Bommayan Thiruvengadam

Consultant

About

Internationally recognized as an Electrical & Electronics engineer with over 35 years of experience in the Process & Utility industry specializing in Industrial Drives and Automation, currently a freelance consultant in the same field. Having performed various roles in the past years with Industry leaders has made me highly acclaimed in the disciplines of Plant Maintenance, Planning, Plant Engineering, Tender Preparation & Vendor Evaluation, Sales & Marketing and Managing the Projects.Expertise in studying the existing Paper Machine Drives and Automation system to provide value propositions for increasing the production by optimizing the gears box and motors. (by calculating the required NRL and RDC for individual sections of the paper machine and it's auxiliaries). I was formerly the Chief Manager Marketing Industrial Solutions at Siemens(India), playing an important role in increasing Siemens market share in the Pulp & Paper industry, with earlier experiences in Asia Pacific Pulp & Paper – China & Indonesia. I believe that my hands-on industry and marketing proficiency has given me the strong ability to know the strengths and weaknesses of supplier products & systems (ABB, Siemens, Honeywell, Emerson, Yokogawa etc.,), which I feel makes me stand out in the field of Consultancy.

Country

City

Canada

Industry

Industrial Automation

Skill

Quote, Quotations, Problem Solving, Project Documentation, Communication, Enery optimaisation in the pulp and paper and planning the predictive maitenance, Plant, Engineering, Process Improvement, Planning, Factory, Paper Industry, PLC, Project Planning, Instrumentation, Power Plants, DCS, Automation, Troubleshooting, Commissioning

Experience

Consultant

Self-employed

2015-8 - Present · 11 yrs 2 mos

Canada

Chief Manager Marketing (Pulp and Paper Division) Industrial solutions

Siemens

2007-1 - 2015-7 · 8 yrs 7 mos

Chennai Area, India

As a project director, executed the turnkey project of Spb papers Limited,(Earlier known as Subburaj papers Ltd), Servalakshmi papers Ltd, APPM, Sastha paper, Kolar paper, Saradha paper and Supreme paper and board and Al Dhafra paper( Abu Dhabi) are under Execution. Significantly improved Siemens market position within the Indian market, by providing process optimised solution with cost effective system, customer focused business relationships and technical benefaction. Specialization in A.C, D.C Variable speed drives,DCS, PLC’S(Siemens Step7 and PCS7) Numerical protection relays(Siemens SIPROTEC Relays ABB and Areeva), HV / LV power distribution system and Power Electronics based equipment for the various process industries.

Deputy General Manager (Electrical Systems)

SPB Project and Consultancy Limited, Chennai, India

2006-4 - 2006-12 · 9 mos

Chennai Area, India

• Studying the Pulp & Paper Machine supplier’s engineering specification to suit customers requirements • Preparing the detailed engineering, and sending tendering documents to the various Electrical & Automation system vendors. • Checking vendor’s technical offers and sending the technical recommendation and evaluation reports to the clients. • Interacting with vendors and the client to discuss scope of supply as per client’s requirement and to finalize Electrical & Automation scope. • Co-ordination with Supplier and the client to execute the project.

Manager Electrical & Instrumentation

APP Group

2003-7 - 2005-10 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Haikou, Hainan, China

• Co-ordination with the OEM suppliers and Electrical & Automation variable suppliers for whole mill electrification, clarifying technical issues between them. • Assisting in commissioning the Paper machine sectional drives, medium voltage converters, Simovert master drives, Motor management Intelligent MCC (using Simocode) and 35 KV GIS switch gears with external commissioning Engineers. • Undergone training in Siemens AG for Medium voltage converter and Siprotec Numerical relays • On hand experience with Siemens PLC Step7 for Finishing house equipments and PCS7 for paper machine sectional drives for trouble shooting and do the modification in the program to suit the process requirement.

Section Chief

PT Indah Kiat Pulp & Paper Co., Ltd Indonesia APP Group

1995-7 - 2003-12 · 8 yrs 6 mos

Pekanbaru Area, Riau, Indonesia

• Full technical maintenance & project management responsibility for the electrical systems of the Pulp-9 Project. • Executed the projects with OEM suppliers like Andritz, Voith, Chemetics, Kvaerner pulping, Siemens and ABB. • Operation and maintenance of Siemens 33 kV GIS circuit breakers, 3.3kv systems draw out VCBs and VCS, SIMOVERT-P (6SC 3635) AC to AC converters and the PLC SIEMENS S5 135U with CPU 928B. • Prepared the technical specifications for Pulp-10 Fiber line (3000T/D) Electrical system.

Manager Electrical

Phoenix pulp and paper co Ltd, Khoen Kean, Thailand

1991-1 - 1995-6 · 4 yrs 6 mos

Khon Kaen, Thailand

• Supervised the installation, commissioning and turning of the sectional A.C drives for sheeting machine and also the 11kv switch gear, PCCs and MCCs. • Managed the installation of the ABB SAMI STAR, using a common D.C bus system for the sectional drives. • The rectifier transformer for SODA CHLORO ALKALI and CHLORATE sections (12 pulse thyristor control) for bleach chemical plant. • Responsible for planning, operation and maintenance for total mill.

Senior Plant Engineer

Tamil Nadu News Print & Papers Ltd, Karur India

1985-2 - 1991-1 · 6 yrs

Karur Area, India

• Overseeing the operation and maintenance of Electrical system, all D.C drives and controls of various capacities (4.0kw to 585kw) for the paper machine producing 350 T/D of newsprint and writing paper. • Overseeing the erection and commissioning of D.C drives for pulp mill, chemical additive plant and roll grinding machine. • Special technical Services to M/S Seshayee Paper Board at Erode, Tamil Nadu to trouble shoot the problems regarding DC drives in paper machine and also in winder.