Engineering Six Sigma

VIDIT PATEL

Arlington, Texas: ***** *****.*****@****.***.*** https://www.linkedin.com/in/vidit1812 +1-682-***-****

Objective: To efficaciously exhibit myself as a keen enthusiast in the field of Industrial Engineering.

SUMMARY

Eloquent and Audacious leader as an Industrial Engineer with effective and efficient technical skills involving Time Study, Quality Control, SPC Tools, Simulation, Supply Chain, Facility Design and Planning, Inventory Management, Capacity Planning and Costing, Six Sigma Tools, MODAPTS and having a sound knowledge of various softwares like Simio, R Programming, SAS, Minitab, WITNESS 20 Horizon, MS Office Tools, Excel, MS Access, MATLAB, AutoCAD, Solidworks makes me a valuable asset for the company.

EDUCATION

The University of Texas at Arlington, Masters of Science in Industrial Engineering GPA: 3.50 May 2017

Gujarat Technological University, Bachelors of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering GPA: 3.50 May 2015

Certifications: Certified Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, CPIM, SQL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Graduate Research Assistant (Assistant Lab Manager) - RAID Lab- The University of Texas at Arlington July 2016-Present

Working on a funded project with the Drug Enforcement Authority (DEA, USA) to model a smart container carrying drugs equipped with RFID technology & RTLS system to enhance its traceability using Design for Six Sigma Methodology.

Our work has been recognized & approved by IISE (Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineering) for delivering a presentation on our research at its Annual Conference to be held in Pittsburg in May 2017.

Worked on the testing of Ultra Frequency RFID tags provided by Metalcraft to test its signal picking efficiency at various distances from the receiver in x,y,z coordinates.

Assisting and facilitating the working of various other projects going on in the lab under the guidance of Dr. Erick Jones.

Engineering Intern Cosmo Films Limited, India August 2014 – April 2015

Harnessed the use of MS Excel for analyzing data pertaining to production output, downtime of machines and operators.

Analyzed various quality defects using Statistical Process Control and improved yield from 60% to 90%.

Developed a Changeover Matrix that provided instant information regarding the maintenance of equipment parts that reduced set up time by 35%.

Continuously worked to improve the planning and scheduling processes by maintaining data integrity and accuracy.

Engineering Intern Nirala Engineers, India January 2014– July 2014

Enhanced existing gear manufacturing processes through continuous improvement using SMED methodology to eliminate non-value added activities, developed alternate proposals, accompanied by strong data and root cause analysis.

Performed time studies, calculating the Standard Time to identify VA and NVA and developed labor standards leading to an overall annual cost savings of $40K and boosting the operator productivity by 14%.

Documented Standard Operating procedures (SOP) to maintain consistency in process.

Analyzed material flow parameters and applied lean manufacturing policies to support the business/customer requirements (reduced customer backorders by 75%).

ACADEMIC PROJECTS

Regression Analysis for Predicting Housing Property Rates in Plano, Texas February 2017 - Present

Data accumulation and analysis of data required to forecast the housing property rates in Plano area of Texas.

Developing SLR and MLR models using SAS and plotting scatter plots to analyze the trend in the variation of the property rates.

Facility Design for ABC Company October 2016 – December 2016

Performed storage analysis and designed a fully functional Grocery Industry Warehouse equipped with an efficient material flow pattern and warehouse management system, having storage capacity of over 1 million cases on hand.

Calculated space requirements, incorporating the calculations regarding number of racks, pallets, forklifts, man hours, required FTEs, truck loads, number of doors and shift patterns.

Simulation Modeling of a Manufacturing Unit July 2016 – August 2016

Performed discrete-event simulation using WITNESS 20 Horizon to simulate material handling process of a manufacturing facility.

Identified Bottleneck operations and optimized the facility using combinations of parameters to increase the productivity to 8000 units/day and slashed per unit cost from $160/unit to $92.72/unit, thereby increasing the efficiency of the plant by over 30%.

Evaluating the Impact of RFID in the Inventory Management at Walmart June 2016 – July 2016

Developed Assembly and Process flow charts to analyze the current material handling process flow.

Identified the areas of Improvement using methodologies such as Lean,Kanban, JIT and Kaizen (Continuous Process Improvement).

Evaluated the use of RFID technology in its inventory management & distribution system, increasing its efficiency by over 16%.

Time Study Analysis for Human Effort considering Human Factors February 2016-March 2016

Observed and recorded the normal time for accomplishing standardization task using the Snapback Method at Starbucks.

Calculated the performance rating of the worker and applied allowance factor to find the standard time for the activity.

Improved the efficiency of the labor by 50% and enhanced the productivity of work.

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