Ref. No. : CA - 16386 - (Maintenance and Service - Electrical – with 33.4 years in Plastic Industry)

Education

Diploma in Electronics and Communication Engineering from M.N.M Jain Polytechnic, Chennai with 70% in 1991.

S.S.L.C from Besant Theosophical High School, Chennai in 1988.

Skill Sets

A result oriented professional with 24 years of experience in Project Operations, Process Enhancements, Maintenance, Servicing, Production, Value Engineering and Team Management majorly in the Plastic industry.

Work Experience

Service Manager 
Since Aug 2014
Company Profile: One of the leading global manufacturers of injection moulding machines for plastics processing.
Job Profile: 
Primary focus on Installation, Customer Training, Service, Spare parts and maintenance of Plastic Injection Moulding machine catering entire Middle East Region.
Highly analytical decision maker with extensive experience in Service of Hi-Technology Capital Equipments for Plastics, Medical and Semiconductor Industries
Seasoned technical person with in-depth understanding of an Emerging Technologies and their Commercial applications
Motivated self-starter earned recognition in the Indian Plastics and Semi-Conductor Industry.
A result oriented professional in Technical support, Maintenance in Plastic industry.
Consistently achieve record-high customer satisfaction rankings, improvements to the bottom line and turnaround of underperforming operations.
Enthusiastic commitment to customer service as a key driver of company goal attainment.Visited Colombo for Installation of Arburg Injection Moulding machine, attended Technical Sales Conference in Arburg, Germany on Oct’2004 and K2004 Fair on Germany on Oct’2004.
Effective communicator & negotiator with strong analytical, problem solving & organizational abilities. 

Knowledge Purview
Toggle Machines:
Clamping side toggle change.
Change of moveable platen at clamping side and alignment of tie bars.

Fully Hydraulic Machines:
Clamping side: tie-bar change and alignment of tie bars.
Change of movable platen and alignment of tie bars.
Injection unit: guide bar change and alignment.
Dismantle of mechanical safety hood (gate) and reassembly with rollers.
Change of nozzle, screw tip, plasticizing screw.
Dismantle of screw gearbox and refitting after repair at injection unit side.

Electric Machine:
Installation of 30 Electric Machines and providing service.
Thermolift 100 and 100-2 (material drier and conveyor):
Overhauling of mechanical fittings for material conveyor.
Installation of Arburg handling device (Robot)
Retrofitting of Sorter unit on ARBURG Injection Moulding Machine.
Mold Master Hot runner system .
Installation - Mold Masters hot runner systems into the mould.
Integration of Multi Cavity Hot Runner Systems Such as 8, 16, 32, 48, 52, 64, and 96 Cavity Hot Runner Moulds.
Mould trail done and process optimization carried with various brand molding machines like Arburg, Engle, Krausmafee, L&T Demag, Battenfield.
Staubli Quick Mould Change Systems QMC:
Installation of Staubli mechanical and Hydraulic QMC systems on injection Moulding machines.
Installation of Staubli Magnetic QMC systems on injection Moulding machines.

Labotek Material Dryer and Conveying Systems
Material drying and conveying systems maintenance.
Maintenance of gear –chain arrangement for desiccant changeover.

Maguire Lpd Low Pressure Vacuum Dryer and WSB Weigh Scale Blenders
Material drying and conveying systems maintenance.
Retrofitting of Weigh scale Blender.
Installation of complete centralized conveying system for 5X injection Moulding machine with Maguire LPD system.

Tool Temp Temperature controller and chillers 
Installation of 100 + MTC and providing service back up.
Integration of MTC with several Brand of Injection Moulding machine.

Hydraulics
Seal kit change for clamping side hydraulic cylinder, injection unit side cylinder, and ejector cylinder for hydraulic and toggle machines.
Seal kit change for hydraulic pumps (Piston and axial type)
Repair and tuning of hydraulic pumps (Piston and axial type)
Seal kit change for hydraulic motor
Oil Leakage rectification for directional valves, proportional valve, hydraulic manifold etc.
Machine calibration for hydraulic pressure and flow.
Maintenance of-
Pneumatic safety hood (gate) on ARBURG injection Moulding machines.
Multilift H (Pneumatic 3 axis robotics system) on  machine.
Pneumatic circuit for mould air blast.
2KM Silico Star: 2 component metering and mixing unit
Dopag Siliconix: 2 component metering and mixing unit. 

Repair and calibration of Thermonics (arburg -pid temperature controllers) and Mold Maters temperature controllers (micro controller based) for Hot Runner Systems.
Repair of controller-
Polytronica i and ii (cmos and ttl based)
hydronica  h ( 8080 microprocessor based)
hydronica –dialogica ( 8085 microprocessor based)
multronica i , ii, iii and vi ( multiprocessor based)
Rewiring of -
Polytronica control cabinet
selogica control unit.
Retrofitting of -
Additional heating circuits, power safety circuits on machines.
Delay circuits for mould air blast on Polytronica 221K machine.
Self-designed interface circuit on 320C machine for magnetic QMC systems (customer-G Plast, Coimbatore)
Maintenance of -
Simatic logic modules for delay circuits on machine.
electric motor for main hydraulic pump.
electric servo motors on injection Moulding machines.  


Branch Manager 
September 1997 – August 2014
Company Profile: Plastic Processing Machinery manufacturer
Job Profile: 
Duties include machine installation, customer Training, Spare parts support, Phone support, Service, Maintenance, calibration Of Capital equipment.
Handling customer of entire south India of having team of 3 service engineer under my region. Introduced Service contract to customer. Scheduling service engineers visit and tour program. Providing support to sales team during technical discussion

QC Inspector 
June 1994 – August 1997
Company Name: Indchem Electronics Ltd
Company Profile: A Manufacture of electrical equipment
Duties include Testing of all Electrical and Electronic, Mechanical Components according to ISO 9000 Standard used in manufacturing of Telecommunication equipment such as Rural Automatic exchanges. Generating Inspection reports. Preparing Rejection reports and updating Rejection reports to vendor /supplier. Maintain ISO Records. Doing periodic calibration of testing equipments and maintaining. 

Technician
April 1991 – May 1994
Company Name: Design and Prototype Pvt. Ltd
Job Profile:
Duties Includes Preparing Electrical Drawing as per the design spec, Assembling of 3 phase Servo Battery Charges, UPS and Testing. Installation and startup up at customer site. Service and trouble shooting


Products Handled
Arburg: injection moulding machine.
Arburg: material dryer and loader:  thermolift 100 and 100-2- 
Arburg: thermoset and dmc moulding, lsr moulding, metal injection moulding, ceramic moulding, two-colour moulding, pet technologies, wax moulding
Arburg: cd machines, vertical and horizontal machine.
Arburg: mechanical qmc 
Arburg: multilift robots.
Thermonics: pid temperature controller-arburg
Mold master: hot runner system and temperature controllers
Tool temp: fluid type mould temperature controllers and chillers
Labotek: material loader, material drier and loader, ratio-selector
Maguire: material dryer and weigh scale blender
Kaller: gas spring and flexi cam
Labtech: scientific laboratory testing machine 
Geku robots: high speed robots
Huber and grime: plastic cnc machine.
2km: lsr mixing and metering systems
Wanner technik: granulators
Staubli: qrc and quick ‘mold change systems
Labtech: plastic laboratory testing equipments
Herrman ultrasonic: ultrasonic welding machine for plastic application
Asm: wire bonder
Aboni: hydrotracer


Key Deliverables:
Operations & Maintenance:
Planning and effecting predictive & preventive maintenance schedules for various equipment / lines to increase machine up time & equipment reliability.
Implementing maintenance schedules and carrying out periodic checks to ensure performance of various equipment and maintaining requisite documents for the same.
Identifying areas of obstruction / breakdowns and taking steps to rectify the equipment through application of troubleshooting tools.

Significant Highlights
Provided spare part support (to arrange spare part quotations, to list out recommended spares for the customer to sort out technical matters related with spares).
Involved in Mould Master’s Temperature Control Units (micro controller based embedded technology) and retrofitting kits for electrical, electronics & hydraulic circuits.
Established office in Chennai, handled Tax Registration, TIN and CST Number, spare stock and maintaining it for Chennai.
Imparted service and technical support of Injection Moulding Machine and auxiliary equipment in India and Sri Lanka.
Maintenance - 6 cavities mould for LSR Baby Nipples
Processing of PIM (Powder injection molding) molding machine.
Processing of LSR (Liquid Silicone Rubber) molding machine.
Processing of WAX molding machine. Installed 4 X of Arburg Injection molding machine In Tamilnadu. Special unique application.
Integration of Multi Cavity Hot Runner Systems Such as 8,16,32,48 and 52, 96 cavity hot runner moulds. 
Installed vertical Injection molding machines of 80 ton. Special application for elostamer processing.
Developed special tools to service ARBURG Injection moulding machine in India and saved Euro 400.00 for the company.
Retrofitted Staubli Magnetic QMC with ARBURG Injection Moulding machine. Prepared Electrical drawing and Interface Circuits thereby saved Euro 2000.00 for the company.
Awarded for the Best Constructive Presentation in Unimark during All India Service Meeting held at Unimark, Banglore 2010.
Prepared Booth and machine setup in PlastIndia Exhibition 2012.
Installed multi cavity LSR mould from Canada and taken trial with Arburg injection moulding machine with Multi lift
Robot. 
Installed 2KM mixing and metering machine at Delphi TVS Chennai.
Installed ASM wire bonding machine at Spel Semi conductors Chennai.
Servicing of Arburg All Electric machine and calibration of Servo motor Encoders, repairing of Servo motor.
Significant achievement secured spare parts order of 35,000Euro.
Implemented Service contract to customer.  

Trainings Attended
Arburg Injection Moulding machine service course SK 12 for C and S model Machine at Arburg – GmbH in 2005
Arburg Injection Moulding Machine Service course SK 12 for S Model and All drive for all electric machines at Arburg – GmbH in 2006.
Arburg Injection Moulding Machine Service course GE Golden edition Series and All drive electric machine at Arburg– GmbH in 2007.
Arburg Injection Moulding Machine Service course C, H, HD and M at Arburg– GmbH in 2008.
Arburg Injection Moulding Machine Service course at Arburg– GmbH in 2009.
Arburg Injection Moulding Machine Service course at Arburg– GmbH in 2010.
New products On Tool temp MTC and Chillers at Tooltemp AG in 2010.
ASM Semiconductor Die bonder Machine training At ASM Hong Kong in 2011.
Arburg Handling Robot Service Course at Arburg– GmbH in 2011.
Arburg Multilift Robot Service Course at Arburg – GmbH in 2014
    




Future Goals

Career enriching opportunities in
service, project management, production, maintenance operations, preferably in the plastic industry

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