OVERVIEW

L&T's Heavy Engineering Division designs, manufactures & supplies precision custom
engineered critical static hi-tech equipment & systems for the hydrocarbon sector including Oil
& Gas Refinery, Cracker, Petrochemicals, Fertilizer etc. apart from meeting the requirements
of Defence , Aerospace and Nuclear Power sectors. It also supplies Key Coal Gasification
equipment including Coal Gasifiers & Syngas Coolers for Coal Gasification Plants.

For the Hydrocarbon sector, L&T supplies hi-tech critical equipment such as Reactors, Pressure
Vessels, and High Pressure - High Temperature Heat Exchangers worldwide. It has exported
equipment and systems to more than 40 countries.

For Nuclear Power Plants, range includes equipment for pressurized heavy water reactors, fast
breeder reactors heavy water plants &fuel reprocessing plants. Also offered are end shields
calandria steam generators, roof slab, high pressure exchangers apart from site services in new
& operating plants.

For the Defense Sector the range of products includes equipment & systems for: Naval marine
Systems, Naval Combat Systems, and Army & Defence electronics.

The Shipyard is geared up to take up construction of niche vessels such as Specialized Heavy
Lift Cargo Vessels, CNG Carriers, Tankers, Defense & Para Military Vessels & other Hi-tech
Ships

For these industries the Division manufactures equipment using an exhaustive array of
materials including low & high alloy steels, stainless and duplex stainless steels, clad &
overlaid steels, exotic material such as nickel, monel, cupro-nickel, copper hastelloy titanium,
zirconium, tantalium and new age composites.

Manufacturing activities are supported by engineering capabilities in thermal and mechanical

design, special analysis including stress and vibration analysis, procurement, project
management, logistics and specialized services for site-work, erection & commissioning.

IT :

VIDEO CONFERENCING

L&T's Heavy Engineering Division has multi-point group video conferencing systems at
Mumbai, Vadodara and Hazira. These systems are capable of working simultaneously on
IP and ISDN. A high-end document camera with an electronic whiteboard facilitates
sharing of data and printed documents online. Two TV screens allow simultaneous viewing
of the participants as well as discussion material. The systems are also capable of
conducting simultaneous video conferencing between four different locations.

DATA CENTRE
 Biometric Security (finger print access)
Approx 40 servers
UPS for 24*7*365 power back up
IBM Blade Centre
Fully air conditioned
State-of-the-art Data Centre with scalability to grow as business grows
Email, SMS alerts for all critical parameters
Disaster Management FM200, VESDA
Redundancy in critical components like Power, Cooling
Packaged AC for better performance
Security CCTV, Access Control

NETWORK COMMUNICATION

A state-of-the-art communications network facilitates speedy communication. All

computer resources available with the Strategic Business Units and Services Units are
interlinked to form a Local Area Network (LAN). Design and projects offices in
Mumbai, Faridabad, Bangalore, Vadodara and Hazira are linked to other offices
through L&T network. Project sites are linked to design and project offices through
VSATs, Leased Lines, ISDN and wireless links, achieving virtual single office
operation. The communication network at Powai is supported by 10 Gigabit backbone
on fibre optic Campus Area Network and at Vadodara by 1000 Mbps Campus Fibre
Optic Backbone with high-speed wireless links

GROUPWISE MAIL SYSTEM

GroupWise is a robust, dependable messaging and collaboration system that
connects you to your universal mailbox anytime and anywhere
Program Release 6.5.2
Key Features include :
Mail box (Online, Catch & Remote modes)
News groups
Scheduling groups and posted items
Calendar
Address Book (Import/ Export features)
Mail Archival
Sending Secure Message (S/MIME)
Creating & working with documents

IT SECURITY

Fire wall / check points: Blocking unauthorized sites and users services using ACL
policies.
 Symantec Securities: Virus Protection, Trojan Horses, Spy wares.

Using Encryption and Authentication for VPN to make secure tunnels.

Authentication and encryption for wireless mobile users.

Bio-Metric securities for Data Centres.

Passwords policies for all the users / workstations

SHAREPOINT PORTAL

It is an integrated suite of server capabilities that can help improve organizational

effectiveness by providing comprehensive content management and enterprise search,
accelerating shared business processes, and facilitating information-sharing across
boundaries for better business insight.

Key features include :

Tight integration with desktop applications, i.e., MS Word/Excel/PP

Out-of-the-box workflows for initiating, tracking and reporting

Comprehensive control over content

Simplify access to structured and unstructured information

Accelerate shared business processes across organizational boundaries

An integrated platform to manage intranet, extranet and Internet

E-FOS

To implement the concept of Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) for low cost FOS
(Factory Operating Supplies) items

FOS items are identified by buyers

PO is raised in Baan and becomes available to vendor

Vendors can track orders, receipts and payments status.

 E-PAYMENTS

To facilitate automatic payments to vendors on due date

Baan ERP is customized to generate payments data

Payments data uploaded on SCB site.

SCB credits vendor's account using NEFT/RTGS facility provided by RB

E-CRM

A CRM (Customer Relationship Management) or customer care module is to provide an

interface to the existing customers to interact with responsible L&T personnel who are in
charge of their ongoing projects.

The objective is to provide customers with a personalized interface from where they can
view the status of their ongoing projects with L&T and also freely interact with the
responsible personnel as well as have access to the latest information regarding orders
placed by them

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
Built using

Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server (MS SPPS) 2003 and harnesses Dot Net technology

SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services

Leverages out-of-the-box functionalities like discussion forum, news sites, Document

Management, etc

Integration with Baan ERPs residing at Hazira, Powai and Ranoli for masters and PO Query
across SBUs in HED

Monitor/Track information pertaining to PO, Trials, Approved vendors, foreign visits,

licensing, etc

Ability to generate vendor performance evaluation reports etc, not currently generated out of
BaaN

BAAN
Being an Enterprise Recourse Planning tool, BaaN works as backbone of all the organizational
activities of HED.

Covers main functions including Manufacturing, Distribution and Finance.

Customized to handle other functions like Quality Management System, Payroll, Time
Management System, etc.

It covers all aspects starting from Order-to-Cash, which includes Planning, Procurement,
Production and Inventory Management.

Integrated with third-party tools like PDM and CCPM for design and planning activities
Also integrated with business intelligent tools like Cognos, IBPM, Workflow, etc