KOTHANDAN DINESH No: ** (Old No: **/A)
E-Mail: *******@*****.*** Abdul Farook Sahib Street,
Mobile: +91-996******* Pallavaram, Chennai – 600043
Alternate No: +91-900******* Ph: 044-********
Career Objectives
To pursue a challenging career as resourceful, quality-oriented continuous process improvement provider in a reputed
organization, contributing to the growth and success of the organization
Summary
• Has 8years of rich technical and functional experience in process & product development in Auto ancillary industries.
• Has exposure in continuous process improvement in lead acid battery manufacturing sector.
• Strong & Committed to implementing quality and productivity improvements.
• Detail-Oriented with good communication skills.
• Committed, enthusiastic and efficient, working as a team or independently.
• Willingness to learn new technologies.
My Industries Spotlight
Worked extensively in new product development & validating the products.
Have good exposure in SPC, 7 QC tool, monthly reviews-task, FMEA & PFMEA. DOE, Problem solving
methods, Holding Six-Sigma green belt certificate affiliated by IIT Delhi.
Proven history of improvement in process & product quality. And reduced process waste & rejection rate through SPC
& technical tools.
Participated in – 5’s, Scrap reduction, Lean thinking and continuous process improvement (CPI) activity.
Daily shop floor Process auditing & evaluating integrated system to manage industrial production process.
Professional Experience
Southern Batteries pvt Ltd OCT 2009 –Till now
Position: Asst. Manager - Process & product Engineering
Team Leader for Process Quality control & product quality assurance.
Configuring and evaluating for new product or process, preparation & validating the process SOP & TS.
Process data interpretation and effectively control the process variation to reduce product or process defects.
Working with Tall tubular, Automotive, Motor Cycle & VRLA battery manufacturing process control & quality.
Testing and evaluating of Auto, Inverter & VRLA batteries manufacturing process & product.
Handling of Scrap control & scrap reduction in battery plate manufacturing in lead acid batteries.
Chemical lab Incharge – Controlling of all Incoming & process material quality Testing and developing protocols &
testing methods of incoming & process material analysis using ICAP
Team member for ISO 9001:2008 certification – Quality member
REEM BATTERIES & POWER APPLIANCES (Muscat) March.2006 – May. 2009
Position: quality CONTROL officer
Designing & developing of Automotive batteries in wide range of application.
Studied all machineries & review successively all internal technical specification
Implemented lean manufacturing system in plate processing & assembly sections.
Incharge for both Chemical & Electrical Laboratories, (Instruments handled – ICP, OES, LCT & & HRD.
Daily Process auditing & evaluating integrated system to manage industrial production process.
Team member – Scrap reduction, Lean thinking & CPI in plate manufacturing section in Lead acid battery industries.
Developed new tools & implemented successfully.
Conducting FMEA analysis for market return Auto batteries & interrupting data through 7QC & SPC tools.
ISO 9001: handled technical document preparation & maintaining the STD, facing internal & external audit.
PONDY OXIDES & CHEMICALS Pvt Ltd (Chennai) Nov. 2004 – Feb. 2006
Position: Quality Control supervisor
Testing & Certifying of lead smelting plant finished product quality.
Raw material incoming inspection of Lead & lead alloy, oxides, Acids, additives and other chemicals.
Paste mixing & Pasting production supervisor..
Testing of process materials & finished products of Auto and tubular batteries.
EXIDE INDUSTRIES Ltd Chennai (Guindy) Jan. 2004 – Nov.2004
Position: Lab Chemist (Apprentice)
Incoming Material inspection & Process Material testing in chemical lab.
Alloy blending plant testing QC inspector.
Electrical lab testing apprentice.
Education
DIPLOMA IN CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY 72% 1999- 2002
• University& Institution: Board of Technical Education, Panimalar Polytechnic Chennai.
• Six Sigma – Green belt
Bachelors of Business Administration 61% 2004- 2007
• University& Institution: Madras University.
SPECIAL SKILLS:
Operating systems: Windows 98/2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7
Languages: HTML, C, C ++
Products/Tools: MS Office & AutoCAD 2006
Software: SAP (Quality Module)
Certification: Six-Sigma green belt
LANGUAGE SKILLS:
• Tamil (Read, Write & Speak)
• English (Read, Write & Speak)
• Hindi (Speak)
My Strengths & Interests in Industries:
I like to do jobs like product testing, data interpretation, new design/development, and evaluating integrated systems to
manage industrial production process, including quality control, human work factors, inventory control, cost analysis, and ISO -
coordination.
Projects/Products
Title Scrap Reduction in Battery plate making process
Company: Southern batteries Pvt. Ltd Bangalore.
Project Type: Reducing process waste & Cost controlling project
Description: This is a continuous project for reducing scrap in battery plate making process. Identifying
& measuring scrap generation level, locate the spot which will produce the scrap. Analyzing
by man, material, machine & methodology problems and solving the problems by
statistically. This has to continuously monitor.
My contribution:
Studying & analyzing the scrap data, applying SPC concepts & CP/Cpk Calculation.
Implementing the alternative act which will reduce the scrap
Developing lean working culture with workers & supervisors
Continuously monitoring the stability of the process
Title Continuous Process Improvement
Company Reem Batteries & Power Appliances
Project Type Quality & Productivity Improvement
Description This is support development project to the production department. This project is scheduled
by keeping in mind that produce the product with 100% quality assured product and
increasing productivity in all the sections. This project had studied the machine behavior
and work practice of the workers. Also preparing the work instruction and training materials
for each & every process.
My contribution
Carryout new work practice by experimental method & validating.
Understand & solving technical problems
Preparing work instruction & training materials
Train the Workers & Supervisor
Title New Product Development
Company Reem Batteries & Power Appliances & Base Corporation Ltd
Software used AutoCAD
Description New product development project for the JIS & DIN type automotive MF batteries
components designing. The battery components are developed based on international
standards, new technology & compact components. Maintenance free battery container and
cover has to develop such way that acid spill proof and easy handling. And also to develop
supporting tools to make maintenance free batteries like heat sealing mold, Air pressure
testing tools and its features.
My contribution
Technical Drawing for new product development
First part inspection of new components
MF batteries performance evaluation by JIS & DIN standard.
Testing & validating tools for make MF batteries
Title Case Formation
Company Reem Batteries & Power Appliances
Project Type To improve electrical performance of case formed batteries by optimized charging cycle in
order to de-bottleneck process.
Description Study was undertaken in formation to perceive the improvement in electrical performance
of batteries through case formation against boost charging (dry charged batteries).
My contribution
Designing charging protocols & conducting trial experiments.
Testing & evaluating the new experimented charging protocols
Was proven there is an improvement of overall quality of battery. This is visible in terms of
2.75% increase in actual SAE CCA, 7.9% midtronics CCA value and improved self life of
battery.
Title ISO 9001:2000
Client Pondy Oxides & Chemicals Pvt Ltd
Project Type Establishing Quality management System
Description Establishing quality management system at newly started battery manufacturing plant.
My contribution
Coordinating with Team to get the foundation & concept of ISO, and preparing quality Plan
& Manual.
Study of process variation & preparation of control measures formats
Study of safety measures & implementation
Declaration:-
I hereby declare that the particulars furnished above are correct. I understand that the authorities may
invalidate my application at any time, if any of the information furnished is found to be false
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