Industrial Engineer

Pranav Pavithran

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Summary: Lean Six Sigma Green belt certified Master’s Degree holder in Industrial Engineering with work experience in Manufacturing, Control Engineering and Quality Assurance, seeking full time and internship position in the field of Industrial Engineering, Quality Assurance, Continuous Improvement and Manufacturing. Skills:

• Specialty : Quality Engineering, Lean Production, Manufacturing, Supply Chain & Logistics,

• Quality : Six Sigma, Quality Evaluation, Sampling, ISO 9001, FMEA, SPC, DFSS, SIPOC

• Lean Tools : 5S, KAIZEN, KANBAN, Heijunka, Value Stream Mapping, JIT, Root Cause Analysis

• Manufacturing : Mass Production, Plant Maintenance, Process Control

• Inventory : Demand Forecasting, Material Requirement Planning, Quality Validation

• Automation : DCS:- Yokogawa (CS3000), Siemens (PCS 7), PLC:- Allen Bradley – (Control Logix), Siemens (S7 - 300, 400, 1500), ABB (AC500)

• Time Studies : MOST, MODAPTS, MTM, Direct Time Study

• Programming : R Programming, MATLAB

• Simulation : Arena, Simio, Witness

• Software : Microsoft office, iGrafx, Minitab, SAP ERP, SolidWorks Education:

The University of Texas at Arlington GPA - 3.83

Master of Science in Industrial Engineering May 2017 Cochin University of Science and Technology GPA - 3.0 Bachelor of Technology in Instrumentation Technology July 2013 Work Experience:

Associate: Compass Group USA Jan ‘17 – May ’17

• Performed quality control, inventory management, customer service at the Provision on Demand market at University of Texas at Arlington.

• Improved performance at cash register by conducting a Time - Motion Study and reduced cycle time by 14%

• Performed inventory count and prepared purchase order to replenish used inventory.

• Implemented a Two-Bin Kanban system in the market floor and reduced inventory by 9%. Instrumentation Engineer: Western India Plywood’s Ltd June ’14 – Dec ‘14

• Control room engineer responsible for operating the Programmable Logic Controller for the automated plant.

• Regulated the production and control settings in accordance with the variation in raw materials.

• Performed calibration of temperature, pressure, flow meters and control equipment in the plant.

• Monitored the instrumentation department adherence to the ISO 9001 quality standards.

• Instructed interns in training workshops on quality assurance in production control. Intern: Hindustan Organic Chemical Ltd, India Feb ‘13 – Mar ‘13

• Implemented Yokogawa CS3000 DCS over an existing PLC in a solvent recovery unit.

• Established auxiliary control room with increase in redundant capabilities and reduced running cost by 22%.

• Monitor the functioning of the Solvent Recovery Unit of the Hydrogen Peroxide plant. Certifications:

• Certified Lean Six Sigma Green Belt from KPMG.

• Certified Quality Improvement Associate (CQIA) from ASQ.

• Certified in Process Improvement by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on Coursera.

• Post Graduate Diploma in Industrial Automation covering PLC, SCADA, DCS, control panel designing.

• Certified in Operations Analytics by University of Pennsylvania on Coursera.

• Control Equipment Calibration training at Fluid Control Research Institute, India. Projects Executed:

Process Improvement: Tocumen International Airport, Panama

• Identified the cause of bottleneck at the passenger check-in counter at the international terminal.

• Modeled the passenger flow and the baggage flow through the airport using Witness simulation software.

• Constructed an upgraded and efficient model for passenger check-in counter. FMEA and economic analysis was performed to calculate budget.

Quality System: Samsung Galaxy Note 7 battery explosion.

• Identified risks associated with battery failure using FMEA, cause and effect diagram and scatter plot.

• Analyzed, prioritized and evaluated risks in the production process and established the process capabilities using risk priority ratio and R programing.

• Created PDPC plan to eliminate future quality failure and a quality control reference manual was established.

• Proposed sourcing improvements for the battery procurement. Process Improvement: McDonalds

• Constructed a process flow map of the food counter identifying the product and the operator flow.

• Improved the JIT implementation, refined the supply chain scenario and enhanced procurement methods.

• Suggested a new system of inventory management using KANBAN.

• Proposed a new queueing method and reduced customer congestion at the counter. Process Improvement at Chipotle food counter:

• Conducted Time Motion Study using Maynard Operation Sequence Technique (MOST) at the food counter.

• Reduced cycle time by 8 seconds by removing unnecessary motion. Facilities Design of MedCorp

• Simulated the facilities design model of MedCorp LLC using Witness simulation software.

• Identified bottlenecks, performed economic analysis, proposed optimization methods and allotted budget.

• Recommendations were made on configuration to get required output with minimum processing cost.

• Attained the goal of shipping 10,000 units per day and reduced unit cost from $55.49 to $44.74. SAP Ariba vendor management solution

• Studied the working of Supplier Information Management and Supplier Performance Management.

• Identified its value proposition by investigating spend visibility solution, Ariba pay, supplier discovery, merging procurement function and SAP Ariba implementation in Sitel and Al Futtiam Group. Enterprise Engineering:

• Designed a functional model of a pen manufacturing enterprise using IDEF0 in iGrafx.

• Developed a swim lane model and a process documentation worksheet based on hierarchical decomposition. Metrics and Measurement: Work Sampling of daily activity

• Calculated the proportion of time spent on each activity for a confidence interval at 90%

• Identified the value added and the nonvalue added activity through time study over a period of 20 days.

• Determined the significance of Hawthorne effect during data collection and its consequences. Achievements:

• Director of Communication: APICS UTA Student Chapter. Aug ‘15 – May ‘17

• Recipient of Kelcy-Warren Graduate Engineering Fellowship.

• Volunteer: Mavs Go Green

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