Deepika Nandula

• Provided L2/L3 operational support for Teamcenter incidents, service requests, and user access issues, ensuring timely resolution and SLA compliance.
• Performed application sanity checks and validations following OS patching, upgrades, and scheduled maintenance activities.
• Collaborated with infrastructure, database, and network teams to maintain optimal server performance, connectivity, and application availability.
• Monitored, troubleshot, and resolved Teamcenter FMS (File Management System) issues, including cache management, volume configuration, and replication failures.
• Supported Teamcenter and NX upgrades, including client installation, configuration, and troubleshooting.
• Built and supported development and test environments, ensuring configuration and data synchronization with production environments.
• Configured and maintained workflows, ACLs, naming rules, dataset types, organizational templates, and Supplier Connect.
• Troubleshot and maintained integrations with NX, SolidWorks, and other CAD tools.
• Coordinated with global support teams (U.S., Japan) to resolve complex issues in a multi-region environment.
• Contributed to process improvement, automation initiatives, and technical documentation to enhance system stability and support efficiency.

1. Trial Management & Validation

• Lead manufacturing line trials for new products and processes.
• Prepare for trials: ensure parts, line readiness, and data.
• Document and analyze results in detailed trial reports.
• Manage trial recovery: restore lines, assess success metrics.
• Serve as the SME for validation procedures during trials.

2. Process & Quality Assurance

• Assist in validating manufacturing processes to meet product specs.
• Test and validate systems and parts as part of QA.
• Help establish and implement validation standards and procedures.
• Track the manufacturing and design issues in Jira.

3. Cross-Functional Collaboration.

• Work closely with engineering and manufacturing teams to align goals.
• Participate in, and provide feedback in, cross-functional meetings.
• Collaborate to evaluate and implement optimal process rollouts.
• Lead Continuous Improvement (CI) initiatives. Use a data-driven approach to identify opportunities that enhance production efficiency and optimize processes.

PLM Engineer

• Process planning for EBOM, MBOM, BOE, and BOP.
• Product, process, and resource data preparation for truck assembly using MPM Link.
• Creating process plans for global projects.
• Led the EBOM to MBOM generation, establishing relationships between CAD products and processes for different variants (Sport, LHD, RHD) in Windchill and MPM Link.
• Developing assembly sequence for new products.
• Performing power tool access, fixtures feasibility checks, and ergonomics using Creo View and IPS.
• Coordinating globally and conducting virtual builds to assess risks during the design phase.
• Cross-functional communication with tool designers and product designers to resolve identified issues during the design phase.

• Develop manufacturing engineering problem statements, user stories, and process flows by interfacing with Ford’s global business units.
• Created organization structures, developed custom queries, and utilized Access Manager to
  meet diverse organizational requirements.
  • Designed workflows as per the organization’s needs, ensuring seamless processes.
  • Developed data models using BMIDE by configuring business objects, properties, LOVs, rules,
  display rules, ID-generation rules, and GRM rules.
  • Implemented both hot and cold deployments using live update methods for deploying data
  models to the Teamcenter server.
  • Configured properties to display on objects during creation, enhancing user experience.
  • Managed the import and export of data using PLMXML, ensuring seamless data exchange.
  • Demonstrated expertise in workflow creation and management, utilizing handlers for optimal
  workflow control.
  • NX data integration to Teamcenter
  • Active workspace administration

• Work and coordinate with the team on queries related to team center execution.
• Working on ticket monitoring systems like ServiceNow for resolving tickets within defined SLAs.
• Responsible for resolving day-to-day issues on Teamcenter RAC 13 and Active Workspace 5.2.0 (AWC).
• SBOM, EBOM, and MBOM process optimization.
• Conduct sync-up calls with other teams (Dev, SysOps, Cloud) to provide information and follow up.
• Attend customer sync-up calls, provide the status of issues, and create or discuss the plan for activity, if any.
• Responsible for creating IR, and following up with the GTAC and PD team.
• Responsible for providing training for the new team members.
• To ensure improved customer experience and customer satisfaction.
• Possess strong research, analytical, and problem-solving experience on the PLM Teamcenter.

Ergonomic Assessments

• Lead Ford India Ergonomics team.
• Supported Ergonomic assessments for Ford teams Globally
• Lead Learning and Development team to train the Digital Manufacturing team with Ergonomic validations
• Perform Ergonomic validation for hand clearance and reach access from Operator view
• In Process Simulate, perform Deep dive analysis through Dynamic Simulation for Hand collision and Reachability check with the Human interface
• Allocation of Hand Models and Human Manikin in the Plant Structure for the required studies.
• Ergonomic validation for HCAR and ECAR
• JACK Simulation for the part and assembly load study to ensure its compatibility to meet the manufacturing requirements
• Perform Physical Ergonomic validations in Ford India plants (Ford Chennai and Ford Sanand plants).

Virtual Manufacturing

• Managed the Expedition Project (U222) UN & UP gateways build support, executing Virtual build events from India in alignment with GPDS time phases
• Creation of realistic 3D Virtual Environment of an Automotive Vehicle assembly plant, Process creation, CAD allocation, Work Area allocation, Tool allocation in Teamcenter MPP. (Manufacturing Process Planner).
• Digital manufacturing and Simulation activities- Dynamic study in Process simulate (Digital assembly, Tool accessibility and use of carriers in plant for Trim-Chassis-Final lines)
• Validate assembly operations in structure and perform Virtual Build
• Validate Collision/Accessibility/interfaces of trim parts in assembly line
• Global project coordinator

• Installation of Teamcenter (2-tier, 4-tier), corporate, volume server, Rich client.
• Install the corporate server on one system through this created link and installation through the patch file.
• Teamcenter installation using 'tem.bat'.
• Enterprise Tier Installation.
• Web Tier Installation.

• Preparing design documents using CAD for boiler parts.
• Drafting the designed boiler part.