Silvio E. N. Gouveia Email and Phone Number

* Lean Manufacturing Lead Consultant overseing the national project "Brasil mais Produtivo" in the state of São Paulo obtaining 50% average increase in productivity from 340 small and medium industries from mechanical, food and beverage, apparel, furniture and footwear segments. * Lean Manufacturing Consultant obtaining minimum 20% productivity increase and cost reduction at various industrial processes.* TWI Job Instruction and Transactional Analisys Trainer for factory floor leaders to assure Lean Mfg. sustainability. * Patent and Utility Model documents writing for deposit at Instituto Nacional de Propriedade Industrial (INPI).* Development of the apparel innovation Movexx (trademark) through SENAI's expertise to automate work stations.

* Responsible for manufacturing Teflon-made products such as sealing rings, valve seats, shaft seats and gaskets for applications in the automotive, hydroelectrical and oil & gas industries.* Structure of Production Control department (Protheus 10).* Structure of Process Engineering department (ISO/TS 16949).* Leadership by using indicators of Productivity, Waste, Rework, Scrap and MTBF.

* Responsible for manufacturing, quality and engineering of Airtech rubber air springs for trucks and buses air suspension systems.* Refurbish of Utilities area (air compressor, boiler, water treatment) to guarantee steady production.* Representative of the Turkye Directory and leader of the ISO 9001:2008 Certification obtained in August 2010.* Reduction of 60% in the rework of rubber air springs produced with failures getting the production goal and delivery dates of 9.000 air springs / month.

* Responsible for the production of phenolic felts to absorbe Noise, Harshness, Vibration (NHV) and for the production of glass fiber felts for headliners.* Technical development and production of the fiberglass anti-flame under-hood felt, making viable its production and delivery dates for attending Toyota Corolla and Honda Civic vehicles (9 tons/week).* Training of the production team in the quality system QSB establishing fast response teams at receiving, production and warehouse (customer complaints).

* Responsible for manufacturing monofilament nets for fishing, Raschel nets for fish farming, ropes and polypropylene technical yarns.* Merging of the production and maintenance areas under the same supervisor (production).* Training of the factory floor people in the kaizen small-teams working system for continuous improvement.* Implementation of the Toyota shift working hours system to perform daily planned maintenance.* Nylon yarn waste reduction of 57% in nets production for salmon farming (Chile).* Development and implementation of the New Products Delivery Dates Chronogram synchronizing Engineering, Purchasing, Production Control and Manufacturing to obtain attendance of new products development and planned delivery dates.

* Responsible for maintenance in the automotive windshield glass plant.* Implementation of the planned (predictive) maintenance system and the indicators MTBF and MTTR.

* Responsible to implement the HVAC factory.* Leader of the PFMEA for assembling the HVAC systems for the vehicle VW Gol (done by a multifunctional engineering team, in English, at Spain).* Development in partnership with the Spanish maker of the work stations for assembling HVAC systems (functions and poka-yokes).

* Responsible for development and quality improvement of rubber air springs.* Development, training and implementation of kaizen small-teams working system for continuous improvement of processes and quality.* Reduction of 35% in the rework of rubber air springs produced with failures.* Development of a new air spring for the European bus market.

* Responsible for manufacturing technical fabrics (tires, hoses, belts) and rubber conveyor belts.* Development of tire cord and conveyor belt square fabric specifications.* Merging of warping, twisting and weaving areas under the command of one supervisor.* Nylon and Polyester yarns waste reduction of 50% at tire cord and square fabric production.* Productivity increase of 51% at technical fabrics manufacturing.* Zero accidents during 4 consecutive years by applying the STOP safety system (Du Pont).* Waste reduction of 40% at rubber conveyor belts production.* Reduction of 80% in the incidence of the defect "blocked air" in the rubber carcass obtaining perfect attendance of the most important customer delivey dates (CVRD).