Ramesh Babu Ranganathan

Country head for India operations and look after business development, channel development, strategic planning, HR & IR, IT, manufacturing (production, maintenance & QA/QC, HSE), supply chain (procurement, planning, WH & logistics) and P & L.

Business Head for the Metal Section Profile Division which manufacture the products as per the structural drawing requirement, business development and sell the products - PUF insulated sandwich panels, single skin roofing/cladding sheets, purlins / steel sections profiles, flashings and accessories

Head -Manufacturing & supply chain planning cell and responsible for the end to end planning, purchase of raw material / capital goods & Manufacturing of all product groups in plants (4 units) and ensure the product availability at the distribution centres

Plant head for Chennai plant & Hosur state art of new Manufacturing plant, which produces paints for Decorative, General Industrial, High performance coatings, OEM automotive and powder coating paints with intermediate resins like Alkyd resin, Polyester resin, MF resins, Acrylic resins, CED resins.
ACHIEVEMENTS

• Received certificate of achievement from Industry 2.0 magazine for the contribution to manufacturing innovation & design in the Manufacturing Innovation Conclave - 2012.
• Stringent internal control measures taken to have better control over cost in Plant operations.
• Successfully handled 2 trade unions in the Chennai plant closure activities and amicably settled the permanent workmen under VRS scheme.
• Quick ramp up of phase -II (Automotive, General Industrial, High Performance, Solvent Base Decorative, powder coating & Resin) and achieved the desired targets productivity, Delivery performance and cost in six month span.

This firm is an ISO 9000 certified, Kaizen practicing company, part of Metecno Group/Chandaria Group. MIPL manufactures wide range of PUF / Mineral wool insulated panels for PEB & Cold chain roof & wall cladding, doors for Cold chain, single skin colour metal profile sheets, and steel structures for Pre engineered building (PEB) and provide total technical solution for the PEB & Cold chain.

JOB PROFILE

Manufacturing:

Manufacturing head for the plant operations includes the planning the production & raw materials, subcontracting, equipment up keeping, manpower, energy utilisation, quality improvements, cutting cost, ensuring on time delivery, QMS MR activities and training. The machineries and equipments handled namely continuous PUF / Mineral wool insulated sandwich panel line, High pressure foaming machine, Pentane Class 1 petroleum product handling / dosing machine, Mineral wool adhesive dosing & processing machines, Single skin colour metal twin profile roll formers ( Trapezoidal), tile profile roll former, Slitting, Shearing, CNC hydraulic brake press, Aluminium, PVC & steel cutting and welding machines.

Technical:

Head for design and development, technical service includes transforming the customer requirement into structural design and drawing, preparing panel cut length requirement & BOQ for the structural enclosure, unique flashing design for the building enclosure, costing and offer generation for the pre- engineered building projects, site assessment / measurements, equipment modifications to suit for the new products and improvement in the existing products.

Project:

Responsible for implementation of new projects for introducing new products and commissioned the machineries for the Mineral wool insulated roof / wall products, equipments for retrofit of Non Ozone depleting substance Pentane (Hydro Carbon), Managed to get the full duty exemption for the equipment.
Head the project for the new manufacturing facility in Gujarat state from project proposal stage, land selection, equipments identification & negotiation, govt. approvals, Identification the various incentives for the machineries and for the plant operations, design the PEB buildings & layouts.

Commercial & Marketing:

Responsible for the purchase of new equipments, special raw materials, development of vendors for the above, co-ordinating with Finance for the LC, payments, verification of documents, timely clearing the imported machineries and raw materials.

New products pricing, releasing the price list, generating the BOQ for the sales team to make PFI, convert the customer PO into WO to the factory for execution, tendering & contract and interacting with the establishments to qualifying the product and services.

Management:

Responsible for the MIS of manufacturing & marketing, presentations to the top management, marketing promotion, budget preparation, strategy planning.

ACHIEVEMENTS

• Manufactured World longest single PUF insulated Panels - length: 20 mts exported to Vietnam by way of modifying the machine & containers for shipment
• Developed low price fully automated mineral wool cutting & feeding machines for insulated panels with UK based vendors

This firm is an ISO 9000 certified, Kaizen practicing company, part of Safal Group/Chandaria Group. UBL manufactures wide range of steel roofing sheets like galvanised, aluminium-zinc, pre painted and also ERW hollow steel tube sections.

JOB PROFILE

Department Head for manufacturing & maintenance of Sheets division (Continuous galvanising line, Roll formers for colour sheets & Barrel Corrugators lines) & Tubes division(Slitting line, Shearing line, Tube mill line & open profile section lines ) reporting to the Executive Director.

 Raw material planning and scheduling day production activities based on sales projection.
 Local & Import purchasing of raw material, spares and machineries.
 Planning and executing maintenance activities on all machineries & equipments
 Ensuring the quality of the products at all stages by closely monitoring the process parameters and raw material consumption.
 Handling new projects, modernization projects and developments.
 Management Representative for QMS, EMS and coordinator for Kaizen implementation.

ACHIEVEMENTS

• Designed and fabricated vertical rack storage system for pre-painted steel coils.
• Executed total plant layout change and introduced crane handling in low roof sheds.
• Launched and pre-audited EMS / ISO 14001:2004 successfully as a Management Representative.
• Received best employee award for the performance and initiatives in the year 2007.
• Instrumental in increasing the plant output through better up keeping the equipments and innovative methods.
• Visited South Africa and Kenya to provide technical support to the group companies.

This firm is an ISO/TS 16949, 14000 certified, TPM practicing company, division of M/S Tube Investment of India Ltd., and a part of Murugappa Group. TPI manufactures wide range of Precision steel tube (ERW & CDW) and CRCA steel strips.

JOB PROFILE

Department head for ERW tube division -Mechanical Maintenance ( From Jan’06 to Jan’07) and Production Head for thick wall tubes manufactured in three tube mills reporting to GM - Manufacturing

 Planning and executing maintenance activities in all tube mills, CR Mills, Annealing process furnaces, slitters, cut to length lines, pressure testing machines, cutting machines, chamfering machines and material handling equipments.
 Planning and scheduling shift production activities.
 Rolls / Tools maintenance including roll profile design evaluation.
 Handled modernisation projects, equipment re-layout for lean production& developments.
 Represented in TPM planned maintenance pillar subcommittee, SHE committee, QMS & EMS core committee.

Achievements

 Received MD’s award (Gold), Chairman’s award, Group chairman award (Gold) for excellence in the year 2003-04, 2004-05, 2005-06.
 Developed on line double end chamfering machine & abrasive wheel cut off mechanism for defect elimination in Front Fork tubes and the defect brought down to 0.0 % from 12.0 %.
 Executed the ERW tube finishing section layout changes to ensure smooth flow of materials for the sequence of operations.

This firm is an ISO 9001 certified company, manufactures wide range of Graphite Electrodes required for Electrical Arc Furnaces and specialty chemical products.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Supervision of production & maintenance activities in Baking Re-circulating & Ring Main Pre-heating Low furnaces (PLC controlled) and Pitch Impregnation.

Equipment’s and Machineries handled

EOT cranes ( 1T to 25T), Hoists, Bucket Elevators, Boilers, Compressors, Pumps (Vacuum, Water & Hot Oil), Hot gas generators, Auto clave( pressure vessel ), Thermic fluid heaters (Thermax), Double roll crushers, Jaw crushers, Screw and Belt conveyers, Blowers, Dust collecting systems, Re-circulating & Ring Main (Pre-heating) Pit Furnaces.

Achievements

 Developed damper control mechanism for uniform raise in temperature throughout the furnace (fuel saving).