HISTORY:
Company
(ACC) a need for maintenance of workshops at each plant was noticed. Hence, in
the year 1942 central workshops at Shahabad, Lechery and Madukharai were
started to manufacture spare parts for ACC plants. Then, in 1945 manufacturing
of complete units of kilns, mills and crushers .In central workshops were
started. At these central workshops machines Required for complete cement
plants we were started manufacturing in the Year 1952-54.Later, this unit
combined with the Vickers Armstrong & Babcock and Wilcox of U.K As partners
under the banner of ACC-AVB (ACC-Vickers-Babcock) to manufacture cement and
boilers, head Office at Durgapur in the year 1959.
In the year 1961
central workshops at Shahabad works shifted to present Location and named as
ACC-Heavy Engineering (ACC-SHE) to Manufacture cements plant to outsiders other
than ACC. Then, Cast iron Foundry Manufacturing of EOT cranes with Hitachi
collaboration was added To this Unit and renamed as ACC-Shahabad heavy
Engineering (ACC-SHE).In the year 1974 ACC-SHE was sold to AVB for expansion of
Capacity for boiler Manufacturing and renamed as AVB-SW and tube shops And
other balancing equipment’s for boiler manufactures for boiler .
Manufacture was
started. In the year 1983 this ABL became Government Supervised company with
administrative control by Energy ministry and Other financial institution and
Government of India with having major Shares and ACC-Babcock continued to be
partners. In the year 1995 a Multinational company took over the management of
ABL with 74% of the Shareholding and named as ABB-ABL ltd.
In the year 1999
ABB-ALSTOM power boilers Ltd. Was formed With 50:50% of shares. In the year May
2000, ALSTOM acquired 50% of The shares of the ABB of theirs joint company and
renamed as ALSTOM Power boilers Ltd. and it is now 100% shares owned by ALSTOM.
In the Year Nov-2003.ALSTOM power boilers ltd .Renamed as ALSTOM Project India ltd.
On 6th July 2012 Company
renamed as ALSTOM India ltd.
INDUSTRY
PROFILE
Alstom India Strategic
Player in Power, Transport:
Power and
transport are among the fastest growing sectors in India. Billions of dollar
are being invested by both domestic (public and privet) and international firms
in these sectors, as demanded for electricity and transport facilities soars,
and is expected to continue to expand over the coming years.
One of the oldest multinationals
present in India – ALSTOM India Ltd (AIL), part of French major ALSTOM SA – is
uniquely positioned to take advantages of the rapid growth in these two key
sectors. The $26.6 billion (sales revenue) global leader in power generation
and rail infrastructure nurtures a long – term commitment to India.
“India is one of the fastest growing
economies in the world today,” notes Sunand Sharma, country president, ALSTOM
India, and chairman, AIL “In the years ahead, as the Indian economic growth
story unfolds, AIL will be well poised to respond to the demands of the market
in the two sectors in which we operate – power and transport.”
COMPANY
PROFILE
ALSTOM is the
world leader in energy and transport Infrastructure. ALSTOM is organized six
sectors: power, Transmission, &distribution, transport, contracting, marine
and power conversion. It has a combined turnover of more than 22 billion EURO
and employees over 92,650 people on March 2012 in 81 countries. With 18% of the
world market and a combined sale of 22 billion Euros 2012, the sector has a wide
offering: from Turnkey power plants to turbines (gas, stream, hydro), project
development, and Finance and high value added service. The ALSTOM network is
divided into four geographic regions and has offices covering more than
81Countries. This network co-ordinates the company’s actions and provides Customer
service at both local and regional levels.
ALSTOM Power,
the full service provider: It is one of the biggest and most comprehensive
suppliers of power generation services and equipment in the world. The company
offers a uniquely comprehensive Range of products and service. Which enable it
to provide its customer with the maximum of option and the most economical and
environmentally Friendly solutions. ALSTOM’s goal of going forward is clearly
to sustain and enhance its leading market positions whilst applying management
Excellence to reach world profitability.
ALSTOM India
Ltd. has approximately 7,800 Employees in different locations in India. It
develops, produces and markets, Power generation equipment’s, on turnkey basis
such as, turbines, generators, Boilers, auxiliary equipment’s, environment
control products, power plant Controls, project development including customer
service.
ALSTOM IN INDIA:
ALSTOM, the
global specialist in energy and transport Infrastructure is in the business of
providing quality solution and system Design.
Commencing
its operations in Calcutta in the 1910’s and Later in Chennai in the 1950’s
ALSTOM in India traces its lineage to English Electric, CEGELEC, AEI, GEC ALSTOM,
ASEA, and HB Band ABB Drawing its strengths from technologies developed over
the year by these Companies. ALSTOM has been a long term player in India in the
energy Business, supplying critical electrical and industrial equipment
including Boilers and turbines and pollution control equipment. The INDUSTRIAL
Equipment division manufactures rotating machinery (motors and meters),
Industrial and domestic fans. With its significant presence in the transport.
Sector
in India ALSTOM provides railway equipment and technology Solution. ALSTOM
India helps generate 40% of the total power produced in the country. In India
ALSTOM is active in 3 major areas of business i.e. power Transmission and
distribution and transport.
ALSTOM in India
has two listed companies in Kolkata and Mumbai,600 employees and 12
manufacturing with the turnover of about 342Million Euros.
SHAHABAD MANUFACTURING UNIT:
Shahabad, a
little town in the northern part of Karnataka, is quite well Know today, primarily due to the presence of
ALSTOM projects India ltd., Shahabad unit and secondly due to the abundant
stone quarries, from which The famous Shahabad polish stones originate. There
many major cement Plants in the surroundings areas due to the natural resource
of limestone Available in abundance.
During the
course of last three decades, this unit has built up an Experience of
manufacturing and supplying of cement plants and machinery Including all types
of milling system for cement, limestone, coal etc., EOT Cranes, equipment for
automatic energy, steel plant equipment, rubber Machinery, mining machinery,
electronic precipitators, industrial boilers, Utility boilers including
pressure parts, structural, pulverize, soot blowers, HP piping etc.
In addition,
Shahabad unit has carved a niche for itself in the Manufacture and supply of
casting in high alloy iron etc. catering to various Industries and particular
specialized in the manufacture of grinding elements For the pulverizes. Except
the manufacture of pressure parts, dedicate to the Durgapur unit of ALSTOM
power boiler, this unit manufacture the rest of Boilers products.
A highly
dedicated term of about 469 employees is managing Shahabad unit which is one of
the manufacturing facilities in the private Sector, in southern India. This
unit undertakes manufacture of critical boiler Products like boilers and air
heater supporting structure and miscellaneous Fabrication, hydro mechanical
equipment, power cycle piping system, soot Blowing system, pulverize and mills
various types and foundry product Catering to not only thermal power, but also
to various other applications.
The Shahabad
unit is also gearing up to obtain ISO-14001 Certification by the year 2001.
Various awareness and orientation program have already been completed. Another
interesting thing to note is that the Shahabad unit the years has developed
greenery in its township and Surrounding by planting more than 4 lakes and
encouraging the resident to Maintain Lawns and plants in their own homes.
Management of the ALSTOM India Ltd
·
Mr.
Sunand Sharma (country president & chairman of ALSTOM India Ltd)
·
Mr.
Emmanuel Colombian (vice chairman & managing director)
·
Mrs.
Naina.R.Desai (whole time director & company secretary)
·
Mr.
S.M.Momaya (country finance director of ALSTOM group India & whole time
director & CEO)
·
Mr.
Pedro Sole (non-executive director)
·
Mr.
K. Vasudevan (non-executive independent director)
·
Mr.
Marc Chat lard (non-executive directors)
·
Mr.
A.K. Thiagarajan ( non-executive independent director)
·
Dr.
UddeshKohli (non-executive independent directors)
Product Profile
AIL
SHAHABAD has two main product lines:
Ø Pulveriser
production
Ø Foundry production
The Pulveriser production includes:
Ø Castings Coal
pulveriser and milling systems.
Ø Soot blowers.
Ø Heavy
fabrication parts including hydro mechanical equipment.
Ø Heat exchangers
and pressure vessels (condensers, detractors)
The above items have been supplied from
AIL Shahabad for various utilities like 2x210 mw Chandrapur TPP, 2x210 mw korba
TPP, 3x210mw Backaro TPP, 2x250mw budge TPP, 2xl25mw Akrimote TPP and 469 mw
gaoutami CCPP to name a few.
AIL Shahabad is already an established
name in the cement sector with cement machinery equipment like apron conveyers,
crushers, horizontal and vertical grinding mills, kilns, coolers having been
supplied to almost all major incline cement manufacturers (ACC, century, JK
corp.)
AIL Shahabad also serves the steel
sector by supplying coal pulverisering and pneumatic transport systems for coal
injection systems, the JINDAL steel.
Plants at TORANGALLAN in Karnataka and
Raigarh in Chhattisgarh are one of the major customers of AIL Shahabad for
these systems.
The
foundry productions include:
Ø Grey ion
casting.
Ø Spheroid
graphite iron casting
Ø Corrosion
resistant iron casting.
Ø Wear resistant iron
casting.
Some of the major casting items produced
in the AIL Shahabad foundry is grinding media for e-mills and bowl mills, bump
casing, rolls for steel plants, values bodies, wind mill casting, cement
machinery castings and general engineering.
CUSTOMERS
OF AIL
The clients lists of AIL Shahabad
foundry includes leading India/steel/engineering sectors like
·
NTPC
·
SUZLON
·
MARUTI
UDYOG
·
TATA
MOTORS
·
MAHINDRA
& MAHINDRA
·
BAJAJ
·
MUSCO
·
SAIL
·
JINDAL.
SAFETY
COMMITMENTS:
To management:
·
Ensures
that plant, equipment processes and system of work are safe, hazard tree &
without risk to health.
·
Ensures
availability of information, instruction training & supervision.
·
Believes
that no job is an important as to overtake safety.
·
Believe
that the co-operation of the employees in the observance of safety policy will
provide safe working conditions and ensure accident trace performance.
·
Provides
adequate publicity in the shops on various aspects of safety.
To Employee
·
Individually
contribute towards increased awareness of safety.
·
Adopt
safety rules & regulations.
·
Uses
safety appliances, equipment devices property.
·
Complies
with the instruction of competent authority.
·
Integrates
safety with job.
·
Disseminates
with safety knowledge among colleagues.
·
Reports
the unsafe conditions, practices or activities the supervisor / head of the
department or the safety officer.
·
Helps
to create safe working conditions for others.
ALSTOMS
marketing policies:
Here
are just some of the advantages you will find at ALSTOM:
·
An
international, high-tech environment.
·
Major,
challenges projects.
·
A
vast spectrum of career options is availed.
·
Many
mobility opportunities.
·
Opportunities
to take full lateral responsibilities.
·
Opportunities
to take full lateral responsibilities.
Learning
process of ALSTOM India Ltd:
The
ALSTOM learning institute has the following set of objectives.
1.
To identify and share best development and training practices.
2.
To initiate and share best development and training practices.
3.
To develop and deploy new transverse programs.
4.
To design personal development path for specific functional group.
SUPPLY
DEPARTMENT:
Supply
management means all the goods and services, which all include in the supply
management. They deal with all matters of the company.
Manpower in this department is
11.
Objectives of
purchase department:
·
Speedy
procurement.
·
Right
quality at right place at right time.
·
Achieve
reasonable control on delivery and procurement time.
Purchase policy:
·
At
present there are nearly more than 1000 suppliers for Durgapur and Shahabad
works.
·
Vendors
having ISO 9000 or certification are performance.
·
Procurement
of raw materials for all pressure parts are made from reputed IBR approved
makers.
·
For
all eligible purchases, MODVAT and CEMENT credits as per law are availed.
SWOT ANALYSIS OF THE COMPANY as per my knowledge :
STRENGTH:
1.
Company
has a world leader status in power and infrastructure markets.
2.
The
company has a long period of operation and has strong existence in the market.
3.
Well-developed
infrastructure with 649 acres of land providing.
4.
All
the majors’ welfare facilities to the staff.
5.
The
company is located near the river kagina thus having no problem of water at
all.
6.
Company
has a high business ethics and values.
7.
The
company has the never ending market throughout the world as it specializes in
power and transport infrastructure.
8.
It
has very reputed companies as its customer situated all over the world.
9.
It
is well connected through rail and air
WEAKNESSES:
1.
It
has a BHEL as a major competitor which is a public sector company which
snatches many order of ALSTOM due to its political influence.
2.
Due
to the large scale of production the company faces slight labour problems like
lack of experience, labour turnover.
OPPORTUNITIES:
1.
The
company has good opportunities for further capacity expansion as it is having a
large amount of extra and.
2.
The
company is having a wide speeded international presence which will help the
company to bag orders.
3.
The
company is making good profit since a long time. This helps the company to
diversify its operation in various geographical areas.
4.
The
power and transport market of the company is growing rapidly throughout the
world.
5.
It
has very less number of competitors throughout the world.
6.
The
company leads by very qualified and experienced directors.
MY SUGGESTIONS TO COMPANY (as per my knowledge) :-
1.
The
current liability as it has increases year by year. The management should pay
off its liability as it may affect the liquidity position of the company.
2.
The
company should practice good budgetary control techniques that should be
accurate and be attachable by the company. And also these budgetary techniques
should help the company to reduce the cost in the futures.
3.
The
sales of the company are increasing year after year. Thought there is a cut
throat competition in the market. The sales are in an increasing trend. It is
because of good quality of his product at reasonable price and customer
satisfaction. It is better if the company adopts the same policy in the future.
4.
The
company has to take steps to carry on effective training and EDP
5.
The
company has to strive hard to improve the various turnover i.e. debtors
turnover ratio, inventory turnover ratio.
