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BHEL is the largest engineering and manufacturing enterprise in India in the energy-

related/infrastructure sector, today. BHEL was established more than 40 years ago,
ushering in the indigenous Heavy Electrical Equipment industry in India - a dream that
has been more than realized with a well-recognized track record of performance. The
company has been earning profits continuously since 1971-72 and paying dividends
since 1976-77.

BHEL manufactures over 180 products under 30 major product groups and
caters to core sectors of the Indian Economy viz., Power Generation &
Transmission, Industry, Transportation, Telecommunication, Renewable
Energy, etc. The wide network of BHEL's 14 manufacturing divisions, four
Power Sector regional centres, over 100 project sites, eight service centres
and 18 regional offices, enables the Company to promptly serve its customers
and provide them with suitable products, systems and services -- efficiently
and at competitive prices. The high level of quality & reliability of its products
is due to the emphasis on design, engineering and manufacturing to
international standards by acquiring and adapting some of the best
technologies from leading companies in the world, together with technologies
developed in its own R&D centres.

BHEL has acquired


certifications to
Quality
Management
Systems (ISO
9001),
Environmental
Management
Systems (ISO
14001) and
Occupational
Health & Safety
Management
Systems (OHSAS
18001) and is also
well on its journey
towards Total
Quality
Management.

BHEL has
Installed
equipment for
over 90,000
MW of power
generation --
for Utilities,
Captive and
Industrial
users.
Supplied over
2,25,000 MVA
transformer
capacity and
other
equipment
operating in
Transmission &
Distribution
network up to
400 kV (AC &
DC).
Supplied over
25,000 Motors
with Drive
Control System
to Power
projects,
Petrochemicals,
Refineries,
Steel,
Aluminum,
Fertilizer,
Cement plants,
etc.
Supplied
Traction
electrics and
AC/DC locos to
power over
12,000 kms
Railway
network.
Supplied over
one million
Valves to
Power Plants
and other
Industries.

BHEL's operations
are organised
around three
business sectors,
namely Power,
Industry -
including
Transmission,
Transportation,
Telecommunicatio
n & Renewable
Energy - and
Overseas
Business. This
enables BHEL to
have a strong
customer
orientation, to be
sensitive to his
needs and respond
quickly to the
changes in the
market.

BHEL's vision is to
become a world-
class engineering
enterprise,
committed to
enhancing
stakeholder value.
The company is
striving to give
shape to its
aspirations and
fulfill the
expectations of the
country to become
a global player.

The greatest
strength of BHEL
is its highly skilled
and committed
42,600 employees.
Every employee is
given an equal
opportunity to
develop himself
and grow in his
career. Continuous
training and
retraining, career
planning, a
positive work
culture and
participative style
of management �
all these have
engendered
development of a
committed and
motivated
workforce setting
new benchmarks
in terms of
productivity,
quality and
responsiveness.

BHEL, ranking among the major power plant equipment suppliers in the world, is one of the largest
exporters of engineering products & services from India. Over the years, BHEL has established its references
in around 60 countries of the world, ranging from the United States in the West to New Zealand in the Far
East. BHEL's export range covers individual products to complete Power Stations, Turnkey Contracts for
Power Plants, EPC Contracts, HV/EHV Sub-stations, O&M Services for familiar technologies, Specialized after-
market services like Residual Life Assessment (RLA) studies and Retrofitting, Refurbishing & Overhauling,
and supplies to manufacturers & EPC contractors.

BHEL has assimilated and updated/adopted the state-of-the-art-technologies in the Power and Industrial
equipment sectors acquired from world leaders. BHEL has successfully undertaken turnkey projects on its
own and possesses the requisite flexibility to interface and complement international companies for large
projects, and has also exhibited adaptability by manufacturing and supplying intermediate products to the
design of other manufacturers and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). The success in the area of
rehabilitation and life extension of power projects has established BHEL as a reliable alternative to the OEMs
for such power plants.

Power Transmission

Bushings
Air Preheaters Capacitors
Boilers Control Relay Panels
Control Relay Panels Dry-type Transformers
Electrostatic Precipitators Energy Meters
Fabric Filters HVDC Transmission System
Fans Insulators
Gas Turbines Switchgears
Hydro Power Plant Power Semiconductor Devices
Piping Systems Power System Studies
Pulverizers Control Shunt Reactor
Pumps
Transportation
Seamless Steel Tubes
Soot blowers
Electric Rolling Stock
Steam Generators
Electrics for Rolling Stock
Steam Turbines
Electrics for Urban Transportation System
Turbogenerators
Valves Non Conventional Energy
Source
Industry
Mini/Micro Hydro Sets

Capacitors Solar Lanterns

Ceralin Solar Photovoltaics

Compressors Solar Water Heating Systems

Desalination Plants Wind Electric Generators

Diesel Generating Sets


R&D Products
Industrial Motors &
Fuel Cells
Alternators
Gas Turbines Surface Coatings

Oil Field Equipment Automated storage & Retrivals


Load Sensors
Solar Photovoltaics Transparent Conducting Oxide
Power Semiconductor Devices
Seamless Steel Tubes
Sootblowers
Steel Castings & Forgings
Steam Generators
Steam Turbines
Turbogenerators
Valves

Towards meeting its Quality Policy, BHEL is using the vehicle of Quality Management Systems,
which are certified to ISO 9001:2000 series of Standards by Internationally acclaimed
certifying agency, BVQI.

Corporate Quality and Unit level Quality structure enables requisite planning, control and
implementation of Company-wide Quality Policy and Objectives which are linked to the
Company's Vision statement. Corporate Quality derives strength from direct reporting to
Chairman and Managing Director of the Company.

Other than traditional Quality functions, today the focus is on:.


Propagating Quality Management Systems and Total Quality Management.
Formulating, implementing and monitoring, "Improvement Plans" with focus on internal and external
Customer Satisfaction.
Investigations and preventive actions on Critical Quality Issues.

Calibration and testing laboratories of BHEL are accredited under the National Accreditation Board for
Calibration and Testing Laboratories (NABL) scheme of Laboratory Accreditation, which has got mutual
recognition with Asia Pacific Laboratory Accreditation Conference and International Laboratory
Accreditation Conference.

As a result of its thrust on quality and technology, BHEL enjoys national and international recognition in
the form of Product Certification by International Bodies like ASME, API etc. and Plant Approvals by
agencies like Lloyds Register of Shipping, U.K., Chief Controller of Explosives India, TUV Germany etc.

In its movement towards Business Excellence and with the objective of achieving International level of
Quality, BHEL has adopted European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) model for Business
Excellence. Through this model and annual self-assessment exercise, BHEL is institutionalising
continuous improvement in all its operations.

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