Vipin Maniyalath

 Looking after vendor development and procurement activities related to presstools, mold and machineries required.
 Developed a Vendor Portfolio catalog and maintained database of all activates with vendors.
 Responsible for all types of purchase needed in the factory.
 Responsible for stock taking including spare parts.
 Planning for manpower distribution for different production activities.
 Negotiated with various vendors to secure a favorable deal
 Looking after maintenance activities of machines and tools used.
 The company is mainly into manufacturing of agricultural machineries parts and owns its own press shop and fabrication unit.

 Looking after the machine maintenance, new machine procurement, scheduling of work force and all factory facility related activities. TPM activities.
 Design and development of machine parts as per the production requirement.
 Responsible for purchase of engineering, fire fighting and machine spare parts.
 Planning for preventive maintenance and generating checklists.
 Maintaining Spare parts stock and updating in SAP.
 Development of small automated machines as per the need.
 Carrying out new Vendor & Supplier development along with purchase of engineering items.
 Negotiated with various vendors to secure a favorable deal.
 Developed new contractors for fabrication, compressors maintenance and complete factory maintenance including fire fighting needs.
 Maintained reports for power, water and LPG consumption and reported to the top management for any major deviations.
 Working with Government officials for getting and maintaining factory license.
 Developed and implemented departmental procedures.
 Determined necessary resources for each project.
 Maintained very good relations with international machine suppliers for fast procurement of spare parts and other engineering items.
 Negotiation with suppliers for price and service.

 Doing Value engineering and Value analysis for existing products
 Designing of Electrical enclosures for client based in USA
 Responsible for maintaining SAP activities.
 Carried out product development of sheet metal electrical enclosure projects, from designing to prototype with customer review.
 Done estimation, process planning and designs for various sheet metal products.
 Redesigning Sheet metal accessories for electrical industry, Value addition by adding feature and cost reduction.
 Problem identification and creative approach towards the problem solving.
 Manufacturing/assembly processes and Material Selection, with coordination from customer onsite.
 Lead a team of 6 Engineers and worked in Solid works 2012 for designing sheet metal products.

 Designing and manufacturing of press tools, jigs and fixtures.
 Responsible for all in-house tooling & vendor development
 Responsible for Maintenance department and 5S activities.
 Responsible for TPM activities in workshop.
 Done product development for office furniture products.
 Done drawings for different machining and wire-cut operations.
 Designed and manufactured different welding fixtures and drilling jigs to support the production.
 Designed notching, piercing, cut off, blanking and multi stage tools.
 Estimation and costing for tools and components.
 Used Solid works and AutoCAD for 3D & 2D models.
 Responsible for purchasing of engineering items for production and Tool Room.
 Responsible for ERP (Oracle) activities in the department.

Manufacturing of Press tools and Moulds