Thursday, February 18, 2010

AUTOMATED PARKING SYSTEMS

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India Conditions

India! Our nation of protracted history, great diversity and unique economic growth! India is among the top ten economies of the world. Employment opportunities are rife in this burgeoning business environment leaving working professionals with even more than average disposable incomes. The country is the 4th largest global economy based on Purchasing Power Parity. The mood and malady of progress have clearly set in; for rapid progress brings its own share of rampant problems.

Parking Paradox

In the new millennium India has fast emerged as an important market for automobiles. India ranks 3rd in Asia in terms of car sales! Every other day automobile manufacturers unveil a new model citing trendier looks, fuel efficiency and higher levels of ride comfort, among other attractions. As Indian people fulfil their needs for fashionable personalized transportation more and more vehicles are added to the already congested roads of India. But the real problem is parking space.

Today, there is an urgent need to address this predicament. It is imperative to find a comprehensive and cost-effective solution to this national issue, affecting us the most in densely populated metropolitan areas.

The Solution

We have the solution!

Gannon Dunkerley & Co., Ltd. has formed a consortium with Simplex Projects Ltd. to give a rapidly changing urban India much needed Automated Parking Systems.

Fully Automated Parking Systems are the new global watch words in urban planning. Making the best use of available below ground space, automated parking systems create a cost effective, safe and environment friendly parking solution.

Gannon Dunkerley & Co., Ltd.

Gannon Dunkerley & Co., Ltd. is an engineering and infrastructure Company with a ubiquitous presence in all major sectors of industry. Our construction projects and turnkey solutions’ activities range from Civil to Mechanical to Mineral to Airport Baggage Handling Systems. Gannon Dunkerley & Co has successfully executed many prestigious projects in sectors such as Power, Petrochemicals, Refineries, Cement Plants, Sugar and Textile Mills, Bridges, Highways, Railways, Housing, and more for both private as well as public sector clients. All of this while earning Quality and Safety accolades.

Outside of the Indian subcontinent Gannon Dunkerley have established Construction Companies in Dubai and Bahrain, in the Middle East, for construction projects in those countries. Though the company is primarily involved in Civil Construction Projects, Gannon has a well established Mechanical and Electrical Division. This division undertakes major fabrication and erection of steel structures, mechanical plant installations in Industrial Units. In addition a Water Treatment Division to construct Water and Sewage Treatment Plants for State Governments and Municipal Corporations. In a milestone construction effort Gannon has built India’s largest water treatment plant with 650 Million Liters per Day Capacity in Gujarat, for the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation.

Simplex Projects Ltd.

Simplex Projects Ltd. has successfully constructed over 70 Road and Rail-over-Bridges, over half a million square feet of residential and commercial building space, power plants to chemical factories, and multiplexes to shopping malls. Simplex are specialized in Bridges and Flyovers (reinforced and pre-stressed), Industrial Structures and Long Span Structure-steel & pre-stressed concrete. Simplex Projects has been instrumental in introducing Automated Car Parking Systems in India.

Our consortium proposes to revolutionize parking spaces in the country. In order to achieve this Gannon and Simplex are jointly making all financial outlays for planning and execution of Parking Systems Projects. The consortium is proposing to implement Parking System technology developed by Simpark Infrastructure Pvt. Ltd., a subsidiary of Simplex Projects Ltd. Simpark has indigenized several technologies with most of the technical parts manufactured and fabricated in India to create a revolutionary parking technology that will help alleviate vehicular parking in the country.

Introducing Automated Parking Systems! Flash, Park and Leave… it’s that simple. Those are the only three steps a driver needs to do when parking a car in this Parking Systems lot. After that the automatic parking system takes over. Integrating the latest in laser and computer technology with conventional elevator components, these high-tech Parking Systems offer the perfect parking solution for India. The system eliminates most of the hassles of conventional parking while doubling, even tripling the capacity of similarly sized lots.

The consortium is making a value proposition to erect Automated Parking Facilities around the country on BOT Basis; i.e. to build and operate the facilities at our own cost. The proposition is attractive as a decision to build Automated Car Parks doesn’t mean increase in public spending.


Parking Demo

There are 2 high-tech options catering to below ground automated parking construction opportunities. These are the Dolly and the Pallet type technologies for below ground automated parking systems.


Dolly & Pallet Technologies

The parking procedure in both below ground options is relatively the same in terms of parking space hire and departure.

In the Dolly type Technology the Dolly-forklifts the car. The elevator lowers the car to the destination basement level. Moving away from elevator the shuttle transports the car to a position in line with the empty stall. Finally the car is delivered to its designated stall by the Dolly. Then the Dolly returns to the shuttle for the next parking procedure.

In Pallet Technology the elevator takes the car down to the destination level. Churning of pallets organizes the placements of parked cars. The car is brought onto an empty slot and another pallet comes onto the elevator. The pallets run on high load bearing carrier wheels.

End – The Future is here!

Fully Automated Car Parking Systems are replacing parking lots and garages all over the world. Hamburg Germany, Lisbon Portugal, Tokyo Japan. The Gannon Simplex consortium’s Parking Technology options are practical, cost-effective solutions to India’s parking woes. Space is disappearing fast in all of India’s bustling cities and the need to curb parking problems is immediate. The Automated Parking System is a future that’s here today. Making a decision now to change over to this option is in line with building a healthy, safer, modern urban India.

GREAT PLACES TO WORK

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Footprints in the sand... through all the walks of life... careful where we tread... for every step will show...

Life cannot be lived in a moment, success cannot be achieved overnight; everything is a process over time. A process that involves taking the right steps by making the right decisions in a favourable culture held fast by strong values!

Sweeping 25 years, at Kotak Mahindra we have done just that. We have consolidated our gains and taken appropriate steps of reform based on our own convictions.


Kotak Overview

The Kotak Mahindra Group is among India’s leading financial organizations. Our wide spectrum of services covers every sphere of life. It includes Commercial Banking, Stock Broking, Mutual Funds, Life Insurance, and Investment Banking. Kotak Mahindra caters to the infinite financial needs of individuals as well as corporations!

With a net worth of over 7,500 crore the Group has a distribution network of branches, franchisees, representative and satellite offices spread across cities and towns in India and overseas offices in London, New York, San Francisco, Dubai, Mauritius and Singapore.


Kotak Mahindra Bank

Destined to take on the world in its immutable stride the Group's flagship company, Kotak Mahindra Finance Ltd was established in 1985, and got the license to operate as a Bank in March 2003 and Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd, got formed. That makes us the first NBFC in the country to convert into a Bank. Our banking operations provide a central platform for customer relationships across the group's various businesses. Kotak Mahindra Bank has strong presence in Commercial Vehicles, Retail Finance, Corporate Banking, Treasury and Housing Finance.


Vision

The Kotak Vision is to be the Global Indian Financial Services Brand, the most Preferred Employer in Financial Services, the Most Trusted Financial Service Company, Value Creation and Scale. We aim to be among the Top Ten Financial Institutions in the world in the next ten years.

Culture & Values

From a personnel base of close to 1500 in March 2003 Kotak Mahindra Bank employs around 10,000 people. We continue to add a steady number of employees every month.

As we move ahead toward our vision of making Kotak a global Indian Financial Services Brand, our key challenge with respect to our employees is to retain the cultural essence on which the Bank has been founded. In this context our vision continues to be to develop entrepreneurial professionals and with a view to enunciate this vision and align it with our HR Strategy.

Our culture and values resonate with our promise of Infinite Opportunities, Infinite Challenges and Infinite Growth!

At Kotak Mahindra Bank, our values are the principle guiding force. The values revolve around being Approachable, Mutual respect with transparency in dealings, Passion to achieve, and an Entrepreneurial approach.

Through all those long years that our values have remained steadfast enabling us to build a world class organization and we inculcate and disseminate the same to the rich talent which we keep attracting.

At Kotak Mahindra Bank we constantly endeavour to effectively align all our HR Processes to the Value System which leads us to provide the Best Employment Experience.


Employee Life Cycle

Kotak is an equal opportunity employer and encourages diversity in gender, region, religion, culture, age, and more. Throughout the employee life cycle our people stand only to gain. The life cycle itself is replete with productive and enhancing stages and phases.

The Recruitment stage involves the Business Directory which is a role-wise structure compilation of each business division. Recruitment TATs and Manpower Selection Grid. Sourcing, where multiple channels are used for hiring. And Selection which has several tools that help us to right-fit the candidate both in terms of skill-set and experience as well as in terms of organizational culture and values.

Recruitment is followed by the On-boarding process. At first, comes the Joining Kit, a comprehensive kit providing some basic policy information, some work culture insights etc, along with the WOW brochure and PROMISE Passport. The values handbook lays down the Organization’s Core values with behavioral indicators and also establishes the linkages between the Core Values, Employee Value Proposition, the Customer Service Values and ultimately the business outcomes. Kotak Bank has several Induction Programs like K-One, K-Bit, and MTEP. The Business Orientation Program is organized for senior positions. FirstKonnect begins a week before the candidate joins us and ends 6 months afterwards past that. This phase involves handholding the employee vis-à-vis joining formalities, the organization’s culture and values, any issues/ roadblocks that he or she may face in the first six months. Touch-points include calls, emails as well as personal meetings between the HR RM and the respective employee.

On-boarding is followed by Employee Engagement wherein initiatives encompass various activities. HR connects with employees through multiple platforms and interventions. There are Health and Wellness initiatives, and Sports, hobbies and fun activities. Konnect is a brand that has been established at Kotak HR for all activities which build touch-points of the HR Team members with employees across hierarchies. In the Konnect initiatives we offer DirectKonnect, HR Konnect Plus, and HouseKonnect. The Health and Wellness initiatives fall under KareKonnect. These include tie-ups with the Art of Living institute for their Corporate Wellness Program. Guest lectures on Naturopathy and Diet. In-house Yoga classes in select locations; and Awareness programs on conditions like Diabetes.

The Sports, Hobbies and Fun Activities include several initiatives organized throughout the year to encourage sports and other recreational activities.

The Kotak Mahindra Bank is a work place where individuals are honed in to top notch performers. The Employee Life Cycle also includes Performance Management and Rewards. PRAISE is the Performance Review and Appraisal System for Employees is our formal Performance Management Process. RACE is a complete performance management program for the frontline sales employees.

360o Assessment and Feedback is being done at the Senior Management level for the last 2 years and will soon be cascaded up to the Middle Management. Our participation in studies like the Leadership Gap Survey as well as the 360o Reports help in preparing Individual Development Plans for all Senior Managers. This is backed up by an Action Plan which is drawn up by the respective business heads. These programs not only challenge employees with stretch targets but also inspire them to focus on results and deliver beyond the ordinary.

Furthermore there we have implemented several recognition avenues. I-Applaud for instance is a platform which provides for informal recognition from co-workers, supervisors or even subordinates. Star Performers and Achievers or any person that strikes a sizeable deal or brings in a critical customer is appreciated on the Intranet through columns like “Big Hits of the Day”. All customer Appreciation that comes to our employees are posted on the Intranet under a section called “Way to Go”.

Long Service Awards is a tradition we have followed at Kotak to recognize the dedication and loyalty of people who spend 5 years and above with the organization. Values based awards in the Hall of FLAME are in pipeline.

The Kotak Mahindra is a responsible corporate citizen. Kotak has been engaging in CSR initiatives through various channels. Apart from contributing to NGOs through blood donation drives, clothes donation drives, adopting villages etc we have some specific initiatives. For creating awareness on environmental issues, we have launched an initiative called R-Five and developed a micro-site for it. We have tied up with Organizations like GiveIndia for a Corporate Payroll Giving program.

Some initiatives are synonymous with our core values and the employee value proposition. Though these values are intrinsic to Kotak, retaining their essence in the wake of a large and growing employee base is critical and hence some initiatives like Eureka, P3, and KIT are now in firmly place.


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Working with Kotak Mahindra Bank is more than worthwhile and it makes us Proud to be associated with such a Great place to work!

CABLE TIES

India Overview

India is one of the world’s top ten economies. In the last two decades the country has made tremendous progress in diverse sectors such as automobiles, telecom, aviation, infrastructure development, and more recently, the rise of organized retailing running parallel to high levels of urbanization. India has a relatively unique growth story from the economies of East and South East Asia. The Indian economy is based on domestic consumption and new opportunities from the export market. And essentially, a more powerful force has been guiding all recent changes in the nation: the risk taking ability of youth.


Surelock Introduction

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The Surelock Brand quickly gained quality acceptance by dealers, distributors and OEMs alike throughout India and became a trusted Brand with uncompromising quality standards. At this point the Surelock founder mindset was decided on growth to become a house of All Application Cable Ties. The company expanded its plant capacity to 5 million pieces per day.

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From raw materials to finished Surelock products, we are certified by UL, ABS & DNV. We achieve high quality standards through skilled manpower, technology and innovative processes. Our core competency lies in our intense knowledge of our products and their industry wise application. We are currently catering to over 500 companies in diverse fields. In addition we deliver customized products to client specifications. A Surelock product is the result of over 10 years of experience in the engineering plastic business.

Plant

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The Surelock Rabale plant is equipped with up-to-date technology and equipment to produce consistent quality at a competitive price. It is equipped with Injection moulding; closed-loop PLC controlled machines with sophisticated dehumidification and auxiliary equipments to achieve the best output at low maintenance cost.

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Advantage Surelock

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Vision, Mission & Values

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The Surelock Mission is to continuously widen product range and expand market reach by continuous growth of plant, systems, processes and vendors, while nurturing Human Resources through suitable Programs and Motivation.

Our core values are Innovation to keep stride with technology, development and work practices. Integrity to conduct business with the highest ethical standards and complete transparency. Commitment to our employees, partners and particularly our customers.

Clients

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Our clients include Reliance Industries, Larsen & Toubro, and Siemens in the engineering and industrial sectors; Tata Marcopolo, Ashok Leyland and Hyundai Motors in the automobile sector; BEST and Mazagon Dock in the public sector; Bharat Heavy Electricals, Rajasthan Electronics & Instruments and Power Grid Corporation of India in the electrical and power transmission sectors; GAIL India, India Oil Corporation and Reliance Petroleum in the oil and natural gas sectors; National Thermal Power Corporation, Suzlon Energy and Nuclear Power Corporation of India in the power generation sectors; Bharti Airtel, Idea Cellular and Vodafone Essar in the communications sector; Reliance Retail and Pantaloon Retail India in the retail sector.

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