Q Gen-Next Sustainable Technologies is a advanced materials innovation company, developing products and coatings that lower the carbon footprint of any operations. The products include GanzKuhl - Solar Heat Reflecting Coating (reflects 98.6% of the heat of the Sun); Zirprotekt - Thermal Insulating Coating for enhancing the insulation of the furnaces/ovens/kilns and lowering the fuel costs; Cerolymer - Corrosion Resistant Ceramic Composite for withstanding erosion and corrosion, Ultra Light-weight Thermal Insulating Materials - for domestic applications as well as high temperature furnace applications.

Bhise Ceramics Pvt. Ltd. is a family owned business in Mumbai, engaging in manufacturing of precision ceramic parts in various oxide ceramic grades (Alumina 40% to 99.94%, partially stabilized of Zirconia) as well as handling turnkey projects in kiln fabrication and installation of Acid-Proof Linings. Key achievements include:1) Development of various innovative interdisciplinary productsResults:* Launching 8 new products in next 2 years, designed to solve various pain points of the engineering industry.*Developed Cerolymer-150, a corrosion resistant Ceramic-Composite, suitable to withstand corrosion and erosion.* Developed HighTempCoat, a coating designed to withstand High Temperature upto 1650C* Working on developing ultralight insulation blocks, suitable for various temperatures upto 1700C.2) Developed the company’s ability to deliver complex components and assemblies, particularly ceramic-metal assembliesResult: Created new client accounts, wherein BCPL was handling the entire product manufacture / procurement and assembly3) Developed, managed & handled trouble-shooting of various ceramic manufacturing processesThis includes various processes like:*Extrusion*Dry Pressing*Isostatic-pressing*Green/Bisque (Biscuit) fired MachiningResult: Created new customer accounts, in high volume products, by increasing operational effectiveness and thereby lowering the costs4) Led a team of internal and external professionals to jointly develop super-finished micron-level accuracy products*Result:Developed a Multi-stage grinding process for precision machining of Alumina / Zirconia components within 5 microns accuracy and surface finish of 0.1 microns Ra5) Designed and built a laboratory kiln for sintering of Ceramic PartsResult: The project was completed 3 weeks before scheduleContracted to develop a high capacity 3M3 kiln for the same client6) Led a team of external professionals to install Acid-Proof linings at an overseas Petrochem facility

My role with this company was to create and handle customer accounts for a range of products, create brand awareness for the company, in tandem with managing relationships with vendors in Asia and Europe. 1) Created new customer accounts for a diverse range of products from mechanical seals to custom-made precision parts. This included various small to medium level companies*Handled the entire business development chain, from initial techno-commercial discussion to product finalization and order closing.*Procuring the parts from our vendor in Asia/Europe, after establishing clarity on the technical and product delivery requirements2) Handled coordination with the ‘Big Ticket’ large clients*Enrolling the company in the Vendor Registration Program*Conducting the initial technical discussions, for establishing the technical competence of the company*Understanding the application and product requirements and translating them to meaningful engineering data at the product level*Establishing the commercial viability of our offerings & handling the commercial negotiations for the price finalization*Working with our vendors to create a technical alignment on the parts; if required, providing technical support on the process modifications required for getting the correct part*Procuring the first-article samples from the vendors and getting the necessary approvals3) Developed over 15 Vendors in USA, Asia and Europe*Visited the facilities of the vendors identified and conducted a capabilities audit for evaluation of the manufacturing process, the capacities, the quality standards and controls followed*Used ISO9001-2000/2008/2015 standards for process evaluation*Shortlisted the vendors on basis of their stated capacities and capabilities, for use on Uniceram’s projects*Handled the technical discussions with the vendors, to ensure a fit between the client’s design and specifications and those provided by the vendors

* Developed case study based on Hackman's model of team effectiveness to teach students how to analyze any given case on basis of the model* Researched telecommunications industry, its regulations, and various types of telecommunications networks for application in the case study* Developed and designed professor’s website to include most recent research work* Edited the rough text for a professor as part of a new textbook* Researched references and literature on Pareto Analysis, as the part of above text