5th – 6th December 2018,

Holiday Inn Mumbai International Airport

Exploring strategies, processes,

innovation and automation to achieve

operational excellence in your

manufacturing cycle

DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS:

Ashok Kadakia Managing Director, Ashok Chem Pharma Ltd.

Dr. Makarand Sawant Senior General Manager– IT, Deepak Fertilisers and Petro-chemicals Corp. Ltd.

Jagdish RamaswamyPresident and Chief Digital Officer, Hindalco Industries, Aditya Birla Group

Dr. Hasit Dangi Vice President – Operations & QA, National Peroxide Limited

Ashok Muthuswamy Associate Vice President, Tata Chemicals Limited

Dr. Ratan Kumar SinghDirector Manufactur-ing, Acrysil Group

Dr. Shashikant Tewary Managing Director, Gram Tarang Foods Pvt. Ltd.

Mukul DixitPresident,CSM Operations, PI Industries Ltd.

Nikhil Bhat Inanjai Manager - Business Operations, Akrivia Automation Pvt. Limited

Pankaj Agarwal Vice President – Operational Excellence, Lupin Phar-maceuticals

Himanshu Shukla Associate Vice President and Unit Head, Coromandel Murugappa Ltd.

Pramath Sanghavi Associate Vice President, VVF Ltd.

Ryan ViegasFormer Head of Logistics - Asia Pacific,Teva Phar-maceuticals Ltd.

Rajinder Singh Chief Mentor and Country Head, EFESO Consulting

Raunak Bhinge Managing Director, Infinite Uptime Inc

RG KrishnanCTO & Head Projects (Chemical Business), Grasim Industries Ltd.

Sumit GoswamiHead – SCM, BU Master-batches, Clariant Chemicals India Ltd.

Vishal Sharma Head of Supply Chain, Huntsman International India Pvt. Ltd.

Vijay Kumar SrivastavaSenior Director Manufactur-ing, S I Group India Pvt. Ltd.

Vinayak MaratheSenior Vice President, Reliance Industries Limited

Vinay JoshiSenior Director– Operational Excellence, Dr Reddy’s Laboratories

Vinayak PolepeddiOperations & Supply Chain Director - Emerging Regions, Axalta Coating

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Industry 4.0: 3D printing in

Chemical industry a new frontier

Chemical factory maintenance - from

predictive maintenance to prescriptive maintenance.

Optimizing asset performance and

maximizing uptime by Asset Lifecycle Data

Management

Supply Chain: Bringing a competitive edge to the business ensuring

capital and operational efficiency with minimum risk

Future of continuous improvement in a digitalized world

Smart Factory 4.0: Smart Automation

and its transformative potential for Chemical

industry

MANAGING DIRECTORS, VICE PRESIDENTS, DIRECTORS, GENERAL MANAGERS, HEADS, MANAGERS FROM:

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

Production

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Engineering

Quality Assurance

Quality Control

Supply Chain

Strategic Planning

Business & Process Improvements

Supply Chain & Procurement

Inventory Management

KEY TOPICS:

CONFERENCE OVERVIEW:

The Indian chemical industry is at a transition point between a phase of extensive scale building and becoming a global leader. And one of the imperatives to make that shift happen, bringing a potential EBITDA impact ranging from an additional 4 to 7 percentage point is through changes required in manufacturing excellence. Functional excellence offers a path to building sustainable competitive advantages over a relatively short span of time – typically between one and two years.It has been estimated that through continuous improvement culture chemical companies can expect 20 – 30 % throughput improvement.India has the potential to become a global chemical manufacturing hub if the government and domestic players rise to the challenge of overcoming low capacity utilization and complex processes. Despite these challenges, or perhaps because of them, chemical companies are pursuing operational excellence as a very real way to streamline processes, optimize cost, create value.Many in the chemical industry are setting a broad array of improvement goals across key areas of the business, and then working hard to attain them. In addition to following the best practices within their industries, Indian manufacturers are increasingly harnessing technology to improve further on their operational efficiencies. With Indian manufacturing moving ahead on its way to strong global competitiveness, operational excellence will more and more resemble a norm than a unique feature. At the 3rd edition of this forum we discuss some of the insights on how Chemical manufacturers should efficiently implement the excellence initiatives and ensure sustaining the gains from them.

GLIMPSES OF THE PREVIOUS EDITION

TESTIMONIALS

Yes good mix of topics. Good spread.B. Balaji, Gm Operations,

Momentive performance materials India Pvt. Ltd. Vs Momentur.

1. High Informative of other company. 2. Best practise in different Industries can be Imbided.

K. P. Murali Krishnan, Gm Operations,Symrise (P) LTD.

Highly informative on skills improvement & development.

Best practices being followed in industry.

R. K. Agarwal, Sr. Manager (M), National Fertilizers Ltd Naya

Nangal (pb).

It's such a fantastic forum where you could share, Learn and take

benefits of networking. Excellent Experience.

Sunil Kumar, Ass. Director - Global

Transformation, SanofiA nice forum for knowledge sharing & Experience

for understand the various formats of opex mangement for derive benefits across industry.

Venkatesh. S, Manf Head, Deccan fine chemical (Pvt) Ltd.

All the aspect of future factories has been touched and elaborate to a

maximum possible extent.Hemant Sontakke, AGM - Plant,

Soujanya Color Pvt. Ltd.Very good gatering of experienced people having field knowledge &

part of senior management.Gaurav Saran, Sr. Manager,

TATA STEEL

1. Sharing of knowledge across the different

industry in India. 2. Digitilisation

and automation in manufacturing industry.

NABAKUMAR Das, Chief Manager,

Haldia Petrochemicals Ltd.

Highly focused event. Professional speakers and good is hear the practical case studies.Sutapa Mukherjee, Director - Operations,

Coouson India Pvt. Ltd.

Various industrial best practices being carried out are being shared

which can be imbibed in this experience and daily mandane.

Indrish Saxena, Unit Head & AVP, Jubilant Agri & Consumer Products

Ltd.A very good platform to share

knowledge, experience.S. V. Badhhe, General Manager

(Works),M/s Amines & Plot Ltd.

A good forum to understand the current scenario and to update on the possible solutions to address Key challenges faced by industry.

K.P. Suresan, V. P. Mfg & Projects,Eternis Fine Chemicals Ltd.

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Attendees are always looking for exciting new partnering opportunities. Our conferences offer you

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EXHIBITION, MEETING AND PROMOTION OPPORTUNITIES

Sponsoring or exhibiting at 3rd ANNUAL OPEX IN CHEMICALS SUMMIT 2018 is an excellent way to promote your business to a highly targeted group of key decision makers involved within the overall Opex framework.

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08:00 Registration & Coffee

08:45 Welcome address by Inventicon Business Intelligence

08:50 Opening remarks by the Chairperson

09.00 Redefining Operational Excellence by aligning it with business strategy and implementing it

• Understanding and interpreting the broader organizational context and translating it into a concrete set of “to do’s”

• Defining the organisational management and implementation barriers • The struggle to translate the critical concepts and tools into a

practical and logical sequence of activities that move the business forward

• Do the actions align with the set strategic priorities?

Dr. Hasit Dangi, Vice President – Operations & QA, National Peroxide Limited

09:40 Driving Operational Excellence to the frontline transforming the business strategies into action

• Creating a sustainable framework even as change in conditions • Linking your plan to business needs and changing objectives by

identifying your performance gaps • How to translate the business values and policies into action? • Change in the organizational culture to incorporate OE principles into

the system • Managing “daily improvement” and strategic scorecard / metrics and

sustaining continuous improvement • Developing the right continuous improvement framework for your

business to improve reliability and operability • Implementing structured metrics to monitor and measure process

performance

Vinay Joshi, Senior Director – Operational Excellence, Dr Reddy’s Laboratories

10.20 Coffee Break and Networking

10:50 Panel Discussion: Operational Excellence with Innovation a tough challenge or just a paradox

• OPEX spotlights on standardized processes, where does innovation fit in the same?

• Juggling between Innovation and OPEX • Embracing the fact that innovation is the need of the hour

Moderator: Rajinder Singh, Chief Mentor and Country Head, EFESO Consulting Panellists: Dr. Hasit Dangi, Vice President – Operations & QA, National Peroxide Limited

Mukul Dixit, President - CSM Operations, PI Industries Ltd.

Pramath Sanghavi, Associate Vice President, VVF Ltd.

RG Krishnan, CTO & Head Projects (Chemical Business), Grasim Industries Ltd.

11:40 Role of IoT and its implications to achieve Operational Excellence

• What is IoT? • Digitization using IoT • Automatic MIS generation • How Akrivia will help in achieving operational excellence?

Nikhil Bhat Inanjai, Manager - Business Operations, Akrivia Automation Pvt. Limited

12:20 Industry 4.0: 3D printing in Chemical industry a new frontier

• A continuous digital thread from design to production • Custom-crafted for each user’s unique requirements • Advancing manufacturing into a new era of productivity and

innovation.

• Enabling companies to transform and tweak product models easily and cost-effectively than by using traditional manufacturing methods.

Dr. Makarand Sawant, Senior General Manager – IT, Deepak Fertilisers and Petrochemicals Corp. Ltd.

13.00 Luncheon

14:00 Panel Discussion: Smart Factory 4.0: Smart Automation and its transformative potential for Chemical industry

• Smart maintenance for Smart Factory - Implemented to achieve high level of safety, availability and profit in operation and maintenance of production systems.

• Leveraging strong IT to link strategy to operations • Assembly and handling solutions with robotics and service robotics • Efficient use of resources with Internet of things leading digital

transformation and networking in manufacturing

Dr. Makarand Sawant, Senior General Manager – IT, Deepak Fertilisers and Petrochemicals Corp. Ltd.

Ashok Muthuswamy, Associate Vice President, Tata Chemicals Limited

14.40 Optimizing asset performance and maximizing uptime by Asset Lifecycle Data Management

• A vision for the future of Asset Information Management • Exploring the approaches available to meet the challenges - industry

standards • Opportunities to work in new ways - The impact of the cloud and

mobile • Maintaining your digital asset information • Centralized but accessible anywhere • Standardize workflows of the assets • Integrating with business systems and automating them. • Rise in benefits, productivity, reliability Mukul Dixit, President - CSM Operations, PI Industries Ltd.

15.20 Coffee Break and Networking

15.50 Predictive maintenance of critical rotating equipment in process plant.

• Applications in chemical industry • Chemical equipment 24x7 reliability • FFT analytics • Plug and play remote monitoring of rotating equipment

Raunak Bhinge, Managing Director, Infinite Uptime Inc

16:20 Future of continuous improvement in a digitalized world

• Developing a lean digital capability that will form the basis for a long-term and sustainable competitive advantage

• Establishing a technology focused business structure • “Traditional Lean Excellence” and new digital potential • Modernizing the infrastructure and investing in new customer facing

systems and tools • New ways to improve customer experiences and generate business

value • Continuous-improvement system that’s centred on people • Discovering better ways of working with new leadership styles • Technological building blocks to create new value Ashok Muthuswamy, Associate Vice President, Tata Chemicals Limited

17.00 Closing remarks by Chairperson

17.10 End of Day One

DAY 1 – WEDNESDAY, 5th DECEMBER 2018

08:30 Registration & Coffee

09:10 Opening remarks by the Chairperson

09:20 Laying the foundation for Operational Excellence on the principles and structures that begin with safety - and its application to other areas of the business

• Understanding the link between safety, reliability and OPEX • Creating a business case for improved operational discipline • Creating standardized approaches to various functions • Centralizing knowledge and oversight, while giving flexibility in

implementation • EHS excellence and reliability can lead to enterprise OPEX through

increased discipline, predictability, and risk management

Vinayak Marathe, Senior Vice President, Reliance Industries Limited

10:00 More proactive approach to quality control using real time process controls through Statistical Process Control

• Proactive approaches for effective control charts • Monitoring the process continuously to recognize the possible

variations as close to their occurrence as possible • Efficiently using SPC tools and procedures • Paying detailed attention to different types of data and selecting the

right control chart

Dr. Ratan Kumar Singh, Director Manufacturing, Acrysil Group

10:40 Coffee Break and Networking

11:10 Effective approaches to analyzing the value stream to keep a track of your Lean journey

• Paying attention to greater details in value added flow charts for

identifying priorities for improvement, and guiding specific shop floor initiatives

• Approaches to a detailed evaluation of the current state and creating the ideal state maps

Vijay Kumar Srivastava, Senior Director Manufacturing, S I Group India Pvt. Ltd.

11:50 Auditing your process safety program: Ensuring continual system improvement

• Designing a broad enough model applicable to all your assets – notification and preparation

• Description of each element of the process and their coexistence in the operations – execution, closing meeting and reporting

• Identification of precursors of the foretold incident - identifying and writing a shortcoming

• How do we learn from our mistakes?

Ashok Kadakia, Managing Director, Ashok Chem Pharma Ltd.

Dr. Shashikant Tewary, Managing Director, Gram Tarang Foods Pvt. Ltd.

12:30 Bridging the operational excellence disconnect between suppliers and manufacturing companies.

• Fast cycle firms can manage results quickly with high-quality and low-cost

• Connections on design responsibilities between manufacturer and suppliers

• Just-in-time ordering system - integrating ordering and order-processing systems directly with other companies’ systems via virtual networks.

• Integrated Business Planning (IBP) aligning and coordinating by real-time information on current demand and inventory levels to all supply-chain

Sumit Goswami, Head – SCM, BU Masterbatches, Clariant Chemicals India Ltd.

13:00 Luncheon

14:00 Panel Discussion: Approaches to an Operational Excellence model with an end to end integrated supply chain structure for sustainable business growth

• Developing a process excellence mindset to help optimize operational processes and tools

• Removing siloed processes for process optimisation • Standardising supply chain and procurement and there further

striving for excellence at the right level within the function

Panellists: Ryan Viegas, Former Head of Logistics - Asia Pacific, Teva Pharmaceuticals Ltd.

Sumit Goswami, Head – SCM, BU Masterbatches, Clariant Chemicals India Ltd.

Vinayak Polepeddi, Operations & Supply Chain Director - Emerging Regions, Axalta Coating

Vishal Sharma, Head of Supply Chain, Huntsman International India Pvt. Ltd.

14.40 Integrated QEHS and its link between Operational Excellence, Quality and EHS Management

• Recent regulatory updates and policies for effective environmental compliance

• Quantitative risk assessment to each compliance gap to determine focus on adding controls

• Sustainable improvement & key performance metrics to reach new safety levels with leveraging technologies

Himanshu Shukla, Associate Vice President and Unit Head, Coromandel Murugappa Ltd.

15:20 Coffee Break and Networking

15:50 Effective effluent treatment for sustainability. • Consideration of ecological, economical and sociological aspects for

sustainability • Scope for Common Effluent Treatment Plants (CETPs) • The untapped business potential in this sector • Meeting EHS regulatory compliances for sustainability

Pankaj Agarwal, Vice President – Operational Excellence, Lupin Pharmaceuticals

16:30 Round Table Discussion:

Participants are free to join which ever theme (Table) of their choice and discuss the current trends and strategies to be used and implemented. Each participant shares his/ her views and insights on the topic with other delegates on the table. Post discussion one of the participants concludes by sharing the points discussed by their respective table with the entire audience.

Topic A: Integration initiatives with existing processes & quality management system.

Topic B: Integrating lean principles with regulatory compliance - not a challenge but an opportunity for better compliance

17:00 Closing remarks by Chairperson

17:10 End of Conference

DAY 2 – THURSDAY, 6th DECEMBER 2018

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SPEAKER PROFILES:

Ashok Kadakia, Managing Director, Ashok Chem Pharma Ltd.

Total experience of 53 years in the Chemical Industry. During this period, he has promoted many companies and Charitable Institutes. He has attended National and International Seminars & made presentation on Indian Chemical Industries / Ethyl Alcohol Based Industries. He represents Board of Directors of many Public Limited Companies. Besides being an active member of several

Organizations and Trade Body, He was on the editorial Board of JSIR, A science publication of Govt. of India. He is the President of All-India Alcohol Based Industries Development Association (AABIDA). President of BASIC Chemicals Pharmaceuticals & Cosmetic Export Promotion Council (Chemical Panel 1994 - 97). Active member of Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI). Member at Indian Merchants’ Chamber (Since 1975). ICMA, IBS & Indo Brazilian Society. Indian Chemical Council (ICC) since 1974 National Inst. Of Science Communication (Editorial Board from 1992-2000). He is an active member of several organizations and trade bodies. He was Chairman of Chemexcil Panel III year (1996 - 97).He is the Founder / Chairman / Director of the following companies: Ashok Organic Industries Ltd / Ashok Alco-Chem Ltd / Emmessar Biotech & Nutrition Ltd/ Ashapura Minechem Ltd/ Bombay Minerals Ltd/ Ashapura International / Hotel Rugby Ltd/ Mahagujarat Chamuda Cement Company Pvt., Ltd. He is the Founder / President / Promoter / Managing Trustee of various Educational and Social Organizations.

Ashok Muthuswamy, Associate Vice President, Tata Chemicals Limited

23 years of rich experience in Lean Six Sigma, Supply Chain Management, Business Excellence, Manufacturing, Operations, Quality, and Project Management spanning across manufacturing, telecom, & ITES domains. Lead and implemented strategic improvement projects by applying Six Sigma and analytics, through working with various cross functional teams in a global environment.

Have a proven track record in optimizing operations and supply chain, improving quality, generating cost savings, and enhancing customer experience. Very conversant in facilitating and leading global teams, establishing and monitoring customer-supplier relations, and developing measurement systems to assess the organization. Excellent communicator, adept at motivating people and managing employee performance. Global Experience: Studied/worked in India and US; Lived in US for 14 years; Globally travelled extensively. Conducted and facilitated Six Sigma Green Belt and Black Belt programs for HP and Tata Group.

Dr. Hasit Dangi, Vice President – Operations & QA, National Peroxide Limited

Dr. Hasit is a Global techno-commercial business leader with proven leadership in Operations, Multiple site management, Production, Projects, Purchase, R&D, QA, Regulatory affairs, HR, Engineering and EHS in India based Indian, US and European chemicals manufacturing companies. He has expertise in generating and implementing

strategies that significantly improve the overall business performance, increase productivity, reduce manufacturing costs, increase innovation, develop new products, improve QHSE compliance and attract talent on sustainable basis by optimizing scientific, technical, financial and administrative decisions. He has proven his leadership by leading the sustainable turn-around of chemicals manufacturing sites with turn-over of approx. US$ 1 billion with 700 employees. He has also led the project worth US$ 30 million and implemented ISO 9001, ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001, ISO 50001, ISO/IEC 17025 (NABL), Responsible Care, 5S, Kaizen, RCA, ETAD and Behaviour Based Safety.

Dr. Makarand Sawant, Senior General Manager – IT, Deepak Fertilisers and Petrochemical Corp. Ltd.

Technology and business visionary with 19 years of executive and hands on experience in automating multi-billion dollar enterprises. Strong record of success in creating robust IT architectures and infrastructures. Proven ability to bring the benefits of IT to solve business issues while managing costs and risk. Led development and deployment of custom applications. Provide strategic

direction to senior management on technology. Celebrity CIO awarded with many national and international prestigious awards for Innovation & Excellence. Researched on Analytics with research title “USE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY TO GIVE BUSINESS VALUE”. Research was focused on the latest technology solutions like Cloud, Mobility, Bigdata, IoT & Collaboration which enables Analytics and can be further enhanced to Artificial Intelligence, Business Intelligence, Robotics and Neural Science with successful use cases across domains like Biotech, BFSI, Automobile,

Manufacturing, Telecom, Tourism etc. Panellist, speaker and writer of many articles on technology and business use cases published by leading magazines and publication houses. Authoring two books on Business IT & Analytics. Digital Information Services (Leader in Digital Transformation), Ranked among India’s Top Eminent CIOs, Popularly known as “IT Guru”

Himanshu Shukla, Associate Vice President and Unit Head, Coromandel Murugappa Ltd.

A result-oriented professional with 20 years of commendable experience in various functions of large/medium scale chemical manufacturing unit. Expertise in Operation/Production management starting from production planning, annual turn around, plant emergency handling, people development etc. Expertise in managing & leading end-to-end project implementation

including technology selection & validation. Insightful knowledge of greenfield & brown field project execution. Proven track record in managing energy efficiency, process optimization and debottlenecking initiatives.Demonstrated excellence in establishing & managing EHS requirement beyond statutory regulations as an essential part of Responsible Care Company by implementing Cradle to Grave Concept. Proficient in handling environment clearance procedure and sustainability report writing in compliance with GRI guidelines; measuring and monitoring carbon foot print of the business. Shouldered the responsibility of serving as a part of the Unit Leadership Team – a significant role in the Top Management Team. A distinguished Guest Faculty of ‘EHS’ in various prestigious industrial/regulatory institutions like National Safety Council, Rajasthan; Pollution control Board; Factories & Boilers departments; Confederation of Indian Industries - CII & Indian Chemical Council – ICC.

Mukul Dixit, President - CSM Operations,PI Industries Ltd.

Mukul Dixit, is a Chemical Engineering Honours Graduate from IIT, Roorkee (formerly University of Roorkee). Awarded with the ‘Thomason Memorial Gold Medal’ for Best Engineering Design Project at the Undergraduate level, he possesses over three decades of experience at Leadership & Strategy levels across the Chemical Process & Allied Industry.

His expertise covers Industry domain Refineries & Petrochemicals, Fertilisers, Chemicals & APIs and Textiles. His key strengths have been in areas of Operations, Capital Projects Portfolio Management, Revamping & Debottlenecking Process Technologies, Supply Chain Sourcing & Procurement, Process Investigation and Development and Process Engineering, Mukul has presented papers in numerous Conferences, Seminars and Workshops on subjects of Project Management & Governance, Business and Operations Excellence, Process Scale Up, Process Safety, Environment Management and Revamping & Debottlenecking Process Technology.

Nikhil Bhat Inanjai, Manager - Business Operations, Akrivia Automation Pvt. Limited

Sr. Manager Operations taking care of a manufacturing unit, meeting the deadlines of the customer by accurate planning of Man, Machine, Money & Materials. Handling Service, Costing, Designs, Logistics departments. Interested in Improving the manufacturing process by utilizing the minimum resource available. Manufacturing Defect free Products. Developing lean manufacturing

process. Specialties: Lean tools and manufacturing, Operations Management, Minitab, Green belt, ISO audits, Internal Audits, Safety Engineering, Advanced manufacturing.

Rajinder Singh, Chief Mentor and Country Head, EFESO Consulting

With 32 plus years of industry-wide experience in the manufacturing sector, Mr. Rajinder Singh today is the Chief Mentor & Country Head of one of the most respected names in the global business consultancy – EFESO Consulting. His area of expertise is Lean Manufacturing, Enterprise Transformation, TWI and Change Management with focus on creating Ideal behaviors for excellence. His

impeccable command over these concepts has won him accolades globally. Over the years he has helped transform organizations from Automotive, F&B, Textile, Ceramics, Chemical and Consumer durables industry.An Industrial Engineer from IIT-Roorkee, he led various organizations for 18 years before starting a consulting organization. His passion for enterprise excellence and human dynamics led him to become certified facilitator of the Shingo Institute and is amongst the very few certified Shingo trainers who have assisted companies worldwide in their quest to challenge the Shingo Prize.

SPEAKER PROFILES:

Raunak Bhinge, Managing Director, Infinite Uptime Inc

Raunak Bhinge is the Director of Infinite Uptime, Inc. based in Berkeley, CA, USA as well as its Indian subsidiary Infinite Uptime India Pvt. Ltd. based in Pune, India. He completed his mechanical engineering at IIT Madras before pursuing his PhD at UC Berkeley. He is a past founder of the bird identification system called Avipulse. Raunak started his career at Infinite Uptime in the US in

December 2015, before he moved to India in January 2017 during the formation of Infinite Uptime India Pvt. Ltd. Infinite Uptime was listed as one of the top 10 IoT companies in APAC region by CIOOutlook magazine, due its unique product differentiation and patented product delivery. Raunak himself has 14 publications and 3 patents in the field of high-frequency predictive analytics and scalable machine digitization. Infinite Uptime solutions are currently deployed around the world including China, India, Mexico, Japan and USA.

Ryan Viegas, Former Head of Logistics - Asia Pacific, Teva Pharmaceuticals Ltd.

BSc (Chem), MBA with +30 years varied expertise in multinational and Indian companies in API, Pharma & Chemical industries in Supply Chain, Demand fulfilment, Customer Service, Development of strategic commercial business relationships, Total spend management, Global logistics, Production & materials planning and Strategic Sourcing / indent sales as a profit centre.

RG Krishnan, CTO & Head Projects (Chemical Business), Grasim Industries Ltd.

R G Krishnan a Chemical Engineer (University Gold Medallist) and PGDM from IIM Ahmedabad - is a seasoned Business Manager having 28 years of varied experience in Process, Engineering and Equipment / Machinery Industries, with more than 18 years of this experience in P & L positions as Project Director/ COO / Bus Head. Having worked for Global Corporations

like Briggs of Burton Plc, Saint Gobain Group and Aditya Birla Group with Marketing, Engineering, Project Execution and P & L responsibilities over the years, Krishnan brings on to the table global best practices in Manufacturing - whether it is Customer Delight, EHS, Sustainable Design & Engineering, Operational Excellence, Internal Controls and Corporate Governance. In Aditya Birla Group Krishnan is responsible for Technology Development & Selection and Project Management for the Global Chemicals Business of Aditya Birla Group. Internally here too, he is on the design council of manufacturing leadership programs, member of safety steering committee and Core Committee member of the ABG Manufacturing Awards (REPRISM) program and part of the Global Technology Council of the Aditya Birla Group. His current interests include Sustainable Technologies for the Chemical Industry with special emphasis on alternate bio materials, green chemistry, global certifications and Environmental Biotechnology. His focus area since the last 5 years has been Food Chemicals, Chlorine Derivatives and Chinese Technologies.

Sumit Goswami, Head – SCM, BU Masterbatches, Clariant Chemicals India Ltd.

Responsible for Supply Chain Management of Masterbatches BU of Clariant Chemicals in India. Earlier responsible for Delivery and Sales for Managed IT Services of Mindteck in USA. Earlier worked as Practice Head - Process Manufacturing Vertical in Wipro. He possesses solid manufacturing industry supply chain management domain experience coupled with more than

22 years of experience in heading and managing business consulting & IT, specialized in handling large projects, brings to the table hands-on experience in developing business and deliver Business Solutions Advisory in India, Middle East, Europe, USA and Africa. Monitoring Strategy Development and Review, developing Business Roadmaps, IT Roadmaps, implementing good Governance Processes, ensuring Cost Optimization Programme Management are some of the typical assignments handled.

Vinay Joshi, Senior Director – Operational Excellence, Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories

Currently Working in Dr Reddy’s from last five years as senior director and head of Operational Excellence department. Leading team of CI across all formulation unit of Dr Reddy’s. His previous profile was General Manager Manufacturing (SLIM) in Zydus cadila India Ahmedabad office for implementing Lean and six sigmas across all manufacturing locations. Holding a post graduate degree

in Pharmacy from Nagpur University and Post Graduate Management Certification from Indira Gandhi National Open University, He global qualified trainer for Lean sigma and for Design of Experiment (DOE). Also, possess hands on experience in manufacturing and packaging of pharmaceuticals for about 21years and worked in reputed pharmaceutical companies like E Merck India & GSK India etc. he is a Black belt in Lean and six sigma Before joining Zydus he took lead in Operational excellence as a Black Belt at GSK Nasik. He was involved in driving OE in MFG for GSK as a global initiative. Various Award and recognition for all these projects were from CII, IMEA, Frost & Sulivan, Kaizen India, GSK CEO recognition, Chairman’s recognition etc.

Vinayak Polepeddi, Operations & Supply Chain Director - Emerging Regions, Axalta Coating

Working in positions of Head of Supply Chain, Head of Operations, Operations Manager, Manager- Manufacturing, Supervisor PPC and Supervisor – Quality control & Quality systems, during the last 20 years, have been effectively managing and leading teams in the areas of Manufacturing, sourcing/buying/procurement, Logistics, Quality Systems, Process Improvements, EHS

and Project Management.Experience within: Operations/Supply Chain/SCM/Logistics | Procurement/Buying/Purchase | Sourcing Strategy | Supplier Strategy and Relationship | CSR | Quality management | Sales & Operations Planning | Project Management | Continuous Improvement | Team building | Coaching | Lean | Change Management | BPR | EHS.

Vishal Sharma, Head of Supply Chain, Huntsman International India Pvt. Ltd.

Result-oriented professional with nearly 15 plus years of experience in entire gamut of Supply Chain Management, Procurement, Warehousing, Logistics and Contract Manufacturing. Expertise in the areas of forecasting, price negotiations, documentation and cost control. Experience in overseeing functions of materials management entailing customs clearances, stock

maintenance, imports, inbound and outbound logistics, procurement and negotiation.Exhibited prowess in heading new-set ups/diversification, thus increasing business progressively by undertaking organisational restructuring and generating significant cost savings. Skilled in procurement activities involving planning, negotiations and purchase of raw materials from vendors / suppliers.Developing innovative cost-saving methods. Efficient Inventory planning to reduce the NWC. An effective communicator with excellent interpersonal, problem solving, planning & analytical skills. Self-Motivated and an eye on continuous improvement.

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COMPANY DESCRIPTION:Infinite Uptime is a Global Industrial IoT Solution Provider for Improved Quality, Productivity, Monitoring and Predictive Maintenance for reciprocating and rotating equipment such as presses, motors, pumps, compressors or turbines, a tool wear prediction solution for machine tools, and an end-of-line test rig solution for transmission and powertrain manufacturers.Vertically integrated, Infinite Uptime provides its own in-house smart sensor nodes along with connectivity, communication, software, analytics, dash boarding and reporting to provide a complete solution to its customers. Infinite Uptime specializes in high-frequency data analytics, such as tri-axial vibration and acoustic analyses, spectral analysis and pattern recognition for data annotation and accurate predictions.The productivity solution is geared towards real-time OEE (overall equipment effectiveness) measurement and analytics, downtime estimation and analysis, and identified areas for improving the measured OEE & productivity. The predictive maintenance solution detects impending failures in rotating motors, pumps, and bearings.www.infinite-uptime.com

EFESO Consulting is active in the global consulting industry for more than 35 years, delivering tangible short- and long-term results through a multi-specialist approach, deep instrumented, provided by more than 400 consultants around the world. We believe in providing sustainable results by working in tandem with our clients, extending support and expertise based on their individual needs to energise their existing capabilities and build progressive organizations. We help our clients to improve their results today secure the results for tomorrow. EFESO Consulting is the global partner for JIPM and a licensed affiliate to the Shingo Institute. We have helped clients achieve remarkable success in their value chains by creating value through Business transformation and progression, TPM and manufacturing excellence, WCM, Lean transformation, Supply Chain excellence, Change leadership and Change management.www.efeso.com

Logicon Technosolutions is a preferred solutions provider for Industrial Automation, Power, Manufacturing Intelligence & Robotics to the world’s leading plant owners and process suppliers to enhance their productivity and efficiency. Since 2004, 250+ leading plant owners including many fortune 500 companies and process suppliers have trusted us with delivering 1500+ control systems in more than 20 countries. Our team together has experience on designing and deploying Batch & Continuous Process Control, Power Management, Factory Digitization & Information solutions & Robotics solutions of more than 200 Man years. We have bundled our knowledge in to industry preferred solutions that reduces project time and minimize customization effort while ensuring proven performance.While we have served most industries our best experience is in Life Science, Personal Care, Hazardous Chemical plants, Specialty Chemicals, Automotive, Oil & Gas, Water & Waste Water Management, Power, Utility Controls and Lube Oil & Lubricants.Logicon Technosolutions is First & the only one Recognized System Integrator [RcSI] in Asia Pacific for all 3+ disciplines of Rockwell Automation

• Control • Process

• Information solution + EMI

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Akrivia Automation Pvt Limited has been in business of Automation & IoT Products for the past 2 years. We believe in keeping the customers happy and providing them with products & solutions at a very competent price. We have an excellent team who will guide you with their best ideas to improve process efficiencies by understanding your current process and structure. Following are the services we offer:• Internet based data collection modules for the manufacturing sector. • PLC based Process Automation Solutions. • SCADA design and development. • PID based Process Automation Solutions. • Special Purpose Machine design and manufacturing. • PLC , HMI, DCS Annual Maintenance Contract. • On-site Commissioning. • IoT based programming and design solutions. www.akrivia.in

MEDIA PARTNERS TradeBriefs produces 14 daily e-newsletters that go out to an opt-in audience of 1 million subscribers in corporate India. This includes over 100,000 in top management at various companies. We have the attention of these CXOs due to our content and we use that to help generate high-quality leads for businesses. We do so for IBM, Gartner, SAP, The Economist, Godrej and hundreds of other clients.

Flutura is an AI Solutions company focused on improving two core business objectives of “Asset Uptime” and “Operational Efficiency”. We do this with Cerebra, our AI Platform tuned for IIOT in Oil & Gas, Specialty Chemicals, and Heavy machinery manufacturing industries, powering connected asset and connected operations use cases.Flutura works with many industry-leading names like TechnipFMC, Al Mansoori, GTT etc in Oil and Gas, Henkel in Specialty Chemicals and Hitachi amongst Heavy machinery OEMs.Flutura is backed by global Venture Capital firms and strategic partners out of USA, Singapore, and Japan and main offices are located in Houston, Palo Alto, and Bangalore, India.www.flutura.com

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Information for World Of ChemicalsWorldofchemicals.com is a powerful chemistry driven online marketplace, connecting everything related to chemistry and chemical industry. With distinct segments for Chemicals, Corporate, Academic, Services and Media, the portal creates a globally networked, ‘One Stop Solution,’ for the chemical fraternity.We believe in sourcing information related to chemicals (database of 800,000) - their availability, chemical properties, manufacturers, traders & distributors, academic-related research, logistic service providers, consultants and activities of major chemical players.http://www.worldofchemicals.com/

Information for Chemical Today magazineCHEMICAL TODAY’ is a unique, global monthly magazine catering to chemistry & the chemical industry.Magazine covers nearly 52 sectors annually. With a focus on 4 to 5 sectors each month, it gives access to latest happenings in the corporate sector as well as academic research. Other than the usual suspects – the Cover Story (Sector View), Features, Events and Interviews (Expert Viewpoint), Chemical Today will focus on Green Chemistry/Sustainability, IT In Chemicals, Automation, Safety Watch, Logistics and Research & Development (R&D) By Youngsters on a monthly basis.A critical element in any corporate house, the content coverage includes the ‘Plant Visit’ section. The coverage showcases strength of a company’s production unit – the technology & equipment power, product capability and strategic views of management for further growth.http://www.worldofchemicals.com/media/news

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