
played a critical role in 2003-04 in the
crunching, of monthly accounts submission
by over ten days. Be it the quarterly reviews,
the monthly MIS reports or the annual
budgets, Anu can be depended upon to
deliver the results expected of her. She sets
high standards for herself, and is as harsh
on herself as she is on others when
expectations are not met.
Sumeet Bansal, Asco (India)
In recognition of
his performance in
Flowserve, Sumeet was
elevated as Asco Group
Leader at Delhi in
May ’03. At the time of
moving into Asco,
Sumeet faced many challenges including
managing the show alone for some time and
lack of exposure to instrumentation products.
Sumeet took up the challenge as a true
professional and is now considered a product
expert and an application expert in the Asco
team. He has also built an excellent team at
the Delhi Branch of Asco. Sumeet established
many new applications and won jobs against
stiff competition from international players.
The breakthrough orders were made possible
by his perseverance, product knowledge and
application knowledge, which enabled
successful development of custom built products to compete with these global players.
Development of these products has thrown
open opportunities in both domestic business
and the Asia Pacific regions.
B Sriram, Asco (India)
Joining Asco in
August ’99, Sriram has
ever been willing to
take on challenging
assignments. Readily
accepting the offer of
handling Asco export
sales in April ’03,
Sriram stabilized the export business in
’03 – ’04 with a growth of 25% and laid the
foundation for future growth. He was given
the additional assignment of coordinating
improvement of On Time Delivery (OTD).
In this role, he brought about an
improvement in OTD from 17% in
April ’03 to 90% by March ’04. This he
achieved by the introduction of processes
and systems and team working.
V Shankar Ganesh, Asco (India)
A Chemical Engineer
from UDCT, Mumbai,
who joined Sanmar as a
Graduate Trainee in
August 2000, Shankar
Ganesh has always
exhibited a high
level of enthusiasm.
Establishing himself early as a result-oriented
field engineer, Shankar Ganesh played a key
role in obtaining a breakthrough order from
BHEL Ranipet against global competition.
We expect repeat business for this system
from BHEL. He was involved right from the
conceptual stage to freezing the basic design,
approval and concluding the contract with
the support of the engineering and
marketing teams. Asco India was not even
in the original approved list of vendors;
Shankar Ganesh was instrumental in
changing this. He also played the primary
role of a change agent in convincing BHEL
Trichy, with the support of Engineering, by
successfully promoting the Low Power/
Intrinsic Safety concept, a strategic move
to counter low cost products offered by
competitors. This exercise has started
yielding results by way of a project order
from BHEL for the IOC Panipat refinery.
K M Prasath Babu, Sensortronics Sanmar
Joining Sensortronics in
August 2003. Prasath
started managing the
engineering function
independently after a
stint in the Assembly
Line. Playing a lead role
in SAP implementation
in SSL, he has piloted a number of cost
reduction initiatives. He redesigned a
number of load cell products to meet
international specifications, earning very
good appreciation from our JV partners.
Prasath was also responsible for the smooth
and effective implementation of Wrench
Engineering Office Management Software
and designed a product at less than 25% of
the cost of similar imported machines.
M Raja, Sanmar Foundries
Starting as Senior
Engineer – Sales in
Sanmar PTI Filters
Limited, M Raja moved
over to the Foundry
Division in January
2001. Raja and his team
are responsible for
ensuring all important customer service
factors such as quick turn-around of new
development, adherence to committed
delivery dates and responsive corrective
action for reported non-conformance etc. In
2003-04, Raja and his team have achieved
commendable progress in various customer
services factors, and currently, the average
lead time is around 4 weeks. There is a need
to achieve a lot more in these initiatives but
the foundry is confident that the goal will
be reached, with the tireless efforts being put
in by Raja in his capacity as Team Leader.