Guruprasad Annigere

- Member of Management Steering committee, part of company policy & decision making Discussions
- Presently leading a team of 40 people - R & D and Tool Room
- Key Account Manager to DICV projects, ingle window contact, responsible from RFQ to Payment collection.
- Responsible for change of products, development of new products & related tooling
- Responsible for Technical discussion with customers, feasibility studies proto development of component, production of ‘C’ Samples, ‘D’ Samples & approval of samples and buy off trials, process establishment and PPAP documentation
- Development of Series Toolings, Fixtures and checking gauges
- Managing the Tool Room Machine shop
- Instrumental in reducing rejection, avoiding wastage
- Establishment of Preventive maintenance schedules
- Liaising with the vendors & suppliers
- Setting up of the standard for Toolings, fixtures & gauges
- setting up of the system for the meticulous follow up, Validation of parts at the vendors end
- Instrumental in implementation of Kaizen & 5S in the entire comp

- Member of Management Steering committee, part of company policy & decision making Discussions
- Presently leading a team of 32 people - Tool Room & the Moulding shop
- Responsible for change of products, development of new products & related tooling
- Responsible for production planning, machine allocation & delivery commitments
- Managing the Tool Room Machine shop
- Handling, Development & Maintenance of Cold and Hot runner, Multi Cavity high precision injection moulds
- Instrumental in reducing rejection, avoiding wastage
- Implementation of Preventive maintenance
- Liaising with the vendors & suppliers
- Setting up of the standard mould books for Injection & Injection Blow moulds, setting up of the system for the meticulous follow up, Validation of moulds & the parts at the vendors end
- Liaising with the European & US Counter parts
- Successfully developed advanced technological moulds with Fully Hot Runner & Auto Unscrew Mechanism
- Achieved uniformity in productivity
- Instrumental in implementation of Kaizen & 5S in the entire company

- Spearheaded a group of tool makers consisting of 12 people
- Pivotal in ensuring the quality & timely delivery of press tools
- Instrumental in
A) Productivity by 2 times
B) Taking tryouts & sample approval
C) Interacting with the customers during buy off
- Distinction of reducing rejection by effective utilization of machines and manpower
- Imparted training to the workforce to enhance their skills

- Worked as head of the department, handling 25 subordinates
- Managed design, planning, machine shop, manufacturing, maintenance of all the tooling requirements of the plant
- Design & Development of new products & Tooling for precision Plastic molded parts (Delrin) for the assembly of various gauges like a Lever type Dial gauges
- Conversion of Cold runner Moulds into Hot Runner Moulds to reduce the material recycling & wastage
- Conversion of progressive tools in to compound tools to improve the positional accuracy of different geometry of the component, in turn increasing the RFT (Right First time) to reduce the production cost & increase in profitability.
- Design & development Computer system based air multi gauging machine with digital readouts for the automobile giants like Bajaj, TVS & LML

- Managing the Tool Room Machine shop
- Handling Theory classes to diploma, post diploma & post graduate students
- Preparation of Question papers, conducting examinations, conducting Viva Voce
- Deputed to Malaysia to establish a training center
- Worked a project leader for execution of tightly scheduled project of manufacturing & export of Blow Moulds to M/s SIDEL

- Managing the Tool Room & Machine shop
- Actively participated in implementing ISO 9001 Systems
- Held complete responsibility of catering all the tooling needs of the company.

- Managing the Tool Room Machine shop
- Actively participated in implementing ISO 9001 Systems
- Modification & improvisation of Tooling to run the in auto cycle thereby increasing the productivity & resource optimization
- Handled the Multi cavity heavy duty moulds
- Maintenance of Hot Runner Systems
- Worked as Shift in charge

- Managing the Tool Room Machine shop
- Actively participated in implementing ISO 9001 Systems
- Modification & improvisation of Tooling to run the in auto cycle thereby increasing the productivity & resource optimization