Tharma Lingam

Tool Room Manager with 16+ years of experience in Plastic Injection Mould manufacturing, assembly, trials, troubleshooting and preventive maintenance. Experienced in handling complete tool room operations including design review, DFM analysis, mould quotation preparation, customer meetings and cost negotiation. Skilled in vendor coordination, mould development and managing tool room teams.

Experience supporting mould trials for injection moulding machines from 50T to 850T.

Tool Room Manager - Inventaa Hi Tech Private Limited

(2025-12)

• Managing complete plastic injection mould tool room operations
• Handling 50 member tool room team
• Mould assembly, trials and troubleshooting
• Production mould maintenance and preventive maintenance planning
• Design review and DFM discussion with design team
• Customer meeting participation for tool development discussion
• Mould quotation preparation and cost negotiation with customers
• Vendor development and outsourcing machining follow-up for machning works
• Coordinating vmc,cnc,Edm,and wirecut maching processes
• Supporting mould trials for 50T – 850T injection moulding machines

Tool Room Head - PM Toolings

(2018-08 - 2025-11)

• Managing plastic injection mould development projects
• Handling tool room team and production mould maintenance
• Mould assembly, trials and correction activities
• Production mould maintenance and troubleshooting
• Customer trial support and mould modification follow up
• Vendor coordination for machining and tool components
• Preparation of and present in front customer

Tool Room Engineer - AL Toolings

(2015-11 - 2018-07)

• Plastic injection mould manufacturing and assembly
• Core and cavity fitting
• Core, cavity, slider and lifter fitting
• Mould trials and troubleshooting
• Production mould maintenance
• Check new mould according to readiness check list
• VMC / CNC / EDM / Wirecut Coordination

Mould Maker - Acorn Engineering

(2011-07 - 2015-10)

• Injection mould assembly and fitting
• Core and cavity and mould components fitting
• Mould trials and correction activities
• Bench fitting and mould finishing

Junior Mould Maker - Mak'l Tech

(2010-04 - 2011-07)

• Injection mould manufacturing support
• Bench fitting and mould assembly support
• Tool room machining coordination

BE - Mechanical Engineering - Karpagam University, Coimbatore (2014 - 2014)

Diploma - Tool & Die - RVS Polytechnic College, Dindigul (2010 - 2010)