Vishvas Patel Email & Phone Number

Richland, WA, US

Eagle, ID, US

• Direct continuous improvement initiatives across 15 manufacturing plants in North America. Lead, train, and mentor a team of 30 division staff in creating, implementing, and promoting a Total Productive Maintenance.
• Provide Site Leadership a calibrated assessment of CI culture implementation from a point of view of total integration of the TPM pillars.
• Provide direct coaching to Site Leadership teams so they know what the next step is, why the next step is important and how to do the next step while creating capability to deliver stable and predictable operations.
• Promote reapplication of approaches and techniques globally while assuring the CI tools used are being used according to the standard.

Kimberton, PA, US

Developed Henry’s Operating Model for Excellence, a continuous improvement culture playbook for improving performance of Business Operations through leader standard work, visual controls, accountability, transparency, and data-driven decision making.

Eagle, ID, US

Led continuous improvement initiatives across 15 manufacturing plants in North America. I trained, and mentored plant folks in creating, implementing, and evangelizing process improvement strategies and initiatives. I also advised senior leaders in adopting high-value strategies and best practices for maximizing revenue and efficiency across the company..

Salt Lake City, Utah, US

Developed throughput improvement roadmaps and related process improvements based on Theory of Constraints to improve project and operational timescales and outputs by an average of 15% to 25% in a fast-paced energy environment. Led and coached five new employees in learning process improvement techniques for use in their own projects

Detroit, Michigan, US

I developed, implemented, and led numerous improvement processes, programs, and initiatives while also defining project scopes and deliverables, creating project tasks, and developing full-scale project plans. I designed analytical models for new vehicle launch programs, identified manufacturing risks, and identified special needs across tooling.

Detroit, Michigan, US

In this role, I spearheaded lean, workflow optimization, and cost reduction initiatives for the global vehicle deployment schedule and directed project teams and collaborated across all business functions. Selected highlights include:  Realized over $20M in cost savings across new program development efforts while simultaneously realizing $350K in.

I created and led discrete event simulation models for manufacturing systems and developed improvement strategies to clients by using Kaizen, JIT, and Lean methodologies. A key focus was on enabling simulation models that defined optimal lot sizes for WIP and cycle time reduction while simultaneously developing manufacturing strategies for multi-level.

Developed Master Production Schedules for production departments and parallel associates.

Implemented lean manufacturing methodologies such as JIT, KANBAN, Continuous improvement, 5S, Value stream. Lead new product/process introduction projects.

Mba, General Management

Graduate Certificate, Design For Customer Value And Market Success

Master'S, Industrial Engineering

B.E, Mechanical