Manufacturing Operations and Systems – Mahape Plant


For the manufacturing of lubricants and other specialized products, Total has developed a modern, semi-automatic, state-of-the –art facility located at Navi Mumbai.
As an integral part of the overall supply chain process of our business operations, this lube oil blending plant houses the bulk storage, blending and packaging facilities.
The manufacturing processes are governed and managed using an excellent set of guidelines and robust standards and are controlled by means of a highly efficient batching process linked to the business’ ERP system.

The plant

The plant facility houses best of it's class fully automatic volumetric and gravimetric filling machines that are capable of filling packs of various sizes at high accuracies and speeds.

 

With very high speeds of filling, servo motor driven filling operations and high-end control systems (PLC system with touch screen based operator interfaces), the filling systems are flexible in adapting to customer specific requirements.

With in-built detection and fault analysis facilities on the packaging systems, the quality of the product and pack is guaranteed to International Standards.

 

Moreover, all the products that roll out of the facility are thoroughly checked for conformance to quality standards and packaging requirements. With use of specialized control tools, the system is robust and matured enough to meet the requirements of all our esteemed customers.

The plant follows very rigorous guidelines towards product quality conformance and adopts a multi-level testing and validation methodology for certification of the products manufactured at the plant.

The processes in the plant are backed by an Integrated and matured Quality System (ISO/TS 16949) interface that defines and maintains the controls on the process and the product quality.

 

With focus on monitoring the processes and their efficiencies, the system ensures that operations at the plant are always comparable to the best in the industry.

Our Group's commitment to the environment is demonstrated by a very active and demonstrative environmental management system certification of the plant and it's processes (ISO 14001:2004).

 

Since TOTAL has a global focus towards personnel safety and concern towards the environment, the operations at this facility are aligned to the requirements of OHSAS 18001 as well.

The success and strength of our manufacturing

It's re-emphasized by the fact that most of our OEM customer frequently undertake rigorous audits of the processes and systems at this facility, and have complemented our ability in managing and maintaining the work processes, better than ever before.

 

With the belief that while we look at today we have our sights focused on tomorrow, the plant is continuously undertaking facility up-gradation and optimization projects. Operated by a team of professionals from across the industry, this plant demonstrates our strengths and capabilities in providing world class products to our customers.