Vol. 15 : No. 11 February 2017

Dr. G. Ranganath, FIE

Chairman

Er. R. Ramdoss, MIE

Honorary Secretary

T.N. STATE CENTRE

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From the Chairman’s Desk.... Talk on “Business Process Improvement

& Problem Solving using 6 Sigma”

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A technical guest lecture meeting was held on 28th

January 2017 at 5.00 pm in IE(I), Tamilnadu State Centre

auditorium. The topic of the day was on “Business

Process Improvement & Problem Solving using 6

Sigma”. Er P Rajamani FIE, Council Member,

Electrical Engineering Division, IE(I) welcomed the

gathering and introduced the Chief Guest Er R Babu,

AMIE, M.E., Consulting Engineer, Chennai. Er R Babu

delivered the lecture on the above topic with power point

presentation.

In his speech, 6 Sigma is a customer centric, business

focused, process oriented methodology driven by Data

and Facts. This methodology is used to solve the business

problems and continuous improvement needs through

structured manner of Define, Measure, Analyse,

Improve and Control in short DMAIC Methodology.

This is continuously aimed in removing the Variations

across the entire Business process to enhance the quality

and remove the various inefficiencies and Sustain the

benefits and approach as a Culture on a long run.

In short statistically the methodology is focused on

moving the mean to Customer Target and Reducing the

Variations across the business process value chain.

Dear Engineers,

I am extremely happy to share my views and ideas

through this News Bulletin.

In the recent committee meeting held at Tamilnadu

State Centre, all my committee members had come

with lot of suggestions and ideas for organizing

technical activities under the banner of Tamilnadu

State Centre. This gives a moral boost for me to

conduct more number of technical activities to join

with our Headquarters, which is going to celebrate the Centenary celebrations

in 2020.

It is a happy moment for me to share with you that 6 more Local Centres have

been added to Tamilnadu State Centre. Previously formed District Centres are

upgraded as Local Centres viz. Kancheepuram, Thiruvallur, Thanjavur, Erode,

Tirunelveli and Kanyakumari. I welcome the Local Centres into the ambit of

Tamilnadu State Centre and wish them to join with us in all respects for the

development of the Institution of Engineers (India).

I wish to inform you that there is a slight change in the dates of celebrating the

third Students' Convention in Madurai. As the first activity outside Chennai

the third Student’s Convention on the theme ‘Innovation, Technology and

Knowledge Economy’ will be held on 17th and 18th March 2017 instead of

17th and 18th February 2017 at KLN College of Engineering, Pottapalayam,

Sivagangai District.

It is also envisaged to organize National Conventions in Marine or Aerospace

Engineering in the year 2018 and the proposals have been forwarded to

Headquarters for their approval.

For any educational body, the alumni’s are the real strength. Considering the

importance our Headquarters have planned to arrange for alumni’s meet from

this year. The Alumni meet will be arranged at Chennai during March 2017.

Through this issue, I reiterate my team members to focus on approaching the

Engineering Colleges and Polytechnic Colleges and urge the CEOs of the

colleges to establish Students’ Chapter at their colleges. Continuous follow-

up will yield good results in this regard.

My immediate concern is to increase the membership strength of our

Institution.The Chairman and members of the Membership Committee should

aim for a massive membership drive in Engineering Colleges and Industries

requesting their faculties and engineers to enroll themselves as the members

of IEI.

I request my member friends to bring in more and more new members into

the fold of IEI with a slogan ‘EVERY MEMBER INDUCT A NEW

MEMBER’ to double the strength. Let us all unite to boost the membership

strength of IEI.

Dr. G Ranganath

Chairman

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Report on Energy Conservation Day

07.01.2017

The program started by planting 150 Saplings in IE(I),

TNSC, Premises as well as distributed to the participants

by emphasizing on green being the top layer towards

Energy conservation.

Welcome speech was given by Eminent Engineers from

various organization from IEI, IET, PCRA,TNEB namely

Er. Jayanthi EE/TANTRANSCO, Er P Arunachalam EE/

TANGEDCO, Er U B Eleni, CE/TANGEDCO, Er. V S

Sriraja Balaguru, AE/TANGEDCO.

The motto to ensure the usage of energy in an effective

manner can be executed only by Youths of future society

was proved by the Vision 10MW team, from Dr. MGR

Educational and Research Institute University under the

leadership of Dr. L. Ramesh, Director MGR vision 10MW.

Dr.MGR Educational and Research Institute University

started energy awareness and renewable initiative forum

in the year 2013 with the objective to concentrate more on(contd. on page 3)

The start of anything is checking or reviewing what the

customer wants. What is our Business Goal. Precisely

convert the Customer needs by removing the emotional

contents into a Critical Customer Requirements. Now, apply

the current Need of the Business. Should it be resolving the

existing Bottlenecks to meet the customer Needs or business

needs.Upon deciding the priority on hand, define it as a

business Case and what the business is going to benefit by

ironing out the improvement or removing the Roadblocks.

The Leadership team must identify the various opportunities

available to remove the current pain for the business and

the Customer.

Derive a SIPOC that gives an overview of the entire

business problem from Customer to the various people

directly or indirectly influencing the situation negatively or

positively with the existing process. Capture the current

data and identify the Gap to reach the Business Goal.

Analyze the various possible causes and Validate the causes

to derive the Root cause for the situation. Use FMEAs and

Pugh Matrix to select the feasible solution to resolve the

existing situation. Ensure the solution is piloted to derive

Confidence and acceptance across the Team of leadership

and Users. Further reinforce the solution implementation

with the right PROCESS Control steps and Ensure the

Sustenance of the improved Process solution. 6SIGMA is

not a Training alone but needs application to a real-life

business situation else it is like learning car driving without

actually Driving. 6 SIGMA Practice has been applied across

various spectrum of Industries and brings in a tangible

Sustained Financial Savings across Operations in a mfg.,

Engineering, Development functions in many industries.

Er P Rajamani, FIE, Council Member, Electrical

Engineering Division, IE(I) presented the memento to the

Chief Guest Er R Babu . Er R Ramdoss, MIE, Honorary

Secretary proposed the vote of thanks. About 40 members

participated in the program.

(contd. from page 1)

The Energy Conservation day was celebrated at the

Institution of Engineers(India), Tamilnadu State Centre on

7th January 2017 at 5.00 pm in IE(I), Tamilnadu State

Centre auditorium.

Energy Conservation day was proposed by TamilNadu

Electricity Board(TNEB)Engineers to be conducted

together in Institution of Engineers (India) in association

with Institution of Engineering & Technology (IET). Er P

R Seshadri, FIE Past Chairman of IE(I), TNSC welcomed

the gathering .

The concept of Energy conservation refers to the reducing

of energy consumption through using less of an energy

service. Energy conservation differs from efficient energy

use, which refers to using less energy for a constant service.

Driving less is an example of energy conservation. Driving

the same amount with a higher mileage vehicle is an

example of energy efficiency. Energy conservation and

efficiency are both energy reduction techniques.

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research and development on micro grid and energy

conservative opportunities to help the country to save

energy. To help this, vision was inaugurated by President

Er. A.C.S. Arunkumar on May 2014 entitled MGR VISION

10MW - initiative to save 10MW of Energy in a period of

10 years. The methodology of the conservation plan was

put into action to conduct an Electrical Energy Audit in

residential houses, commercial building and industries, and

recent research based technology called micro grid work

was put into action in parallel with the Electrical Energy

Audit and a software package is designed for the society

through which the general public can audit their respective

homes and get a good outcome in a reduction in power

consumption as well as in tariff bills.

An inspirational brand video is an excellent way to

emotionally relate with audience was beautifully picturized

by Er T Murugaselvam AEE/TANGEDCO and his team,

Connecting viewers to the interior of Energy conservation

vision, while painting a "big picture", encouraging an

emotional engagement that is resonating till date in the

audience mind, which can be viewed in YouTube, https:/

/youtube/JosWVlcQhNk

Depleting natural resources are essential for the

development of the country towards prosperity, still

sustainable growth is very much important for future world,

the action plan that is taken by Petroleum Conservation

Research Association (PCRA) was well explained by Er.

S. Mahadevan, Consultant & Faculty, Energy and Energy

Efficiency together with Deputy Director PCRA.

(contd. from page 2)

Building technologies, the key to designing a passive solar

building is to best take advantage of the local climate.

Elements to be considered include window placement and

glazing type, thermal insulation, thermal mass, and shading.

Passive solar design techniques can be applied most easily

to new buildings, but existing buildings can be retrofitted

which was emphasized by Er.Ganesh Jayarraj, SE/UPCL/

TANGEDCO.

To save the future environment, Green Energy is the need

of the hour to protect our environment from drastic

changes, to save the depleting resources for our future

generations. The rate at which the energy is being produced

and consumed can damage our world in many ways and

the need for tapping the renewable energy was delivered

by eminent Engineer S. Sankara Narayanan EE/

TANGEDCO.

Sustainable development has been defined as balancing

the fulfillment of human needs with the protection of the

natural environment so that these needs can be met not

only in the present, but in the indefinite future there should

be alternate methods for tapping CO2 by providing

incentive to the entrepreneurs in reducing carbon footprints.

The technique to reduce carbon footprints was well

coordinated by Er J Balamurugan AE/TANGEDCO, who

was the convenor of this Energy Conservation day.

Vote of Thanks was summarized by Er R Ramdoss,

Honorary Secretary, IE(I)-TNSC. About 100 members

participated in the program.

All India Seminar on “Renewable Energy - Present Scenario” - 3rd & 4th March 2017

Venue: IE (I) Auditorium, Chennai

3rd IE(I), Tamilnadu State Level Students Convention on the theme‘Innovation,Technology and Knowledge Economy’ - 17th & 18th March 2017

Venue: K L N College of Engineering, Pottapalayam, Sivagangai District

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Lecture: 6.00 p.m. Venue: IE (I) Auditorium (Unless mentioned otherwise) Tea: 5.45 p.m.

15th Feb. 2017 Talk on “Science behind our Customs and Ceremonies and the Vastu” by Er S Ramanathan, FIE, Consulting Engineer, Chennai

22nd Feb. 2017 Talk on “Offshore Renewable Energy - Focus on Wave Energy” by Er S. Rengaraju, HOD-HND Marine Engineering, AMET University, Chennai

3rd & 4th Mar. 2017 All India Seminar on “Renewable Energy - Present Scenario”

(9 am - 5 pm)

(4th Mar. 2017 Topic: “Smart, Safe and Digital India”. In association with L&T Construction (Smart World & Communication).

(10 am - 2 pm) Venue: L&T, Manapakkam, Chennai 600 089.

7th & 8th Mar. 2017 All India Seminar on “Role of Women in Engineering, Science and Technology: Creating Sustainable Career”

Venue: Adhiyamaan College of Engineering (Autonomous), Hosur

17th & 18th 3rd IE(I), Tamilnadu State Level Students Convention on the theme ‘Innovation,Technology and Knowledge Economy’

Mar. 2017 Venue: K L N College of Engineering, Pottapalayam, Sivagangai District.

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