1. SARATH SREEDHAR
“Sreepuram (House)” Mob: +91 9036262666
Thalassery, Kerala. +91 9446267962
India – 670691 +91 9961499244
Currently Residing at Bangalore E-mail: sre.sarath@gmail.com
Seeking assignments in Manufacturing Engineering/Methods/ Industrial Engineering/
Program Management With an organization of repute
Summary
o Introduction to new product & installation of its manufacturing line with technical support.
o Deft in installation and commissioning of equipment & machines maintenance.
o Swiftly ramping up projects SOP with competent skills and ensuring on-time deliverables.
o Managing process improvements through lean & Six sigma concepts.
o An excellent communicator with good analyzing and problem solving skills.
o Expertise in implementing cost saving measures to achieve substantial reduction in terms of
production cost, low cost automation, materials re-sourcing and energy consumption.
o Insight Knowledge in Vision Based Inspection, PLC & Automation products.
Career Highlights
SKF INDIA LTD; Asst. Manager – Manufacturing Engineering & Maintenance
The Growth Path:
 Asst. Manager @ SKF India (Bearing Div),Bangalore,India July’12 – Present.
 Sr. Eng in Manufacturing EnggatFCI Connectors(Auto Div),Cochin Apr’07– Jun ‘12
 Automation Engg in Schneider Electric,Chennai. Aug’06 – Mar’07
 Maintenance Trainee in Titan Industries LTD (WatchDivision), Hosur Aug’05 – July’06
Total 11 Years of experience
Core Competencies
o Provides advanced process support for key users, ensures applications according to process needs.
o Executes competence development and assessment, in own process area.
o To manage Process Excellence & Improvements through Sig sigma & Lean Concepts Supports
actions to control and assures performance and key performance indicators (KPI) in right track.
o Monitors process quality & organizational needs towards process excellence within the organization.
o Validates and approves workarounds in own responsibility area affecting cost & resource as well as
operational model.
o Acts as contact point towards the relevant business and assures proper business input and responses
into relevant create & deployment programs/projects.
o Liaising with management on determining technical specifications & budgetary approval for the
smooth functioning of new businesses.
o Good analytical problem solving ability with Mechatronics skills to ensure the machine uptime.
o Leading a team of maintenance technicians from multiple disciplinary to meet plant KPI targets like
MTBF and MTTR
o Implementation of manufacturing process for New product in support followings:
~ Review Feasibility of new products with core team and design team
~ Co-ordination with Design department for conducting technical aspects & assisting APQP.
~ Establishment of Bill Of material (BOM) & Routing in database systems.
~ Target the product costing with respect to Process routing & material Cost.
~ Preparing the Process flow and FMEA for the process and maintain the documents existent.
~ Monitoring & controlling process through Statistical Process Control (SPC) Study.
~ Submission of PPAP & getting approval from Customer with support of sales department.
~ Preparing assembly standards, work instruction, process sheet, Special tools & Gauges.
~ Integration of new Machines with Robust controls like PLC and Vision Systems.
~ Ensuring compliance with quality standards with product and Process validation.
o Ensuring the smooth implementation of Engineering Change, through ECM database.

2. o Adherence to TS16949 / ISO14001 automotive standards.
o Implement Poka – Yoke to ensure the process facilities to take care of Zero defect.
o Optimising man & machine utilization to achieve pre-set production targets.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
o Participating in project management reviews with customer for evaluating project progress.
o Preparing project plans and monitoring to ensure its execution within the time & cost parameters.
o Leading and mentoring core project team for the smooth working of projects.
o Gate Reviews meetings with Programme team, Product development & Sales on implementation.
o Finalizing requirements and specifications and ensuring completion of project within the time and
effective resource utilization to maximize the output.
INSTALLATION &COMMISSIONING
o Preparing the technical specification for new machines & equipment’s.
o Follow up with suppliers at all mile stones of the implementation stages.
o Installation & Commissioning of equipment for the smooth working of operations.
o Conducting necessary validations of equipment and machines before start of production
o Training the operator on machine to understand the criticality & change over procedure.
o Foreseeing performance bottlenecks and taking corrective measures to avoid the same
o Studying and taking counter measures for problem faced during pilot run production
o Finalising the Layout for the production line, with Lean standards and Customer requirements.
Notable Accomplishments:
o Certified as Six Sigma Green Belt by SKF since 2014 with completion of three projects.
o Initiated and Implemented cost reduction activity for around 5MINR/Annum in 2014-15.
o Implemented 5 Vision Inspection systems to avoid Manual Inspection on manufacturing line.
o Accomplished new vision based technology (HSLT) online inspection systems.
o Successful in completing ABS WIRING HARNESS Projects for leading OEMs
o Installed and Implemented 15 Project & 5 SRS transferred Project till now.
o Successful in completing Major OEM Product / Process Audits.
TECHNICAL SOUND
o Programming and Trouble shooting of Vision Systems like,
~ Cognex / Keyence & Computer based systems
o Maintaining and trouble shooting of PLC based control circuits for,
~ Siemens S7 / Allan-Bradley
o Experience in AutoCAD for design of assembly fixtures & Product design updating.
o Curricular experience in CNC Programming.
Trips & Training
o TRIZ – Two day Training & Practical on Theory of Inventive Problem Solving in 2014
o Six Sigma Green Belt Training for a Period of two weeks and certified as Green Belt in 2013
o Twice visited FCI Ireland & FCI Hungary during 2007 to 2009 for a period of 4 weeks to study
Assembly process for transferring to India and Facilitate control equipment to implement
o PLC control System training for Siemens for a period of 2 Weeks From Bangalore
o Training For Failure Mode Effect Analysis for 2Days from Chennai.
Scholastics
B.tech in ElectricalEngineering (RVDOpen University) March 2009
Diploma in Mechatronics (NTTF) August 2005
Plus Two(Board Higher Secondary) March 2002
SSLC (Board Secondary) March 2000
Personal Vitae
Sex : Male
Date of Birth : 15Th May 1985
Passport No : M3062598
Languages : English, Hindi, Malayalam, Kannada & Tamil
Father Name : P.A. Sreedharan