To provide fast, reliable & secure IT solutions for efficient Plant Management and Online Information Anytime, Anywhere.

IT Role & Responsibility

1. Development, Implementation, Maintenance & Support for Local Applications. 2. Planning , Procurement & Maintenance of IT Infrastructure ( PCs, Printers, Servers & Network LAN,WAN etc) 3. ERP Support & developing interface modules to supplement ERP. 4. SW Customization & support for BTPS Applications to other projects.

ONLINE APPLICATIONS SUITE-BCOMIT BASED ON ORACLE DATABASE

Maintenance Management Materials & Contracts Management Financial Accounting Coal Monitoring & Accounting. Operations & Generation Monitoring Hospital Management H R & TMS, T/S Management Office Automation & communication. E-Samadhan complaints Monitoring

ERP/SAP modules implemented

(ERP-Enterprise Resources Planning)

Maintenance Management- PM Finance Management- FI Materials Management- MM Human Resource Management- HR Operations Management- OPN Employee Self service- ESS
Respective BCOMIT application modules replaced by above ERP modules.

Data Challenge
Why IT ?
Materials : 30,000 + items
Transaction data. Master data Material and Service

Plant : 15,000 equipments

Equipment master. Task list.

Employees : 1100 + Personal and payroll data. Finance : Accounting data. Operation : Plant parameters history data Vendors: 5000 + vendors.

BTPS IT Applications Highlights

Single Login screen, Password & Role based secured access . G.U. Interface, Easy information retrieval/search facility. Information captured once at source. Automation of routine activities.

BCOMIT Login Screen

BCOMIT - Integrated Online Applications @BTPS

Core Plant Processes

Operations
ORACLE Data Base Server

Operations

Maintenance

Contracts & Materials Indentor, FQA, MPD module Purchase Module Stores, Sub stores module Works & Contracts module

Finance
Proactive Payroll Works & stores payments
Accounts & Books module Trial balance sheet

BCOMIT@BTPS
HR
Employee database Separation module, Legal Township Management Training , PMS

Hospital
OPD Registration Doctors Prescription Patient history / CHC LAB / Diag. report online

Office Automation
E-Desk, E-Dak, E-Broadcast E-Library, E-DMS, Intranet Drawing Digitization M I S, E-SMS

ORACLE Data Base Server

Budgeting

Activity based Budgeting for O&M & others, Generation of PRs / OPI

Operation Information System

Shift Data Entry By Unit Controller

GENERATION DATA RECORD AT MCB

GENERATION DATA RECORD AT MCB REPORT

Online Monitoring for Power Demand vs Generation

Plant Load & Unit Trip SMS Alert

Energy Meters
(UCBs)

Information Flow
Relay Agent Network

ABT SERVER (Unit-IV)

ORACLE SERVER
(IT Room)

GSM Network Web2SMS Account

INTERNET Java Utility

(IT Room)

Plant Load, Unit Trip SMS Alert

No Additional Investment . Integration of Oracle, Java, Web & Internet technologies. Event based automated SMS.

Maintenance Management System (Anurakshan) KEY FOCUS AREA

Equipment wise expenditure in a period

Failure analysis and equipment history Increase equipment utilization & reliability

Optimum mix of preventive, predictive & risk maintenance strategy ( RCM)

Standardization of defects & repair codes

Equipment to spares relation/linkage

Safety & Quality aspects of maintce. Practice System oriented rather than person based

Activity Based Maintenance & Budgeting

Detailed Work Specification for the maintenance Job

EQUIPMEN T Optimized Maintenance Plan for equipment Resource Plan REAP recommendation

Overhaulin g Plans

Material

Contracts

Tech. ref.

T&P

PTW

Materials Management System

KEY FOCUS AREA

Streamline procurement process

Reduction of Administrative & procurement lead time Optimum mix of ARC & normal purchase Standardization of material Description/specs/QAPs Elimination of obsolete/duplicate items

Inventory reduction- just in time

System oriented rather than person based

MATERIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

All processes involved in materials function, from Raising of PR , TE, Bids Evaluation , Placement of Order, Receipt, Issue of material, Payment to Vendor and accounting in PSL have been made online. veting Fin Fin Conc. P R

TE

CS
Purchase

Indento r

P O

MA R Stores

SRV

SIV

Inspectio QA n P FQA

Stores Payment Finance

PSL

KEY FOCUS FOCUS AREAS

KEY

AREAS

Streamline procurement process Reduction of Administrative / Procurement lead time Optimum mix of rate contract & normal purchase Standardization of material Description/specs/QAPs Elimination of obsolete/duplicate items

FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING SYSTEM

KEY FOCUS AREA Streamline F & A processes Automation of routine activities

Cash flow monitoring

Statuary / regulatory compliance Information to right people, any time Integration with Materials, Contracts Management & Coal Accounting System.

FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING SYSTEM

Fuel Payments
Works Payments Stores Payments PSL Entries

Vouchers
BPV, BRV, CPV, CRV JV

Pay Slip Gen Ledger

SubLedger
Schedule Fund Flow Statement

PAYROLL Leave. LTC, LOANS Inter Unit Recon

Trial Balance

Balance Sheet

Proactive online Payroll Process . Transactions effect is visible in provisional pay slip. Automatic maintenance of Trial Balance, GL, Sub ledgers and schedules from vouchers.

E-Services Office Automation & Communication

KEY FOCUS AREA

Towards Paperless Office

Online Information any time, any where

E-Desk , E-Broadcast, SMS & E-Mail as Primary Communication & Document Delivery System. E-Dak for file & document tracking. E-Suggestions , Online Self Service Enquiry system. BIS, DOP, Tech Diary, LMI, ISO Manuals, Circulars & forms on Intranet. MIS for senior executives. Event based Auto Mail & SMS. E-Samadhan for PCs, Civil & other complaints.

HR/TRAINING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Activities like training nominations, Approvals, Programs scheduled, faculty data, Feedback, Reports are available thru this System

HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Computerized Attendance recording system. Employee database to record & update information . Township/ Estate management system. Performance Management & evaluation system.

HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Online patient registration, Doctors prescription, Medicines issues/availability, Investigation reports, annual check ups, patient history , referrals etc.

E-Samadhan

MIS @ BTPS
Single window access to online Reports

IT Infrastructure
SERVERS IBM Intel Dual CPU with Linux, Oracle 9i for Oracle Apps. Anti Virus IBM Server (Trend Micro) & MS Patch Mgmt HP Intel Dual CPU Email Server with Linux OS. Acer Intel Dual CPU Plant Information Server. ( for ERP) ABT Server with Window 2003 Forms Server, OS Linux , for Oracle apps Internet Proxy Server (OS-Linux), BTPS Web Server OPC Servers in SCE Room to capture plant information. OTHERS About 400 PCs & printers connected in LAN. APC 8 KVA & 2 KVA online UPS A0 size plotter-cum-scanner (in MPD) LCD Multimedia projectors & Video Conference.

COMMUNICATION INFRASTRUCTURE

Fiber Optic (5km) & 15 km UTP based LAN covering all buildings in BTPS @ 500 nodes. Nortel L3 core switch, BS 1648, 425, 3510, 325. 400 PCs & 8 Windows /Linux Servers. Siemens Telephone exchange of 2000 lines. 2 Mbps WL link to CSES- Noida, 2 mbps MPLS to data center & 2 mbps LC to Scope complex. 60 mbps Motorola WL link. CISCO Routers. Internet & e-mail thru secured NTPC Network. Video Conferencing to Scope & Noida.

BTPS

CSES-NOIDA
SAP ESS

NTPCSCOPE
Router

DATA CENTER

Motorola WL Link Features

BTPS

5.8 Ghz, 20 Mbps data speed link, using wireless Motorola Canopy, for ERP, Internet & other applications thru Data Center at NOIDA. 33 M high tower on Roof-top of Auxiliary Building, for line of sight to NTPC Noida. Independent of MTNL and BSNL. Free from terrestrial cable disruption.

NOIDA

ERP Implementation

Extensive help through special software tools and programs for data cleaning, preparation and migration to ERP database. Plant data of 15000 + equipments & task list . Generation data & operation parameters. Personal, Loans & payroll data of 1500 employees. Materials ( 30,000+items) & vendors (5000+) data. Account balances of finance. ERP training labs were set up to impart hands on training to users.

COMPANY WIDE DEDICATED COMMUNICATION NETWORK

NTPC is among very few companies in India to have its own Enterprise-wide Satellite /MW based communication Network. In view of the remote locations of NTPC projects Satellite based network was established way back in 1990. This shows the importance given to information & communication in those days ! The network has been expanding, matching with the expansion of NTPC. All projects /locations connected on network.

NTPC POWER MAP

Satellite Communication Network

4/6 GHZ

RHQ:ERHQ, NRHQ,SRHQ,WRHQ
Engg.Office, NOIDA

Rihand,
8 MBPS M/W Link
2 GHZ/ 8 MBPS

PMI,NOIDA
2 mbps leased line

4/6 GHZ ( 512 kbps aggreagate )

Singrauli
OFC LINK

Vindhyachal

CC, SCOPE New Delhi

NTPC Hub Station At CSES, Noida

THERMAL: Farakka,Unchahar,Kahalgaon, Korba, Ramagundam, Sipat, Simhadri, Talcher (S), Talcher (T), Tanda, Barh

DADRI PROJECT

Tapovan Loharinagpala ( ORDERED )

GAS/HYDRO:Anta,Auriya,Faridabad, Gandhar, Kawas, Kayamkulam, Koldam,

NTPC Data Centre Features

Designed for high availability & reliability. Advance Servers for ERP, SRM, Internet, E mail & Intranet etc. Dual LAN connectivity based on Gigabit backbone. Lease line & Satcom/MW connectivity to all locations. Advanced Building Management System for close control of Temp, humidity & dust. Redundant power links , high capacity DG, UPS for backup. CCTV surveillance & access control for security.

Cluster of Servers in data Centre

DR ARCHITECTURE
BSNL

Central Database Server

Regional HQs Corporate Office

Application Server

ERP DATA CENTRE

DISASTER MGMT. SITE Different Seismic Zones

NOIDA

Hyderabad

Plants

2 MBPS Leased Line VSAT Link

4 MBPS Leased Line

Anti Virus Protection

BTPS Antivirus Server 1. Download updates at 6:00 AM 2. Update Client PC as client connects.

Internet

3. Scheduled virus scan at 01:15 PM

4. Log scan summary.

User 1

User 2

User 3

Trend Micro Central Antivirus Server

BTPS LAN

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Saga of IT Turnaround at BTPS Unique Features

Realization of IT vision of making BTPS highly IT enabled Plant with Online up to date information and transaction ability. Cost effective I T Infrastructure. Adopting latest technology & skills. Developed by dedicated & motivated IT Team in house. Continuous learning thru training, workshops, Internet. Continuous improvements thru user feedback & Innovations. On the Desk User training from operator to senior executives. IT Evolution as Peoples Movement. Synergized force of BTPS (Management, IT Team & Users ). Effective Change Management. User friendly Applications & Services.

Achieving User satisfaction & affection.

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