Akash Jayakumar Email & Phone Number

Oklahoma, United States

• Established robust incoming inspection process, reducing defects in inventory.
• Implemented ASQ (American society for Quality)-standard-based sampling strategy, enhancing supplier quality assessment.
• Initiated SCARs (Supplier Corrective Action Request), monitored supplier portal, and their implemented CAPA(ICA/PCA) to prevent future defects; reduced non-conformance by 62%.
• Led creation and review of PPAP documents and inspections, ensuring compliance with requirements.
• Monitor and maintain End of Line inspections. Analyzed DPU (Defects per Unit) generated, facilitated cross functional meetings (Team Quality Circle) for determination and corrective actions implementations resulting in.
• Conducted RCA (Root cause analysis) for defect categories, documented solutions, updated work instructions and SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures) for future defect prevention.

Michigan, United States

• Utilized statistical tools to assess process capability (Cp, Cpk) took actions and fine-tuned process to maintain stable production.
• Investigated and resolved quality issues, creating 8D reports and drove CAPA, collaborated with Quality circle and liaison customer inputs hence, maintaining strong customer relationships.
• Developed quality standards, and quality plans for defect-free products.
• Through Structured problem-solving methodology improved casting Quality by 19%
• Implemented sampling inspection plan between stages to prevent defects from passing to next stage and to reduce generation at source stage, thereby improving machined casting quality by 24%.
• Participated and Prepared PPAP documents, control plans, and PFMEA to ensure defect free products.

United States

Bengaluru Area, India

• Core member of the quality team responsible for manufacturing pantographs and break cylinders.
• Identified significant defects using pareto analysis, successfully implemented Six Sigma Tools such as Fishbone diagram, 5why and other tools to find the root causes for these defects and implemented corrective actions.
• Responsible for utilizing various continuous improvement techniques to improve production rate and reduction of quality defects.
• Conducted a structural approach for product and process design using APQP such as PFMEA/ DFMEA.
• Developed a customized Kanban System by following lean methodologies to enhance tracking processes that helped to reduce material handling costs by $500 per month.
• Improved workstations and developed evaluation charts using 5s methodologies and induced a culture of weekly and daily evaluation at stations to meet customer requirements established for products exported to OEM’s.

Bengaluru Area, India

Bengaluru Area, India

Master'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering, 3.0