Vishal. Kumar

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ABOUT VISHAL. KUMAR

Highly skilled lean operations & Manufacturing Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the automotive & . Home appliance manufacturing industry, offering expertise in WCM (World Class Manufacturing) pillars such as Autonomous Maintenance, Workplace Organization, People Development, Focused Improvement, Cost Deployment, Automotive Production Management, Lean Manufacturing techniques, Kaizen & Kanban techniques & standards for optimizing production processes in shop floor, ensuring seamless material flow, reducing inventory, multi-skilling & up skilling manpower, to achieve substantial reduction in operational costs, eliminate all process wastage, & enhance productivity with strategic employee engagement, training & development, organization, & engineering innovationManufacturing Operational Excellence Work-Out and Kaizen Facilitator, Project Management Foundations, & Operation Management FoundationsComprehensive knowledge of principles of World Class Manufacturing for implementation of lean management techniques including Machine Safety, & total quality management, to devise & implement processes that are intolerant to defects, & eliminate all non-value-added activitiesWell-versed with MS Excel, Google Sheet & MS Office, Google Slides; conversant in QA/QC techniques including Lean, Statistical Process Control, Cycle Time Reduction, FMEA, Root Cause AnalysisGood understanding of WCM methodology, standards & strategies including Kaizen, Focused Improvement, & Autonomous Maintenance as part of WCM; detail-oriented with the ability to coordinate AM pillar meetings to resolve issues with other WCM pillars including Logistics, Safety, Professional Maintenance, Quality Control and Focused ImprovementProficient in Root Cause Analysis (RCA) tools like 5W1H, 5Why, OPL, Ishikawa for enabling systematic prevention & resolution of underlying issues & problems; capable of running Gemba walks on the shop floor as part of internal quality audits, to encourage observation & evaluation of daily production processes, to identify irrelevant & wasteful activities, as well as critical steps & create a better understanding of the value streamSuccessfully achieved zero unsafe conditions with daily safety audits, & lead the 5S initiative on the shop floor which evaluated & considerably enhanced operator productivity & performanceTo know more about my work experience and skills, you can connect with me. Thank you.