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The Vadodara bench carries the failure-investigation library, the fitness-for-service casework and the AiOM platform. Its senior consultants include Ketankumar Upadhyaya, thirty-five years into reliability engineering, corrosion, inspection and engineering critical assessment.
TCR Advanced Engineering Pvt. Ltd. is the group’s asset integrity and engineering consulting arm at Makarpura, Vadodara. It delivers Fitness for Service, Remaining Life Assessment, failure analysis and the AiOM platform under its own NABL ISO/IEC 17025:2017 accreditation (TC-6739, 431 scope items), serving refining, fertiliser, power and pipeline clients across India.
TCR Advanced is the asset integrity, engineering consulting, and contract R&D division of the group. The arm carries the higher-end consulting work: Fitness for Service per API 579-1/ASME FFS-1, Remaining Life Assessment, Risk-Based Inspection delivered as the Knowledge-Based Audit (KBA), Engineering Critical Analysis per API 1104 Annex A and BS 7910, the AiOM platform stack (Asset Integrity and Optimisation Management, six-pillar architecture including the AiOM-CCP cross-country pipelines application), reformer tube inspection through the ARTiS robotic crawler, structural audit, fire damage assessment, plant life extension, and root-cause failure analysis.
TCR Advanced is the asset integrity, engineering consulting, and contract R&D division of the group. The arm carries the higher-end consulting work: Fitness for Service per API 579-1/ASME FFS-1, Remaining Life Assessment, Risk-Based Inspection delivered as the Knowledge-Based Audit (KBA), Engineering Critical Analysis per API 1104 Annex A and BS 7910, the AiOM platform stack (Asset Integrity and Optimisation Management, six-pillar architecture including the AiOM-CCP cross-country pipelines application), reformer tube inspection through the ARTiS robotic crawler, structural audit, fire damage assessment, plant life extension, and root-cause failure analysis.
TCR Advanced is the group’s asset-integrity and reliability arm, based at Vadodara, carrying the failure-investigation, fitness-for-service, remaining-life, and knowledge-base practice and the AiOM platform.
Ketankumar Upadhyaya, Senior General Manager, Reliability Engineering. Over 35 years in reliability engineering, corrosion, inspection, testing, and metallurgical analysis, specialising in Engineering Critical Assessment, fitness-for-service (API 579-1 / ASME FFS-1), remaining-life assessment, failure analysis, and NDT. He is the FFS technical lead and the reformer-tube ARTiS programme lead, and combines deep technical depth with proven leadership on large-scale projects and client advisory.
Gopul Patel, General Manager; AiOM Software Development. An API 580 certified Risk-Based Inspection practitioner who has led the development of the AiOM asset-optimisation platform from inception, including the material library, engineering tools, FFS calculations, semi-quantitative risk analysis to API 581, spare refurbishment, Integrity Operating Window, and the intelligent-plant interface. He brings deep understanding of plant operations and of identifying and categorising risk.
Sohel Vaidya, Deputy General Manager, Business Development and Projects. Over 15 years at TCR, with a Master’s in Applied Physics and in Sales and Marketing. He leads the business-development and projects division, designing customised proposals and converting them into long-term engagements, and is known for client retention across industry sectors.
Pooja Mehta, Senior Manager, Failure Investigation. Over 15 years in failure investigation, leading the metallurgical testing and root-cause analysis team.
Nikhil Sabhaya, Technical Manager, NDT and RLA. An M.Tech in Metallurgy holding ASNT Level III in ET, UT, PT, and MT, API 510, and CSWIP 3.1. He leads boiler remaining-life assessment and the ARTiS reformer-tube workflow.
Kamlesh Rana, Technical Manager, Testing. Over 35 years in the fabrication and forging industries with deep quality-assurance and process-control expertise. A qualified ISO 9001 internal auditor with hands-on API audit experience, he has led QA departments across multiple forge shops.
Ankoor Haribhakti, Senior Manager, Laboratory. Ensures testing activities meet technical requirements and deliver accurate, reliable results, balancing operational efficiency with client satisfaction and laboratory excellence.
Henil Shah, Quality Manager. An M.Sc. in Applied Physics with over six years in materials testing, specialising in OES, XRF, and wet chemical analysis and in corrosion methods including IGC, electrochemical, salt spray, and immersion testing. A certified ISO/IEC 17025:2017 internal auditor, he leads QMS and process audits.
Hemant Pradhan, Engineering Design. Around 38 years in engineering design review and finite-element-analysis support.
M.Y. Joshi, Reliability Advisor. Over 38 years, formerly at GNFC, serving as a cross-vertical reliability advisor with particular depth in fertilisers and chemical processing.
Prof. Awadhesh Kumar Singh, Power Plant and Turbine. Over 40 years in thermal power and turbo-machinery; formerly with BHEL, ABB, and ERDA.
Ashok Kumar Srivastava, Fertiliser Asset Integrity. Over 47 years in NDT and QA/QC; formerly with Dangote, Indorama Eleme, and Algeria Oman Fertilizer.
Dr. M.M. Pandya, Corrosion. Over 30 years and 200-plus industrial cases in online corrosion monitoring and urea, ammonia, and caprolactam material selection; associated with Avesta, Krupp VDM, and Cormon.
M.N. Patel, SEM and EDS. 33 years teaching metallurgy, with 16 published papers in microscopy and characterisation.
Dr. P.B. Joshi, Metallurgical Engineering. Former Head of Metallurgical Engineering at M.S. University, Vadodara, co-author of the ASM boiler-failure book, with over 50 publications.
Subrahmanya Bhat, Corrosion. 32 years at ONGC, 24 papers, and a patent for a non-carcinogenic inhibitor, with PETROFED and NACE awards.
Narendra Kumar Roy, FEA and FFS. A mechanical engineer who has delivered FEA and fitness-for-service training across more than ten countries.
Dinesh Butala, Process Safety. A chemical engineer with over 47 years, former Executive Director of GSFC, and a process-safety consultant with over 50 papers.
Jaiprakash N. Agarwal, Cathodic Protection and Pipeline Integrity. 33 years, 28 of them at GAIL; ICorr Level 4 (UK) and Fellow, author of three CP books, CP4-certified, and a 2023 AMPP Corrosion Awareness Award winner.
| Headquarters | 250-252/9, Naren Hardware Lane, GIDC Estate, Makarpura, Vadodara 390 010, Gujarat, India |
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| GST | 24AABCT3473E1ZL |
| Bharuch Division | Survey No. 01, Ground Floor, Signature House, Mira Park Society, Bharuch 392 001, Gujarat. Telephone: +91-9898084235. Serving the Dahej and Ankleshwar chemical and petrochemical belt. |
TCR Advanced Engineering runs its own website at www.tcradvanced.com. The consulting arm publishes its complete practice, platform documentation and engagement record on its own site: Fitness-for-Service to API 579-1/ASME FFS-1, Remaining Life Assessment, Risk-Based Inspection, the AiOM platform and ARTiS reformer-tube robotics.
A Google Street View walkthrough of the TCR Advanced laboratory in Vadodara is available to clients who want to see the bench before they visit or in place of a visit. It opens in Google Maps; nothing is loaded from Google on this page.
These published insights record the work of TCR Advanced Engineering, Vadodara: the failure investigations and fitness-for-service studies, the ARTiS reformer tube inspection system, and the specialist fatigue and fracture work the Vadodara bench was built for. 17 published insights on this site record TCR Advanced work. The 6 most recent are below.
Wabtec Corporation has written to TCR Advanced Engineering to record its appreciation for engineering investigations, metallurgical assessme…
Expert insights on storage tank and silo condition assessment from TCR Advanced's MD Paresh Haribhakti, combining standards with innovation.…
TCR Advanced Engineering exhibits at The Fertilizer Show 2026, showcasing asset integrity and reliability solutions for a smarter fertilizer…
ARTiS revolutionises reformer tube inspection with Level III FFS assessment per API 579, predicting failures months ahead of traditional met…
TCR Advanced is now qualified by Casale SA for SX3000 corrosion tests—bringing Swiss-trusted precision to India's engineering frontlines.…
TCR Advanced Engineering marks 25 years of solving industrial challenges with global expertise in failure analysis and asset integrity.…
TCR publishes its own work on YouTube. 5 films are below, recorded on the bench, in the field and at the plant. Each one loads only when you press play: nothing is requested from Google before that.
TCR Advanced Engineering Pvt. Ltd. is a separate joint venture company, held 50 percent by TCR Engineering and 50 percent by the Haribhakti family, headquartered at Makarpura GIDC, Vadodara. It operates its own laboratory and consulting practice, and its complete engagement record is published on tcradvanced.com.
TCR Advanced holds its own NABL ISO/IEC 17025:2017 accreditation, certificate TC-6739 with 431 scope items, valid 14 October 2025 to 13 October 2029, and its own Nadcap AC7101 Materials Testing accreditation, PRI certificate 29227245998, valid to 31 May 2027. These are distinct from TCR Engineering's accreditations.
The practice covers Fitness for Service per API 579-1/ASME FFS-1, Remaining Life Assessment, Risk-Based Inspection delivered as the Knowledge-Based Audit, Engineering Critical Analysis per API 1104 Annex A and BS 7910, the AiOM platform, ARTiS reformer-tube inspection, structural audit, fire damage assessment, plant life extension and failure analysis.
Managing Director Paresh Haribhakti, co-author of the ASM International 2018 book on boiler tube failure investigation and of the ASM Handbook Volume 11A chapter on failures of boilers and related equipment (2021), leads the practice, supported by a senior bench across reliability engineering, failure investigation, NDT and engineering design.
