General Manager – Manufacturing & Business Excellence
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More than 35 years of experience in manufacturing business (high precision to heavy engineering) organization, as General Manager Manufacturing & Business Excellence at Titan company limited for 20 years, as Head manufacturing at Schneider Electric 6 years and as Supply Chain leader for 10 years at Larsen & Toubro Limited.
General Manager – Manufacturing Plant Operations - Titan company limited
(2006-12 - 2025-06)
A TATA enterprise.
Manufacturing operation: Factory Operations including efficient system development, responsible for setting up a new manufacturing plant starting from blueprint, tendering, negotiation, project execution, liaising, decision making on machines & equipment, plant configuration, sourcing, make and buy decision, design, tooling & process development, plant commissioning, production ramp up.
Supply chain: Source development, Product development, innovation, Lean, cost reduction activity, logistics, developing contract manufacturing.
Quality Management: Benchmarking, Setting Product Quality Standard, deployment of Quality system for sourcing manufacturing plant, also plant certification for WCM, QMS, OHSAS. Post sales and Service setup, People development and training.
Senior Manager & Head Production - Schneider Electric
(2000-12 - 2006-12)
Formerly known as APW President Ltd. Manufacturing business expansion by double within 3 years during 2005. Maintenance, Quality, Monitoring of Order execution, planning, SCM, Logistic, Procurement, on-time delivery and after sales & service. Enhancement of 300% efficiency in production numbers within 3 years.
Systems & customer support for their enhanced satisfaction. Optimization of cost reduction, Inventory & Productivity improvement. Implementation of continual improvement activities including Kaizen, 5S concepts, Kanban, ISO 9001:2000, employee engagement.
Senior Engineer Manufacturing - L&T Komatsu Ltd.
(1994-06 - 2000-12)
Production Operations - Fabrication, Machine shop of CNC Turning, VMC, HMC, Grinding, lapping, Honing, trepanning, Skiving, Burnishing etc. Fabrication shop contains Robotic welding, CO2, submerge, laser etc. Heat treatment - CNC HF induction hardening, SQF case hardening, Tempering etc. Assembly - Hydraulic systems assembly like cylinder, Pumps, motors etc. SCM - Sourcing, Stores function, warehousing, despatch & logistics.
Assurance - Vendor QA - evaluation of castings, forgings, precision machined, formed, fabricated, heat-treated. Preparation of APQP, Control plans, quality plans, inspection plans, design of gauges, toolings, Jigs and fixtures. Measurement system analysis (MSA) & Gauge R & R study. NDT lab functions - Metallurgical, Metallographic, mechanical testing and NDT techniques like Radiography, MPT, Eddy current & Ultrasonic testing. Industry relation management - Handling IR related issues, achieving production targets, effective utilization of manpower, resolving union issues.
BE - Mechanical Engineering
PGDM - Business Management
