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Sarath Kumar Nadavalur

Montreal,QC

Summary

  • Lead Industrial Engineer with 4+ years developing and administering digital manufacturing in industrial setting and improving plant layouts built around lean six sigma and robust digital twins using Discrete Event Simulation models.
  • Cross-Functional team lead to manage end-to-end engineering services and Continuous Improvement (CI) projects for FMCG and Automotive conglomerates i.e. Tesla, P&G, Unilever, Caterpillar, CNH etc.
  • Certified Six Sigma Black Belt with Master's degree in Industrial Engineering.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience

Work History

Material Flow and Layout Planner - Consultant

Caterpillar India
Chennai
12.2018 - 06.2020
  • As an On-Site consultant with Caterpillar India in Material Flow Optimization DES project for 1.5+ years
  • Analysing, improving and implementing material flow across all the value streams i.e
  • In-bound, Warehouses,
  • Fabrication, Assembly, Testing, Ship yard and Out-bound for Off Highway Trucks (OHTs) and Hydraulic
  • Excavators (HEXs)
  • Developed digital simulation models of all the value streams and using simulation + VSM to merge them and emulate the enhanced flow operations of the complete plant
  • Efficienct reduction of flow and resources helped in proposing immense existing layout improvements and assisted layout planner in finalizing the value streams and plant layouts.

Lead Industrial Engineer

L&T Technology Services Ltd
Chennai
12.2016 - 08.2020
  • Engineered digital manufacturing solutions for 20+ clients across using DMAIC tools, SLP, VSM, DES models and eliminating operational bottlenecks
  • Developing advanced emulation models using Flexsim 3D and Tecnomatix Plantsim to emulate the pilot codes of
  • PLCs and WMS thus reducing the commencement time for new line or product
  • Expert in material flow and traffic simulation by applying Simulation + Genetic Algorithms in variety of production systems to improve or re-design a value stream or the complete plant layout
  • Statistical Data Analysis with Minitab and Python to construct SPC charts and establish quality and reliability tolerances for finished products
  • Creating full-fledged performance dashboards showing identified KPIs, resource/manpower/MHE utilization, process bottlenecks, throughput (JPH), Buffers/Conveyors Occupancy, OEE using variety of dynamic pie charts, bar charts, XY Plots etc
  • In PowerBI and Tableu
  • Automating repetitive industrial tasks i.e
  • Time and Motion Study, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), SWIs,
  • VWIs using VBA macros
  • Designing and evaluating the automated process or material handling systems by integrating with futuristic engineering concepts and practices.

Education

BEng - Mechanical Engineering

Concordia University

MEng - Industrial Engineering

Concordia University
06.2022

Skills

  • Siemens Tecnomatix Plantsim
  • Flexsim 3D
  • Arena Simulation
  • Java 8 and Python
  • Minitab
  • CPLEX
  • WMS
  • SAP ERP

Timeline

Material Flow and Layout Planner - Consultant

Caterpillar India
12.2018 - 06.2020

Lead Industrial Engineer

L&T Technology Services Ltd
12.2016 - 08.2020

BEng - Mechanical Engineering

Concordia University

MEng - Industrial Engineering

Concordia University
Sarath Kumar Nadavalur