Leonardo Gasperin Email & Phone Number

Brazil

Brazil

• Acting in the de TdC / THANKS team • TdC : Total Delivered Cost • THANKS: Trusty and HArmonious Network Kaizen activity with Suppliers • Provides Lean Manufacturing experience and guidance focused on reducing costs and opportunities through value stream transformation. Provides coaching and development opportunities to strengthen team capabilities and multiply knowledge. • Promote activities at Nissan and suppliers, evaluating processes and industrial costs (Monozukuri and corporate level) to identify opportunities for value improvements, cost reduction and consistency with the purchase quotation. • Strong relationship with operational and administrative areas in the actions management. • Development and managing of governance and KPI’s to monitor the cross-functional teams' performance, planning and defining priorities in actions. • Anticipation of risk and proposition of countermeasures through the governance and a careful follow-up of actions and projects. • Report operational and management presentations, focusing on the generation of ideas, optimization of resources and monitoring of performance indicators reporting to various executive forums. • TdC and THANKS awareness: ensure the understanding of the Nissan employees about the TdC and THANKS mission, as well as the connection of individual actions with the achievement of the entire TdC and THANKS.

São José Dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil

Activities• Qualification and monitoring of production processes• Elaboration and formalization of norms and procedures• Development of Quality indicators• Critically analyze Quality indicators for decision making• Execution and coordination of the Corrective Action process, with root cause analysis and action plan definition.• Application of Quality tools in the development of new products/processes• Monitoring of Quality audits• Execution of compliance process for tests• Execution of non-compliant product/process management process

Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil

Activities• Application of Lean Manufacturing and WCM culture and practices.• Implementation of manufacturing systems at suppliers.• Shop floor evaluations and definition of improvement implementation schedules.• Monitoring and control of project status and report to middle and upper management.• Define and implement KPIs.• Lead workshops for cross-functional and multi-level teams.• Acting on the shop floor of current small, medium and large suppliers in Latin America.• Suppliers of plastic injection, injection and machining of aluminum, cables, nets, stamping, bending and metallic painting.• Electrolux and suppliers’ co-development projects for new items.• Participation in improvements in the global methodology of the Supplier Development team.• Responsible for the global Dashboard of the Supplier Development team.• Implementation of the Supplier Development team at Electrolux Latin America.• Operational report to a supervisor in Brazil and functional report to directors in the US, Germany and Italy.Main results• In plastic and aluminum injection suppliers, improvements from 55 to 85% of OEE due to the reduction of Setup times of up to 50% and maintenance of machines and molds. Scrap reduction from approximately 1.5% to less than 1%. Productivity gains in assembly and inspection activities of up to 30%.• In wire mesh suppliers, from 70% to 80% OEE improvements in automated machines, due to a 60% reduction in Setup time and elimination of micro stops for adjustments. Elimination of rework that generated a 70% reduction in direct labor in the area.

Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil

Activities• Responsible for raw material, process and markup evaluation, defining the real cost of current components, replicating models for projected cost.• Evaluation of internal information such as Technical Drawings, BOM, teardowns and PPAP to support cost model.• Development of cost models with formulas and Cost Breakdown.• Validation of cost models with evaluation on the suppliers' shop floor.• Acting on the shop floor of current small, medium and large suppliers in Latin America.• Work performed on several types of components such as plastic, metallic, cables, networks, compressors and electromechanical components.• Cost Out Buyer: support purchasing and R&D activities in Cost Out actions, engineering projects focused on cost reduction.• Training on Cost Modeling and process improvement for the Latin American purchasing team (Brazil, Argentina and Chile).Main results• Cost reduction of 3 to 5% in aluminum injection items and electromechanical components, through the validation of the real cost linked to improvement proposals.• Development of an air conditioning cost model through teardowns, enabling technical (BOM) and cost benchmarks (3% reduction) with the identification of opportunities to improve the experience for the consumer.

Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil

Activities• Project leader in innovation and technology working in the areas of manufacturing and quality, with emphasis on the thermochemical process of Plasma Nitriding;• Acting in a Plasma Nitriding equipment retrofit project;• Responsible for managing time, costs and people allocated to the project;• Cross-functional team leader involving teams at Bosch and suppliers;• Planning and execution of tests and analysis of results.Main results• 20% reduction in cycle time.• Proposal for future implementations of production practices with greater energy savings and less environmental impact.

Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil

▪ Monitoring and control of Maintenance Indicators from all production sites.▪ Assistance to PCM (Planning and Control of Maintenance) teams of factories about general topics of maintenance planning.▪ Profile Manager SAP and Maximo, maintenance auxiliary software’s.▪ Project SAP-PM: implementation of SAP-PM as maintenance software. Assistance to Key Users and orientation to factory users.

Postgraduate Degree - Specialization, Production Engineering - Lean Management

Postgraduate Degree - Specialization, Project Management

Bachelor Degree, Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Technological Initiation Scholarship, Revespetro project from ANAP.