Transformer Commissioning at CIORL

Submitted by
Group 7
Heeral 180101036
Rushikesh Deshmukh 180102086
Sanket Shalu 180102096
Srijani Dhara 180102118
Abhishek Baisoya 180103008
Vikas Rathore 180103254
1. Identify the bottleneck.

In the project undertaken by CIORL to set up a 9MMTPA grass root refinery in central India,
the cross country crude oil pipeline was at completion stage. The next sequence of
interdependent activities required to commission the refinery is shown below –

Although the project started in accordance with the plan, due to various uncertainties the project
was not going to be completed within stipulated time. As all the subsequent activities were
going to get delayed due to the delay of completion of charging of transformer, it became the
bottleneck for the whole project i.e. commissioning of the refinery.

2. List uncertainties of the project.

 Absenteeism of engineers and labors

 Unavailability of temporary manpower
 No route for crane to march due to excavation
 Strikes
 Possibility of rain
 Testing related problems

3. Do stakeholders have common motive?

The 4 different stakeholders involved in the completion of the project and their different
motives are shown below –
 4. Describe the scope of the project.

S. Work Requirements Time (in Cost (in

Activity
No. Package Specific Manpower days) INR)

1 120Tonnes Crane 2 rigor gang of 10 people 1 80,000

1 Erection 12 12Tonnes Crane 1 rigor gang of 10 people 3

13,14 Front Availability for digging earth pits 10 7 13,000

Assembling
of various
2 2 12Tonnes Crane 1 rigor gang of 7 people 4 20,000
parts of
transformers
5 Oil filtration machine 4 labors 8 20,000

3 Oil Filtration Oil filtration machine with 24 hours

6,7 5 labors 5
observation

4, 15 Testing Equipment like Megger, Multimeter, 6 people comprising of 2 testing

4
and 16 etc engineers and 4 electricians
4 Testing
17, 18 Testing Equipment like Megger, Multimeter, 6 people comprising of 2 testing
9
and 19 etc engineers and 4 electricians
 20,21,2 Testing Equipment like Megger, Multimeter, 6 people comprising of 2 testing
9 115,000
3 and 24 etc engineers and 4 electricians
Front requirement and trench should be 16 people comprising of 2 rigor
8 and 12 15 150,000
cleaned before laying of cables gangs
5 Cabling
3,9,10 Front requirement and trench should be 32 people comprising of 6 rigor
14
and 11 cleaned before laying of cables gangs
Fire-fighting
6 25 Front requirement 8 labors 14 300,000
System

Soak Pit Front requirement and trench should be

7 26 5 labors 8 21,000
Installation cleaned before laying of cables

27 and Front requirement and trench should be

10 labors 8
Commissioni 28 cleaned before laying of cables
8
ng 29 and Front requirement and trench should be
10 labors 8
30 cleaned before laying of cables

5. Discuss action plans and critical success factors of the project.

As the project was getting delayed and there was an urgency to complete the project before
the deadline, top management allotted INR 1 lakh for completing the project before rainy
season.
Action plan for the timely completion of project –
 Identification of critical activities of the project
 Determination of crash cost per day for each of the critical activities
 Allocation of INR 1 lakh among the critical activities based on critical activity with
lowest crash cost per day to that of higher crash cost per day

S. Name of activity Normal Crash Crash Crash cost Comments

No. time time cost per day
2 Assembly of cooling 4 3 35000 35000 Allocate here 35000
bank, conservator after activity 26
9 Control cabling from
SWGR to transformer
20 Electrical testing of
transformer
25 Firefighting system 14 10 350000 87500 Allocate remaining
65000 here
26 Soak pit installation 8 5 30000 10000 Allocate here 30000
first
28 Protocol for
erection/testing of
transformer & 6.6 kV HT
board
 29 Electrical clearance from
inspector for charging
30 Charging of transformer

Thus the project will be finished early by 3 + 1 + 1 = 5 days