Manufacturing Engineer Lean

karthik sulige

***** ******* ****** ***#***, Northridge, CA 91325 Contact: 818-***-**** ***************@*****.***

Manufacturing / Process Engineer

A highly enthusiastic individual avidly interested to participate in delivering high quality innovation to the manufacturing & process industry. With over a three-year experience in the industry and having graduated from California State University Northridge with the benefit of learning varied subjects pertaining the manufacturing industry, I have developed a leveraged understanding of the application of manufacturing, process and quality assurance.

Proficient in CAD software and Quality engineering tools. Excelled in manufacturing processes supervision, testing and development.

Strong verbal & written communication skills, flexible to work in a team, proven leadership qualities, quick learner, strong organizational & follow-up skills.

EDUCATION

M.S in Manufacturing System Engineering & Management Dec 2016

California State University Northridge, CA

Course Work: Lean Manufacturing, Six-sigma Quality Management, Advance CAD-CAM tools, Robotics Application, Engineering management, CIM & OR

B.S in Mechanical Engineering May 2014

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, India

Course Work: Manufacturing process I-II, Plant maintenance & safety, Industrial engineering, Metrology instruments, Material science, CAD/CAM

CORE SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE

Technical software: Solidworks, ProE, Autocad, Minitab, ERP

Software packages: Microsoft office suite: Word, Excel, Power point, Outlook

Manufacturing skills:

Lean Manufacturing / Value stream mapping / 5S / CAPA / Kaizen / Kanban / JIT / DFMEA / PFMEA / APQP / PPAP / RCA/ Six Sigma / Supply chain

GMP, precision manufacturing, process life cycle management (PLM), change control process, 3D printing, knowledge of manufacturing, assembly & fabrication process, use of metrology instruments & gauges, quality assurance & inspections, process validation, trouble shooting, cross functional activities

Basic knowledge of US food & drug administration (FDA) regulation, design protocols & reports, reviews parts designs for manufacturability and quality standards, supplier quality inspection, equipment & process selection, organizational & follow-up skill, CAPAs corrective action system, cost estimation.

Injection Molding, creating processes for molding IQ/OQ/PQ validations, ECNs and ECOs.

2D-3D part modeling, GD&T, BOM, knowledge of jigs, fixtures, sensor, drive mechanism, cutting tools, electric motors, hydraulic and pneumatic system and statistical analysis.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Manufacturing Engineer Intern - Continuous process improvement (SFV Pallet Inc., Chatsworth, CA) June-2016 to Dec-2016

Worked within an environment of pallet manufacturing & assembly processes to identify alternate process, material, components, and/or supplier for cost reduction consideration, reviews process for manufacturability and quality standards, preparation of bill of material, project report & documentation

Implemented Lean Manufacturing on production floor to improve assembly process with help of Lean tools; workshop & process layout, Value stream mapping, 5S, process design & development & poke yoke; feedback to design department for continuous improvement.

Worked within the environment of tools, CNC Programming, Computer Aided Design Systems to check the production of tools and to inspect during packaging.

Designing pallets using solidworks according to the given customers dimensions.

Injection Molding, creating processes for molding IQ/OQ/PQ validations.

Hands on detail experience with SAP

Used Statistical analysis to analyze the quality control and to determine the cause of variation.

2D-3D part modeling & drawing layout, Design and develop manufacturing processes, tooling, and fixtures in order to meet daily production schedules while enhancing productivity and product quality; evaluation of production equipment, provided training to operators on the production floor by principles of ergonomics, brief discussion to team members & seniors about technical process issues & improvements

Manufacturing Engineer Intern - Continuous process improvement (New Horizons, North Hills, CA) July-2015 to Dec-2015

Worked on assembly process of Medical product: ‘family cord’ kit consists of two finished Kits-Stem Cell Kit, Cord Blood Kit & other medical components.

Led the implementation of the Lean manufacturing principles on medical product ‘family cord’ packaging or assembly line to reduce process time and streamline procedures; applied Gemba, VSM, 5S, Poke Yoke and Kanban, as well as multiple innovative solutions to optimize assembly process.

Manages packaging development and improvement projects to meet client, support CAPAs in the corrective action system, collaborating with cross functional teams developing process improvements, executing tests, performing root cause analysis & evaluation of metrology instruments & gauges.

Worked on the environment of Trackwise to improve the quality of the product and reduce the cost of the product.

Worked in the environment of ECN, ECO, ECR for the documentation and for the change in the process.

Used minitab for calculating or keeping the track of the shipping family cord products.

Reviews and approves product engineering change orders and packaging process changes, including labels specifications and packaging related content, develops bar codes, symbol and labeling processes when appropriate; Our Client; Amazon

Manufacturing Engineer – BPL Medical Technologies June – 2014 to Sep – 2014

Worked in an atmosphere of manufacturing medical device like Cervical Collar, walking sticks and other medical components.

Designing of walking sticks to customer comforts.

Worked in the environment of ECN, ECO, ECR for the documentation and for the change in the process.

Bio medical- Body organ 3D Bio-printer.

3D bio-printing is being applied to regenerative medicine to address the need for tissues and organs suitable for transplantation.

Every tissue in the body is naturally compartmentalized of different cell types.

Using 3D Bio-printing for fabricating biological constructs typically involves dispensing cells onto a biocompatible scaffold using a successive layer-by-layer approach to generate tissue-like three-dimensional structures.

Worked in the environment of Unigraphics 3-D Modeling Software, ISO,GMP and GDP.

Manufacturing Engineer – Pavani Plastic Bottles Manufacturer Jan – 2014 to May – 2014

Worked in the environment of manufacturing Plastic Bottles, Plastic Cups of different sizes.

Accumulate information and prepare reports, spreadsheets, etc, for produc/process costing, materials usage and Bills of Materials(BOM).

Actively communicate with downstream customers on specification work, such as purchasing, manufacturing and others do ensure understanding of expectation as defined by engineering specifications

Obtain packaging materials and other necessary materials to perform work and properly utilize the Warehouse Management System(WMS) to reflect materials usage.

Perform the CIP, and wash Cycles for machines.

RELEVANT PROJECTS:

Design of windmill in order to pump underground water 2013 to 2014

Design of Can & Plastic bottle crusher by Single slider crank mechanism. January to May 2015

Design 3 Axis Pick & Place robotic arm by using Arduino. January to May 2015

An Expert system for ‘Car failure Diagnosis’. August to December 2015

Calculate Machine shop operations time by MS Excel VB coding. August to December 2015

Improving the delivery time of wooden furniture company January to May 2016

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