Darshan Pandya Email & Phone Number

San Diego, Ca, Us

Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

Fulfillment Design and Innovation: - Researches, reviews, and provides feedback to engineers on proposed solutions for process flow, automation, and fulfillment warehouse design. - Provides engineering expertise and support to future state warehouse or system design by assisting with the selection, use, and application of technology and automated processes within Walmart's eCommerce fulfillment network.- Actively evaluate emerging technologies and industry 4.0 trends to identify best in class technologies for scalable robotics and automation implementation for the organization. - Develops robotics related technology roadmaps to implement emerging technologies in the fulfilment network for Walmart.Fulfillment Design Implementation and Project Management:- Inspects facilities, technology, and equipment to ensure they meet Walmart's material handling, processing, and storage standards. Collaboration: - Collaborates with cross-functional teams, both inside and outside of the organization, to develop, test, implement, and monitor new technology and facility improvements.Vendor Management: - Manages vendor requests for small projects. Reviews and tracks vendor contracts for the project by partnering with internal teams (for example, vendor management) to select and renew vendor contracts. - Provides vendor forecasts and tracks vendor performance.Leadership:- Coordinates, completes, and oversees job-related activities and assignments by developing and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders- Builds and leads a team to execute business area objectives. Coaches team members and provides feedback to enhance skills, knowledge, and work performance. Conducts performance and career development conversations. Maintains team motivation and engagement. - Provides supervision and development opportunities for associates by hiring and training; mentoring; assigning duties; providing recognition; and ensuring diversity awareness.

San Diego, Ca, Us

As a Robotics & Automation Engineer I contribute in enabling the implementation of next-generation automation technologies as part of the Factory of the Future Team. My projects are focused on continued advancement of manufacturing technology improving capability, innovation, quality and safety. My journey enables me to learn and demonstrate the value of automation in Manufacturing to improve process control, error proofing, efficiency, scale and compliance by working independently and for multiple projects in parallel. My responsibilities include but are not limited to, • Providing engineering expertise in the selection, development, integration and use of automation solutions for manufacturing processes.• Conducting technical assessments of automation options to determine the best approach to transforming process performance, user safety, product quality and cost effectiveness• Actively examining industry trends and identify Industry 4.0 capabilities that can be leveraged• Using process software simulation tools to analyze production workflows• Assisting in the process of on boarding new systems through testing and validation phases• Working with process engineers to develop accurate specifications for critical process parameters• Partnering with operations staff to ensure active feedback and improvement of systems

College Park, Md, Us

Worked as a Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) to University of Maryland, College Park since July 2018. GTA for Automation and Manufacturing (ENPM 808P)January 2019 - Present- Currently I serve as the Graduate Teaching Assistant for Automation and Manufacturing Course of the Robotics Graduate Program. - The course deals with the concepts like, Robotics and Human Robot Collaboration in Industry, Additive manufacturing, Industry 4.0 or Factory of the future, use of simulation tools, sustainability in industry, importance of digital manufacturing and how everything together can blend in to create the smart manufacturing practices. - I am responsible for helping up finalize the course content, slides for presentation, solving queries about any related topics, helping 20 students to shape their project and guide them through the projects wherever needed. - I am learning great deal of concepts related to all above mentioned fields and mainly learning a lot from the different perspectives of students and professor. GTA for Robot Modelling (ENPM 662)July 2018 - December 2018- I had an opportunity work as a GTA for one of the core courses of the Robotics Masters - Robot Modelling. Where I got to learn modelling concepts like Rigid body Transforms, Forward Kinematics, Inverse Kinematics, Dynamics, Jacobians and Singularities and many more. - As a GTA I was also responsible for guiding students through their semester projects. I got to learn the same concepts from the perspective of many more eyes. - I guided, graded and improved the projects of about 35 students as a sole guide and supported total of 108 students through their assignments and project work. - Apart from the major responsibilities, I also enjoyed the deep technical conversations with professor and students whenever students had queries on any topic related to robot modelling.

San Diego, Ca, Us

As a part of the Robotics & Automation Engineering Intern in FACTORY OF THE FUTURE team, • I assessed opportunities for material handling automation and robotic implementation. I was also responsible to come up with the concept, design, develop cycle for the automation of the existing manufacturing processes.As a part of the Factory of the future team, I kept myself up to date with the latest developments in the robotics technologies and automation implementation. • I proposed a concept with 1st Cobotic process implementation with the use of industry 4.0 concepts, for consumable components kitting and packaging process at San Diego HQ.• I simulated implementation of enhanced Cobotic process promised to reduce the kitting quality issues to zero.• I Compared and evaluated 5 different collaborative robots over 90 different criteria for implementation based on the suitability defined by requirement.

Mumbai, Maharastra, In

As an Assistant Manager - Automation Engineer in Engineering team of Godrej Interio, • I Implemented process enhancement automation & robotics projects for increasing productivity, reducing safety hazards, improving quality, reducing TAKT time and fatigue reduction.• I Developed in-house automation systems for various applications – material handling automation, development of special purpose machines (SPMs) for quality assurance projects.• I Executed ‘Seamless order processing system’ – First cyber-physical and first Industry 4.0 project and IOT implementation project of huge scale in company.• I Secured the status of implementing most innovative project of the year – AGV for autonomous material handling vehicle.• I Implemented real-time monitoring systems using wireless data transfer using Xbee modules, Arduino microcontroller and LabVIEW interface for GUI.• I Set up processes from scratch for the green field project of new manufacturing facility.• Evaluated and compared technical suitability of machines from various equipment suppliers for decision making on equipment purchase.• I Researched and updated knowledge base of latest technologies related to automation and robotics, compared options and presented to higher authorities to arrive at the most suitable option with respect to internal customer needs.

- Coordinated on campus interviews- Communicated with students, faculties and HR departments of various companies.- Implemented standard practices and standard documentation templates for data management. - Arranged events for soft-skill enhancements of students of college. - Won the award and certification for contribution to college as an training and placement coordinator.

Master'S Degree, Mechatronics, Robotics, And Automation Engineering

Bachelor'S Degree, Mechatronics, Robotics, And Automation Engineering