TAMISHAM BISWAS
Designing & Delivering Digital Factories
Gurgaon,HR
Summary
Industrial Engineering & Digitization (I4.0) Leader. Working in the field of Engineering, Automation and process control projects & operations management with FMCG/FMCH/E Com Companies for past 15+ years. High learning agility and a Go-Getter.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
4
4
Certificates
16
16
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Regional Technology Leader
MARS International (Petcare)
Hyderabad, Telangana
03.2019 - Current
- Industrial Digitization and 4.0 Leader.
- Working in the field of Engineering, Automation and process control projects management with FMCG/FMCH/E Com Companies for past 15+ years.
- High learning agility and a Go-Getter.
- Controls, Automation & Digitisation, Mars Petcare Asia.
- Strategy, design & delivery of Controls, Automation & IT for Regional CAB projects (SEA) (100 M USD annual spend on an average).
- Design & Delivery of Greenfields at Thailand ( CAB 160 M USD), China ( CAB 100 M USD), Brownfields at Thailand ( CAB 50 M USD) & India ( CAB 65 M USD).
- CoE member from APac for Global Controls CoE for controls & digitisation standards development and evolution.
- MES/MOM standard owner for APac and responsible for delivery strategy of MOM projects for Region and Globe (~ 8-10 M USD).
- Project management strategy, design & delivery of Digitisation initiatives for factory including Wi-Fi, factory cybersecurity program, digital performance dashboards, Industry 4.0 & lighthouse activities for region.
- I4.0 projects include : IT design for IDC / CPWE, Wi-Fi and Factory Cyber Security. On Premise & On Cloud interactive performance dashboards.
- Development & Delivery of digital twins – On premise and Cloud. Azure Stack usage for Self Optimising Digital Twin delivery. Payback of
- Automation assessment and project management for EOL & Intralogistics automation.
- Delivery, Performance monitoring & value realisation from full farm to folk MES solution for implementation in SEA factories. Integration with Supply Chain.
- End to end traceability solutions design & delivery.
- Standardisation of visualisations, control hardware, architecture, BOM & software through green field / brown field large CAB projects.
- (Delivery plan of 150M USD projects in 2022).
- Handling dotted line international team of 5 Sr.
- Controls Managers/ Engineers across India, Thailand & China.
- Collaborating with Global Sr Control Managers & Cross Segment leaders from SEA, ANZ, EU & US.
- Responsible to Regional Engineering Director (Asia) & working on strategic Global Engg Leadership Team projects under the leadership of Vice President Global Engineering, Mars Petcare & Global Engineering Team.
- Handling Automation vendors Global Project & Design team on escalation management, design & obsolescence management, Life cycle solutions, techno-commercial negotiations along with Regional Buying. (~ 10-20 M USD annually).
Manager II Facilities
Amazon Sellers Services Pvt Ltd
Gurgaon, Haryana
01.2018 - 03.2019
- Installation, Commissioning & Launch of India’s biggest BTS Fulfilment centre at Gurgaon.
- Package Single point of Contact for MHE Automation, Amazon Ware House Control System, Conveyors – 2 Kms stretch (Tote & Belt), IBMS of 1200 I/Os, UPS & 14 VRCs.
- Handling Team of 5 Blue badges and 111 Yellow badges.
- (~ 50 M USD) Amazon Warehouse Control system commissioning, performance management and improvement through engaging vendors, Amazon WW Engineering, Ops engineering and setting up of dashboard.
- Regional MHE, Controls & Automation Manager for North.
- Key projects for Country wide new installations of Auto sorters, Slide sorters and Tote sorters.
- Upgradation, Commissioning, Improvement in hardware, Health check and War room process set up for ART 2018.
- Team of 12 Facilities Control Leads and Managers (Direct and Dotted Line).
- ( ~ 70 M USD GBV).
Manager - Process Improvement Team
Hindustan Coca, Beverages Pvt Ltd
Gurgaon, Haryana
07.2015 - 01.2018
- Supply Chain – Process Improvement Team, Engineering & Technical Services (Delhi-NCR) Manager for Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation from the corporate strategic function (Process Improvement Team, Capability Development) taking care of Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation for 25 units across India.
- Handling equipment pool of makes Krones, Sidel, KHS and SIPA high speed lines and their Utilities.
- Key focus on Mega plants of HCCBPL.
- Working with OEMs and secondary OEMs on strategies to enhance efficiency, capability and reduce cost.
- ( ~ 70 M USD projects annually) Key Projects & Recognitions:.
- Efficiency improvement of HF line by Chronic E&I failures and malfunction reduction at Bangalore location: Zero servo motor failures achieved and malfunction reduction.
- Efficiency improvement by 19% in 2016.
- Efficiency improvement of HF line by Chronic E&I issues reduction in palletiser & CIP automation issues elimination at Vijaywada location: 8% efficiency improvement in 2016 on line by eliminating palletiser and shrink wrapper sync issues.
- Nullifying CIP related automation issues.
- Zero Profibus failure project in HF line at Dasna location: Achieved zero profibus failures for year 2016 at Dasna location.
- Revival of flash flood hit High Speed lines and plant operations project at Sri Lanka: Revived after evaluating, reconditioning, repairing and overhauling flood hit E&A of lines and start up within 1 month.
- Received individual congratulatory note from Supply Chain Director.
- Panel E&A failure prevention project: Evaluating top reasons and contributors of panel electronic failures, studying panels and heat loads, drafting and executing an action plan for all high speed lines of supply chain with timelines and costing.
- Obsolescence Management: Managing and executing E&A obsolescence projects for Line automation devices along with OEMs.
- Successfully completed project on heating regulator and labeller main controller obsolescence.
- Completed Technical and commercial evaluation of complete machine automation from Master Drive to Sinamics.
- Capability Development Project on bringing at par E&A engineers of plants to OEM troubleshooting standards.
- Design, development and execution of training program of 50 days including customised training modules of Siemens, Schneider, Rockwell, Beckhoff, E+H & Machine OEMs.
- The modules designed to incorporate installed base architecture of automation products on lines and process.
- Also, developed monitoring system to track downtime, troubleshooting and personnel performance.
Deputy Manager
GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Health Pvt Ltd
Sonepat, Haryana
07.2014 - 07.2015
- Automation & Instrumentation) To support on Automation at site to ensure 100% availability of 50 KT Nutritional Powder manufacturing Plant and Facilities, control system through effective maintenance and GAMP 5 management of control system for achieving the Site KPI’s.
- Key Projects & Recognitions:.
- Automation & Instrumentation management of Spray Drier (1 nos.) and Vacuum Band dryers (2 nos.) and supporting ABB Sateline operations with a connected I/O number of 7924.
- Design, configuration and testing of phases of batching.
- Management and control of Usage Variance through analysis and stake holding with partners including MIS, Logistics and Ware housing, Manufacturing & Engineering to achieve usage of materials within process tolerances.
- Analysis & modeling of tolerances for dynamic accuracies within processes in value streams.
- Supporting and establishing QMS by Reduction of dispensing deviations by re-engineering, troubleshooting of programming, redesign of programmed phase and identifying Kaizens.
- Reduced Deviations over 300% in 5 months.
- Implementing and supporting on CAPAs on deviations in Engineering.
- Supporting site on 100 % Batch Reporting availability and data integrity.
- Engineering support and management for modification in Vaccum Band Dryer for achievement of higher throughput.
- Support Kaizens to improve throughput and availability of VBD.
- Recognized by VP-AMA for support to throughput improvement of VBD to 80%.
- Calibration Management of Class 1,2 and 3 instrumentations.
- Establish practices & maintain activities in CMMS.
- Installation, Commissioning and supporting Validation of Centrifugal Extraction system and Integration with current extractors on ABB Satelline platform.
- Programming and configuration of Sanitary Remote Valves and instrumentation on Workstations.
- Commissioning and supporting Validation of Milk Standardization system and Integration with current system on ABB sattline platform.
- Programming and configuration of Sanitary Remote Valves, weighing systems, Flow meters and Batch Phasing.
- Design and development of strategy for Maintenance with Executives and Officers (Team of 9).
- Recruitment & development of personnel for team.
- Design & Development for Control platform change.
- Project on reduction of CIP time of vacuum band dryer.
Senior Executive Engineer
Hindustan Unilever Limited
Hardiwar, UTTARAKHAND
01.2006 - 01.2013
- Handling total 9 Plants. ( Capital & Expenses - 200k USD annually)
- Installation and stabilization of Low cost automation solution: Assisted Case Packer for Cascade 3.
- Systems including pneumatics, Optical and proximity sensors and PLC control.
- Installation, commissioning and automation of VVVF drive (75HP with star-delta by pass arrangement) in mixer motors for energy conservation, soft starters for 50 HP motors for reduction of maximum demand.
- Selection, procurement and installation of Electromagnetic flow meters for raw and soft water lines, Vortex flow meter for Medium pressure steam line (IBR).
- Above project to enable utilities’ measurement up gradation.
- Configuration and control in DCS.
- Design, installation and commissioning of automatic pH treatment for Sweet water (Glycerol) plant.
- Control configuration in DCS.
- Planning and implementing planned maintenance activities in minor oil refinery for instrumentation and control equipment during annual shutdown of the plant.
- This included overhauling, servicing and calibration of field instruments and control valves.
- Loop checking and tuning in DCS.
- Installation and commissioning of 80 zone fire alarm system (Zicom make) for factory premises.
- PLC control for water chiller system (40TR).
- Analog and digital instrumentation interfacing to micrologix 1400 PLC.
- Laser coding implementation for coding wrapped soap tablets.
- Technical support in instrumentation and control commissioning in latest Creams, Lotions and shampoo factory at haridwar (350 Crore INR project).
- Commissioned batching system for manufacturing area in Allen Bradley Control Logix platform with Panel view plus HMI.
- Configuration of mass flow meters for analog as well as pulse signals to PLC.
- Cross Checking P & I diagrams and verification and calibration of weighing systems (Sartorious) of 1 ton to 5 ton capacities.
- Teaching and verifying by loop checking latest mix proof think top valves of Alfa laval make.
- Network check up (Ethernet, Control Net and Device Net).
- Commissioning and testing field instruments such as radar level transmitters, vacuum transmitters, temperature transmitters, pressure gauges and conductivity analyzer ( E+H).
- Allen Bradley E3 relay configuration for remote operation of motors through network.
- Commissioning of automatic CIP system.
- Complete hygienic instrumentation installation knowledge gained.
- Installation and commissioning of High speed tube packing machines (Norden 3002 and Norden 2002) on ELAU control platform and ABB robotics.
- Installation and commissioning measurements and controls for New cream formulation in batch making in Hindustan Unilever Ltd and Unilever Bangladesh Limited (International assignment).
- Installation and commissioning of Blistering machine Koch make for blister packing 300 tubes per minute on Beckhoff automation platform and DELTA robotics.
- Installation and commissioning of High speed (240 satchets per minute) Mespack machines with Allen Bradley control platform and Satchet flow wrapping Atlanta machine (ULMA) with B&R control platform.
- Installation and commissioning of High speed Bottle filling machines (Vaseline lotions, Shampoos etc.) of ACMA, POSIMAT, TOELKE and CERMEX machines constituting a line of 300 Bottles per minute.
- Installation and commissioning of Mixers with batch automation in Allen Bradley platform and SCADA for manufacturing of cream, lotions, shampoo and nil mineral bar.
- Preliminary design and selection of Instrumentation and controls for 5TPH Agro waste boiler.
- FAT, SAT ,Installation of Commissioning of 240 Tablets per minute Case packer (IMA).
- Installation of Commissioning of Inter Unit Transferred 300 BPM bottling line.
- Accolades.
- Acknowledged by site as Coordinator for entire site for “Indian Manufacturing Excellence Awards” 2012 where site won “Super Platinum “Award.
- High performer for successive three years.
- Green boxer from 2010 to 2014.
- Awarded Best Performer award for 2011,2012 for Instrument and Control for Site.
Education
B Tech, Applied Electronics & Instrumentation - Bachelor of Technology
Dehradun Institute of Technology, Uttar Pradesh Technical University
Dehradun, UT 08.2002 - 08.2006
Chartered Engineer & MIE - Electrical & Electronics Engineering
IEI Kolkata, India
Kolkata, WB 08.2006 - 12.2018
Skills
Project Management – Brownfield & Greenfield
undefinedAccomplishments
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IIoT by design : bottom up approach where execution meets strategy for Day 1 delivery of value centrered I4.0 digital applications
DuPont Safety trained professional with Safety culture in “DNA”. Have delivered more than 15 small to large Brownfield & Greenfield projects with 0 LTA including agile delivery projects such as Amazon Largest fulfillment center in Delhi 2018. 0 injuries to team in last 15 years.
•Machine safety standards (ISO 13849-1) understanding & delivery in several projects – Trained on machine safety by industry experts of HUL. TPM practitioner & have supported deployment of SHE, 5S,PM,KK & JH Step 3 in Level 3 plants.
•Understand & deployed MARS Global traceability guidelines (Silver & Gold standards) and good expertise of material flow & transformation right from Raws/Packs to FG. Working with R&D to ensure recipe integrity by implementing Manufacturing Operations Management.
•Understanding & delivering Latest Global Petcare standards – Have been key part of delivering Dry & Wet technology standards. Thailand Dry produces 220T per day in 2021 . Also member of Global CoE. This in a short span of 2.5 years.
•Planned and deployed resources ( Company & contract) for brownfield projects. Lead a team of technicians and engineers ( Max 20) in brownfield and greenfield projects at HUL, GSK & Amazon. Cross functional stake holding ability helped deliver MOM at PCH & CHB under tight timelines especially CHB phase 2. Similar roles played at Amazon & Coke.
•Lead Material handling delivery with “Excellent Execution” for the largest fulfillment center of Amazon in Delhi (~50M$) and reaching design capacity within 4 months ( 200,000 packages per day peak capacity).
•Coaching, developing & talent development. Lived the principle of Building teams and talents and erstwhile team members have grown to higher order jobs in HUL, GSK, Coke & Amazon. ( Technician to Sr Engineer level, Engineer to Manager level). Proud to see MARS Controls team also growing in their roles.
Successive performance awards from 2020-2013 at Unilever
SVP handwritten appreciation note at Coca Cola for recovering flash flood hit Colombo plant.
EVP & Director level performance certificates at GSK, & Amazon
Appreciation notes by MARS VPs
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Certification
Rockwell Factory Talk Production Centre, CPG Suite
Quote
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Timeline
Regional Technology Leader
MARS International (Petcare)
03.2019 - Current
Manager II Facilities
Amazon Sellers Services Pvt Ltd
01.2018 - 03.2019
Manager - Process Improvement Team
Hindustan Coca, Beverages Pvt Ltd
07.2015 - 01.2018
Deputy Manager
GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Health Pvt Ltd
07.2014 - 07.2015
Chartered Engineer & MIE - Electrical & Electronics Engineering
IEI Kolkata, India
08.2006 - 12.2018
Senior Executive Engineer
Hindustan Unilever Limited
01.2006 - 01.2013
B Tech, Applied Electronics & Instrumentation - Bachelor of Technology
Dehradun Institute of Technology, Uttar Pradesh Technical University
08.2002 - 08.2006
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