- Certified Six Sigma Black Belt (CSSBB) from American Society of Quality - Currently working as an Advanced Senior Manufacturing Engineer I at Zimmer Inc - Lean/ Continuous Improvement Engineer experience at Automotive manufacturing company. - Proficient in Lean, Six Sigma, Value Stream Mapping, DMAIC and Root Cause Analysis tools. - Experienced in developing and implementing lean manufacturing principles in manufacturing world, conducting Kaizen workshops, Gemba workshops, write capital expenditures and act as a change agent to implant continuous improvement actions. - Experienced in conducting Lean principles coaching, 5S audit, site development strategy planning, validating strategic goals and justifying projects for implementations. - Six Sigma Green Belt - 2011 certified by Institute of Industrial Engineering - Experienced professional in Pro/E, Solidworks and AutoCAD.

Advanced Senior Manufacturing Engineer 1 @ From January 2015 to Present (10 months) Warsaw, IndianaLean Engineer @ - Work on Lean Six sigma projects to identify best practices, bench marking, Kaizen activities and implementation across all Morgan facilities, in generating a savings of $315,000 for year 2014. - Facilitate lean manufacturing initiatives and principles including set-up reduction, manpower planning and capacity analysis. - Increase efficiency in finish work center by 19.2% in one year. - Develop and implement lean training programs and facilitate organizational learning. - Conduct time studies for time standard development, optimizing product flow, equipment and labor utilization - Standardize tools and consumables used across Morgan facilities and work with purchasing to generate projected savings over $30,000 and standardization implementation. - Lead Kaizen blitz event workshop to improve efficiency in worst performing work center from 51% to 73% within 2 weeks and remove bottleneck, leading to a 3.25% increase in efficiency in the plant. - Increased efficiency in Portland plant by 44% and develop plan for sustainment - Support, track and report progress on the implementation and utilization of lean manufacturing techniques across all plants. - Train team members and management on lean principles, application and techniques - Increase profitability in assembly line by eliminating redundant work, re-routing work, introduce jigs and automating processes. - Form capacity planning, scheduling systems, reporting charts and visual management charts. - Use problem solving tools like A3, DMAIC approach, DFSS and other reporting and management tools to identify gap and provide with closure action items. - Document Lean vision layouts for low performing plants. - Design spaghetti diagram and notify about transportation wastes and solutions to avoid it. - Meet plant managers, operations director and others for discussing potential cause of failures and eliminating them. From June 2012 to January 2015 (2 years 8 months) Morgantown, PennsylvaniaIndustrial Engineer @ - Designing of new upcoming plant on AUTOCAD by using and improving existing plant layout. - Perform simulation of material flow and product lines on the layout facility. - Represent the material flow in plant by using AUTOCAD and MS – VISIO. - Calculate scores for material flow using iteration process and implement Critical Path Method for optimum results. - Calculate estimated area required with the help of architects, subject matter experts and supervisors. - Create template machines for the machines used in Caterpillar in Pro E and standardizing the templates for future references. - Visit client location and understand the processes and document scope of improvement and reducing in-plant material transportation and other non-value added time activities to improve Overall Equipment Efficiency. - Optimize product families in the plant by iteration method in Simulation and document labor expense, product output results, idle time, setup time and other related factors. - Communicate with Subject Matter Experts regarding the material flow. - Analyze as-is process and design to-be process - Create identifiable measures for Product Development techniques by eliminating redundancy and improving production line, with the help of Six Sigma Techniques like DMAIC, 5S, FMEA, etc. - Overall responsible for performing Advanced Product Quality Planning to ensure that the product design not only meets with the customers' expectations, but also allows the intelligent inputs of the supply chain and interfacing groups to discuss better ways to design out failures. From January 2012 to June 2012 (6 months) Peoria, Illinois AreaQuality Engineer - Summer Intern @ - Optimized AT&T Houston LTE 4G network project with team of Engineers by finding and fixing areas with feeders swap, incorrect PCIs (Physical Cell Identity), low throughputs, missing neighbors, high incidence of interference, handover failures and coverage issues and conducted root cause analysis and FMEA. - Conducted on-site supplier system and special process audits for quality, record retention systems and work procedures in telecom field for LTE project. From May 2011 to August 2011 (4 months) Houston, Texas AreaProcess Engineer @ - Reduced cost of product by approximately 12% through redesign and manufacturing. - Delivered 5 new products to add in client range of products. - Organizing weekly meetings with Project Managers and senior management for project discussion, performing FMEA (Failure Mode Effects Analysis Methodology), and root cause failure and predicted delay in time schedule for existing project. From July 2008 to June 2009 (1 year) Mumbai Area, IndiaIndustrial Engineer @ - Planning, coordinating, and controlling the processes concerning production and perform time study for an electronics based manufacturing company. - Estimating staffing requirements based on work breakdown structure, production times, and relative costs to provide data for operational decisions and research activities. - Experience in working with plastic injection molding, insert molding, screw machine, cold heading, die cast, powder metal, fine blanking and draw forming. - Provided manufacturing / cost analysis, process analysis and development, as well as consulting services to industrial clients. From August 2007 to June 2008 (11 months) E.K. Enterprises

Master's degree, Industrial Engineering @ Lamar University From 2010 to 2011 Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering @ University of Mumbai From 2005 to 2009 Abhijit Balan Mepadan is skilled in: Pro Engineer, AutoCAD, Minitab, Lean Manufacturing, Manufacturing, 5S, Value Stream Mapping, Arena Simulation..., Matlab, Microsoft Excel, Visio, Visual Basic, Access, SPSS, Microsoft Word, Management, SAP MM Module, AS400 system, Kaizen Blitz, Lean Tools, Witness, Purchase Management, Lean, Six Sigma, Lean Six Sigma, Design of Experiments, Linear Regression, Project Charter, Kaizen, Continuous Improvement, Root Cause Analysis, Industrial Engineering, DMAIC, FMEA, Process Improvement, Engineering, PTC Creo, Cross-functional Team...