Tata Steel Jamshedpur, Meramandali, Kalinganagar receives Value Engineering awards from INVEST

Jamshedpur, Dec 4: Tata Steel received three prestigious Value Engineering awards from Indian Value Engineering Society (INVEST) which is in recognition of its consistent effort in the construction projects.

Engineering & Projects department of Tata Steel received these awards during the 39th Annual International Value Engineering Conference held on December 1-2 at Bangalore. With this, Engineering & Projects department has distinction of winning awards in Technical Category three years in a row.

Muthiah Kasi Award for “Value study on Improvement in Logistic system of Cold Rolled (CR) Downstream Processing Facility at Tata Steel Kalinganagar (TSK)”: This award is given for exemplary application of Customer Oriented Function Analysis System Technique (FAST) Diagram and demonstrating how Functions and particularly FAST diagram has helped to solve problems and/or led to creative solutions/innovation. Team members included Surya Prakash Prabhaker (Facilitator), Vikash Kumar Team (Leader & Author), Rohit R Kanojia (Member & Co-Author), Ashish Sharma (Member), Mrutyunjaya Ojha (Member), D V S Ramakrishna (Member), Babu Manjunath Moger (Member).

KSRM Sastry Award for “VE study for CAPEX reduction of pipeline package of Zero Effluent Discharge (ZED) plant at Tata Steel Meramandali (TSM)”: This award is given for effective utilization of ‘Function and Creativity’ to derive the best possible solutions. Team members included Surya Prakash Prabhaker (Facilitator), Subrata Ghosh (Team Leader), Ankur Samadhiya (Author), Kaushik Mukhopadhyay (Member), Sunil Singhal (Member), Ashis Kumar Das (Member), Prabhat Shaw (Member), Soumyajit Pradhan (Member), Bijaya Kumar Sadangi (Member), Debdatta Gupta (Member).

Best Technical Paper Award (3rd Prize) for “Value Study of Extruded Briquette Plant for Tata Steel Ltd., Jamshedpur”: The award is given to papers for demonstrating excellence in application of Value Engineering Technique to improve performance. Team members included Ishrat Mirza (Team Leader & Author), Dharmendra Kumar (Member), Y. Rajshekar (Member), Kaushik Mukhopadhyay (Member), Ankur Samadhiya (Co-Author), Devbrat (Member), Sandeep Kumar Patil (Member), Sandip Chakraborty (Member), Pratap Sinha (Member), Shyam Manohar Pandey (Member), Debasis Chakraborty (Member), Puspendu Moitra (Member).

Chandra Mohan Verma, Chief Process Improvement and Material Management was invited as an expert speaker on Value Engineering during the inaugural session of the conference. Luminaries from Industries across the countries participated during the session.