Enhancing Productivity
At
HPCL Jodhpur LPG Plants
Helped by:
A Synopsis submitted in partial fulfillment of requirements for MBA – Oil & Gas
Under the guidance of Dr. ***
Submitted by ***Kumar (50*****94)
TABLE OF CONTENT
Introduction
Literature Review
Need for the research
Objectives
Research Methodology
Source of Data
Expected outcome
Bibliography
Introduction to HPCL and LPG SBU
HPCL is a navratna company of Government of India. Company comes under Forbes 2000 and
Global Fortune 500. HP Gas keeps the fire burning in millions of Indian homes and its come
under HPC Brand.
With the liberalization of Indian economy and thrust on serving every household with clean fuel,
LPG is termed as essential commodity by the Government of India.
At present, HPCL having 48 LPG Bottling Plants throughout the country with a total capacity of
over 7168 TMT per Annum.
In FY 18-19, Jodhpur LPG Plant has done bottling of 48.41 lakhs cylinders with 71.7 TMT of
LPG.
At Jodhpur LPG Plant, we are handling below types (7 types) of cylinders:
(A) 5 Kg Domestic
(B) 5 Kg ND
(C) 14.2 Kg
(D) 19 Kg
(E) 35 Kg
(F) 47.5 Kg
(G) 425 Kg
Productivity of any Plant is major criteria for evaluation of Plant Performance. Few plants like
Bhopal, Hazarwadi etc. are achieving productivity of 1800 Cylinder per Hour. However,
Productivity of Jodhpur LPG Plant was 1631 Cylinder per hour for FY 2018-19.
Improvement in productivity brings cost reduction by the way of Saving of Manpower Cost,
Electricity Cost etc.
Literature Review
Literature review was done for analyzing the current trends and various techniques being
followed for the similar situations as follows -
S.No Title Author Major Findings Research Gap
As per the research paper,
the kinds of programs that
were most often
successful were training,
goal setting, financial
compensation,
Psychological Katzell, participative supervision,
Technical challenges
approaches to Raymond A.; and sociotechnical
1 are not discussed in
productivity Guzzo, systems design. It was
the research paper.
improvement. Richard A. also found that more
favorable attitudes toward
work often resulted from
the productivity programs,
showing that productivity
and quality of work life
can be improved together.
Improvement of This literature does
quality and Management can increase not cover the
W Edwards
2 productivity productivity by increasing Technical innovation
Demings
through action by in the Quality. needed for increasing
management the productivity.
Workers' As per literature,
Education, productivity gains are It does not cover the
Enrico
3 Spillovers, and offset by increased labor equipment part of the
Moretti
Productivity: costs. So, using 3 challenges faced.
Evidence from alternative measures of
Plant-Level economic distance---
Production input-output flows,
Functions technological
specialization, and patent
citations—I find that
within a city, spillovers
between industries that are
economically close are
larger than spillovers
between industries that are
economically distant.
This paper talks about an
alternative solution to
solve the problem of the
company by doing
Increased
technological based Manpower
productivity J Hidayati,
engineering by This Challenges including
through waste NA Silviana
4 alternative contributes to Employee & Contract
reduction effort in and RA
the increased productivity Labour not taken in
oil and gas Matondang
of material use by to account.
company
23.32%, humans 83.8%,
capital 10.13 %, and
waste decreased by
0.11%.
This research paper talks
about the major
Productivity and Does not cover the
challenges in the
5 growth in Indian IJ Ahluwalia problem related to
manufacturing industries
manufacturing LPG Plant.
and the resolution of these
challenges.
Improving organizational
productivity is an
important current and
Productivity
future issue. The
measurement and Does not cover the
improvement can be
6 improvement: RD Pritchard problem related to
effected by changing
Organizational LPG Plant.
technology, or by
case studies
changing the way in
which
people work.
Problem Statement:
Presently, Jodhpur LPG Plant has productivity of 1620 Cylinder per hour and plant required
extra manpower due to increase of market demand. Workers complain of fatigue and also lot of
challenges for maintenance of the critical equipments. We can reduce extra man power and
above maintenance challenges after improvement of productivity.
Need for the research
Speed of the chain conveyor system.
Low Carousel Speed
Rejection of check scale
Aligning all the Employees
Aligning of Contract Labor
Low Product Pressure
To investigate factors leading to poor workmanship
Objectives
Efficiency of Carousal
Decrease the Check Scale e the Check Weigh rejection
Increase the Conveyor Speed
To improve the Product Pressure
Research Methodology
The research will exploit qualitative methods which will have a focal point on interviews, focus
groups, review of previous documents, structured interviews, surveys, reviews, observation and
numeric information. To formulate the hypothesis, the research will exploit primary inductive
process.
The qualitative aspect of the research will give emphasis on mathematical, numerical as well as
statistical data. This data will be attained by the use of surveys and questionnaires by exploiting
computational techniques with pre-existing data from the project as well as others already
completed.
Source of Data
The research will dwell on both primary and secondary data sources.
Primary data sources
Feedback attained from workers, contractors and civil and architectural industrial experts
From the Carousel Dashboard
From the Manual record maintained at plant
Secondary research
This information will be attained from the ministry of civil works under the jurisprudence of the
location of interest
Expected outcome
Productivity has direct impact on Bottling cost in HPCL. By successful implementation of the
project, we can reduce the bottling cost of the Plant by great extent. Expected scope of this
project is to find the area of improvement and implementation of the same to achieve the
Productivity to 1700 Cylinder per hour.
Bibliography
https://www.crisil.com
http://www.hindustanpetroleum.com
https://www.ibef.org/industry/oil-gas-india.aspx
https://www.myhpgas.in
