Sawan Jasoliya

What you can't imagine when you go from Production Manager to Plant Manager... As a Production Manager, you feel like you already see the whole plant. You see processes, shifts, indicators, costs and tons. But when you get to Plant Manager... You realize that was just one part of the game. What you don't imagine is that: Now you represent the entire plant, up, down, and out. The problems do not end at the mill... they start with the community, the union, the customers, the environment. You don't report figures... You deliver results to a country, to a corporation that expects total vision. You don't just manage resources... you answer for what a plant spends and produces that invoices $700,000 USD daily. You're no longer part of the pressure. You are the one who absorbs it, filters it and transforms it into decisions. And the most difficult thing is not to get there. It is to keep going. Because sustaining yourself as a Plant Manager requires more than results. Requ...

There was a time when an engineer wasn't just an engineer. He was an inspector, a planner, a scheduler, and a doer -  all in one. I’ve lived that era. From 1999 to 2005, during our TPM journey , we didn’t just “work" - we owned. I’d walk through the plant, spot abnormalities, note down issues, plan the actions, execute the job, and close the SAP notification. And not just me -  everyone around me worked the same way. That was the norm. That was our pride. Even years later, till NOW , I followed that approach in every plant I worked in. Then Came the Shift I came across the new “efficient” model: One team inspects [inspectors / walk by inspectors etc.] Another team plans [planners / schedulers etc.] A third team executes [doers etc.] It looked clean on paper. Divided roles. Structured accountability. Specialization. But something inside me couldn’t digest it. I struggled with myself - wondering why I was resisting this new approach. Then it hit me. T...