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Baroda experience!
My first visit reach to Baroda itself is a story. As per the ticket organised by the company I boarded Dehra Dun express at Bombay central & I was told that it will reach Baroda by 2.30AM or so.
When it reached that station, the coach attendant woke me up and asked me to alight from the train.
I argued with him that I have to go to Baroda but this station is Vadodara and I shall not get down.
He literally lifted my luggage and placed them in platform and told me something in Hindi which I could not make at all.
Afterwards I asked somebody in the station and they explained to me that Vadodara (meaning Banyan tree) is the original name &colloquially people started calling it as Baroda.
Then with all the luggage I walked across &checked in Kalyan hotel for the night. Next day morning
Mr Rajendran, administration manager of Alkan picked me up and shifted my stay at Baroda at Hotel Staywell, Sampath rao Colony, Race Course Road, Alkapuri.
Even though it was a lodge only, the people (mostly construction supervisory personnel) stayed long term and every one felt like home.The hotel owner Mr Modi , who was working as chemist in M/S Alembic Chemicals , himself was staying with family on top floor.
Coming to my job front &responsibility, I had a terrific work scope and tight schedule of calibration of all field instruments - approx. 900 loops in DMT plant, a raw material for polyester yarn ( 280 closed loops and 620 open loops). They consist of starting from pressure gauge/temperature gauge,Pressure and DP transmitters for Flow and Level transmitters,Level trol(working on Archemedes principle), control valves of various types(including tight shut-off), thermocouple and RTDs. etc.
As I was the person responsible for entire calibration, Mr B Sankarnarayan, my manager and construction Chief-Instrumentation of Alkan gave me full freedom to establish the entire infrastructure for calibration in the shop as well as in the field. Since ,in those days entire instrumentation were of pneumatic based and mostly M/S Taylor supply, I had the advantage of handling them comfortably. I had my technician Sh Rajesh Trivedi &from EIL side Mr R Sadagopan,
happen to be my number junior(1988) from MIT and we formed a joint team to operate. We had several U Tube manometer-mercury and water for both input and output measurements, Dead wt. tester, heater bath,multimeters, and all type of hand tools.
The main challenge used to be the hysterisis(when we check the rising parameter 0-25-50-75&100% inputs with output measured @3-15 psig (0.2-1kg/cm2g) and then dropping reading for the corresponding steps, invariably we land into difference beyond the acceptable limits.As it was pneumatic/mechanical adjustments for only zero and span provisions by manufacturer, we used to struggle in distributing the error across the span and manage.
But the team used to relish these challenges and struggle throughout the day. We used to take break for breakfast in Bhaskar canteen max. 15 mts &lunch 1/2 hour. Day used to wind up for me at 10.30/11 PM daily.
My driver Sardarji used to wake me up at 7.15AM with a chai cup and saucer making it as alarm. Just I used to brush my teeth, drink the tea &get into jeep. At night either the driver Sardarji or Mr Shyamsundar (my director) used to drive me back.We used to go to Hotel Cactus at Sayajibagh & have dinner at 12 night. Then they used to drop me at Staywell by 12.15 or so daily. This was the routine from Monday to Saturday every week. I used to change my jeans only once in a week &change shirts only daily. Contd.......
Key Aspects:- Opportunity, Critical challenge, Planning& scheduling
Baroda experience!
My first visit reach to Baroda itself is a story. As per the ticket organised by the company I boarded Dehra Dun express at Bombay central & I was told that it will reach Baroda by 2.30AM or so.
When it reached that station, the coach attendant woke me up and asked me to alight from the train.
I argued with him that I have to go to Baroda but this station is Vadodara and I shall not get down.
He literally lifted my luggage and placed them in platform and told me something in Hindi which I could not make at all.
Afterwards I asked somebody in the station and they explained to me that Vadodara (meaning Banyan tree) is the original name &colloquially people started calling it as Baroda.
Then with all the luggage I walked across &checked in Kalyan hotel for the night. Next day morning
Mr Rajendran, administration manager of Alkan picked me up and shifted my stay at Baroda at Hotel Staywell, Sampath rao Colony, Race Course Road, Alkapuri.
Even though it was a lodge only, the people (mostly construction supervisory personnel) stayed long term and every one felt like home.The hotel owner Mr Modi , who was working as chemist in M/S Alembic Chemicals , himself was staying with family on top floor.
Coming to my job front &responsibility, I had a terrific work scope and tight schedule of calibration of all field instruments - approx. 900 loops in DMT plant, a raw material for polyester yarn ( 280 closed loops and 620 open loops). They consist of starting from pressure gauge/temperature gauge,Pressure and DP transmitters for Flow and Level transmitters,Level trol(working on Archemedes principle), control valves of various types(including tight shut-off), thermocouple and RTDs. etc.
As I was the person responsible for entire calibration, Mr B Sankarnarayan, my manager and construction Chief-Instrumentation of Alkan gave me full freedom to establish the entire infrastructure for calibration in the shop as well as in the field. Since ,in those days entire instrumentation were of pneumatic based and mostly M/S Taylor supply, I had the advantage of handling them comfortably. I had my technician Sh Rajesh Trivedi &from EIL side Mr R Sadagopan,
happen to be my number junior(1988) from MIT and we formed a joint team to operate. We had several U Tube manometer-mercury and water for both input and output measurements, Dead wt. tester, heater bath,multimeters, and all type of hand tools.
The main challenge used to be the hysterisis(when we check the rising parameter 0-25-50-75&100% inputs with output measured @3-15 psig (0.2-1kg/cm2g) and then dropping reading for the corresponding steps, invariably we land into difference beyond the acceptable limits.As it was pneumatic/mechanical adjustments for only zero and span provisions by manufacturer, we used to struggle in distributing the error across the span and manage.
But the team used to relish these challenges and struggle throughout the day. We used to take break for breakfast in Bhaskar canteen max. 15 mts &lunch 1/2 hour. Day used to wind up for me at 10.30/11 PM daily.
My driver Sardarji used to wake me up at 7.15AM with a chai cup and saucer making it as alarm. Just I used to brush my teeth, drink the tea &get into jeep. At night either the driver Sardarji or Mr Shyamsundar (my director) used to drive me back.We used to go to Hotel Cactus at Sayajibagh & have dinner at 12 night. Then they used to drop me at Staywell by 12.15 or so daily. This was the routine from Monday to Saturday every week. I used to change my jeans only once in a week &change shirts only daily. Contd.......
Key Aspects:- Opportunity, Critical challenge, Planning& scheduling
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