Luis Enrique Castro Ornelas

• Expertise in new products introduction in collaboration with cross functional areas, applying project management, APQP methods and project summary for management reviews
• Coordinated product launches, ensuring timely delivery and optimal market positioning of Airbag ECUs (AB12.1, AB12 and AB10)
• Customers: Tesla, Ford and Mercedes
• Responsible of capacity planning based on official annual forecast of Final Assembly lines (L4, L5 and L6) and SMT lines (SMT L33 and L34)
• Provided exceptional customer service by addressing inquiries and resolving issues in timely manner, fostering lasting relationships with clients.
• Planning, installation and release of equipment, tooling, and product
• Planning and implementation on time of engineering changes to assure cost reduction and quality improvements
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to develop innovative product solutions, resulting in increased customer satisfaction.
• Effective communication at any hierarchy level.
• Coordinated design meetings and decisions with internal departments and teams.
• Coordinated project planning and execution with team members and team leads.
• Project leader of installation of 3 New SMT lines in Juarez Plant during Pandemic Age
• Machinery ordering, delivery, installation, release. Managed budgetary constraints while maintaining high quality standards for all products under coordination.
• Product validation and product release with Customer approvals and negotiation.

Goals achieved: Installation of new SMT line with new Technology in 12 weeks during pandemic age

• Coordination of European and Asians suppliers – Considering COVID19 restrictions
• Decease of foreign supplier during installation

Transfer of Airbag SMT production Building 201 to Building 203

• Relocation due to Lean Manufacturing in 10 months
• Product validation and product release for all Airbag Customer (Tesla, Ford, Mercedes, Nissan, Mazda, VW, FCA)

Cycle time reduction in laser marking process (12.3s to 9.3s)

• Coordination of trials in production line
• Product validation (Testing several parameters)

Aftermarket backlog decrease – 383 TUSD in Jun to 89 TUSD in Oct

• Validation and production
• (SMT area and Final Assembly)
• Weekly review with Logistics Director + Customer Updates.

• Aftermarket volume relocation to SMT Line 4
• Aftermarket products analysis
• SMT lines analysis based on volume and technical premises.

• Failure Analysis on Customer claims
• Daily scrap report – Monitoring
• Responsible of change over confirmation, material confirmation, SW confirmation and Master procedures
• 1st, 3rd and Specials shift experience