Ketan Purohit Email Address

Assistant Vice President Information Technology

Reliance Industries Limited is committed to innovation-led, exponential growth in the areas of hydrocarbon exploration and production, petroleum refining and marketing, petrochemicals, retail and telecommunications.

More than 24 years of Refinery automation experience. Currently lead IT team for Manufacturing Applications at Reliance Jamnagar site. Manage implementation of MES and Smart manufacturing initiatives for Refining & Petrochemical business. Major projects/technology involved with are Aspen IP21, LIMS, Sigmafine, Meridium - APM, Honeywell OMPro, Intuition IX (Dashboards),OCC, ODR and GE Smart Signal. Maintain and Provide support as per SLA for all Manufacturing applications. Continuously bring improvements with new emerging technologies. Expertise in domain know how and maximizing business value out of IT initiatives and OT - IT integration. Earlier major experience in various engineering activities involved in Refinery Mass Balance & Data Reconciliation System (Sigmafine) implementation. Successfully implemented in 3 Refineries and 5 Petrochemical Sites. Lead team for managing Daily model runs for Hydrocarbon and all Utilities at Jamnagar Refinery. The system is used for Plant Performance measurement, Planning Model (PIMS) periodic update, integration with SAP-PPPI for Yield Accounting & Costing, Energy & Loss Management, Refinery Bench-marking, etc.Experience with allied Automation systems like TIS, IP21, LIMS, Dash Board, RDMS, etc. Rich experience back-ground with Refinery MES implementations.