Sajith Gopinathan
Little Rock,AR
Summary
"Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer."
An Industrial Engineer with a sound background in manufacturing processes, supply chain model, resource optimization, scheduling, logistics, and data analytics.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Replenishment Analyst
Emerson
10.2021 - Current
- Responsible for designing, implementing, and enhancing the shop floor processes for the Fabrication and Machine Shop.
- Develop and Implement processes in the facility to regulate automated pull system.
- Conduct root cause analysis and define a corrective action plan to improve the business process or product in regards to cost, schedule, quality, etc.
- Implement engineering changes by coordinating with suppliers and manufacturing operations.
- Conduct Gemba walks to review pull system health and audit business process discipline.
- Responsible for regulating and maintaining the flow of materials in the pull system to meet inventory and business goals.
- Collaborate with suppliers to improve supply chain responsiveness and manufacturing operations.
- Manage supplier relationships through effective communication of data-driven recommendations.
- Review forecast for demand spikes, update Plan For Every Part (PFEP) in JDE and communicate to suppliers.
- Review inventory to identify excess, slow moving, and obsolete items; suggest appropriate actions.
Distribution Operations Intern
AmeriCold Logistics
04.2021 - 08.2021
- Documented SOPs and designed process Maps for major processes such as shipping, receiving, picking for automation and conventional side of facility.
- Designed macros for automatic creation of dock door appointments.
- Drive Continuous Improvement projects.
- Track current status of CI goals and accordingly make recommendations.
- Conduct bi-weekly CI audit with department heads.
Senior Design Project
Suncast Corporation - Northern Illinois University
01.2019 - 05.2019
- Researched standardization and improvement opportunities of warehouse operations
- Designed value stream maps, process maps and estimated cycle times for various warehouse operations
- Generated spaghetti maps and consequently a heat map for the frequency of order pick and accordingly suggested an alternate approach to stage the products
- Studied the possibilities for clustering products using K-means approach in minitab
- Conducted an ergonomic analysis for order pickers using 3DSSPP
- Proposed a change in the layout of the warehouse capable of reducing the pick distance by approximately 33%
- Proposed an approach to alter the outbound staging that could reduce the travel by approximately 77%.
Summer Intern
Daikin Air-Condition India Pvt. Ltd.(DAIPL)
06.2018 - 07.2018
- Studied the various classes of air conditioners available in the global market along with the state of the art technologies employed in them.
- Engaged in group discussions and delivered presentations on various HVAC topics.
- Acquired hands-on experience assembling and dismantling the various classes of air conditioners.
- Practiced Japanese culture and learned various lean manufacturing methods.
- Designed survey forms and assessed the field engineers of DAIPL.
- Conducted survey of over 100 consumers and more than 30 retailer shops and gathered data on purchasing habits for use in branding efforts.
- Interacted with more than 100 colleges and other institutions professionally over phone as well as email to enquire and facilitate potential tie up with the organization.
Summer Intern
A-1 Fence Products Company Pvt. Ltd.
06.2017 - 07.2017
- Worked in the Production Planning and Control department of the facility.
- Studied the various classes of fences produced and the manufacturing processes employed in their production.
- Produced excel spreadsheets and updates with latest information.
- Prepared Bill of Materials for various client orders.
- Designed a standard operational procedure for Hot-dip galvanization and presented it to the organization.
- Analyzed the welding station and studied various welding procedures to reduce the spatter produced.
- Contributed briefly to zero inventory implementation project in the organization.
Manufacturing Engineering Intern
Forbes Marshall,Pune
12.2016 - 12.2016
Summer Intern
Kerala Minerals And Metals Ltd. (KMML)
05.2016 - 05.2016
Education
Master of Science - Industrial and Systems Engineering
Northern Illinois University
Dekalb, IL05.2021
Bachelor of Technology - Mechanical Engineering
Amrita School of Engineering, Amrita University
Kollam, Kerala07.2019
Skills
- Leadership
- Interpersonal skills
- Work Ethic
- Communication skills
- Team Player
- Customer Relations Skills
- C
- C
- R
- SQL
- Arena
- AutoCad
- CNCBase
- CPLEX
- MatLab
- Minitab
- MS Office
- MS Access
- RStudio
- Solidworks
- Tableau
- VBA
Certification
- Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, Northern Illinois University, September - October 2020
- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, Northern Illinois University, October - November
Master's Thesis
Research Field: Optimization, Scheduling
Research objective: To group jobs into batches, and schedule the batches on a Batch Processing Machine (BPM), in order to minimize total completion time (makespan) as well as maximum tardiness.
Research Techniques: A linear programming formulation was solved using Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Ant Colony Optimization (ACO)
Tools Employed: The algorithms were programmed in MatLab and the results thus obtained were analyzed using Minitab and Excel.
Result: The results obtained were compared to that of CPLEX (weighted approach, goal programming and 3 other variants, Column generation), Simulated Annealing, Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search.
Conclusion: ACO outperformed all the approaches for higher number of job instances.
Hobbies and Interests
- Music
- Cooking
- Travelling
- Painting
- Anime
- Badminton
- Swimming
Timeline
Replenishment Analyst
Emerson
10.2021 - Current
Distribution Operations Intern
AmeriCold Logistics
04.2021 - 08.2021
Senior Design Project
Suncast Corporation - Northern Illinois University
01.2019 - 05.2019
Summer Intern
Daikin Air-Condition India Pvt. Ltd.(DAIPL)
06.2018 - 07.2018
Summer Intern
A-1 Fence Products Company Pvt. Ltd.
06.2017 - 07.2017
Manufacturing Engineering Intern
Forbes Marshall,Pune
12.2016 - 12.2016
Summer Intern
Kerala Minerals And Metals Ltd. (KMML)
05.2016 - 05.2016
Master of Science - Industrial and Systems Engineering
Northern Illinois University
Bachelor of Technology - Mechanical Engineering
Amrita School of Engineering, Amrita University
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