Engineer Manufacturing

NISHANT GORREPATI

**** ****** ***** **, *** *** Ph No: 201-***-****

Iowa,

52807 *-****-****************@*****.***

Objective

To obtain a position in the field of Industrial Engineering

Profile Summary

• Currently Working as Manufacturing Engineer at John Deere

• 4 months Manufacturing Engineer experience at Case New Holland

• Over 2 years of Lean Manufacturing (volunteer) experience in the field of education

• 6 months Lean Manufacturing experience as an intern in the aerospace field

Skill Set

• Software Skills- SAP, ARENA, W-PLANNER, IDEF0, AUTOCAD, IDEAS, Teamcenter, Solid

works, Visio

• Methods- Process Analysis, Process flow charts, Problem solving methods, Time & Motion study,

Kanban, 5S, Kaizen, value stream mapping JIT and SMED

• Tools- Microsoft Office 2007, 2010, Microsoft Access

• Coursework- Lean manufacturing, Supply chain management, Enterprise engineering, production

systems, Operations research, System simulation

• Good communication skills and an excellent team player

Education

• MS-Industrial and Mnfg Engineering Wichita State University GPA-3.2/4

Aug 2011

• BE-Mechanical Engineering R.M.K. E.C, India GPA-3.4/4

May 2008

Certifications

• Basics of Supply Chain Management

• Lean certified

• Six sigma Green Belt Certified

Publication

• “Rater-Reliability of a modified 5S checklist” – Under review for IIE 2013 conference

Work Experience

Project Engineer at Geometric Americas Inc working on a project as

Manufacturing Engineer at John Deere, Davenport, IA (Sep2011-Current)

• Kitting to create floor space and an efficient workstation resulting in increase in throughput

• Validating cycle times at each station for better line balancing and for better response to

process variability

• Working with process engineers to develop efficient and safe work standards for the operators

• Continuous process improvements at each station to reduce setup times, ergonomic issues

and defects utilizing lean tools like DMAIC, 5S, Value stream mapping and kaizen events

• Documenting the process improvements made for future reference

Manufacturing Engineer- Case New Holland, Wichita, KS (April 2011- Aug 2011)

• Performed time studies on their assembly line

• Performed time and motion studies and identified value added and non value added activities

on their manufacturing process

• Identified the root causes for the non value added activities in the weld area and eliminated them

with continuous improvement project with an annual cot saving of $250,000

• Worked on ‘5S project’ where lean 5S was applied in the weld area to achieve WCM status

• Helped in completing cost deployment project for the weld area

Graduate Research Assistant- Industrial & Manufacturing Department, WSU (Feb 2011- April

2011)

• Assisted Dr. Larry Whitman in research on ‘Lean Manufacturing’

Manufacturing Engineer Intern- Omni Aerospace Wichita, KS (Sep 2010- Feb 2011)

• Performed time studies on their manufacturing process

• Drew value stream maps of their production process and reduced waste using Kaizen events

and had a cost savings of $20,000

• Documented steps for making Power Management Units (PMU) for cars

• Suggested and implemented lean improvements in their manufacturing techniques mainly to

reduce their cycle times and lead times

• Developed an IDEF0 model on “How to implement 5S in their shop floor”

Projects

Training techniques to improve rater-reliability- Master’s Thesis (Aug 2011)

• The current 5S checklist commonly used is giving unreliable results when used for assessment

• Modified the existing checkpoints for better understanding

• Developed training techniques on how to rate an audit checklist

• Conducted case studies with the new checklist and training techniques

• Analyzed the results

Fixture for manufacturing steam turbine blades- Senior Project (May 2008)

• Developed and manufactured a Fixture useful for manufacturing steam turbine blades using

design software (IDEAS)

Lean 5S in shop floor- Master’s class project (Jan 2010)

• Analyzed the prevailing conditions at NAIR (National Institute for Aviation Research, Wichita)

Strain Gauge department and implemented lean 5S techniques to improve the working conditions

Positions held and Achievements

• Was APICS student chapter president of Wichita State University (WSU) for the academic year

2009-2010

• Represented WSU as a Scholar at APICS 2009 international conference held in Toronto, Canada

• Achieved APICS Platinum award for the WSU student chapter for the academic year 2009-2010

• Captained the college basketball team for the year 2007-2008, where we were first at the zonal

level

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