Rahul Sonawane

Experience

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  Paradox Advertisement

  Feb 2013 - Nov 2014

  Product Designer and manufacturer

  • Design of backlit indoor LED board.• Selection and purchasing of all consumable items required for board as per technical and design specifications• Manufacturing and inspection of board as per design requirement.• Kaizen- for Cost saving, material saving, method improvement, machine utilization, reducing tool set-up time, new tool material, fixture design etc. • Interact with clients.

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  SPECIALITY SINTERED PRODUCTS PVT LTD

  Dec 2014 - May 2019

  Production Process Engineer

  - Production Planning and Control- Preparing a weekly or monthly manufacturing plan based on interaction with the production, sales and marketing team of the organization.Plans procurement of raw material, tooling, manpower etc. and production schedules for the month.- To communicate clearly with supporting department like Tooling, Design, Purchase, Dispatch etc. for material procurement uniformity and on time availability of material. - Analysis of Time and Method study, Line balancing, Material movement reduction, 5 ‘S management etc.- Designing of product and process required for manufacturing of component in development phase, and supporting for designing of tool by CAD software’s like Catia, ProE, Autocad etc and to implement value added system.- Kaizen, Why-Why Analysis- Implement TPM (TOTAL PRODUCTIVE MAINTENANCE) Pillars with 5 ‘S’ as a base.- Interact with Design Dept. for improving tool design, new fixture design for post machining operation and developing automation as per shop floor conditions.- Multi cavity tooling like 3 Cavity, 5 Cavity for increasing and fulfilling production rate and quantities.- Worked on Automation projects like pick and place pneumatic arm system design, conveyor belt design etc. for automatic material handling and automatic storage and retrieval system. - Handled Line balancing, Motion study and Lean Six sigma project to reduce in process inventory and worked on material movement reduction.- Designed and implemented Optimized plant layout for improving space for in process inventory, storage and to make in line material movement.- Handled projects like Auto-chamfering and auto-sizing basically the automation process to reduce component loading time and performing a faster operation with aid of automatic loading mechanism.- Designed and manufactured conveyor belt Automation project for automatic material movement and installed to reduce operator effort and for increasing production and to reduce in process inventory. Show less

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  Miba Drivetec India Pvt. Ltd.

  Jul 2019 - now

  Assistant Production Manager

  Project Management, Product and Production Process Development, Designing, Industrial Engineering