Suyash Kochrekar

• Participated in project teams and assisted with the execution of equipment tests like FAT (Factory Acceptance Testing), SAT (Site Acceptance Testing) and supporting validations per IQ, OQ and PQ protocols. Documenting the procedures, analysis and the results of the validation protocol and presenting to internal teams and customer. • Recommended and implemented corrective action for problems affecting costs, operator safety, productivity, and quality. • Working on projects to reduce scrap cost and fixture improvements to improve yield, reduce scrap, and increase efficiencies. • Developed Work Instructions/Standard Operating Procedures related to the equipment for standard operation, preventive maintenance, and troubleshooting. • Worked with New Product Introduction (NPI) teams and wrote Wittmann robot programs to pick parts from the mold and place them at offload location. Optimized cycle times for increased production ensuring quality leading to on time delivery of products and improved customer satisfaction. • Analyzed and evaluated manufacturing processes to maintain the automated equipment. • Mentored technicians and helped them on Sustaining/Operations projects. • Learned robot programming and solved problems related to positional changes on a robot program to ensure continued machine operation.

• Supported the technical activities in a manufacturing environment to ensure equipment and processes are operated at high efficiencies. • Troubleshoot and maintained custom electromechanical equipment, automated work cells, vision systems and multi-axis robotics. • Performed production change overs on automated work cells consisting of line clearances, work order closeout, equipment change-over etc. • Maintained Maintenance Repair and Overhaul (MRO) programs on all incoming equipment and existing equipment by creating PM work instruction, documenting repair work orders and executing periodic maintenance on existing equipment. • Used previous Quality Control experience to recommend and implement cost reductions in manufacturing to improve yield, reduce scrap, and increase efficiencies.

• Performed quality procedures on startup samples from different machines to ensure that the production can begin without any issues. • Performed visual and functional in-process inspections periodically and documented the data on appropriate records. • Inspected dimensions of product wherever necessary utilizing measuring devices like calipers, micrometers, pin gauges, vision system etc. • Stationed non-conforming products in the Material Review Board (MRB) area and assisted the QC team to take action on those items. • Supervised the rework of non-conforming products in the hold area and performed final inspection on reworked product to make sure it can be sent out to the customer.

• Developed and wrote programs on a 2-axis TRAK TRL 1630SX lathe to convert blanks (raw materials) to the finished shape according to customer drawings. • Used engineering knowledge to adjust operating parameters like Feed rate, Spindle rotation (rpm) according to the type of material being machined in the lathe. • Ensured that the dimensions of the machined part align with the blueprints by using various quality tools like vernier calipers, micrometers and custom gauges. • Created a manufacturing layout using SolidWorks and adhering to the lean six sigma principles to achieve efficient production flow with reduced non-value adding activities (wastes). • Kept a track of inventory for various tools like drills, taps, reamers, gauges etc. in an Excel spreadsheet to achieve uninterrupted production.

• Performed inspection and dimensioning on medical parts at various production stages using quality tools to determine the acceptability of part according to the blue-print specifications. • Monitored clean room operations to ensure compliance with Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and ISO 13485 regulations. • Discovered once that a finished assembly component was the main cause of a machine generated error. On de-assembling the finished product, found out that there was a crack on one of the part because of which the machine was giving an alarm signal at a station periodically. With mutual coordination from supervisors, engineering department and with appropriate quality measures, determined that around 30000 finished products were saved without quarantining them. • Participated in the root cause analysis for defective and non-compliant parts by generating data with the help of inspection procedures.

• Diagnosed origin of breakdowns and tackled problems by working closely with Quality Control, Purchasing and Sales team in the manufacturing industry of air rifles and air pistols. • Developed a programmable Microsoft Excel spreadsheet for inventory control which helped to get information about material status and it’s reordering. This saved around 10% time of going to the white board, locating the material, using the appropriate marker, and then updating the stock levels. • Documented Work Instructions (Standard Operating Procedures or SOP’s) for all the processes involving initial preparation of work material going into the assembly to the assembly processes as well as the packaging of finished product. Trained new operators on the processes according to these instructions. • Received target information from upper management and sales and then scheduled the production such that project deadlines were met in a timely manner. • Utilized lean manufacturing skills like 5S by placing appropriate tools and materials at the designated assembly workstation. This helped in reducing unnecessary motion and resulted in improved process efficiencies and productivity by around 10%. • Participated in internal and external audits to ensure that raw material and assembly processes were performed according to the work instructions.