1. RAHUL YADAV
3502 Plaza Drive, State College, PA 16801
Email ID: roy5047@psu.edu LinkedIn ID:www.linkedin.com/in/yrahul90/ Phone number (814) 753-2361
SUMMARY
Strong academic background and work experience in the domain of manufacturing processes and operation, Supply chain
engineering, data analysis and interpretation with experience in leading projects and teams, making financial decisions,
organizing fundraising event, ability to multitask, building an organization and networking
EDUCATION
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 2013-2015
Master of Engineering : Industrial Engineering GPA:3.63/4.0
National Institute of Technology, Surat, India 2008-2012
Bachelor of Technology: Mechanical Engineering GPA:8.2/10.0
RELEVENT COURSEWORK
Design of Experiment Applied stochastic process Industrial Management technique
Manufacturing systems Total quality management  Measurement System
Production Management Supply chain Engineering Manufacturing Technology
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Comar, Buena, New Jersey
Operational Intern - Technical operational department May 2014 – Aug 2014
 Increased 30% mold shop efficiency by removing manual cleaning process and replacing with ultrasonic cleaner
 Investigated and implemented thermal imaging system which reduce the temperature rejection by 20 % annually
 Developed digital tracking in ERP system to collect mold hours and spare parts used in preventive maintenance
 Analyzed the cost saved by torque testing equipment upgrade for In-house testing
 Supported project managers in the development of the E-cigarette bottle tips
 Raised the CAPEX request for power up-gradation to increase mold functionality testing
 Analyzed the cost effectiveness of alcohol wipes used in the mold to modify the cleaning process
 Involved in the mold shop layout planning and kaizen activities implementation to reduce the material waste
Johnson Controls Inc, Bangalore, India
Maintenance Engineer - Foam Manufacturing Plant June 2012 – June2013
 Reduced the downtime from 10% to 3.5% by total preventive maintenance and daily downtime analysis
 Decreased the machine rejection from 1.05% to 0.13% by root cause and pareto analysis
 Designed and incorporated maintenance check sheets to reduce the power consumption from 2.61 to 1.5 watt/EOQ
 Implemented Kanban systems which reduced Inventory by 13.3% in equipment maintenance area
 Assisted in domestic supplier selection for three critical spare part to reduce lead time by 1 month
 Maintained the equipment maintenance documents and clauses for TS-16949 and safety audits
 Investigated and installed the automatic date printing machine which saved $2000 annually
 Achieved the preventive maintenance compliance of 97.5% from 92%
 Participated in the Implementation of 5S and held the responsibility of co-coordinator for equipment area
Bharat Pump and Compressor Limited, Allahabad, India
Process improvement Internship- Pump Assembling Plant May 2010-June 2010
 Converted the production from batch production to single piece flow reducing flow time by 16.7%
 Introduced the conveyor between the work station which reduced manpower requirement
 Inventory between the station is reduced to half after system implementation

2. KEY ACADEMIC PROJECTS
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
Graduate student
Design of experiment to identify the significant factors affecting fluidity of material Sept 2014- Dec 2014
 Designed a fractional factorial experiment to identify the significant factors for fluidity in plastic injection molding
 Performed the experiment in laboratory and collected fluidity number response for each sixteen experiments
 Analyzed the data in Design expert and Minitab software and ran semi folder over design to disentangle aliases
 Concluded the project with confirmation test for three significant factors out of six and two interactions
Develop a Spreadsheet model for Supplier selection and order allocation Jan 2014- May 2014
 Reduced the number of supplier selection criteria by using statistical analysis
 Number of potential supplier are decreased to one third by using the L2 metric method
 Suppliers are ranked by using Analytical hierarchy method(AHP)
 Order allocation is optimized by using different goal programming methods and integrating the result of AHP
 A real life supplier selection problem consist of 21 potential supplier and 7 criteria is illustrated using this model
Value stream mapping for an assembly plant to reduce the cycle time and inventory Sept 2013-Dec 2013
 Drawn current state of value stream using information collected from front seat assemble line, Johnson control Inc
 Future state of the value stream is drawn based on the annual and strategic goal of the company
 Identified the bottle neck and recommended the improvements which reduced the inventory by 14.7%
 Conducted the time and motion study to optimize per station process timing resulting in 7.5% reduced cycle time
Inventory management for manufacturer to optimize the inventory cost and orders Sept 2013-Dec 2013
 Five different policies are used to evaluate the inventory management and ordering
 Ten different cases with low or high inventory and back-order cost are applied to these policies to calculate cost
 The average inventory cost different cases is calculated based on fifty weeks demand to draw inventory cost results
 Recommended inventory policy and ordering strategy depending on inventory and back order cost
National Institute of technology, Surat, India
Undergraduate student
Design a Cam type valve for cryogenic pulse tube cryocooler July2011- May2012
 Investigated and tested the leakage and failure reason in design of existing rotatory type valve
 Developed a Cam type valve design to replace rotatory type valve without changing orifice or equipment specification
 Fabricated the valve and conducted experiment which resulted in 3.9% efficiency increase and achieved 9 kelvin
Lean manufacturing techniques implementation best practices in operation July 2011-Dec 2011
 Conducted literature review on lean manufacturing technique implementation
 Collected data on lean best practices implementation in local industries and its results
 Presented a seminar in front of three jury members and fifty student
SKILLS
 Software
Design : Solid works, AutoCAD, Pro-E Enterprise : MFG/Pro, IQMS, SAP
Optimization : Microsoft Excel, LINDO, LINGO, @risk(Excel) Statistical : Minitab, SPSS, SAS
MS Office : Microsoft Project, Word, Power point
 Technical : FMEA, VSM, SPC, MRP, PAPP
LEADERSHIP
Fundraiser Coordinator, Association for India's Development (AID)
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA April 2014-Present
 Managed operations and publicity of three fundraisers events.
 Raised $ 7000 in a single event for different Chapter sponsored projects.