L&T Hydrocarbon Engineering’s Modular Fabrication Facility at Hazira won two prestigious awards at the recently concluded National Awards for Manufacturing Competitiveness (NAMC) 2016-17. MFF Hazira won the NAMC Gold Medal and a Special Award for Transformational Leadership at a formal ceremony hosted by the International Research Institute for Manufacturing or IRIM which instituted NAMC in 2013.

NAMC is a unique awards program which recognizes non-conventional approaches and tailor-made strategies of organizations.

After it sent in its entry for the awards, MFF - Hazira was audited by IRIM for two days in June earlier this year. The auditors measured the manufacturing competitiveness of the facility on 10 key parameters including; adaptability to consumer and market requirements; stability in performance in changing external and internal environment; hands-on leadership deployment; planning and implementation of improvement initiatives; data based decision making at all levels; availability of critical information at required stages; ensuring continuous maturation on all processes; ability to map and optimise work flow; maintain challenge of prevailing processes; ability to nurture learning environment and deploy workforce talents; and rated MFF-Hazira as being worthy of its Gold Medal and a special trophy for Transformational Leadership.

Mr. Anil R Bontadka (Head – MFF, Hazira) and Mr. Prakash Patel (Head – D&E) received the trophy for Transformational Leadership and the NAMC Gold Medal at the award ceremony. Mr. Bontadka also briefed those gathered at the ceremony about the LTHE-MFF, Hazira and the factors that led to its success on the occasion.