Manohara Darinayakanapalya Sudheendra (Manu)

Farmington Hills, Michigan

Mobile: +1-248-***-**** Email: ac8htm@r.postjobfree.com www.linkedin.com/in/manoharads CAREER SUMMARY

Industrial Engineer and a Six Sigma Green Belt with excellent conceptual skills in Quality and Manufacturing engineering. Adequate industry exposure as a Production (Manufacturing) Engineer in the automotive industry. A passionate & goal oriented professional with a proven track record in improving quality, productivity & profits of the organization.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Six Sigma DMAIC (Green Belt)

• Total Quality Management

• Knowledge of ISO 9001:2015 & IATF 16949

• APQP (Advanced Product Quality Planning)

• PPAP (Production Part Approval process)

• MSA (Measurement System Analysis)

• PFMEA (Potential failure mode & effect analysis)

• SPC (Statistical Process Control)

• Control Plan

• Root cause analysis

• 5 Why analysis

• Predictive maintenance

• Process capability analysis

• 8D Problem Solving

• Design of experiments

• Gage R&R

• Human factors & ergonomic studies

• Lean Manufacturing

• Continuous Improvement (Kaizen)

• GD&T

• Production planning

• Method & Time study

• WO 5S Methodology

• OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Vijay Springs India Private Limited Bengaluru, India Position: Production (Manufacturing) Engineer Feb 2016 – June 2017

• Led a Cross functional team to create 2D CAD drawings of the new plant layout for our new manufacturing facility using cell-design and Value stream mapping which improved layout of equipment to maximize the work flow & supported world class manufacturing.

• Introduced & trained employees on Lean manufacturing. In the pilot project we achieved 78% cost savings in packaging to one of the customers.

• Active member of Cross functional team and collaborated with the Quality department in APQP & PPAP activities.

• Conducted cycle time & bottleneck analysis to improve the productivity.

• Addressed & solved any manufacturing & quality issues in the shop floor using root cause analysis.

• Developed work instructions and Standard operating procedures (SOP).

• Brought down the set-up time by using time & method study.

• Conducted human factors and ergonomic studies to improve safety and productivity.

• Active member in implementing and maintaining Workplace organization (WO) using 5S methodology.

Key Accomplishments: Secured 3rd place in a 5S audit conducted by one of our reputed customer among 30 different suppliers across the country (India).

EDUCATION

Master of Science in Industrial & Manufacturing Systems Engineering May-2019 (Expected) University of Michigan- Dearborn GPA: 3.78

Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering- May-2015 Aggregate: 71.31% Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belagavi-India GPA: 3.5 CERTIFICATIONS

Six Sigma Green Belt certified by IASSCTM IASSC CGBTM: G-4068 SOFTWARE SKILLS

Minitab CATIA V5 (Basics) Unigraphics NX 7.5 (Basics) Solid Edge Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word PROJECT WORK

“Forecasting and inventory control to satisfy the demand of brake shoe return spring” at Vijay Springs India Private Limited, Bengaluru Nov-2017

Acquired and analyzed the demand pattern of previous 12 months. Chose an appropriate forecasting model to determine the future demand and an appropriate inventory control model to determine the optimum order quantity. With the new optimum order quantity, we achieved a CSL of 98%.

“Improving process capability of heating element installation process” at Bradford-White Corporation Middleville, Michigan Oct-2017 Analyzed the performance of non-shutoff tool & suggested shutoff tool. With the help of control charts, SPC & capability studies we demonstrated that with the new shutoff tool the process was more stable and had a higher process capability.

“Defect cost reduction in the manufacturing of spark plug insulator” at Bosch Limited Naganathapura, Bengaluru Jan-2015 - Apr2015 Analyzed the entire manufacturing process of sparkplug insulator. We redesigned the unloading arm, optimized the binder preparation process and suggested to change the conveyor belt material which brought down the overall defects significantly thus reducing the cost of manufacturing.

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