Kedar Aphale

KLT Group is Indian MNC group. KLT Automotive and Tubular Products Ltd. is the foremost name in the manufacturing of automotive chassis frame assemblies for MUVs, pick-ups and other light commercial vehicles. It has established its position as the most dependable tier 1 company. KLT group is having 5 plants across pan India and two plants in South Africa. Pantnagar manufacturing Plant having 50 Cr. yearly turn over with 250 nos of employees.

KRAs-
• Responsible for overall Operations activities of the chassis manufacturing plant.
• Being the head of operations, lead by example to support the organization.
• Improved EBIDTA from 10 % t0 15% by reducing overheads like manpower cost, material cost, power cost, transportation cost and consumable cost.
• Improved productivity by 15 % through identification of bottleneck process and line balancing.
• Reduced overtime through closely monitoring of daily shift-wise outputs, analysis of demand vs actual gap required to meet the targets.
• Analysis of quarterly business requirements and highlighting the same with management in time.
• Improvement in Share of business (SOB) from 10 % to 25 % through consistently delivering products as per customer’s requirement.
• Reduction in material cost through starting parts production in-house and price renegotiation of the bought out parts with suppliers.
• Effective coordination with manpower contractors.
• Involvement in proper planning of weekly disbursement of supplier’s payments.
• Close monitoring of PPM at customer’s end and reduction of it through assigning improvement project to the cross functional team.
• Effectively managed output of in-house press shop with 22 nos presses, capacity from 30T to 200T
• OEE improved through reduction in line changeover time.
• Yield improvement of press parts through procurement of cut to size raw
• Active participation in timely development of BS6 products to meet business requirements.
• Successfully implementation of IATF 16949- 2016 version recertification.
• Implementation and adherence to statutory and regulatory compliances.
• Create awareness of health and safety requirements across the organization. material, making parts from scrap and the modification in tooling.

• Responsible for overall manufacturing activities of the plant of raised access flooring systems.
• Co-ordination with internal departments like Production, Planning, scheduling and maintenance to ensure timely delivery of monthly targeted quantities.
• Reviewed each process with all team and optimized the same for max out-put, adherence to defined targets for manufacturing /Cost /Quality and delivery. (Reduced man power from 253 nos to 230 nos)
• Established daily overtime monitoring system and reduced the same.
• Implemented 5S, 3R, suggestion scheme on line to get 1st hand feedback for improvement through teams.
• Defined JDs, KPIs and KRAs of all team members to align and meet organizational goals.
• Analyzed hourly single piece flow production and optimized stage-wise stock to control WIP.

Sensata Technologies is Temperature sensors and Pressure sensors manufacturing company in Malaysia. These sensors are supplied to automobile industries: Borg Warner, Germany and Volkswagen.
Sensata Technologies having their supplier’s hub at Bangalore. I was working for Sensata technologies as a full time consultant for Supplier Quality Development at Bangalore.
KRAs-
• Consultancy for overall development of supplier: Indo-MIM PVT Ltd and subcontractors.
• Indo-MIM PVT Ltd is Metal Injection Molding Supplier of Sensata Technologies . at Bangalore having turn over of 450 Cr. with 2000 employees.
• Gap Analysis through assessment of current infrastructure and bottleneck process to achieve daily shipment quantities.
• Implementation of 5S at all workstations.
• Tactical facilitation and guidance in yield improvement based on frequent process review and direct cross functional team to reduce the rejections.
• Cycle time study and line balancing to improve the production out put.
• Weekly audit at different locations: Coordination and implantation of improvement Actions.
• Co-ordination with tool-room for Layout inspection and initiate new tooling requirements.
• In-house verification and validation of new tool parts.
• Coordinate with development department for the PPAP samples submission.
• Co-ordination with Sensata for the Samples approval.
• Systems Implementation to reduce non-value added activities.

1. Over all responsible for Quality function across the Company, which includes in-coming, In-process out going and after sales.
2. Establishment of systems on line to eliminate process rejection.
3.ISO 9001 implementation through out the company. Working as a Management Representative.
4.Setting of quality targets/ Goals and get work done from QA and cross functional team.
5 Guide the all teams to achieve the targets.
5. Analyse and improve the customer complaints to reduce the same.

LG Electronics India Pvt. Ltd. Ranjangaon (Pune) plant is largest home It’s a Home Appliance manufacturing Korean MNC, like AC, Washing machine, Refrigerator, LCD, Mobile etc..

KRAs-
• Worked as a Team Leader of AC and Washing machine product line.
• Responsible for quality of AC from incoming material to finished product.
• Monitoring of customer complaints, In-process rejection rate, supplier’s rejection rate and outgoing quality rate on weekly basis and take counter actions to make
Right First Time parts / product.
• Conduct Q system audits, 3 F audit, SixTool audit at supplier’s end to monitor status of improvement.
• Interact with direct customer and service centre to get first hand feedback.
• New product development through continuous monitoring stage-wise.
• Initiate design changes after testing of engineering samples, pilot production and mass production.
• Heading Vendor commitment meeting ( VCM ) monthly for worst supplier of the month and mutually freezing corrective and preventive action plan.
• Controlling of field quality issues (SCR ) Service call rate through initiation of quality improvement Projects at supplier’s end and in-house.
• Conduct stringent SQA Factory Audits for selection of suppliers and implementation of actions to make Best in class factory set up.
• Development of new parts and process with active involvement of suppliers at the early stage.

EMCO Limited, Thane plant is largest manufacturers of transformer from 7.5 MVA to 315 MVA, which are Power, Distribution, Furnace, Locomotive transformers.

KRAs
• Worked as HOD of Quality Assurance and handling all the functions.
• Preparation of quality plans after understanding job and customer’s requirements.
• Set priorities & finalize actions to fulfil the day to day inspection activities.
• Review and analyze month-wise performance indices and initiate CAPA.

As Assistant Manager ( Quality Assurance )
Kirloskar Copeland Limited, Karad, is reciprocating compressors manufacturing company required for refrigeration and air conditioning.

KRAs
• Worked in Product Engineering for 3 years and effectively handled
• Project initiation, planning, design scheme finalization, testing and verification of
prototypes.
 Through this product development phase, gained knowledge in Project Management,
sound and vibration behaviour, analysis methods.
• Worked in Quality Assurance- 6 years
• Process capability studies. designing and manufacturing of Function gauges,
• Procurement of std gauges. System improvements Product rating audits and
supplier’s Audits. Implementation of CAPA action after detailed analysis of defective
compressors returned from field.
 I was team leader of SQA ( Supplier quality Assurance ) team