Ravi R. Kadam Email & Phone Number

Wilmington, De, Us

Dallas, Tx, Us

Amazon Account - Reliability & Maintenance Engineering (RME)+ Managed and led control systems technical team with maintaining, troubleshooting and improving control systems to maximize equipment reliability and improve operational performance. + Facilitated failure analysis and process & equipment reliability improvements.+ Responsible for improving and maintaining entire fulfillment center's equipment performance metrics. + Managed and executed projects for site's operations team, process & operations engineering teams.+ Co-ordinated with vendors and central engineering teams with installations, modification and executing system changes.

Dallas, Tx, Us

+ Modified PLC & HMI programs, vision systems and adjusted configuration on readers for continuous improvement of the system. + Installed, configured and tested factory automation systems such as PLC controllers, barcode readers, electrical control systems.+ Reduced scan scrap rate on sortation system by ~43%.+ Troubleshooting: industrial robots, power distribution system, vision system, PLC controller, motors, industrial communication systems.+ Built tools to monitor and track metrics for the sortation systems for the site.+ Provided first level escalation support to the control systems team and also gave remote support to other sites in the network. + Designed, fabricated and assembled fixture and electrical control panel for the carrier test bench. + Did feasibility studies to integrate additional technologies in the existing automation system and implemented solutions. + Implemented Permanent Corrective Actions (PCA) for vision systems, PLC controllers and electrical control systems. + Drove continuous improvement efforts and Root-Cause-Analysis (RCA) to improve the systems' overall performance.+ Certification: NFPA 70E: Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace (2018)

Dallas, Tx, Us

+ Troubleshooting & maintenance: 480VAC 3ph, 120VAC and 24VDC power distribution systems, communication/networking systems.+ Troubleshoot and modified software programs for material handling controls system.+ Control systems: Allen-Bradley PLC controllers, VFDs and HMI systems, sensors, hydraulic & pneumatic systems.+ Communication & Network systems: Profibus, Ethernet/IP, Serial comm.+ Assisted in wiring and installation of electrical control devices in the electrical control panel.+ Tracked, analyzed events data and utilized SCADA system to monitor and control the system.+ Trained and assisted team on troubleshooting and operation of the electrical & control systems.+ Did integration and installation of electrical & mechanical system.+ Led continuous improvement of the processes/system and root-cause analysis of faults/failures.

Farmington Hills, Mi, Us

Fuel Injector Nozzle – Spray hole machining and Assembly & Test.• Implemented engineering change (ECN) on assembly station.• Reduced Preventive Maintenance duration (hrs./month) by 35.16%. • Improved gauge capability (Cg) of taper measuring gauge from 0.42 to 1.46 (~250%).• Conducted a designed experiment (DOE) to find & control variations in the measurement system using Minitab software.

Farmington Hills, Mi, Us

• Built a predictive model for opening pressure of diesel engine’s injector nozzle using R programming.• Assisted in setting-up and tool-change of EDM machine during changeovers and documented procedures for the same.• Statistical Process Control (SPC): Cgk, GR&R, Cmk, Ppk, Cpk & control charts.• Supported Site Acceptance Test (SAT) process and documentation for IATF/TS 16949 audit.• Process improvement tools: VSM, 5S, Kaizen, control charts, pFMEA, TPM.• Problem-solving tools: DMAIC, A3 method, PDCA.

Rochester, Ny, Us

• Surveyed legacy & modern communication technologies & protocols for the manufacturing industry. • Surveyed different software design concepts, Middleware IIoT platform and so on. • Researched distributed control system from Industry 4.0 standpoint. • Researched design principles and basic building blocks of Industry 4.0• Researched opportunities for implementation of concepts in current industry scenario.

Farmington Hills, Mi, Us

Fuel Injector Nozzle – Spray hole machining and Assembly & Test.• Documentation: Spare parts & tooling catalog, standardized work instructions, gauge plans, etc.• Co-ordinated with purchasing, shipping & vendors to arrange purchase of tooling & spare parts. • Analyzed shop floor data to find improvement projects and to track Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). • Improved & modified drawings and bill of materials (BOM) of tooling in SolidWorks for continuous improvement. • Troubleshooting – Hydraulic & Pneumatic system, PLC controller.

Products: Compact roller mill & Overhead crane• Project management – Raw material estimation, vendors & in-house production management.• Engineering support – MIG, Arc welding, hard-facing, turning, milling, drilling & boring operations.

Pune, Maharastra, In

Project: Punching Press for Door panel of a vehicle.- Press tool & machine design; Hydraulic system design for special purpose machine.

Executive Mba, Information Technology

Master Of Science (M.S.), Manufacturing & Mechanical Systems Integration

Bachelor Of Engineering (Beng), Production Engineering