• Gender: Male
• Age: 55
• Designation: Manager
• Highest Education Level: Graduate - Degree
• Preferred Country: India
• Preferred Location: Anywhere
• Work Experience: 33.6 Year(s)

Education

Pursuing MBA from Indira Gandhi National Open University.
Pursuing PGTQM from IIQA, Trichy.
B.E (Mechanical) from Arulmigu Kalasalingam College of Engineering Srivilliputhur Affiliated to Madurai Kamaraj University in 1991.

Skill Sets

Overseeing production related tasks including planning, control, maintenance & trouble shooting.
Setting up production targets and achieve the same within time and cost parameters.
Implementing production schedules depending upon availability of resources like manpower and ensuring the compliance with the production department.
Developing new process modifications for production optimization, yield improvement and develop guidelines for the sequencing of manufacturing activities on the shop floor (SOP).

Work Experience

Manager – Manufacturing
Jul 06 to till date
Presently working with a leading auto ancilliary manufacturing unit

Assistant Manager – Manufacturing
Aug 03 to Jun 06
Sundram Fasteners Limited, Chennai

Assistant manager – Manufacturing
Jul 2000 to Jul 03
Rane Madras Limited, Chennai

Senior Engineer – Production and Planning
Mar 96 to Jun 2000
Dev Fasteners Limited

Engineer – Production Planning & Operations
Jun 91 to Mar 96
Techno Futura International limited Chennai

Career Highlights
Area of Professional Experience.
Accountabl e for driving Systems, Concepts, and Operations for Effective Shop floor Management functions – Planning, Execution, Co-ordination, Training, Problem solving, Motivation & Controlling.
Shop floor Management – Planning, Production & Co-ordination
Successfully handled the Production Department by guiding, training & motivating the employees for effective participation in Productivity improvement, Rejection control & Cost saving activities
Instrumental in arriving at Processmeasurable based on the Business Plan Targets for departments and monitoring the results on daily basis as part of TQM way of working.
Efficiently handled the activities of design of layout, selection of machineries for commissioning of Mineral water manufacturing plant and Solar water heater plant.
Successf ully completed Plant expansion projects for catering export requirements of Ball joints and High tensile fasteners.
Achi eved significant results in Shop floor projects like Set-up time reduction, cellular concept of production, Container control (CON-CON) for inventory reduction, JIT for subcontract product flow.
Productivity & Process Enhancement
Efficiently handled the activities for designing and implementing the Modular cell concept and Super market in between to maintain Single piece flow as part of Lean Manufacturing that increases productivity by 20%.
Achieved Breakthrough Kaizen for TPM Special award by Designing, developing & implementing straight knurling and cross knurling in a single setting in flat rolling machine that increased the productivity by 100%.
Heading the teams involved in the Setup time reduction in the shop floor.
Cost Control/Saving
Achieved Cost savings thro’ RM yield, Rejection control, Over time reduction, Re-usage of materials from rejected parts, Cycle time reduction etc.,
Instrumental in designing and fabricating Thumbing machine for rust removal in nuts that eliminates scrapping of nuts due to rust thereby saving about 5 to 6 lakhs per year.
Quality
Introduced Small group activity(SGA) & Quality circles for Quality problem solving and achieved zero rejection in two major problems.
Zero customer complaint against a qualitydefect of crooked thread in rolling by developing a Poka Yoke sensor for detecting at the source.
Control of Rejection
Successfully developed
1. Welding fixture for welding of two plates that eliminates rejection level of irregular bead in welding.
2. Drilling fixture for carrying out drilling operations in flanges that eliminates hole offset problem.
Achiev ed 15% reduction in in-house rejection PPM by Training the operators on QA Matrix and 4M condition survey.
Quality Systems & Auditing
Ensuri ng qualityrequirements of TS 16949 systems by auditing and educating the operators.
Inte rnal quality auditor for ISO 9002 documentations.
Training
Instrumental in Introducing TPM way of working by training the operators on 3C5S and on basics of Jishu Hozen for My Machine concept.
Developing Training Material for Trouble shooting in Cold forging and Jishu Hozen Training material for Training the operators.
Vendor Development & Outsourcing.
Developed Vendors for System requirement and successfully handled Outsourcing of In house operations without deviating from customer requirements.
System Development
Ins trumental in
1. Developing planning system through Rockwell scheduler and the linking it with SAP.
2. Developing an Online system in SAP for communicating and monitoring the Problems encountered in manufacturing associated with Product development and Maintenance
Merit of being selected as an only person in SSLP division to develop and implement concepts in oracle viz. Material resource planning (MRP), Capacity model & Material issue control system.

Future Goals

Seeking assignments for a senior position in Production, Process Enhancement, Projects, Training, Quality System auditing with an organization of repute.