Parth Patel

Daily Support: Responsible of supporting entire half of the production floor in ensuring on time delivery of the products by maintaining production standards and conformance to customer requirements

Customer Support: Return investigations and testing as well as supporting miscellaneous needs in timely manner

• Lead failure analysis investigation for five different premier customers and #1 customer
• Executed extensive data collection, thorough analysis, and problem solving to come up with root causes, as well as implementing proper corrective actions, while presenting weekly progress to maintain customer confidence on product
• Reduced latent failures at all seven customers improving quality of product

Safety & Ergonomics: Reduced overall safety score by prioritizing safety and ergo tasks

• Provided timely solutions to high risk items on production floor ensuring proper safety of operators
• Validated, released, and implanted several automated processes to reduce manual operations

Lean: Lead two 5S + Safety & Lean Kaizen – Achieved over $200,000 in annual hard savings

• Lead 7 team members in achieving charter goal for each Kaizen.
• Prework to collect baseline of cell standards.
• Created daily schedule to lead team to finish line of goal
• Daily report out to management in reporting daily progress.
• Final report out to plant in showing overall results of Kaizen.

Product Release: Lead and/or supported the release of 6 high revenue products to the floor:

• Worked as Process Engineer in designing new process in maintaining productivity of new release products.
• Worked as Design and Validations Engineer in designing and validating new fixtures to support process.
• Worked as Manufacturing Engineer in developing and releasing production documents for operators to follow, as well as monitoring overall result of new product in collecting weekly output data ensuring consistency and longevity.

System Release: Lead the release of 4 new system and equipment on the floor:

• Worked as Process, Design, and Manufacturing Engineer in developing and validating new systems as well as creating appropriate production documents.
• Worked as project manager with outside developers in developing new function test system capable of testing 90% of products on production floor while improving testing capability for many products as well as improving accuracy of testing impacting overall quality of products.

Product Improvement: Significantly improved over 8 different cells improving all products manufactured in the cells.

• MX: Worked as project lead with 2 software contractors and 1 technician in implementing encoder feedback system, as well as cooling system, and absolute home cycle to improve capability of cell to push parts to +/- 0.0005”. Increased capability from CPK 0.27 to 1.63, reduced Engineering setup time by 95%, improved UPH for all product manufactured in cell by ~ 62%, reduced scrap of all products by ~ 28%
• Series 18: Worked with customer in modifying process limits to improve throughput, yield, scrap, and rework. Increased product yield by 20%
• R9: Worked with New Product Design team to completely modify process steps for calibration which improved overall performance impacting throughput, yield, scrap, and rework. Increased product yield by 40%