BUSINESS STUDI ES

BHARAT HEAVY ELECTRICALS LIMITED

Brightening LivesPowering
Progress
The customer is centric to all activities in a
business organisation.The real challenge is all
about marshalling the resources in pursuit of
customer excellence.

--Ashok K. Puri,Chairman and Managing Director,BHEL
Birth of an Industrial Giant
The power equipment industry was established in
India with the setting up of the first plant of BHEL
at Bhopal in 1956(under Heavy Electricals India
Limited-HEIL).
Today,BHEL is the only Navratna company in
the engineering sector.
Spread of Operations
With 180 products under 30
major product groups,BHEL
caters to the core sectors of
Indian economy-
Power,
Industry,
Transportation,
Transmission,
Oil and Gas,
Renewable Energy etc.


Employment Opportunities
BHEL has a workforce of nearly 43,500 employees at 14
manufacturing divisions,eight service centres and four
power sector regional centres,besides over 100 project
sites spread all over India and abroad.
All the major units\divisions have been upgraded to the
latest ISO-9001:2000 version quality standard
certification.BHEL has also secured ISO-14001
certification for environmental management systems and
OHSAS-18001 certification for occupational health and
safety management systems.


In service of the Nation
BHEL sets generate 73% of the
total power in the country while
accounting for 65% of Indias
total installed generating capacity
of 1,23,668 MV(as on
Dec.31,2005).That translates into
nearly three out of every four
homes in India being lit up with
power generated by BHEL sets!
Harnessing Solar Energy
Leaps of Success
Over 70% of the locomotives on Indian
Railways(the second largest railway network in the
world) are powered by BHEL built traction
electrics.
Technologies have been developed and
commercialised for exploiting non-conventional
sources of energy.These include wind electric
generators,solar photovoltaic(PV) cells and
modules,solar lanterns, solar heating systems etc.

WORK IN PROGRESS
BHELs financial performance
GLOBAL REACH
BHEL is one of the largest exporters of
engineering products and services from India.Over
the years,BHEL has established its reference in
over 60 countries-from United States in the west to
New Zealand the other side of the world.

PEOPLE IN THE FOREFRONT
So far 52 BHEL
employees have won 40
Prime Ministers Shram
Awards for their
outstanding achievements
leading to higher
productivity,improved
quality and foreign
exchange savings.
A Responsible Corporate citizen
As part of its Corporate Social
Responsibility BHEL has adopted
56 villages in the vicinity of its
manufacturing plants throughout
the country.The company has also
joined the United NationsGlobal
Compact,a partnership between
the UN,the business
community,international labour
and NGOs..
A Growing Industrial Unit at
Bangalore
Significant Landmarks (Part-I)
1956 - First manufacturing plant of BHEL set-up at
Bhopal under Heavy Electricals(India)Limited
1969 - BHELs entry into Indias Power Sector with
supply and installation of a 30 Megawatt Steam Turbine
Generating set at Basin Bridge in Tamil Nadu
1970 - BHEL supplied and commissioned first hydro set
(33 MV rating) at Obra Hydro Power Station in U.P


Significant Land marks (Part-II)
1971 - Bags first export
order for boilers for
Tuanku Jafar Thermal
Power Station,Malaysia
1976 - BHEL received the
first overseas turnkey
contract for 2*120 MV
Tripoli West Thermal
Power Station in Libya.


Significant Landmarks (Part-III)
1980 - Commissions first 120 MV unit at Tripoli
West Power Station of Electricity Corp.,Libya
1984 - Commissions Indias first 500 MV Steam
Turbine Generator set at Trombay Thermal Power
Station of Tata Power Company
1989 - The first BHEL manufactured 25kV AC
locomotive for hauling passengers and goods trains
was supplied to Indian Railways
Significant Landmarks (Part-IV)
1993 - Sets up Gas
Turbine based
Power
Project(2*Frame 6)
at Connaught Bridge
Power Station in
Malaysia in a record
time of six months

Significant Landmarks (Part-V)
2004 - Develops Controlled Shunt Reactor 50
MVAr(CSR) which has been installed at Power
Grids 400 kV Itarsi substation on the Itarsi-
Jabalpur transmission line,a world first
2005 - Turnover for FY 2004-05 was Rs10,336
crore and Profit After Tax was Rs953 crore.7
th

500MV Unit at Ramagundam STPS of NTPC,
commissioned in a record time of just 36 months
and 10 days


--Jude George