Kailash Chandramouli Email & Phone Number

Raymond, Ohio, United States

Raymond, Ohio, United States

• Provided Project management support with multiple projects for the Paint shop engineering team at Mercedes Benz Vans.• Assisted with the automation of Sika Sealer application line to increase production capacity.• Co-ordinated with suppliers for installation of robots, work commissioning, and on-site support.• Monitored the application quality and rectified quality issues using Root cause analysis resulting in cost savings of $1000 - $2000 per van.• Studied the process flow in the assembly line and improved it to eliminate downtime in the cell and its effect on the other zones.• Managed documents necessary for final commissioning of the project and subsequent handover to Production Engineering.• Collaborated with the facilities team at MBV to oversee the installation of a heat exchanger to utilize exhaust gasses from the paint shop ovens to heat up water to supply to rinse tanks and the air supply units.• Oversaw purchasing of spare parts for the Heat exchanger and Sika Sealer line automation project.

Greenville, South Carolina, United States

• Designed a custom impact testing fixture using Solidworks for evaluating joint performance of welded woven carbon fiber reinforced thermoplastic panels.• Created FE models for simulating 3-point bending, and Impact testing using Altair Hypermesh to analyze in LS Dyna.• Designed tooling for injection molding foamed thermoplastics using Supercritical foaming.• Created Engineering drawings following GD&T guidelines for injection molding tooling.• Performed FE simulations for Injection molding process using Moldex 3d.• Manufactured Unidirectional Carbon-fiber reinforced Polyetherketoneketone (PEKK) panels using thermoforming.• Studied effect of cooling time and process conditions on degree of crystallinity on formed CFRP panels.• Performed tensile, compression and shear tests on UD CF reinforced PEKK according to ASTM standards for material data card creation.

Tiruvallur, Tamil Nadu, India

• Assisted with the optimization of existing assembly line which resulted in improvement of process efficiency by 20%.• Optimized assembly line layout to reduce takt time and operator fatigue using Systematic layout planning.• Prepared Standard Operating procedures and other supplemental documents for new assembly processes.• Underwent training in Product engineering and management.• Designed improvements in manufacturing processes to increase production quantity.

Master Of Science - Ms, Automotive Engineering

Relevant coursework: Structural & Thermal Analysis of Automotive structures, Vehicle Dynamics, Applied Optimization for Lightweight.

Bachelor'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering