Mechanical Design Engineer

I have 6 years 9 months of work experience in diverse areas. My Key areas of expertise are Top Down Design using Pro/Engineer, Handling of Large assemblies, New Product Design/ Cost reduction for Plastic/Sheet metal parts.

 Project Experience:
Product Design and Development of Internal Combustion powered & Electric powered Counterbalanced Components
• Lead the Electric Truck Offshore Group. Team size varied from 2 to 4 people.
• Development of new series of Lift Trucks with advanced features which includes Concept & Detailed Design of components and sub-systems for a new range of Internal Combustion powered & Electric powered Counterbalanced Trucks to match the current market requirements.
• Design of components, assemblies & sub-systems using Part, Assembly & General Arrangement drawings, Harness for Lift Trucks.
• Accelerated Cost Reduction projects worked On:
? Development of concepts for cost reduction of Radiator Top Bracket Mounting Design for 4.5-5.5T Forklift Trucks
? Design of Fan Spacer to support new Composite Radiator Fan for 2-3T Forklift Trucks
? Feasibility study for conversion of Single Brake Pedal Weldments into Casting for 1-8T Trucks
? CAD support for Transmission Cooling Hoses concept release for 2-3T Trucks
• New product development support
? Design of new Light Mounting Brackets and Harness routing for 2-3T Electric Truck
• Participate in Technical reviews
• Creation of Product structure.
• Release of drawing for production.
• Working closely with FEA Team for structural analysis of concepts developed
• ECN creation
• Provide technical assistance, training, and mentoring to peers.
• Quality Assurance

VAVE Project on ENCORE Dispenser:
• This was an indigenization / cost reduction project, involving New product development and designing Plastics/Sheet metal components, assembly and assembly verification.
• Concept design for Converting Sheet metal Encore Totalizer Bracket to Plastic Bracket
• Concept design of Sheet Metal Brackets for supporting DEF Brackets on Encore Fuel Dispenser for Retrofit option
• Routing of Fuel Lines for Horizon and Encore Fuel Dispensers due to change in end adapter

New Product Development/ Cost Reduction support for GE Side by Side, Top Mount, Bottom Feezer Refrigerators
• Providing technical support for Developing concepts by applying DFM (For Plastic Part Design).
• Create Structural / Sealed System / F&A / I&W Subsystem Parts, Energy guides designs, Model files, Part drawings, Manufacturing drawings, Process update. It involves use of Pro/Engineer.
• New Product development project for Design of Can Holder for Bottom Freezer refrigerators
? Development of Tolerance loops for Bottom Freezer Can Holder
? Tolerance Analysis using MonteCarlo Analysis to meet Six Sigma for derived CTQ's
• Implementing Six Sigma design methodologies, interacting with Satyam Six Sigma expertise, collecting data for analysis and verifying with actual production process.
• Reducing the number of errors by using Model check, an unique tool which will review Pro/E objects (.prt, .drw, .asm) reporting either warning or errors for nonconformance to standard or undesirable Modeling practices.
• Provide technical assistance, training, and mentoring to peers.
• To recommend process improvements, new model strategies and productivity improvement ideas for the benefit of GE C&I.
Manufacturing and Testing Engineer for Centrifugal high Energy Machine Buliding
• Coordinating in all aspects of machine building starting from Material procurement, Supplier monitoring, Fabrication/ Assembly line inspection to testing of machines.

Exposure to Carbon Fiber Composite Layup and curing from Hindustan Aeronautics Limited