SUMMARY:

• 2 yrs + Work Experienced in Confidential - Manufacturing plant as Engineer.
• Certified and experienced working in Lean/ Six sigma principles with excellent problem-solving skills.
• Strong Knowledge of Statistics, Process Control, and Process Capability.
• Applied engineering principles and analytical techniques to establish and continuously improve manufacturing processes and products

OBJECTIVE:

To work as a fulltime/ contract position Product Design Engineer - Mechanical Engineering.

TECHNICAL EXPOSURE:

Design software: AUTOCAD, Catia V5, NX 10.0 modelling, sheet metal and assembling.

6yrs experience in: designing 2D/3D models and drawing in catia v5 and basic CAE analysis.

Statistical Process Control: FMEA, PPAP, APQP, lean manufacturing, continuous improvement.

Quality Control Tools: Pareto Diagrams, Cause and Effect Diagrams, control charts, and MODAPTS.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Product Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Project execution for new product starting from feasibility assessment, BOM, designing in Catia v5 R21 and product commercialization.
• Evaluating New project development (NPI) requirements on machine shop over different CNC and auto lathe machines, gauges, fixtures, GD&T with respective to product (and collet dia, creating programs, oil, coolant, tool holder, proper inserts, and maintenance scheduling).
• Prioritize and Decision-making skills to reroute productions for optimized results.
• Decision making skills based on machine capability and reducing setting times and process time with effective communications
• Development of NPI based on customer requirements as part of customer focus team (CFT).
• Negotiating to document APQP approvals from quality, inventory, and production departments.
• Lead team of 6 operators in production shift and 1 trainee for each shift, focused on maintaining quality with 100% CFI Customer Fulfillment Index.
• Documenting BOM and monthly Cost estimations for machine tools and Inserts, CNC machines and maintenance.
• Creating status reports for quality issues, production issues both internal and external with corrective actions, and FMEA.
• Corrective and preventive actions (CAPA) for any major/minor machine breakdowns, safety issues and customer requirement deviations.
• Support for TPM, quality management system, ISO 9001, 8D problem solving and internal audits.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Production & Assembly layout for the product development based on make-or-buy decision and for a production demand of 300,000 drones per year,
• Activity relationship chart, BOM, material and machine and its dimensions are researched for the layout.
• Developed station layout, machine layout, material flow, material pallet system, emergency exit plans and parking layout and designed in accordance with OSHA and ADA.
• Value Stream Mapping is prepared and lean principles are included for the machine layout.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Communicated with clients to set product specifications
• Developed sketches & 2D drawings in CATIA V5 and made changes as per the client requirement.
• Created CAD models of Snow Plow Body Assembly using part & surface modeling-CATIA V5.
• Created 3D solid models of Snow Plow Body, Brackets, Springs, Bolts, Shoes, Ribs, Rods using CATIA V5 2D drawings.
• Utilized CATIA V5 surface module to design the complicate surface parts (snow plow backside, ribs, twisted brackets)
• Provided Assembled drawings of all the above parts using Assemble Module in CATIA V5.
• Converted 3D model to suitable 2D view and drafted detailed drawings utilizing the Drafting module in CATIA V5.
• Developed Bills of Materials (BOM) and advised proper materials finishes, production materials and procedures.
• Assisted the manufacturing shop to provide Design support for any Snags & Production Queries from shop floor.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Heat sink with fins in a duct is designed within insulated walls at operating conditions (velocity, temperature).
• Different variation in heat sink design is tested to obtain an optimum dissipated heat and pressure loss.
• The Thermal interactions are based on governing equations conservation of energy and Newton's law of cooling.
• Forced Convention at different velocity of fluid with respective to different heat sinks design (round pin/plate fin) are made to find the optimal amount of heat dissipated and pressure loss over duct.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Radiator is designed to compensate heat rejection from both E-motor and Invertor.
• Design challenges include location, durability, heat rejection and its cost in the present market.
• 26’’x7’’x2’’ Radiator with heat rejection at 3300 CFM (at Factor of Safety 5) is installed.
• Three 1100 CFM fans with 7’’ dia were installed to radiator for sufficient air flow.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Strategic Elimination of wastes at all work stations in the Starship Factory Prototype through Lean concepts.
• Analyzing Data identified root-cause of bottleneck operations (Stamping Process).
• Improvised the Stamping Process of product LS19 ergonomically and increasing the productivity of process.
• Increased production and performance of operator at Stamping Process by 50% each.
• Compared Value Stream Mapping of plant before and after the lean implementation.
• Designed Kanban system for the plant and a card less Kanban among the cells.
• Tools used Load levelling, Cellular layout, and JIT.
• The Project Team of 6 students presented solution to real life scenario as a project plan
• Detailed Work Breakdown Structure(WBS) is prepared for the project along with dependencies.
• Initiating the project by defining scope and structure. Included a RACI chart, high-level budget, and communication management plan for the project.
• Planning the execution of project up to four levels of detailed breakdown of tasks.
• Presented project plan at Western Michigan PMI as part of competition.