Akshay Balasubramaniyan

About Akshay Balasubramaniyan

I\'m a Curiosity driven Mechanical Engineering Graduate experienced in complete product life cycle focusing on Product design and validation with expertise in design for manufacturing and additive manufacturing of basic mechanical components to medical orthopaedic implants.# 3 Months of Internship Experience analysing process loss and Overall Equipment EfficiencySkills Acquired: PFMEA, Six sigmaSoftware skill acquired: MS Office, SAP # 9 Months of Start-up experience designing custom 3D printers and accessoriesSkills Acquired: ASME Y14•••09, 3D Printing, Design for Manufacturing, 5S, Kaizen, Customer handling & NegotiationSoftware skill acquired: AutoCAD, CATIA V5, Cura, Solidworks, MS Office# 17 Months of Research Experience - Biomechanics LaboratorySkills Acquired: 3D Bioprinting, Finite Element Analysis, Orthopaedic Implant design, Reverse Engineering, Research & Development, Mechanical TestingSoftware skill acquired: Ansys, Abaqus, Materialise Mimics, Matlab, MeshLab, MTS Test Suite# 24 Months of Professional Experience - Hanwha Qcells USA (Equipment Engineer)Skills Acquired: Machine Design improvement, Preventive Maintenance, Machine management, Process improvement, Machine improvement, Increase Overall Equipment Efficiency, Project Management, People Management.Core Competency: ASME Y14.5 - GD & T, Additive manufacturing (3D Printing), Biomechanics, Design for Manufacturing, Design Validation, Finite Element Analysis, New Product Development, Reverse Engineering, Research & Development (R&D), Laminators (Solar Panels, Cell).

Experience

1. Manufacturing Equipment Engineer

   Tesla

   Feb 2025 — Present · Buffalo, NY, US

   Revived and commissioned a dormant solar production line, integrating a Graco EFR dispense system into a 6-axis Fanuc robot cell.• Reprogrammed and retaught robotic dispense patterns, pick-and-place sequences, and cell operations, restoring full production capability.• Optimized Fanuc dispense cell by refining teach pendant programs, enabling selective module rework and eliminating $250K in potential scrap costs.• Improved cycle time by 24%(21s → 16s) through dispense sequence and parameter optimization, increasing throughput and overall production efficiency.

Education

• University of Illinois Chicago

  Master's degree, Mechanical Engineering

  2021 — 2022

• Sri Ramakrishna Engineering College

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Mechanical Engineering

  2015 — 2019