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KRITIKA ANIL KUMAR

Milpitas,USA

Summary

Data driven Industrial Engineer with experience in high volume manufacturing, high pressure environments, root cause analysis, field quality resolutions and immediate containment actions with cross-functional experience.

Overview

2
2
years of professional experience

Work History

Launch Quality Engineer

Tesla Inc
05.2023 - Current
  • Leading launch strategy closures commodity involving at least 50 parts, collaborating with 10+ cross functional teams to lead and resolve quality issues
  • Troubleshooting Quality functional issues such as Wind noise, Water leakage, Door closing effort, during pre-production builds.
  • Actively involved in participating different production launch phases with NPI.
  • Coordinated offline Quality build-phase with cross-functional teams within the factory and led the build to troubleshoot defects.
  • Collaborated with Packaging Engineering, PC and GA production team to develop a robust packaging solution to protect quality as well as
  • Taken part in supplier visits to review new supplier process and quality audits and set up robust process improvements to ensure quality is of top priority while balancing manufacturing cycle time
  • Prioritized design for manufacturability by making necessary design improvements to ensure ease of parts installation in collaboration with Process team, design team and General assembly.

Vehicle Quality Engineer

Tesla Inc
12.2021 - 05.2023
  • Root caused and championed field quality issues for top 10 1-month in service issues (NVH, Glass, seals, mirrors) and delivered weekly presentations for long-term strategy and short-term countermeasures to the executive management.
  • Collaborated with field quality and data team to analyze various trends of customer complaints on model-3 to tackle most severe customer complaints.
  • Led GA related problem solving activities to quickly identify and permanently resolving quality issues.
  • Conducted tolerance stack up study for Model 3- Closures commodity to set up quality specifications targets for Factory gate audits
  • Created re-work plans to mitigate factory quality issues and provided immediate clean points for containment actions
  • Collaborated with design and supplier to re-design primary seals in order to attain design for manufacturability to resolve assembly install issues and Quality concerns
  • Trained Quality technicians and GA operators to perform quality audits and to create SCARs and SORTs.

Vehicle Quality Engineering Intern

Tesla Inc
  • Championed weekly water leak meeting cross functionally among BIW, Paint shop, GA, Process team, design to develop solutions to mitigate water leaks on Model S launch
  • Collaborated with GA Process team, design to develop a robust jig for Instrumental panel placement for a poke yoke installation process
  • Involved in troubleshooting Interior, Exterior and closures Quality concerns and setting immediate containment actions with cross functional involvement such as process adjustment, jig development, design changes and shim addition based on stack up analysis conducted.

Manufacturing Intern

GE Healthcare X-Ray Division
  • Curtailed the assembly line by 10% by reorganizing process flow and designing kits for tools and parts
  • Trained assembly operators to use Principles of Motion Economy to reduce unnecessary movements and fatigue
  • Recommended usage of aggregate planning for raw materials to prevent shortage and improve efficiency of production processes.

Education

Master of Science in Industrial & Systems Engineering -

San Jose State University
12.2021

Bachelor of Engineering in Industrial Engineering -

Ramaiah Institute of Technology
08.2019

Skills

  • Configuration and Troubleshooting
  • Root Cause Analysis
  • Quantitative Analysis
  • Program management
  • Inspection Methods
  • Quality Improvement Plans

Technical Skills

Catia, Solid Edge, Excel, Minitab, Polyworks-Dimensional Analysis, Lean six sigma certified – Green belt, Faro arm - scanning 3D inspection- (Polyworks), DoE, SPC, Fish Bone Diagram, 8D, 4M, FMEA, DVA analysis, Basic GD&T, DoE, Regression Analysis, ANOVA, Basic Machine learning algorithms, 5s, DMAIC, Kaizen, FMEA, 7 Types of Waste, VSM, JIT

Timeline

Launch Quality Engineer

Tesla Inc
05.2023 - Current

Vehicle Quality Engineer

Tesla Inc
12.2021 - 05.2023

Vehicle Quality Engineering Intern

Tesla Inc

Manufacturing Intern

GE Healthcare X-Ray Division

Master of Science in Industrial & Systems Engineering -

San Jose State University

Bachelor of Engineering in Industrial Engineering -

Ramaiah Institute of Technology

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