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Focus

Steelworks campus management –

simplified

Imagine a self-contained city where all
residents are united for a common purpose
– manufacturing steel. This city has its own

factories, offices, residential areas, roads,
schools, colleges, hospitals, recreation centres

and anything else that an individual needs.
Iron ore comes in, steel goes out, and there is
a permanent population of thousands – but

no urban local body to look after it.

The management of such an industrial
‘city’ is the responsibility of Ralph Sunil,

Sr Vice President - Administration, JSW Steel - Vijayanagar
Works. In this article, he lets us into many aspects of FM’s
multipronged role in steel campus management…and these

barely scratch the surface of his numerous responsibilities.

ny large steel • Associated facilities like complex manufacturing operations
manufacturing facility schools, hospitals etc. happen, and where an entire gamut
can generally be of FM operations needs to be
termed as a large performed.
Acampus facility. It Facility areas
usually has the following elements, Cafeterias
each of which has different facility Steel plant
management needs: A steel plant is supposed to be This area is of tremendous
• The factory or the steel plant highly environment compliant, importance. The Factories Act
itself safety compliant and housekeeping governs how meals should be
catered and how the canteen
• Office spaces compliant. The shop floor is should be maintained. Plant
where the main industrial activity
• The residential township takes place, with grease, oil, dust, workers, who put in hours of hard
or living quarters for the fire, metal and large amounts work, need to be served food of
employees and workers (not all of equipment interacting in a a particular standard that satisfies
steel plants have this) high-roofed space. This is where their tastes.

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