Ashok Natarajan

Alstom is a French multinational company operating worldwide rail business providing smart mobility, active in the fields of passenger transportation, signaling and locomotives.

• Managing development and implementation of lean and continuous improvement manufacturing initiatives across operational environment.
• As a catalyst for cross functional collaboration between Production, Industrialization, Supply Chain, Quality, Engineering & Project Management functions on site level.
• Improved site APSYS maturity of Hornell from 30th rank to 8th ranking as on 2020 global Alstom results.
• Successfully strengthened the basics through People Development, Recognition & Motivation through lean process & tools.
• Drove site wide implementation of 6S (Safety +5S) a breakthrough process across Hornell including Operational & non operational domains by demonstrating results.
• Improved site wide visual management by creating visual standards on day to day performance.
• Championed new APSYS in Motion training piloted in Hornell to drive lean in the cross functional team.
• Collaborated with site leadership team by implementing drilled down cross functional objectives with monthly & daily performance monitoring inline to the yearly objective.
• Demonstrated deep skills in braking complex KPIs into simply SMART indicators.
• Developing pragmatic training modules for 6S & CreAction in Hornell & sharing the same across the region and central team for horizontal deployment through standardization.
• Successfully training Alstom employees & suppliers on LEAN concepts 300++ in Americas & Asia Pacific Regions.
• Building regional and central networking for best practices sharing and benchmarking.
• Drove implementation of GEMBA program to coach shop floor engineers through performance management.
• Technical referent on deploying industrial quality practices from Asia Pacific to Americas region.

Got promoted to SriCity from Coimbatore plant by my Line Manager who was the Site MD of Coimbatore plant when he moved to SriCity as the Site MD position.

• Demonstrated strong skills in people transformation and cultural change by making APSYS the way of working in SriCity reflecting the results through Project deliverables and customer satisfaction.
• Demonstrated commitment to personal responsibility and value for safety and promoted safe behaviors based on training, coaching, mentoring, making doing and doing with.
• Technical referent in transferring the continuous improvement creaction process from Coimbatore and implementing the same in with a highlighted savings for 10 Million during 2018 which was inaugurated by Annie Saillard Vice President, Alstom Paris.
• Winner of SMART Up Challenge Competition 2018, 1st prize received from Alstom CEO, Henry POUPART LAFARGE for the project "SALUS" fulfilling the global voice of the customer.
• Owning a patent in Alstom on smart mobility - Autonomous System for improving the implicit detection of harassment through biometric and ambient data.
• First qualified Alstom trainer for VA/NVA training in Asia Pacific Region qualified by Do Binh BUI, Central APSYS Deployment Director during 2017.
• Demonstrated strong APSYS deployment skills from 2017-19 as an outcome during 2018 APSYS audit scoring Top 3 rank across Global Alstom site moving from 20th position during 2017 audit.
• Trained and developed several existing successful APSYS Leaders who where never in this role before, 2++ and few of them are current lean experts as recognized through World Class Manufacturing forum.
• Technical referent for APSYS in Asia Pacific from 2017-19 - support mission across Indian sites Bangalore, Madhepura, Saharanpur, Kolkatta in deploying continuous improvement process to improve APSYS maturity.
• Winner of GOLD Medal during kaizen presentation in National CII Competition India 2018-19.
• Successfully deployed quality mindset in shop floor team through Autonomous Quality control by strengthening the self inspection through daily self inspection indicator and exported to central and Americas region.

I was appointed as the line supervisor and based on the management call very shortly promoted to Site APSYS Leader by looking at the skill set and my way of working in shop floor.

• Strong contributor in APSYS transformation from 2014-17 bringing site from bottom most level to top 3 and later No 1 ranking site by 2018.
• Deployed various concepts like drilled down Objectives - KPIs - monthly improvement plan, daily monitoring KPIs, SIPOC, Process Mapping, VSM, 5S, Kaizen blitz, VA NVA Observation study and other lean practices.
• An APSYS Auditor auditing other Alstom site like SriCity, Lapa – Brazil during APSYS Audit from 2014-17.
• Auditor in IRIS/ISO established by Alstom Qualification process.
• Hands on experience in Value Stream Mapping, both in industrial and non-industrial domains like Manufacturing, Industrialization, Supply chain, Human Resource Management & Finance.

Brief about Organization : Pricol Limited is certified as a TS-16949: ISO 2009 Auto Ancillary Company and they are leading manufacturer and supplier of 51 automotive components which includes Automotive Clusters for 2 wheeler, 4 wheeler, Trucks and bus, Tractors for more than 50 customers including Harley Davidson, Honda, Suzuki, Piaggio, Yamaha, TVS motors, Bajaj, Toyota, Tata, M&M, Ford, Fiat, GM, TAFE, John Deere, Eicher, JCB.

• Responsible for SQCD KPIs, 5M, reducing the Ideal time in Special Machines using SMED and through hourly monitor and gap analysis.
• Technical referent for PCB Soldering through SMT lines, Reflow Owen, Wave Soldering and Robot Soldering Process, cluster Assembly line for both 2 Wheeler and 4 Wheeler Driver Information Device.
• Control the in line rejection levels within targets by using problem solving techniques.
• Ensuring job flexibility through multi skill development and achieve high level of operator efficiency through training, motivation and team work.
• Review of P- Chart for inline rejection and monitoring its trend and corrective action to be taken.
• Maintaining 5S and Kanban system inside the shop floor and minimize the level of inventory.
• Being the Team Leader for QCC Team.
• Semi Finalist of Mahindra Co-Creation Competition 2014 and several other competitions.
• Successful Team leader for Kaizen development.
• Successfully Qualified as an Internal Auditor for TS 16949, EMS&OHSAS.

CRI Pumps is certified as a ISO 9001 and 14001 Company which is a multi-winged organization that produces different varieties of Pumps and Motors and they are leading manufacturer and supplier of Pumps and Motors like Submersible Pumps and Motors, Pressure Boosting Pumps, Waste Water Pumps, Industrial Pumps to export & Domestic customers.

• Leading a team of 25 operators and reviewing customer sales plan, monthly manpower management.
• Man power allocation, production flow monitoring, the cross functional interactions for KPI adherence, analyze the line performance and corrective actions for line rejections.
• Implementing and maintaining the 5S, KAIZAN, ISO 14001 and ISO TS 16949:2009 standards.
• Ensuring job flexibility through multi skill development for operators.
• Achieving 100% quality and on time delivery of finished parts.
• Preparation and reviewing of daily adherence.
• On time closure of daily, weekly and monthly reports to top management.

TNEB is an energy holding company owned by Government of Tamilnadu. It was formed on July 1957 as Madras State Electricity Board. It is responsible for Electricity Generation, Transmission, and Distribution. It regulates the Power supply to the entire Tamilnadu State.

• A Team player of 10 trainees headed by a supervisor.
• Study of Generation, Transmission & Distribution.
• Study on Meter Relay Testing.
• Making the project report for every Sub Station during PM and project status to the Executive.