Manohara Sudheendra (Manu) Email & Phone Number

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Manufacturer Of Corrugated Boxes, Corrugated Sheets & Corrugated Rolls in Bengaluru, Karnataka.• We are a one stop solution for all your corrugated box needs. • We have modern machinery with experienced staff to ensure great Quality and higher production rate at optimum costs. • We use lean manufacturing techniques to improve Quality and reduce waste.• We have a brand-new manufacturing facility where we maintain 5S Workplace management.

Greater Detroit Area

• Worked with Assembly Quality team to identify & resolve supplier related quality issues by initiating the containment, communicating to the supplier, developing sorting criteria & work instructions.• Worked with global powertrain suppliers to resolve quality issues, by reviewing containment actions, CMM reports, failure analysis, corrective actions, preventive actions & 8D reports.• Held weekly meetings with the Suppliers to resolve critical quality issues.• Improved & standardized documentation of Quality complaints. • Developed “TSQE dashboard” with the support of IT team, which had Quicklinks to all the systems & processes used by TSQEs. This eliminated non-value added time & improved efficiency of TSQEs.• Co-ordinated with the Truck plants in returning the NOK/defective parts to the Suppliers for failure analysis & 8D reports.

Greater Detroit Area

• Introduced “Quality day”, during which we focused on improvements as a department by discussing the current issues & finding the solution as a group. • With the support of IT team, developed “SQE dashboard” which had Quicklinks to all the systems & processes used by SQEs. This eliminated non-value added time & improved efficiency of SQEs.• Worked on “PPAP alignment with MPT” which eliminated unnecessary delays in PPAP approvals due to unavailable Material & Process Technology personnel & resources. • Worked on a special project - “Supplier Quality Back to the Basics” to create a module which outlined all of the functions that Supplier Quality Engineers endure and execute.• Created 26 one page work instructions for all the systems, processes & procedures used by SQEs (APQP, PPAP, FMEA, Control plan, SPC, MSA, GD&T, Cleanliness requirements, etc.)• Using statistical analysis demonstrated a new way to look at Quality complaints, which can be used to plan Audits, Supplier visits & take appropriate actions to reduce quality complaints. • Took part in “Product familiarization class” for all the product lines (Engines, Axles & Transmissions) & learned about functions of all the subsystems, disassembled & assembled the whole product.

Bengaluru Area, India

• Implemented lean manufacturing in the organization. Prepared training materials and presented in the seminars to promote lean thinking.• Determined the bottleneck using bottleneck analysis & allocated additional resources to improve the throughput from 12 units/min to 25 units/min resulting in 20% ($43,000) increase in monthly turnover.• Reduced the load variation of the brake shoe return spring & improved Cpk from 1.48(4.5σ) to 1.83(5.5σ) using six sigma methodology.• Brought down the set-up time by 20% using time & motion studies.• Developed control plan, PFMEA, process flow diagrams, packaging standards, work instructions & conducted MSA & initial process studies to support PPAP & APQP. • Addressed & solved quality & manufacturing issues on the shop floor using root cause analysis. Developed & implemented corrective & preventive actions (CAPA) to address the root cause.• Led a Cross functional team to create 2D CAD drawings of the new plant layout for our new manufacturing facility. Used Cell-design and Value stream mapping to improve layout of equipment for maximizing the work flow & to support world class manufacturing.• Implemented & monitored 5S workplace organization. Secured 3rd place in a 5S audit conducted by one of our customers among 30 different suppliers across the country (India).

Bengaluru Area, India

• Conducted pareto analysis to find the major types of defects in the manufacturing of spark plug insulator. Determined the root cause of the defects using fishbone/Ishikawa diagram & 5 Why analysis.• Developed & implemented corrective & preventive actions (CAPA) to address the root cause.• Redesigned the unloading arm and with the help of design of experiments (DOE) optimized the binder preparation process to reduce the overall defects from 4% to 1%.

Masters, Industrial & Manufacturing Systems Engineering, 3.84

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Mechanical Engineering, 3.5