Quality Assurance Product Development

GOKUL.R

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Customer Quality / MQA / IQA/ SQA /NPPD

Professional outline

Over 12 + years’ experience in Quality function exposing in manufacturing, Transmission for Four-wheeler, EV Tractor transaxle, front axle & Engine components for Passenger vehicles, batteries and manufacturing of screeners, crushers, water management systems.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Exposure in Quality assurance, Process quality, Supplier quality, New Product Development

Exposure in OEM Customers & Problem Solving,

Exposure in Process Audit & Product Audit, Supporting New Product Development

Knowledge about PPAP, FMEA, MSA, SPC, KAIZEN & PDCA.

Exposure in assembly line and Inspection activities,

Awareness in TS16949, ISO14001, OHSAS, ISO 9001

Exposure in Inspection Concepts, GD&T, QC Tools, Poka-Yoke.

Caring out final PDI by ensuring and controlling defect free product to customers.

CARRIER HIGHLIGHTS

The Growth Path- since Aug’2012

Current Employment: From March ’2023 to till date.

Deputy Manager- Quality Assurance, V.S.T. Tillers Tractors Ltd

Product: Tractors and EV aggregates (Transmission, Front axle and drive system)

VST Tillers Tractors Ltd. was established in the year 1967 by the VST Group of companies, Design and manufacture of tractors and tillers along with aggregates.

Project: Transmission, Front Axle along aggregates to Monarch US, Autonomous EV Tractors

Leading overall quality functions - monarch project.

IQA for monarch project.

Customer concern resolving and action point closure.

Weekly customer meeting lead.

Daily GRN receipt parts status, closure & inspection allocation to inspector.

Inspection plan creation in SAP.

Inspection report review, approval and GRN clearance.

Feedback to vendor through SQA & buyer

Monitoring deviation of parts and follow up with SQA/Supplier and closure.

Monitoring of rejections summary with corrective action from vendor.

Fitment trial and feedback through FTR.

ECN-New drawing review, feedback and approval.

Drawing corrections request to PD and follow up.

Attending/lead quality weekly meeting on closure points.

Customer complaints and resolving with root cause and closure with CFT.

Reverse engineering part supporting with PD on part inspection and function aspect.

Gauges planning for inspection.

Despatch activities of parts – PDI closure.

QP station monitoring in assembly line.

Line rejections monitoring and disposal actions.

New supplier parts and process validation, fitment trails, endurance test, appearance approval.

Preparing and presenting the Monthly performance report to management and customer.

Kaizen generating related with safety, quality, and cost.

Rejection notes updating/closure in system.

Deviations related with drawings, process and product monitoring with Sourcing and design team.

Previous Employment: From Aug’2017 to Feb’2023

Senior Engineer Quality, TEREX INDIA PVT LTD

Product: Manufacturer (OEM) of Screeners and crushers (Material processing unit)

Terex Corporation is an American worldwide manufacturer of variety machineries of industries, including construction, infrastructure, quarrying, recycling, energy, mining, shipping, transportation, refining and utilities.

Caring out PDI for machine.

oEnsuring assembly carried as per SWS and as per customer requirement.

oFunctional operations checked as per requirement.

oMajor concerns related with sub assembly highlighting & corrective action completion.

oEnsuring and improving Parts meeting as per the standard.

oDocumentation of machine data.

oAscetics of overall machine which related with paints and surface finish.

oMovement of FG after PDI snag points completion and satisfying requirements.

Dispatches of machinery as per the loading/Customer requirements.

New Supplier parts and process validation

New products PFMEA / Localisation projects benchmark studies

PPAP audit and approval / Localisation projects

Specification Review and GATE Reviews

Inspection of sub-assembly like feeder, conveyor, Screen box.

Inspection of engines for both screener and crushers.

Route cause analyses for assembly related issue and communicating to supplier.

Raising NCR for issue with supplier parts and validation of corrective actions.

Red dot process ownership to stop repeated concerns related with assembly and child parts.

A3 solving for repeated issues.

Generating of new ideas to improve quality and productivity through raising ECCAR.

Preparing and presenting the Monthly performance report to management and customer.

Conducting Manufacturing process audit in assembly line and raise NC report to the concern department for robust improvement.

Follow-up for timely Corrective and Preventive actions identified during audits.

Responsible for 5S Activities to the corresponding Zone.

Previous Employment.

Engineer QARD, Avtec Limited (Formerly Hindustan Motor Ltd), Hosur.

Major Customers: Ford, Ashok Leyland, Isuzu & General Motors.

Product: Automotive Transmission

In process quality & quality assurance department – from Jan’2014 to Aug’2017

Handling inspection of gears and shafts during incoming inspection and assembly line as well.

New part development carried with existing supplier like gears, shafts and casting.

Conducting frequent audit with supplier and improvement points given to reduce plan concerns.

To analyse, reduce rejection at Test rig like knocking, Noise, shifting hard and various stages in assembly line like free fit, lose fit &unable to assemble.

To react for customer complaint by making containment action as emergency response followed by G8D with coordination from manufacturing team.

To visit dealer to identify and fix the root cause for the issues reported in field.

To periodically check the effectiveness of the Corrective and preventive action implemented against the customer complaint & field complaints.

To conduct AB / Swap analysis to identify the Red X part contributing for rejection at assembly stage.

Raising QRR for customer supplied parts.

Raising Flash report for Supplier part quality issues.

Prepare the supplier monthly performance Matrix with respect to Quality / Delivery / Performance and to be circulated to all suppliers.

Taken continuous improvements at supplier with respect to Quality & supporting delivery issue

Prepare the overall supplier performance and PPM level and to be submitted to managements.

New Product development include PPAP Activities and exists part development activity along with sourcing team Manage External Supplier Current Quality and New part Launch.

To ensure no red status in manufacturing site assessment conducted by customer.

To ensure TS system effectiveness periodically and report to Management representative.

Internal rejection & part rejection reporting respective corrective action monitoring.

Involving in Preparation and submission of PPAP & FMEA documents as per Customer Requirements.

Preparing and maintaining Quality documents required for TS 16949.

Inspecting of parts using Surface finish & counter measuring machines.

Known about the problem-solving technique through “Kaizen” and “Poke-Yoke”

Making product audit as per schedule.

Good Experience in Reading of all types of Drawings.

Involving in the Cross-functional team Activities to solve the Quality problems and Customer complaints by using QC Story & TPM.

Preparing and reviewing monthly reports.

Responsible for 5S Activities to the corresponding Zone.

Training the technical persons in PDI line about various problems To provide training to all operators with respect to Quality issues / General topic like 5S, 7QC Tools, G8D etc.,

GAT QA, In Exide Industries Limited, Hosur.

From Aug’2012 to Jan’2014:

Pre-Delivery Inspection of the OEM batteries in line before dispatch.

Preparing the Sample Batteries as per the customer drawing.

Initial set up inspection to production

Analyzing the rejected batteries in line and highlighting the problems related to Assembly & JF in the daily morning market for quality improvement.

MY ACHIEVEMENTS

VST

Successfully launched export model and closure of quality requirement documents and controls.

Achieved 1K Transmission and front axle.

TEREX

Performance champion award - In appreciation for the initiatives taken in problem solving for the issues faced in the MPS line and ensured the defect free supply of machines and there by enthusing the value of Terex.

New process & improvement carried for dispatch activity (SKD & CKD)

AVTEC

Preparation of PPAP / Inspection documents for B562 transaxle, supply to (Ford India pvt ltd, Sanand) new plant.

Supply part from new line as per the scheduled plan with zero quality defects.

Established process assurance in 6 new model transaxles for passenger vehicles.

Achieve Zero PPM on supply to customer for 9 months.

Reduced COPQ by process controls. Test rig rejections like,

Knocking – The major contribution gear teeth with damage/nick in semi topping profile edges. And part mix-up.

Noise – Issues with gear nomenclature/profile, Unwash, Span width oversize/undersize.

Shifting hard – Shifting assembly pin assembly issue & synchroniser, Hub & sleeve. Assembly related rejection like

Child part missing/wrong orientation, spinning issue & child part dimensional issues.

EXIDE

Responsible for quality process, control for new battery supplied to Hyundai grand i10 model.

Placing a Sensor in PDI line between HVT and engraving machine to avoid overlapping.

Installation of digital hydrometer in mixing tank which reduce large number of batteries with OCV low and OCV high problem.

ACADEMIA

B.E., Mechanical Engineering from Meenakshi Academy of Higher Education and Research,

Chennai- 81 % (2009-2012)

Diploma in Mechanical Engineering from Adhiyamaan Polytechnic College,

Hosur - 68 % (2006-2008)

SSLC., Seventh Day Adventist higher secondary school, Hosur

56 % (2005)

IT SKILLS in MS Word, SAP, oracle, MS Excel, Power Point, CREO

PERSONAL DETAILS

Date of Birth : 21st Oct 1989

Marital Status : Married

Language Known : Tamil, English, Telugu, Kannada

Permanent Address : 413/3A, Dwaraka Nagar Extension,

ESI Ring Road Point,

Hosur - 635109

Tamil Nadu

Yours Faithfully

Gokul. R

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