Opportunity THEMES

360 Degree Sustainability &
Excellence in HSE

To achieve zero harm, zero waste & zero discharge across operations at Vedanta.
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Operational Excellence - Volume
Recovery & Efficiency Improvement

Transforming Operations across value chains to enhance the performance with integrated smart infrastructure and facilities while ensuring cost efficiency and productivity.
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Asset Optimization and Predictive Maintenance

To create advanced reliable assets through implementation of cutting-edge computing technology and analysis systems.
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Exploration, Mining & Blasting

Emerge as a leader in the mining industry through digital transition and advanced process control methods to make unit operation more effective and low cost.
Adopt to cutting edge Mines to Mills integration technologies for improved operational recoveries as well as improve production yields.
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Quality Excellence / Customer Technical Services

To emerge as the global leader in the production of quality raw materials
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Wealth Out Of Waste (WOW)

To create employment and new product enterprise through re-purposing of waste material for a gainful utilisation and create a zero-waste, zero harm, zero discharge environment.
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Optimized Logistic and Supply Chain Management

To build intelligent logistics and supply chain management systems for sustainable enhanced operations.
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Value Added Product Development

To become a global leader in developing products using the tailings/waste from mines, production of new composite raw materials, and recycling technology.
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CSR and Community Development

To support marginal communities within the vicinity of the Vedanta group companies in areas such as farming, education, livelihood, and sports to holistically develop them.
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Project Management

Transitioning all activities into digital platforms to improve agility across the value chain.
Fostering collaboration by reducing inefficient utilisation of skilled workforce.
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Outsourced Partner Management Excellence

Seamless and automated smart contracts for managing outsourced partners to improve operational efficiency resulting in the achievement of desired outcomes across business units.
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Oil and Gas Decline Management

Accelerate exploration and fast track the field development to enhance production and recovery with increased productivity and reduced costs.
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Digital Buying & Selling

To become a global leader in trading raw material through adoption of advanced digital platforms.
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Legal and Compliance Management

A unified digital platform focused on the end-to-end management of commercial contracts and legal processes to improve transparency across the Vedanta group.
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Employee engagement

Manage the talent pool starting right from the recruitment process to upskill them for various business needs, improve employee engagement, and create an alumni network with the adoption of global best practices.
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Industrial Security

Seamless and secure movement of assets, employees, visitors within plants and units of Vedanta with utmost visibility and maximum control through a centralized system.
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Asset Optimisation and Predictive maintenance

To monitor and optimize usage of assets and predicting the failure of assets based on past instances and prescribe suitable maintenance measures thereby increasing the asset reliability, overall equipment effectiveness by beyond 15 %, and lowering of operational costs by more than 20 %. The overall goal is to achieve zero-downtime of all critical asset infrastructures.

Theme Constraints

Operational: Extreme working temperatures, pressure and environmental conditions.

Financial:The new predictive maintenance & asset optimization technology must be compatible with existing infrastructure without requiring the need for complete replacement.

Technological:The availability of predefined data, provision for integrating the computing setup.

Environmental: The systems implemented should work under the environment control norms, only contain elements qualified as environment friendly.

Challenges

Optimised Exploration, Mining and Blasting technologies

Adoption of digital hardware and software technology for optimization of the complete Mining and Blasting process to increase production, lower the cost involved in the exploration of mines of required material, implement accurate blasting methods and improve operational recoveries in mines to mill. Increase the production rates by up to 20 % from within the existing infrastructure.

Theme Constraints

Operational: Advanced new technology adoption will require dedicated product training for the on ground workforce.

Financial: Heavy initial investment on new systems will be an adoption barrier.

Technological: Availability of accurate historical data, clear definition of boundary limits and parameters..

Environmental: Impact on the environment to be considered while designing and deployment of new cutting edge tech. Also, environment-friendly materials to be used even during the production of prototypes as well as the final product.

Challenges

Value-Added Product Development

Inorganic growth opportunities through new material/product discovery and usage.
Technological evolution to create materials that outperform conventional materials.
New applications to drive per capita consumption.
To stay on par with the demand and supply of environment-friendly raw materials.
Repurposing of waste from mines through implementation of advanced recycling technology.

Theme Constraints

Operational: Changes to habits and process on introduction of a new technology.

Financial:Initial heavy investments for the adoption of new process.

Technological:Maturity of recycling material technology for adoption. Achieving benchmark certifications for compliance by the new product/materials.

Challenges

Quality Excellence / Customer Technical Services

Adoption of advanced testing methods and autonomous technology for quality compliance check on raw materials with 100 % accuracy. Automated intelligent systems for touchless, autonomous quality certification without any human intervention and consistent output. Implementation of digital technology for increased efficiency and data-driven decisions.

Theme Constraints

Operational: Importing data from logbooks and legacy systems, integration with SAP platform.

Technological:The accuracy with which autonomous quality certification for raw material can be done

Environmental: Testing methods should be carried out in well-defined environment not expose humans or valuable assets to any harmful substance

Challenges

Transformation of Industrial Waste to Wealth for Greener Environment

  • Up-cycle/recycle all waste produced as part of our operations to reduce carbon footprint and reduce the impact on environment.
  • Save costs by reducing resource (water, energy, etc) consumption.
  • Increase revenues through re-purposed waste materials of existing process/products
  • Implement technology integrated approaches for effective recycling, reuse and resource recovery of waste for a circular economy.
  • Create a circular economic models for waste management, by leveraging big data analytics and frontier technologies to streamline waste across Vedanta sites.
  • Minimize pollution and promoting recycling.
  • Remove and safely manage toxic or environmentally harmful materials like solvents, wastewater and other industrial waste.
Theme Constraints

Operational: Employee and public safety while adopting gainful utilisation of industrial waste.

Financial:High initial setup costs, total life cycle costs will be adoption barriers.

Technological:Lack of on-ground human resources with strong technical expertise.

Environmental: The waste management norms, regulations, and policies of the government should strictly adhere.

Challenges

Optimised Logistics and Supply Chain Management

Adoption of intelligent Platforms and processes to reduce overall logistics cost, predict customer buying patterns and provide suitable insights on products to be procured, intelligent logistics solutions to reduce operational costs, advanced vendor management inventory systems to efficiently meet supply and demand.

Theme Constraints

Operational: Platform/process training required for the users, importing data from legacy systems and logbooks

Financial:Total cost of ownership of the platforms

Technological:Accuracy of the intelligent platform, all transactions to be done via digital platforms.

Environmental: Optimisation of logistics services to significantly reduce the fuel being spent on logistics which contribute to pollution and carbon footprint.

Challenges

Industrial Security - 360-degree surveillance and safety of assets and people within Vedanta group units.

Adoption of cutting edge technologies to prevent the occurrence of unauthorized intrusion, detection of anomalies and an efficient contactless access management system. The outcomes expected from attaining this goal are:

- Efficient monitoring, detection for complete surveillance and prevention mechanisms for security in critical plant areas.
- Minimizing human interventions through automation
- Capability to handle large volumes of real time data
- Ensuring safety and compliance within plants
- Contactless access control
- Fast and Transparent process
- Cost effective and indigenous solutions

Theme Constraints

The critical constraints include providing contactless access control to manage huge manpower in the industrial environment for various operations and to prevent unauthorized personals from gaining physical access to critical components by securing the sensitive areas.

Large-scale implementation of innovations and the migration from existing legacy systems/processes if any

Change in behaviour/process by the end-users of the innovations, a significantly large set of people in some use cases

Challenges

CSR and Community Development

Adoption of innovative models in the implementation of CSR activities & initiatives, support communities in farming, education, sports development, livelihood development and catalyze sustainable growth of communities through the implementation of advanced technologies.

Theme Constraints

All activities, initiatives, and technologies to be adopted should look at benefitting the communities in the vicinity of the Vedanta group of companies without causing any additional strain to the communities involved.

Challenges

Automated Project Management dashboard for projects across the value chain

The efficient project management process becomes indispensable for achieving excellence through digital transformation enabling value identification and value realization. This highly impacts the existing value chain while leading to multi-fold enhancement of capabilities and cost/resource efficiency enabling the workforce to collaborate across functional domains and facilitate an improved and enhanced working environment.

Theme Constraints

Operational: This should not require any specific skills to operate and should be adopted without any specialised product training.

Technological:Ease of integration into existing workflows and other legacy applications with the room for improvement in the future.

Challenges

Optimised Outsourced Partner Management

An automated platform to manage outsourced partners, monitor and track contracts leading to increased operational efficiency and transparency for the respective Business units and their partners. A proper definition of KRAs and objectives for each contractor which keeps track of all the KPI's of contractors in order to track the outcomes achieved.

Theme Constraints

Operational: Acceptance by the contractors to provide cLearn unbiased data, all work to be translated into digital format/platforms.

Technological :Clear definition of thresholds for all performance indicators.

Sustainability :The system to be implemented across the group for all contractors and business units to ensure efficiency improvement at scale.

Challenges

Oil & Gas Decline Management
Leverage Data-driven Innovative techniques to improve Oil & Gas production.

Accelerate exploration and fast track the field development to enhance production and recovery with increased productivity and reduced costs.

Discover uncharted territories using integrated exploration digital technologies to establish reserves and focus on timely completion with optimized field architecture while reducing the upfront investment cost and also enhancing the recovery from both matured/aging fields and new fields.

Theme Constraints

Operational: The product should have simple operational methods so that there is a smaller learning curve compared to existing methods avoiding any special product training and prerequisite skills & experience to operate.

Financial:The product along with all other additional equipment should be affordable compared to existing products/solutions that are available in the market today.

Technological:This should avoid malfunction, in any case, avoiding possible downtime and should operate independently without user intervention.

Challenges

Digital buying and selling of goods and products.

Digital adoption in all facets of purchase, sales and marketing of goods and products relevant to Vedanta group of companies.

This includes a Digital selling platform to increase sales and tracking of customer buying patterns with real-time intelligence on all transactions carried out, the establishment of an end-to-end automated smart inventory/vendor management system, maintenance of a digital market place suited for digital commerce of products to all commercial partners.

Implementation of technologies for secure transactions within Vedanta and its partners/vendors.

Theme Constraints

Operational: Training workforce to adopt the new digital platforms and integration from/with legacy systems.

Technological :Proper initial definition of thresholds for all quantitative parameters to aid in the automation processes.

Challenges

Legal and Compliance management
Digital platform for processing and managing of legal procedures

An effective maintenance of contract and commercial lifecycles aims to eliminate repetitive costs involving senior consultants, advocates, and the time of top leaders at Vedanta.

Centralising contracts, legal processes, data and documents and automating processes based on milestones such as payments, follow-throughs and renewals.

A directory of litigation cases that can be accessed across groups with unified version control on all artefacts.

Theme Constraints

Operational: Introduction of new systems will require changes in habits & product training among employees & on-ground workforce.

Vedanta being a huge conglomerate, the migration from existing processes, which are a mix of technology solutions and manual processes, could slow the adoption of new technologies/solutions.

Financial and Operational constraints need to be inherently overcome by the proposed system making it intuitive/easy to the end-users and through a user-friendly interface in order to drive adoption.

Challenges

Employee Engagement
End to End Digital Platform for Employee Management

To build an all-in-one digital platform to identify and nurture talents across departments, engage and empower employees, enhance productivity and drive performance while creating a robust workspace for managing all employee data which includes - Performance reviews, Payroll, Benefits & Rewards, and Time Tracking, etc.

Theme Constraints

Operational: The systems should have simple operational methods so that there is a smaller learning curve compared to the existing methods avoiding any specialized product training and pre-requisite skills or experience to operate the new systems.

Technological :The new systems should be easily compatible with all other existing workflows and services.

Challenges

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