Deepak Chachra

About Deepak Chachra

A person who owns up to all his decisions irrespective of whether those decisions gave the planned results or not.• >22-years of work experience with international techno-commercial exposure in the field of Mechatronic System Engineering, Manufacturing and CAE – for component design & system development, in hybrids & EVs.• Additionally, 1-year of hands-on shop floor experience in Larsen & Toubro, India.• Proven experience of leading teams, new product & technology development – concept to product launch.• Reviewer for SAE International Technical Papers for categories “Powertrains”, “Vehicle Drive Systems”, “Electric drives”, “Hybrid electric vehicles”, “Electric vehicles” and “Fuel Cell Vehicles”.• Certified Green Belt (GE Quality Drive, Six Sigma recognition).• M.Tech. from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in July 2004. The Masters Thesis work has been filed for a patent in India, USA and Europe. The US patent application has been granted with publication number US77•••16.Specialties: Curious, well-rounded and adaptable Mechatronics Engineer with proven experience of leading teams in new product & technology development - for hybrid vehicles and electric vehicles - in the field of automotive structural and powertrain system development (component level to system level)

Experience

1. Senior General Manager

   CG Power and Industrial Solutions Limited

   Jul 2024 — Present · Pune, IN

   Laid down the roadmap of technology, product configurations & execution strategy of traction motors/inverters for all automotive segments until 2035 – capturing VoC, technology levers and additional competencies in manufacturing and supply-chain.• Instituted LV platform strategy that led to 3-variants of new product (motor + inverter HW + SW) with:o Creation of product design in 8-weeks from previous >30-weeks;o 78% of part commonality giving 5-10% cost benefit and 3-5% better energy efficiency vs competitor;o Scalable product portfolio of 5-capacities with 3-customers, enabled by system-level thinking & manufacturing optimizations.• Instituted operational leadership to facilitate objective decision making by checklists & decision matrices. • Identification of manufacturing process flow & strategy (brownfield site with dedicated manufacturing and Quality Management Setup), P&L projections showing mid-double-digit IRR.• Led IATF 16949 certification and institution of relevant automotive processes of PPAP, APQP, PFMEA, PFD.• Re-organized the team into a matrix organization for better split between “pro-active development” and “reactive customer changes” giving clear advantages on engagement & costing.

Education

• SPP New Era High School

  SSC

  1992 — 1995

• K J Somaiya College of Engineering

  B.E., Mechanical Engineering

  1999 — 2002

• Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

  M Tech, Mechanical Engg

  2002 — 2004

Skills

• Finite Element Analysis
• Durable Goods
• Technology Evaluation
• Abaqus
• Fatigue Analysis
• Ptc Creo
• Pro Engineer
• Machine Design
• Stress Analysis
• Product Design
• Six Sigma
• Engineering Management
• Durability
• Hypermesh
• Simulations
• Cae
• Automotive
• Solidworks
• Catia
• Testing
• Product Development
• Gd&T
• Nx Unigraphics
• Engineering
• Ansys
• Design of Experiments
• Manufacturing
• Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing
• Unigraphics
• Fmea