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• Provided solid business, technical and project management services in full consideration of national employment law, tax law, environmental protection provisions and health and safety regulations.• Responsible for strategic planning for manufacturing operations of Injection molding machines, alignment of operating goals and integration of resources in compliance with Government regulations on FEMA, Anti-Dumping duty and Royalty fees. • Develop and execute short and long term marketing strategies• Identify, drive and support change management to ensure continuous improvement.

• Established LK Machinery India Pvt. Ltd. Liaison with head office in Hong Kong to meet all regulatory requirements of Indian Government for Foreign Direct Investment and Private Limited firm formation.• Established factory and office with layout for machine Showroom, refurbishment shop, spare parts, training facility and sales & service facility.• Performed all necessary administration including staff selection and development, budget administration, financial administration, planning, organizing and scheduling work and performance measurement.• Provided business and marketing plans as well as engineering and technical support.• Developed and maintained key customer relationships• Developed vendors for machine spare parts manufacturing and repair locally. • Comprehensive services for complete machine refurbishment and after sales service with annual maintenance contracts for up to 2500 ton die casting press.

• Manage turnkey projects from Machine Order to building of the machine through final commissioning, inspection and acceptance by North American customers.• Facilitate designs approval from regulatory bodies Health and Safety, TSSA (Technical Standards and Safety Authority) and ESA, CSA Z142-02 Code for Power Press.• Integrate and manage North American vendors for automation equipment. • Responsible for creating operational manual and documenting trouble shooting and problem solving procedures

• Manage turnkey projects from Machine Order to building of the machine through final commissioning, inspection and acceptance by North American customers.• Facilitate designs approval from regulatory bodies Health and Safety, TSSA (Technical Standards and Safety Authority) and ESA, CSA Z142-02 Code for Power Press.• Coordinate preparation and review of ECR and ECP. Report to Engineering Manager.• Responsible for creating operational manual and documenting trouble shooting and problem solving procedures.• Study the Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) losses, prepare trends and coordinate to make action plan for loss reduction.

• Responsible for manufacturing operation, work scheduling, production, tool, die and equipment, quality control.• Eliminated back-orders by evaluating work-center capacity against demand; level loading Standardizing product mix to machines. Extensively used Kanban JIT tools.• Facilitate Air approval from Ministry of Environment for 900,000 Btu/hr burner on Wash Tank and 1.3 million Btu/hr burner on Drying Oven. • Implemented Kaizen techniques for continuous improvement.

• Upgrade machines to Canadian Standards and approved from Canadian Safety Regulatory bodies like TSSA (Technical Standards & Safety Authority) and ESA (Electrical Safety Authority).• Conducted test and analyses of die casting and injection molding machines, automation components and materials to determine their safe operation, performance, strength and response to stress and other characteristics.• Prepared computer-assisted design (CAD) engineering designs, drawings, specifications for machines.• Supervised and inspected the installation, modification and commissioning of Die casting machine at customer’s sites.

• Responsible for maintenance of machines in High Pressure Die Casting (HPDC), Gravity Die casting and Tool Room.• Installation of new equipment and rebuilding of special purpose machines.• Part of DFSS (Six Sigma) team. Responsible for analyzing capability of equipment.

• Responsible for Production, planning and control, study and implement program to determine optimum inventory levels for production and optimum utilization of machinery, material and resources.• Documented manufacturing processes system in the framework of ISO9001 compliance objectives.• Installed Vertical RotorCast die casting machine, which reduced rejection rate by 95%, die change over time was 15 min as compared to 2 hours on conventional machine, therefore increased production by 45%.• Established Quality Management systems/tools like Capability study, Statistical Process Control, Root cause analysis, and ISO 9001.• Implemented Lean manufacturing techniques like Kaizen and Kanban.