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above 5000 m /h upwards in various configurations with /
without SCADA
Chemicals:
They offer process engineering and detailed engineering
expertise for the following range of chemicals, PAC,
Sulphuric Acid, Distilleries & Breweries, Starch & Allied
Products, Adhesives (Including Anaerobic) Essential Oils,
Flavours, Fragrances, Toileteries & Cosmetics, Adhesives,
Bio fertilizers, Bio Cultures & Enzymes.
Process Equipment Design:
EWE Offers its expertise is design of structures like
chimneys, distillation columns, reactors, boilers & heat
recovery solutions, ESP, Product development, cross
country pipelines etc. Apart from this they also offer MEP
services to the Infrastructure sector, black utilities,
including HVAC services and likes of it, HAZOP, HAZID,
LOPA, SIL studies are undertaken.
Vikrum Kishore, Nous behind EWE
A truly disciplined person, with a background of armed
forces, Vikrum Kishore, CEO of EWE Consulting
Engineers holds a Chemical Engineering degree from LIT
Nagpur, with a post graduation degree in Energy &
Environment from IITD. Vikrum has had stints with
companies in the field of Water, Chemicals, Infrastructure,
Power, etc.
It all got started when Vikrum got a campus placement and
joined Thermax Limited. He hardly had any idea that this
opportunity would prove to be a milestone in his life, as it
was here that the seed of Engineering was planted in his
mind.
Vikrum is a person who never ran the race to be first at
everything but believed in building a strong foundation and
concept. This attitude of his, coupled with quick response,
being a self-learner and willing to take the road less taken,
has many times led him to the failures eventually landing
on success due to his persistence and tenacity.
A true believer of “Good to Great & Great by Choice” of
Tom Peters, Vikrum changed his outlook and set up a vision
to be great, agile and adaptable by choice. It was his belief
in the saying, which laid the way forward for EWE
Consulting Engineers Pvt. Ltd
Vikrum admits, “The first step of Change happened in
2013, just as I stepped to take control of the company
and the next change occurred in the last quarter of 2016
which is under implementation now to gear up the
company for the consolidation & uphill destination.”
Vikrum has been known to do many ‘first of its kind’
and mostly without a ‘Technology transfer’. Instead of
calling him a Chemical Engineer he prefers to be called
an Integrated Engineer, seamlessly moving from
Chemical to Thermal to Environmental to Civil to E&I
and so on back and forth. He relies most on
experimentation and piloting to develop technologies.
The adroitness of understanding the core of
consulting business.
The story of Vikrum becoming a consultant is quite
interesting. It was in 2013 that Vikrum entered the
consulting field. When he stepped in, the first lesson he
learnt from his associates was, “A consultant is one who
borrows words from the client and phrases a sentence
and returns it back to them”. Initially, Vikrum did not
understand the meaning of this sentence. It was later,
when he gained experience in the field, he found that
the sentence has some truth lying in it. “It is just that
you have the most sophisticated Gadgets and Armory
but lack the terrain information. In consulting business
the client mostly helps us with Terrain information”,
says Vikrum. As per Vikrum, with client inputs the
consultant is better placed with offering solutions to
them. Practical insight and feedback make a consultant
help design a better facility. He compares the consultant
and client relationship with a relationship shared by a
Doctor and a Patient. This is a service industry and
methodology & yardsticks differ from general industry
and market standards.
Future Consultant Industry from Vikrum’s
Viewpoint
This industry needs to move out of borders and
disciplines. Presently, most larger Consulting firms are
multinationals and Engineering is more of a back end
office in India.
Indian Engineers are one of the best in the world,