It always feels good to get an unsolicited appreciation for one’s work. Here are 26 of such appreciations:

1. “Dibyendu is a colleague I’ve been happy to keep in touch with and recommend over the 20 years since we met at Wolfson Maintenance (WM Eng). He has a creative and innovative approach to engineering, maintenance management techniques, and optimization, and shares the desire to impart that knowledge and experience in an interesting and effective manner.”

Simon Mills, ISO/BINDT Cat 4 Vibration Analyst and Trainer, Chairman BSI GME 21/7 – Condition Monitoring Standards, Visiting Faculty, University of Manchester, U.K.

2. “I worked with Dibyendu when he was leading consultancy services for the Indian Institute of Production Management. We worked together to successfully take the vision of maintenance and asset management excellence to industrial organizations across India.
Dibyendu is a creative, inspiring, enthusiastic and committed leader who brings a passion to everything he does. I strongly recommend his services to organizations looking to achieve a step change in performance or trying to solve apparently insolvable problems.”

Dr. Ian Kennedy, Partner, Business Transformation, Arcadis.

3. “Dibyendu De, a true Philosopher of Reliability Management of modern manufacturing industries today. A new dimension of management of industrial assets is evolved by him through the RAPID innovation process. A preacher of management of reliability, in-built reliability, via the path of solutions through the use of fundamental design concepts and by managing knowledge of people in allowing them to innovate in an environment of innovation.”

Dr. T. Pyne, Reliability, Diagnostics and Knowledge Manager

4. “Dibyendu De has been a great consultant in reliability in a plant, equipment as also business processes with a difference. He has been ever venturing into newer horizons exiting from the frequently treaded tracks. He has been the pioneer in this country in bringing western concepts by first mastering them and then adding his own innovativeness to enrich them and make them suitable to the Indian culture and psyche. His strong design background makes it easy for him to identify and rectify design deficiencies which are not so obvious to the usual Maintenance experts. I have been in touch with him since my days at Tata Metaliks Kharagpur which has been greatly benefitted by his unique approach to Plant reliability.”

Supriya Bandyopadhyay
Authorized JIPM TPM Instructor
Earlier GM with Tata Steel and Tata Metaliks

5. “I felt proud in writing a recommendation about the persona Mr. De, Indeed his style of working not like mere a consultant rather an analyst. His way of analyzing blended with creativity and innovation is really unique of its kind. He has an entirely different approach to see the problem. We analyze any problem with engineering & technical knowledge he solves it by applying Nature’s principal. The solutions are not to correct or rectify the fault rather, by providing innovation design thoughts which will not only solve the problem but improve the productivity and performance.
Finally, I will say it is not possible to explain his works in word but what I envisage is that his contribution and vision to Industries will be seen even after centuries to come.”

Gulrez Azam
Planning Leader at SABIC Maintenance Efficiency Improvement.

6. “Dibyendu’s ability to think out-of-the-box, is what makes him successful in solving problems – be it Technical, Organizational, Human or a complex mix of it all…he uses his ‘third eye’ which I see as a great strength of his to look at issues from entirely different perspectives and which then provides him multiple alternatives to pick from…A true professional and a great business partner…”

J.K. Kar, Ex V.P, Larsen & Toubro Ltd.

7. “I respect him for his consistent and reliability engineering management guidelines. We learned from this ever-smiled person how to teach always with an example.”

Sudip Das, Techno-Commercial Manager, Tata Metaliks

8. “During my tenure in RMC, I had worked with Mr. Dibyendu De very closely. We visited several manufacturing sites together, viz. Usha Martin, Indal, Tata Metaliks, Tega Industries and alike where he had varied consulting assignments like improving equipment reliability, reduce downtime, improving overall plant’s productivity, troubleshoot critical faults, reduce maintenance costs etc. With his profound knowledge and a unique insight, he could resolve hundred percent of all the shop-floor problems and that too by simple, innovative and cost-effective solutions. He has a remarkably clinical eye when it comes to machines, and I have seen him diagnosing problems like an expert doctor does for humans.

Apart from being a brilliant consultant, he is also an excellent trainer and a writer. He was my mentor who provided me with both theoretical and practical domain knowledge to perform my role in software development.

Overall, he belongs to the finest class of innovative thinkers in the area of Reliability Engineering and Management.”

Tirtha Dasgupta, Delivery Head, Cybage

9. “Were it not for both of Dibyendu’s foresight to bring new solutions to his customers and/or his willingness to participate in interesting conversations, we would not have had the opportunity to work together to help Tega Industries dabble in Enterprise 2.0 Collaboration technologies and mindsets.

What I was able to witness when I got to visit the client in India was their deep respect for his advice on all sorts of topics (mostly logistical), but also to see him offer the oddest observations (as in, “who would have noticed that and how would they have known the cause or how it might be readily fixed/changed?”) without hesitation. This wasn’t just someone blathering about the incidental — these were major impacts to the workers or the company, but things that were fixable, if only someone has the time and a few resources to do so. And the client generally did just that.”

Paula Thornton, Senior Market Insurance Specialist, and Design Thinker

10. “I did not typically”hire” Prof.De. As a Deputy Director in the CII Leadership Centre, we were looking to engage a Design Expert and Whole Systems Master Consultant from overseas for some niche projects and were frustrated at the rates they were commanding, when we “discovered” that we could actually reach out to one here in Kolkata. Here was a master consultant who had led consulting for some of the largest brands internationally, who had headed Design Portals in L&T and likes, who had done his second masters in maintenance from Manchester and then headed consultancy for the same and yet, a decidedly unassuming gentleman to top it all off! Well, as time passed, we have come to receive his par excellence reviews and feedback as THE industry expert in his multiple domains from across the Indian industry. We have come to know that he had trained the CII Experts when they were mostly dabblers in TPM, we have seen him as the Master Designer who almost totally lacks fiscal motivation, having been there and done it all, the leader who leads democratically, the Organisational Educationist who designs solutions holistically, the master consultant who is hardly understood and even less appreciated by his peers amongst he stands unequaled. We have learned to respect his vast knowledge across domains, and learned to follow him as a mentor for industries, for individuals, for all entities who crave development. An exceptional professional, and more exceptional human being.”

Satrajit Sanyal, Sustainability Evangelist, and Business Efficiency Coach

11. “Dear Sir,

Thank you very much for your valuable time & inputs.

We were privileged to have had you at our campus and all the participants in the training session got enlightened and benefited out of your vast experience and knowledge of RCA. The session will definitely bring a turn around in carrying out the method of RCA.

Request your continuous association in the future.
Regards,”

Rajesh Luhadia
Unit Head, Chandheriya, HZL
18/12/2014

12. “Dear Sir,

Thanks a lot as an NTPC employee and great salutation to my Vibration Guru.
Regards,”

V K Rastogi
Addl General Manager (NTPC, Sipat)
20th October 2016