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J3 Sourcing Gas Detector Portables
After freezing the various combination of multi gas type and quadgas type, the issue cropped up that from which factory of M/S MSA they have to be sourced by Reliance. None in the entire set-up, be it MSA management, or Reliance end user or procurement group looked into the aspect of Country of origin, not having the actual manufacturing facility for these devices at their German establishment, issue of multiple transfers for these sensitive equipment and corresponding gas canisters etc.
The vendor be it their India office or Dubai/Germany office could not even understand the implied
constraints and were going with Reliance's procurement dictates! Reliance procurement team had only the sole objective of European Credit facility ignoring the country of Origin issue and multiple transits. As usual I became a bad boy while putting my condition that these have to be sourced only from their original manufacturing establishment, here it is Pittsburgh,USA. Finally, on my sole insistence on technical grounds, they were forced to look into sourcing them directly from their factory at USA,their HQ. But on prestige, they retained to go with Euro order instead of US $.Since that did not affect the technical aspects, I allowed it to go.
How we arrived at the initial qty. requirement ?
After successfully scuttling all the controversies, I shifted the scene to Jamnagar to associate the field team- ultimate stake holder/s to identify and arrive at the quantity requirement of various types. As help I had the services of Ms Leena Thomas and Sandesh Tikhe. Though both of them did not have
any back ground knowledge on the specifics, they applied themselves to extract the input from respective plant/PIB in-charge to identify the quantum requirement of quadgas personal safety device. When I created such an atmosphere of interest to participants, they did their homework as far as opertional team members and volunteered to present/justify their requirements. There were meaningful hot discussions where to keep the bump test modules and how many such modules required etc. So with meaningful deliberations, we arrived at identifying locations not only in PIBs but also in control rooms and some common places. There the arugument arose, when a person report for duty from home, how safe he can be until he reach his point of reporting for duty to pick up his safety device. Discussions on those three days at Jamnagar made everyone aware and conscious about the impact by the treacherous toxic gases in the field.
During that stage, they came out with 850 numbers of quadgas detectors and about 250 numbers of all other combinations having 5 gases /2 gases sensor. For gases like Cl2,Ammonia, we opted for 2 gas combination.
The funniest thing was , nobody could arrive at the final number of Galaxy bump modules and corresponding gas canister combination.to be placed in any of the PIBs or control rooms. Even the vendor reps. did not have an iota of the picture, since their company did not have any experience in
handling such a big project order. So, when I assumed that responsibility to work out the same with my team members, people in RCP felt that I am exceeding my limits of authority and helping the vendor out of the way. During that stage of my career, several camps got formed in RCP to disgrace me. Without analyzing, some people raised the bogey that I have gone ahead in accepting Zone'1' certified devices and it should have been only zone'0' approved! All of them were carried away by M/S Honeywell/s claim of Zone '0' certification requirement. It forced me to go deep in reviewing the requirements and also look at all Honeywell Test certificates for those family of detectors. Honeywell was claiming that they are the only party in India who has got Zone'0' approval from PESO department. Funnily I noticed then, that even they do not have Zone'0' ATEX certification for the detectors with IR sensor! and they have misrepresented the case to statutory authorities and got certification.. As I have to save my repute and being the person who was a party in drafting the Statutory Rules for the country, I took up the matter with that time CCE and got their certification reversed then. That made many people unhappy in the house.
Even at that stage, we could not freeze the order since galaxy bump modules and gas canister quantity were not frozen. Then came the twist!
Contd......
KeyAspects :- Accountable, Communicate, Conviction, Critical challenge, Human relations,
Incident analysis, Initiative, Leadership, Reputation, Technical issue, Team building
J3 Sourcing Gas Detector Portables
After freezing the various combination of multi gas type and quadgas type, the issue cropped up that from which factory of M/S MSA they have to be sourced by Reliance. None in the entire set-up, be it MSA management, or Reliance end user or procurement group looked into the aspect of Country of origin, not having the actual manufacturing facility for these devices at their German establishment, issue of multiple transfers for these sensitive equipment and corresponding gas canisters etc.
The vendor be it their India office or Dubai/Germany office could not even understand the implied
constraints and were going with Reliance's procurement dictates! Reliance procurement team had only the sole objective of European Credit facility ignoring the country of Origin issue and multiple transits. As usual I became a bad boy while putting my condition that these have to be sourced only from their original manufacturing establishment, here it is Pittsburgh,USA. Finally, on my sole insistence on technical grounds, they were forced to look into sourcing them directly from their factory at USA,their HQ. But on prestige, they retained to go with Euro order instead of US $.Since that did not affect the technical aspects, I allowed it to go.
How we arrived at the initial qty. requirement ?
After successfully scuttling all the controversies, I shifted the scene to Jamnagar to associate the field team- ultimate stake holder/s to identify and arrive at the quantity requirement of various types. As help I had the services of Ms Leena Thomas and Sandesh Tikhe. Though both of them did not have
any back ground knowledge on the specifics, they applied themselves to extract the input from respective plant/PIB in-charge to identify the quantum requirement of quadgas personal safety device. When I created such an atmosphere of interest to participants, they did their homework as far as opertional team members and volunteered to present/justify their requirements. There were meaningful hot discussions where to keep the bump test modules and how many such modules required etc. So with meaningful deliberations, we arrived at identifying locations not only in PIBs but also in control rooms and some common places. There the arugument arose, when a person report for duty from home, how safe he can be until he reach his point of reporting for duty to pick up his safety device. Discussions on those three days at Jamnagar made everyone aware and conscious about the impact by the treacherous toxic gases in the field.
During that stage, they came out with 850 numbers of quadgas detectors and about 250 numbers of all other combinations having 5 gases /2 gases sensor. For gases like Cl2,Ammonia, we opted for 2 gas combination.
The funniest thing was , nobody could arrive at the final number of Galaxy bump modules and corresponding gas canister combination.to be placed in any of the PIBs or control rooms. Even the vendor reps. did not have an iota of the picture, since their company did not have any experience in
handling such a big project order. So, when I assumed that responsibility to work out the same with my team members, people in RCP felt that I am exceeding my limits of authority and helping the vendor out of the way. During that stage of my career, several camps got formed in RCP to disgrace me. Without analyzing, some people raised the bogey that I have gone ahead in accepting Zone'1' certified devices and it should have been only zone'0' approved! All of them were carried away by M/S Honeywell/s claim of Zone '0' certification requirement. It forced me to go deep in reviewing the requirements and also look at all Honeywell Test certificates for those family of detectors. Honeywell was claiming that they are the only party in India who has got Zone'0' approval from PESO department. Funnily I noticed then, that even they do not have Zone'0' ATEX certification for the detectors with IR sensor! and they have misrepresented the case to statutory authorities and got certification.. As I have to save my repute and being the person who was a party in drafting the Statutory Rules for the country, I took up the matter with that time CCE and got their certification reversed then. That made many people unhappy in the house.
Even at that stage, we could not freeze the order since galaxy bump modules and gas canister quantity were not frozen. Then came the twist!
Contd......
KeyAspects :- Accountable, Communicate, Conviction, Critical challenge, Human relations,
Incident analysis, Initiative, Leadership, Reputation, Technical issue, Team building
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