Kalirajan Viswanathan

Experience

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  Aswin textile pvt ltd

  Aug 2002 - Dec 2004

  Electrical supervisor trainee

  •Operation & Maintenance of DG sets of 380KVA, 125KVA (2Nos).•Operation & maintenance of 1000KVA of transformer.•Operation & maintenance of Air Circuit Breaker, MV, SSB, FDB, LDB Panels, Special & general purpose M/C•Maintenance of screw compressor ELGI & ATLAS COPCO.•Energy consumption tracking (Fuel & EB).•Plan and Execution of Preventive & predictive maintenance.•Erection & commissioning of New Machineries

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  Ge Oec Medical Systems Inc

  Feb 2005 - Oct 2006

  Electrical Supervisor

  •Operation & Maintenance of DG sets of 625KVA - 2Nos•Operation & maintenance of 1250KVA of transformer.•Operation & maintenance of Air Circuit Breaker, MV, SSB, FDB, LDB Panels, Special & general purpose M/C•Energy consumption tracking (Fuel & EB).•Plan and Execution of Preventive & predictive maintenance.•Building maintenance

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  Ford Motor Company

  Oct 2006 - now

  •Responsible for taking care of Bodysides automated line maintenance and delivery •In addition to the SPOC role, was also responsible for entire body shop TTP, Availability, MTTR & MTBF and prepare the Executive throughput package deck for weekly and monthly constraint meeting. •Identify the Constraint area and deriving & focusing to eliminate the bottleneck with robust solution.•Responsible for taking the permanent / preventive measures for the failures, planning & executing the shutdown and holiday works based on the painter chart & down time.•Optimize PM through PM scribing activity to reduce offline PM & increase Online PM. in that efficiency utilization done at 2 maintenance man head. •Responsible for BBQ (Backup, bypass & quick recovery) implementation in body shop. BBQ percentage increased from 15% to 32%.•Training given to the team by event simulation (Practical) as well as with SPL’s & Procedures to enhance team skill level.•3 body scraped at end of line because of D pillar part mix-up issue. for eliminating poke yoke introduced to avoid D pillar part mix-up. similarly, introduced for T part and two model variants also.•As part of energy saving Project, initiated Air compressor on time 1hr 15 mins reduced and Rs.5.02 lakhs/annum cost saved through PLC program modification - Robot auto cell healthy stage convert from manual to auto mode•Identify the one pilot area and implemented the Internet of Things (IoT) concept which is to avoid robot damper cylinder failure by using EWON device.•Cycle time improvement project done at Bodysides Mainline. its help to reduce from 93 sec to 88 sec.•Maintain the critical equipment spare management, Equipment History card and Check sheet.•Responsible and maintain the body shop equipment asset (MoU & non-MoU asset)•Responsible and maintain the equipment drawing, manuals & Buyoff books. Show less •Strong knowledge in PLC Programming & Trouble shooting in AB Rockwell (Logix 5000 & guard Logix).•Underbody rear floor new project technical design review Discussion done at line builder plant Coimbatore & Approval of technical architecture.•Installation, commissioning & Coordination of maintenance lesson learnt implementation, snag point raising & closing with line builder for EcoSport export model project at Underbody rear floor, framing, Bodysides, sunroof & Respot and Hood line.•Responsible for the night shift PM & corrective maintenance activity, delivery related projects •Coordination for implement IT application Industry 4.0 – FIS (factory information system) & NGAVS (Next gen automated vehicle scheduling)•Implemented additional safety switch in ABB robot for protect the associate from safety incident.•Initiating various energy saving projects & cost saving projects by innovation and low-cost solution Show less • Strong knowledge in PLC Programming, Trouble shooting and Training in PLCs especially in Siemens (S7 200, 300, TIA1500).• Hands on well experience in Programming and Troubleshooting of ABB, Kawasaki robots for Spot welding, Pick-place, Hemming and sealant application robots.• Connection and troubleshooting of AC drives (SEW, Sinamics & AB), interfacing the AC drives (SEW) with PLC using Device net & Profinet connection.• Programming in Human Machine Interface (HMI) panels – Siemens WINCC & Pv1200• Better knowledge in transfer unit system (EMS, FDS, Hoist, Conveyor & Transfer car)• On behalf of Ford India, i went to Ford South Africa plant for PLC & IT gun training given to African maintenance team and improve the framing & underbody area MTTR & MTBF• FIFO (First In & First Out) PLC logic implemented in fit & finish buffer conveyor line (18 conveyor, 2 transfer car & 6 roller bed). Body to paint car delivery happened through FIFO method. Show less

  • Maintenance Automation and Control engineer (SG6)

    Apr 2018 - now

  • Maintenance engineer (SG5)

    Aug 2015 - Mar 2018

  • Maintenance Team Leader

    Oct 2013 - Jul 2015

  • Maintenance Associate

    Oct 2006 - Sept 2013