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Managing TV manufacturing Business Unit profitably with meeting of customer expectations.Lead team of managers and engineers in LCM and Back End operation.Ensure Safe working environment of LCM and assembly.Daily production review with CFT team to align team towards delivery commitment. Down time reduction and automation initiative, Kaizen implementation of LCM & Assembly lines.Driving continuous improvement on productivity, quality, cost, Delivery.Driving Quality team towards business KPI.Support Engineering team for ASSEMBLY lines Yield improvement.Meeting with customer to understand voice of customer.Forecast review with materials team and production planning team.Weekly MRP2 review with CFT team for crew and line allocation, equipment and test readiness.Conducting daily review with NPI team for 4M readiness for upcoming products.Drive CFT to reduce lead time for NPI ramp-up to mass build/production.Working with HR team for DL & IDL forecast and hiring.Team management.Reduction of scrap rate by driving the team towards technological solution.Inventory management and DOS reduction.WIP ageing and Order management.Consumable cost reduction & localization.Plan and execution of diversified working culture.

Sunrise & Sunset communication with Subordinates.Efficient Utilization of resources like Manpower, Material & Equipment.Material requirement follow up with respective departments.Ensure 100% production & Delivery as per plan.Responsible for In-Process Quality & Process Audits.Daily, Weekly, Monthly Manufacturing review with subordinates.Submitting action plan & implementing action for customer complaints.Plan & Control of Consumables budget to set the target.Preparing Monthly BOS and submitting Quality presenting to Top Management.Drive CFT to reduce lead time to NPI ramp to mass production.Plan Vs Actual gap analyzes with action plan. Monthly & Weekly Capacity review.Working towards Zero BAD.New product Launching.Improve subordinate performance by assessing competency & facilitate need based training.Direct handling of 5 Engineers & 280 work forces.Production hindering problems solving and improving productivity through silent observation to ensure on time completion of production order to meet daily requirements of customer.

Manage and monitor production line daily work & Ensure production plan timely.Taking care of production line material management, on time production, Scrap, Quality & process improvement.Responsible for In-Process Quality & Process Audits.Troubleshoot process related issues.Collaborate with Quality Department to identify and implement ongoing quality improvement.Identify & implement continuous improvements to the company production process.Drive CFT to reduce lead time to NPI ramp to mass production.Develop and maintain work instructions for each stage process.Participate daily meeting attend with concern team and talk about plan, yesterday issue and achievements.Collect, analyze, summarize and present production and process data, information and tend to management.Support process engineering change notice (ECN) and related Material Review Board (MRB) activities, as required.Review internal operational facility layouts for process improvement. Estimate staffing requirements, production times, and relative cost to provide data for operational decisions.Reduce operator ergonomics fatigue.Collaborate to both external and internal team (production, material, quality, production planner) on problem solving.Achievement:Premier line productivity increased from 40% to 67% by doing continuous improvements Methods.Scrap reduced from 1.12% to 0.21% with continuous improvements for 1 year.Change over time reduced from 20 min to 5 mins.Safety points of view avoid usage of knife & scissors in SMT PWB unpacking method.Implemented New Model Line and Achieved Production and Quality Target within 2 Months.

Co-coordinating with the entire team to achieve the production target, Customer PPM, Scrap cost reduction to meet the company target.Daily meeting attend with cell operators and talk about yesterday issues.MFR/SCRAP/OEE monitoring for quality and efficiency improvement.Encouraging the team members to actively participate in Employee involvement team meetings for suggestions and implementation.Have knowledge of using 7QC tools to reduce the internal problems.Maintain 5S&3R in responsible bay. Implementing TPM concepts in the line to reduce startup downtime.Trouble shooting, poka yoke, single piece flow, Kanban card monitoring, cycle time reduction are the part of responsibilities held.Reduction of cycle time by continuous improvement methods.Achievement:Disabling the Reprint Option in packing system to eliminate wrong parts and products sent to End CustomersProcess Modification done to eliminate Internal Process deviation from 15 Occurrence/Month to ZERO. Suggested Kaizen for eliminating Gift Box mismatch, Customer Complaint.Worked as a member for minimizing GB scrap project from 1.2% to 0.8%.