Infineum, a world leader in the formulation, manufacturing and marketing of petroleum additives, embarked on a global manufacturing excellence program with the objectives of increasing capacity through improved manufacturing efficiency index (MEI) performance, improving data quality through standard processes for data collection and management and improving the efficiency of tools available for performance analysis.

HPCL Visakh Refinery was tasked with expanding the capacity of its from 8.3 MMTPA to 15 MMTPA—and had to do so without increasing the current sulfur oxide (SOx) emissions levels.