SATHYANARAYAN RADHAKRISHNAN

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Directs technical operations for pick and place robots, laser spot welding, robotic soldering, conveyors, dispensing, and vision systems. Manages twenty-five direct reports comprising six senior engineers, nine engineers, three apprentices, and seven technicians across seven automation lines and one hundred plus machines on a twenty-four over six schedule.

• •Maintains mean time to repair at twenty minutes against a forty minute customer standard, holding downtime at zero point nineteen percent against three percent, rejection at zero point ninety-five percent against three percent, and scrap at zero point zero nine percent against zero point five percent.
• •Cut daily assembly scrap cost from eight thousand three hundred dollars to three thousand nine hundred dollars over a full year and lifted cyclone line yield from ninety-three percent to ninety-eight percent by reworking dispensing machine logic and hardware.
• •Saved twenty-seven thousand dollars in two months on the vent assembly module, cutting scrap cost per unit from zero point zero seventy-four dollars to zero point zero forty-eight dollars through machine software modification.
• •Executed an in-house relocation of thirty-two machines across five lines in twelve days with a team of five, covering positioning, re-bring-up, calibration, and validation without vendor support, lifting throughput from four hundred twenty to five hundred eighty units per hour.
• •Built a fifty-two week critical preventive maintenance plan across the machine base, setting service cadence by criticality, maintaining spares availability, and delivering fourteen improvement projects a month against a KPI of twelve.

Shaped site accountability for a corporate campus, directing hard and soft services across office, canteen, utility, pump house, and security blocks while managing client billing, vendor payments, and cost sheets.

• •Directed hard and soft services for a 26 person team across shifts, maintaining task completion at 90 percent with a 66 line asset register.
• •Maintained site mechanical, electrical, and plumbing infrastructure including 1500 KVA generators, 2000 KVA transformers, and 400 TR chillers.
• •Reduced annual maintenance contract cost by 20 percent through resolving chiller electronic failures and bringing preventive maintenance in house.

Reported to the maintenance superintendent, directing a crew of eight team members and three contract technicians across a 24/6 manufacturing plant producing 465 vehicles daily. Oversaw final assembly equipment reliability and planned work orders using Maximo.

• •Halved mean time to repair from 20 to 10 minutes on Siemens S7-300 equipment through input output mapping on machine human machine interfaces, simplified fault prompts, and PLC troubleshooting and root cause analysis training for the crew.
• •Eliminated floor mat misplacement affecting 10% of vehicles by integrating a barcode scanner with the automated fastening system, reaching 98% part to vehicle matching accuracy.
• •Cut buffer roller bed cycle time from 30 to 20 seconds using sensor based synchronisation in PLC logic, enabling simultaneous vehicle transfer between buffer and main beds.

Reported to plant leadership while steering shift operations and maintenance strategies for mechanical, electrical, and hydraulic vacuum injection machinery within manufacturing facilities.

• •Directed shift crews operating 200 to 350 tonne hydraulic vacuum injection presses, DESMA special purpose machines, 1110 KVA generators, and air compressors.
• •Rebuilt panel relay logic and cables to reduce downtime and shorten fault finding times on LS Master K controlled equipment.
• •Introduced barcode tracking for critical spares coupled with automated supplier reordering.

Renault Nissan Automotive India is the alliance's 600 acre Oragadam plant near Chennai, with capacity for 480,000 vehicles a year. Joined during the greenfield build ahead of start of production.

• •Ran metal line maintenance during greenfield commissioning with three technicians, preparing PM checklists, daily equipment checks, breakdown action plans and troubleshooting SOPs.
• •Programmed Siemens S7-300 PLC logic and supported SICK S3000 scanners and light curtains, G120 and G120D drives, Fanuc R-30iA spot welding and ABB IRB 6640 hemming robots.

• •Maintained special purpose machines, conveyors and resistance welding equipment on the brake assembly lines, covering daily inspection, lubrication and fault repair.

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Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Chennai, India Diploma in Electrical and Electronics Engineering Sri Sai Ram Polytechnic College

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