Balakumar P Email & Phone Number

Chennai Area, India

Key Result Areas: • Managing wall-to-wall implementation of Lean enterprise across the plant • Devising and executing Plant-level Annual Lean framework such as L3 Level Strategy Deployment, Bowling Chart, Value Stream Mapping, Transformation Planning, 5S and other Lean strategies • Installing business metrics to understand baseline performance and developing continuous improvement program • Driving cost saving projects, to performing set training to employees, deploying the strategy to functional levels, RCA/A3 for resolutions and conducting defined Lean events • Applying Lean processes to drive efficiencies across all Production Departments, using metrics to concentrate on areas of focus • Supporting efforts to establish and improve standard work, management systems, and key business processes • Organizing monthly updates on plant metric and directing leadership reviews with actions for improvement, periodical layered audits and MDI reviews during Gemba walk • Leading plant SIOP activities on inventory, operations and planning fronts through Lean principles such as PFEP, Inventory Excess & Obsolescence Management and others

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Key Result Areas:• Reduced rejection level& rework through continuous upgradation of quality circles to observe better compliance in-line with changing customer requirement• Coordinated cross-functional activities between operational departments and process optimization & improvement• Worked on PFMEA devising for new process and new product introductions• Executed test supports for FAI of locally developed parts, NPI and order third party inspections• Enhanced the productivity in factory using modern manufacturing practices and Lean tools• Identified feasible BOM parts for localization towards product cost reduction and executed diaphragm pump test lab set-up for Performance, Hydrostatic and NPIPR Tests• Prepared CAPEX and Case Study Submission, EBOM & MBOM, A3 for missed SQDC and supported AODD Pump Product• Developed study with tools such as Time Study, Motion Study for process improvement in production• Conducted over 100 sessions of Technical Training and Product Introduction on Positive Displacement Pump (principally Air-operated Diaphragm Pump) across India• VSM Process Owner and active member of Lean, Quality Circle and Safety Team

Master'S Degree, Manufacturing Engineering

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.E.), Mechanical Engineering