Muralidharan Selvamani, Deputy Manager - Manufacturing (Welding)

Muralidharan Selvamani

Deputy Manager - Manufacturing (Welding)

Wheels India Limited

Location
India - Chennai
Education
Master's degree, Welding and Quality Engineering
Experience
6 years, 11 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :6 years, 11 Months

Deputy Manager - Manufacturing (Welding) at Wheels India Limited
  • India - Chennai
  • June 2018 to September 2018

- Weld Engineer responsible for entire welding program on manufacturing of all earth moving
wheels.
- In-charge for Caterpillar 7SWE Program.
- Selection of welding personnel, equipment and fixtures.
- Initial training and ongoing eduction of welding personnel
- Development and maintenance of WPS, PQR and welder qualification as per standards.
- Monitoring process control records, welding equipment (PM).

On-Site Coordinator at Seine Aerospace Products Design
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • July 2017 to December 2017

Customer: NIMR Automotive LLC, Abu Dhabi
Project: Generate Engineering Drawings and 3D models for new 4x4 Armored Vehicles.
Offshore Team: INDIA
Role Description:
- Act as a focal point between Customer team and offshore team.
- Establish project mile stones with customer’s focal point.
- Resolve any issues highlighted by offshore team.
- Check the drawings as per customer standards before final submission.
- Submit project status report to customer focal point / manager.

Manufacturing Engineer (Interim) at NIMR Automotive
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • September 2015 to December 2016

Deployment / Contract by: Seine Aerospace Products Design, UAE

Role Description:
- Develop welding process Instruction’s for fabrication of 4x4 Soft Skin, Armored and Internal Security vehicle cabins.
- Develop work Instructions for painting / protective coating of all armored vehicles and Internal Security vehicles manufactured in a new plant.
- Communicate with the welder’s / operators for any change or difficulty in the process, verify them and update the instructions accordingly.
- Update the necessary design engineering changes / revisions to internal customer (Production & Fabrication) through the required documents.
- Prepare work instructions for operating hydraulic controlled Jigs and fixtures.

Production Planning Engineer (Interim) at NIMR Automotive LLC (Deployed through seine)
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • July 2014 to August 2015

Deployment / Contract by: Seine Aerospace Products Design, UAE

Role Description:
- Prepare manufacturing bill of materials (MBOM) for vehicles like soft skin, armored, internal security vehicle, etc. and upload them in Dynamics GP for each sub-stations.
- Provide routings for the material flow on each assembly work station’s through GP.
- Release Manufacturing Orders through GP and sorting out the discrepancies raised by internal customer (production).
- Upload the process time in GP in-order to capture and maintain the MPS (Master Production Schedule) which highlights the scheduling issues on releasing MO’s.
- Update the MBOM with respect to the engineering changes / requirement from internal inputs like Design, procurement, etc.

Manufacturing / Process Engineer at Seine Aerospace Products Design
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • September 2013 to June 2014

Role Description:
- Creation of welding process and painting process instructions for a welded of 4x4 Station Wagon armored cabins and Cargo Boxes.
- Preparation of maintenance manual for an operating 4x4 Station Wagon Armored vehicle.
- Supporting for preparation of parts catalogue manual with ILS Team.
- Coordinating with Supply Chain Management for sorting out manufacturing / quality issues at supplier ends.
- Supplier sourcing for New Product Development.

Assistant Manager - Manufacturing / Methods at Wheels India Limited (TVS Group)
  • India - Chennai
  • July 2010 to March 2013

Division: Air Suspension
Role Descriptions:
- Responsible for entire Welding Process Engineering activities in Air Suspension weld shop (Manual & Robotic Welding - GMAW, TIG, and SMAW.
- Responsible for ISO/TS documents control on weld shop.
- Developing WPS, PQR and welder qualification as per standards for any NPD.
- Prepared Procedures, SOP’s, Work Instructions and Weld Map for air suspension welding components.
- Ensuring Quality of welds by monitoring on random destructive tests and welder performance as per internal procedure.
- Preparation and controlling of impact register subjected to EMS certification (ISO 140001).
- Using 3M report (Toyota Production System), Analyze and adopt new manufacturing / fabrication technics to reduce cycle time for a task based on Value Stream Mapping project.
- Internal Auditor for ISO/TS-16949.
- Internal Auditor for ISO 14001 (EMS).

Education

Master's degree, Welding and Quality Engineering
  • at PSG college ofTechnology and Welding Research Institute (WRI)
  • June 2010
Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineer
  • at St.Joseph’s College of Engineering Affiliated to Anna University
  • June 2009
Diploma, Mechanical Engineering
  • at Panimalar Polytechnic College
  • April 2006

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Specialties & Skills

Manufacturing
Root Cause Analysis
Quality Assurance
Global Manufacturing
Lean Manufacturing
Welding
Fabrication
ISO Standards
NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
PROCESS ENGINEERING
QUALITY
RESEARCH
Welding Technology
Manufacturing
Catia / PTC Creo
Autocad
MS Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint)

Languages

English
Expert
Tamil
Native Speaker
Hindi
Beginner

Training and Certifications

AWS Welding Inspector (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2013
Valid Until:
March 2016