1. HARDIK CHAUHAN
+91-955 880 44 54
B.E. - INSTRUMENTATION & CONTROL hardik.chauhan@gmail.com
Present Address: Permanent Address:
B/102, Shree Kunj Flats, B/s. Somnath nagar society, Road no- 5, Nr. Ashirwad Hospital,
Nr. Uma Vidyalaya, Tarsali, Vadodara- 390 009, Gujarat. Shrinagar, Idar- 383 430, Sabarkantha.
RESUME
SUMMARY: A Qualified Instrumentation Engineer with 8 yrs. of experience working with world class group of companies with
core strength lying in the area of Maintenance.
Key Skills & Functional Area: Instrumentation Engineer - Maintenance, Preventive maintenance, Predictive maintenance &
Breakdown maintenance.
Job Objective: To ensure maximum availability of equipments, improve maintenance practices & to execute successfully ongoing
projects. To make sure to complete yearly decided KRAs & organizational goals.
Total Years of Experience: 8 Yrs 2 Months
Current Industry: Apollo Tyres Ltd.
Reporting To : Manager
Current CTC : 6.7 lacs per annum
Current Location: Vadodara, Gujarat
EXPERIENCE:
1. Current Employer: Apollo Tyres Ltd at Waghodia, Baroda
Duration : October 2010 to till date
Designation: Executive Engineer (E3 grade)
Company Profile:
Apollo Tyres is one of the leading Tyre manufacturing industries in the world. Apollo makes Steel & Nylon Radial Tyres for Passenger
cars, Trucks, Low commercial vehicle and other off-the road vehicles.
Job Profile:
• Planning & Execution of Preventive maintenance shut down maintenance jobs. Attending break down and do analysis to
find root cause.
• Procuring & Maintaining spare as per plant requirement.
• Carry out improvements jobs to improve Productivity, Quality, Safety, MTBF.
• Manpower handling and job distribution.
• Preparing SOPs for standard work practices.
2. Previous Experience: Hindalco Industries Ltd. Unit: BIRLA COPPER at Dahej, Bharuch (Gujarat)
Duration : From December 2007 to September 2010 (2.8 Yrs.)
Designation: Engineer - Instrumentation
Company Profile:
An ISO: 9001-2000, 14001, 18001 certified company having the honor of the World’s Largest Copper production plant at a single
place (5 Lacs MTPA) having 135 MW designed capacity Captive Power Plant, own captive Jetty and Phosphoric acid, Sulphuric acid
and Di-Ammonium Phosphate plants with 3 Nos of Smelter plants.
Job Profile:
• Preventive maintenance of DCS and PLC based systems like CSM, ASWM, APM, Tank-House Crane, Field instruments.
• PLC based Machines stabilization as per process standards.
• Responsibility of Breakdown and Preventive Maintenance.
• Co-ordination with other department like Process, Electrical & Mechanical.
• Planning of jobs of day-to-day activities & status.
• Planning & Maintenance of spares, manpower, job sequences.
• Observing and implementing safe working practice.
• Involving in preventive, predictive overhaul & breakdown.

2. • Preparing ISO documentation as per standard and maintaining documents
Project Undertaken:
INSTALLATION AND COMMISSIONING OF AUTOCLAVE-2
• Autoclave-2 involves process of leaching Copper from Slime, which is mud having impurities collected by Electrolysis refining
process to get 99% pure copper plates from Copper Anode. Slime is having round about 35 to 40% copper particles.
• Done erection and commissioning of Flow meters, On-Off valve, Control valves, Level transmitters, Pressure transmitters,
RTDs etc. in this project.
• Configuring Flow meters, On-Off valves, Level transmitters, Pressure transmitters RTDs etc. with DCS and defining channels
and creating logic of these various instruments.
• Graphic creation of these various field instruments in SCADA.
YELLOW BELT PROJECT TO IMPROVE EFFECTIVENESS OF PREVENTVE MAINTENANCE AND REDUCE PM TIME
• Add and modifying PM checklist to improve PM effectiveness as well to reduce PM time.
• Modifying job list of PM depending on repeated break down and identified counter measure and root cause of
repeated break downs to reduce breakdown after PM.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Operation and Maintenance:
 Planning and execution of preventive maintenance schedules of various equipment to increase MTBF & equipment reliability;
thereby accomplishing planned production targets within budget. Proactively identify areas of obstruction / breakdowns and
take steps to rectify the equipments through application of trouble shooting tools.
Material & Manpower Management:
 To plan, schedule and monitor with follow up for effective procurement schedule for consumables, critical, project items. To
finalize the specifications of the materials.
 Directing and leading the technical personnel. Imparting continuous on job training to the workforce for accomplishing greater
operational effectiveness / efficiency.
Companywide objectives, safety:
 Implementing ISO-9001/14001, OHSAS-18001 and other documentation system. Ensuring adherence to Safety, Environment
and Health standards in respective functional areas and developing & implementing measures for enhancing safety levels.
SYSTEMS:
DCS:
YOKOGAWA CENTUM CS3000
PLC:
Allen-Bradley: Control Logix5000, PLC 5/40E, SLC 5/04, SLC 5/03
Siemens: SIMATIC S5, SIMATIC S7-200/300/400
Beckhoff PLC, PILZ safety PLC
SCADA:
RS View32 for Allen-Bradley PLCs, WinCC for Siemens, Factory Talk view Machine Edition Studio for HMIs, Panel Builder32 for
Panel Views, System View for CS3000 DCS
SOFTWARE TOOLS:
SIMATIC Step7, SIMATIC Step5, RS Logix5000, RS Logix500, RS Logix5, MS Office Tools, SAP, C, C++
COMPANY TRAINING:
 Yokogawa Centum CS 3000 DCS
Undergone 5 days training taken by YOKOGAWA INDIA PVT LTD.
Costumer Service Division, Bangalore at Hindalco Industries LTD., Unit: Birla Copper
 Allen-Bradley Control Logix 5000 PLC
Undergone 2 days training taken by Servilink Systems Ltd., Baroda at Hindalco Industries LTD., Unit: Birla Copper
 Siemens S7-300/400 PLC
Undergone 8 days extensive training taken by Siemens Ltd, SITRAIN India at Siemens Ltd, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai
 Six Sigma training

3. Undergone 2 days training on Six sigma Yellow Belt training module and successfully completed.
FIELD INSTRUMENTS:
• Thermocouples & RTDs (Make Tempsense)
• Control Valve (Make Dembla, MIL, Saunders)
• Level Transmitter- Ultrasonic & Radar type (Make Endress+Hausser, SIEMENS, YOKOGAWA)
• Electro Magnetic & Vortex Flow meter (Make YOKOGAWA)
• Pressure Transmitter (Make YOKOGAWA, Rosemount)
• Proximity Switch (Make Peperl+Fuchs, Telemechanique)
• Photosenser (Make Peperl+Fuchs, Telemechanique)
• I/P (Make Watson Smith, ABB)
• DC & Proportional hydraulic valves (Make Rexroth, Vickers)
• Pneumatic SOVs and Cylinders (Make PARKER, ROTEX FESTO)
ACHIEVEMENTS:
• Certified “Yellow Belt” from Q Ultima PVT LTD and successfully completed Yellow belt project to improve PM effectiveness
and to reduce PM time.
• Won “Gold category award” in state level competition on Quality Circle 23rd
convention at Vadodara Chapter Convention
of QC held by Quality Circle Forum of India on 16th
Sep, 2012.
• Won “Platinum category award” in 1st
annual convention on Business Excellence through Lean Six Sigma held by CBE PVT
LTD at Baroda on 27th
Oct, 2012.
ACEDAMICS:
Qualification Year of Passing University/ Board Percentage Class
B.E.-
INSTRUMENTSTION
& CONTROL
MAY – 2007
Faculty of Technology, Dharmsinh Desai University
(Nadiad, Gujarat)
60.96 % 1ST
Class
H.S.C.E. Mar – 2003 G.S.H.S.E.B., Gujarat 57.78 % 2ND
Class
PERSONAL DETAILS:
Date of Birth : 19TH
July, 1985
Languages : English, Hindi & Gujarati