Venkatanarayanan V

Experience

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  Kennametal Widia India Limited Bangalore

  Jul 2007 - Jul 2010

  Executive Engineer - Production Engg and Development

  • Technology Transfer of End Mill Product Line from Israel to India by installation and commissioning of 4 machines from Australia, 3 machines from Switzerland and 3 re-furbished machines from Israel• SOP creation and maintenance for 18 product lines which was non-existent before• Establishment of laser engraving process by implementing in-house thereby saving $5/ part produced• Training of operators on lean tools like VSM, SMED and TPM and mentoring the team on successful completion of improvement projects• Capacity Improvement and Expansion of multiple product lines including Tungsten Carbide processing equipment, end mills, steel rolls, cutting tool inserts and tool holders. Show less

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  LM Wind Power

  Aug 2010 - Aug 2015

  Senior Process Engineer – Blade Manufacturing Processes

  • Supported Global Process Engineers in Denmark, Netherlands and USA in Non-conformance Reports, Engineering Change Requests and daily plant support to 12 manufacturing sites.• Conducted various process improvement workshops with production, engineering and quality personnel along with key customers (Gamesa, GE, Envision) resulting in improved transparency and improved customer satisfaction (customer satisfaction improvement of 30% from 2013-2014)• Successfully completed Six Sigma Project on Improving blade weighing and balancing process that has resulted in 30% tooling cost savings and 5% cycle time reduction and presented in CII Quality Summit, 2014• Successfully deployed Faster Demoulding Project to reduce cycle time by 45 minutes resulting in 20% savings in cycle time• Worked on system improvements resulting in Avg. response time improvement for Quality Control Reports (QCR) from 14 days to 2.65 days and improvement in Engineering Change Requests (ECR) handling and implementation by completion of 88% ECRs within 15 days Show less

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  LM WIND POWER BLADES (ARKANSAS)

  Aug 2015 - Jun 2019

  Team Leader/ Lead Global Production Engineer – Blade Surfaces and Coatings

  • Process Owner and developed process for more than 20+ products that were implemented successfully in 15 manufacturing locations globally• Optimized documentation by reducing it by 150% by streamlining Work Instructions, PFMEAs, Control Plans, Inspections, CTQs, Process Specifications and Technical Reports with full documentation ownership• Developed and empowered a team starting from one resource to a 5-person team with engineers in USA, Turkey, China, India and Poland• Conducted 15+ manufacturing process audits, identified gaps and fixed the issues in multiple plants in Canada, USA, Brazil, Spain, India and China that helped in the plants achieving production goals over a 3-year period• Ownership of Mould Maintenance Program in US plant and implemented lean tools that helped in reducing idle time by 50% for faster handover to production teams• Supported USA manufacturing team in post moulding operations by hands-on training, process support and issue resolution with main customer and improved audit compliance score by 25% and resolved more than 50+ CAPAs to improve the plant operations holistically Show less

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  LM Wind Power

  Jul 2019 - Jun 2024

  • Defined, developed and published dashboard and key metrics for System improvement that helped in providing baselines for projects and capacity expansion• Organization and Facilitation of Process Excellence Community across all manufacturing locations for leveraging best practices and resolution of common process risks• Developed Manufacturing and Industrial Strategy for mid term period • Implemented new technology to facilitate improved safety and quality in 5 manufacturing locations in India, Turkey, China, Poland and Brazil• Provided successful on-site support for startup and ramp up of new product in India with multiple technologies resulting in 40% reduction in cycle time• On-site support and issue resolution for new technology transfer in Turkey and timely support for Blade Services team on Quality and Warranty issue -• Implemented no grinding solution for one product line resulting in $ 36k savings in direct labour and $10k savings in material• Improvement of blade painting process with quality improvement of 50% in blade surface roughness parameter• Mentoring and training of 3 new engineers from India, China and Spain as part of team expansion

  • System Execution Leader/ Technical Project Manager

    Apr 2021 - Jun 2024

  • Lead Engineer, Technology Transfer and Implementation

    Dec 2019 - Mar 2021

  • Lead Global Production Engineer

    Jul 2019 - Nov 2019
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  Vestas

  May 2024 - now

  Service Quality Specialist