Akshay Dhar

About Akshay Dhar

Business Advisory, Transformation & Strategy Leader Consulting across multiple industries:Automotive | Manufacturing | Food & Beverage | Industrial Equipment | Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG)| Start-ups Consulting Domains: Business Advisory | Digital & Business Transformation | AI & Intelligent Automation | Industry 4.0 | Manufacturing | Strategic Sourcing & Supply Chain Management (SCM)| Business & Operations Strategy | Program & Project Management | Production & Capacity Planning | Lean Manufacturing & Process Excellence | New Product Introduction (NPI) & Product Management | Productivity Improvement & Cost Reduction | Business Process Improvement | Vendor Development & Vendor Management | SustainabilityEducation:MSc Manufacturing Systems Engineering (WMG)- University of Warwick, United Kingdom | BTech - Mechanical Engineering (DIT Dehradun)- Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University (previously known as U.P. Tech. University), India

Experience

1. General Manager Autonomous Manufacturing Global Energy & Manufacturing

   HCLTech

   Feb 2025 — Present · IN

   As a Solution Principal Autonomous Manufacturing / Industry 4.0 for GEM (Global Energy & Manufacturing) leading Consulting and Business Advisory across Industrial Manufacturing | Process & Chemical | Agribusiness Industry for Americas and Europe.Driving Digital & Business Transformation through technology adoption.IoT | Robots & Co-bots | Intelligent Process Automation (IPA) & Robotic Process Automation (RPA)| AI – ML | 3D Printing | GenAI | Agentic AI | Physical AI | AR – VR – XR | Computer Vision | Wireless | Big Data Analytics | SLM - LLM - XLM Advisory Across Solutions Smart Factory | Autonomous Manufacturing | Digital Twin/ Thread | Autonomous & Connected Vehicles | Connected Warehouses | Connected Worker | Remote Monitoring | Predictive Maintenance | Sustainable Operations

Education

• Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University

  Bachelor’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering

  2002 — 2006

• University of Warwick

  Master’s Degree, WMG - Manufacturing Systems Engineering

  2010 — 2011

Skills

• Lean Manufacturing
• Fmea
• Business Strategy
• Quality Assurance
• Total Productive Maintenance (Tpm)
• Strategy
• Vendor Management
• Engineering
• Manufacturing Engineering
• Business Process Improvement
• Team Management
• Mis
• Operations Management
• Project Management
• Process Engineering
• Global Sourcing
• Quality Management
• Continuous Improvement
• Value Stream Mapping
• Process Improvement
• Cost Reduction
• Management
• Start-Up Consulting
• Project Planning
• Product Development
• Change Management
• Manufacturing
• Industrial Engineering
• New Vendor Development
• Program Management
• Supply Chain Management
• Jit
• Logistics
• Automotive
• Manufacturing Management
• 5s
• Tpm
• Logistics Management
• Kaizen
• Advanced Materials