The 2nd Edition India Manufacturing Summit 2013, 10th May 2013, Mumbai in association with Bombay
Chamber of Commerce & Industry and All India Association of Industries.
The Bombay Chamber of Commerce & Industry in association with EXITO organized the “The 2nd Edition India
Manufacturing Summit” on 10th May 2013 at JW Marriott Hotel Mumbai, Juhu Tara Road, Mumbai - 400049,
India.
India Manufacturing Summit 2013 is a Summit to serve the requirements of Manufacturing industry and get
extensive networking opportunities with the India's buyers of industrial solutions. It provides an environment
conducive to the exchange of views, discussion, healthy argument and face-to-face networking amongst
manufacturing companies of the region. The Summit bought in nearly 100 decision makers from across India giving
an opportunity to learn and discuss about some of the issues and latest invention in the Indian Manufacturing
industry.
The summit was a highly focused and content rich summit which was designed for industry leaders from
manufacturing sector across India. The summit delivered in-depth look at what are the opportunities that lie within
and presented a solution to help leaders benefit in their business.
The Speakers who took this Summit to a different level were
Raju Krishnaswamy
Regional Head Supply Chain South Asia & Executive Director, GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals Ltd
John Fernandes
Business Development Manager- Machine Shop, ExxonMobil
Manavendra S Gokhale
CEO, Raj Oil Mills Ltd
V K Bhatia
COO - Fertilzers Division Tata Chemicals
Dr. Dhananjay Kumar
CEO & Global Head (Engineering, Global Projects & Business Development), KLT Automotive & Tubular Products
Ltd.
Dr. Gaurav Sharma
Head- Quality & Industrialisation, Givaudan India Pvt Ltd
Suhas Sudhakar Gokhale
Manager-Supplier Quality Assurance, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd
Sanjeev Kumar
VP Quality, Alkem Laboratories Ltd
Vijay Chourey
Head Transmission, Tata Power
Sanjay Madan
Sr. Vice President - Operation, Emami Limited
K.V. Balram
VP Manufacturing, SABMiller India Limited
Ajoykaant Ruia
Director, Allstate Comserve Ltd
The key keynote Address was delivered by Mr Raju Krishnaswamy, representative Bombay Chamber, Regional
Supply Chain South Asia, Manufacturing, GSK Pharmaceuticals on ‘Criticality of manufacturing for India’s
growth’.
The talk started with the emphasis on the current scenario of the manufacturing set up and further went on with
comparison between the manufacturing set up in Japan, China and India.
The comparison made it clear how china and India were on a same platform 10 yrs ago but now china has moved
on to manufacturing and produces and exports goods to other countries on bulk scale. He also emphasized on the
excellence India has achieved in pharmaceutical manufacturing.
Mr Krishnaswamy stated that India has a large advantage over other countries in terms of increasing percentage of
the working population. And also emphasized that there needs to be an effort to channelize this young population
to productive sectors like manufacturing. If we do not convert this opportunity into action it will create a bigger
problem for India.
India needs to focus on the following points to achieve overall growth in manufacturing:
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Frugal technology- use of high end technology is the need of the hour and how the concept of frugal
Manufacturing can be used to achieve zero wastage. Every action that we do has to create value or it will
lead to inefficient economy.
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Engage Institutions and Academia so that graduates coming out of the Institutions are employable.
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Technological research- Universities to identify the unmet needs of the industry and come out with
products that will create wealth for the country.
We need to embrace new technology and increase the manufacturing sector only then can India attain the power
it deserves.
Keynote Address was delivered by Mr. V K Bhatia, Representative Bombay Chamber, COO - Fertilizer Division,
Tata Chemicals on "Best Maintenance Practices followed in Modern Continuous Running Plants"
The speech started with the emphasis on the Current Scenario of the Modern Continuous Running Plants focusing
on following points:
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Modern Process plants are single stream mega capacity
Plant on stream factor has gone up manifolds over last 3 decades. This has been made possible with:
Technological advancement and metallurgical up gradation
Improvement in plant monitoring & its control, plant safety by trip & interlocks through
Distributed Control System
Coupled with advance Emergency Shutdown System (ESDS)
Advance Process Controller (APC) for process parameter optimization
Excellent Plant operation & maintenance practices
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Complexity of plant operation and maintenance has increased significantly
Need more qualified and skilled people to run and maintain the plant safely
Energy and feedstock cost is increasing day by day
Being single stream plant, the business impact is high due to any plant interruption / stoppage
Improve the business profitability on sustainable basis
Process hazard has increased due to high hold up volumes of process fluids at any point of operation due
to large single stream plant
Environment regulations are becoming more and more stringent everyday
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Key Challenges to run these single stream large capacity continuous operation modern plants efficiently and safely
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 Maintaining Plant Reliability and Integrity
 Ensuring Competent and Skilled work force
 Ensuring high standard of Health , Safety and Environment
Way to overcome challenges:
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Use of innovation in plant maintenance and reliability
Improving the maintainability, productivity and easiness in equipment maintenance by improvement at
equipment design level
Improving the cycle time of plant turn around and enhancing the time span to four years between two
schedule plant turn around
Use of continual improvement tools like Lean Six Sigma (LSS)
Reducing the human skill dependency in plant maintenance by use of mechanisation and technology
Use of various interactive training modules for fast and effective skill building
The speech was followed by an intensive Q&A session.
All the sessions where highly appreciated by the audience.