My Bio-Data

A brief presentationBy

Ramanan S. Tiruvannamalai(“Ramanan”)

To find more about me…visit my Homepage http://www.angelfire.com/rings/ramanan_ts/

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My profile Education Research Assistantship at Wichita

State University Industrial Experience - My Work history Graduate Course work Thesis work Computer Skills Honors & Activities

Profile 5 years of work experience

Resource Modeling and Simulation using Quest & IGRIP simulation tools

Manufacturing process improvements for Boeing 767 Strut line

3 years of industrial experience Expertise in Production planning, Inventory

management, Process improvements, & Lean manufacturing techniques

Trained in Total Productive Maintenance, Statistical Process Control, Six Sigma, ISO 9000, Activity Based Costing and Team Building

MS Thesis – Web based Interactive Virtual Factory model for Production Planning

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Education

M.S. in Industrial Engineering (Dec ’03) Wichita State University, Kansas

M.S. in Manufacturing Management (Dec ’99)

BITS, Pilani, India (Distance learning)

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering ( Jul ’98) Madras University, India

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Research Assistantship (2 yrs)

Working as a Graduate Research Assistant with Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering (IMfgE) department

Designed and Developed Virtual Reality (VR) models For Boeing 767 strut line to improve manufacturing processes Using Quest® and IGRIP® simulation tools

Developed Web based interactive virtual factory models for teaching production systems concepts

Designed and maintained web pages for IMfgE Department

Worked on “Central Parts Distribution-Warehouse” expansion project at Cessna Aircraft Company

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Industrial Experience (3 yrs)

Shop floor engineer for manufacturing abrasive grinding wheels (at Carborundum Universal, India)

Planned and scheduled manufacturing resources for production

Managed work in process (WIP) inventory using kanban cards

Controlled production losses through continuous process improvement

Improved bottleneck machine’s utilization Team member for implementing Total

Productive Maintenance (TPM), ERP and other lean manufacturing initiatives

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Industrial Experience (cont)

Accomplishments Identified key areas for improvement using

Activity Based Costing (ABC) and reduced in process waste by 30%

Created “As-Is” and “To-Be” Value Stream Maps to reduce lead time from 8 weeks to 4 weeks

Improved process capability of bottleneck machines thereby improving Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) from 20 to 35

Awarded “Best team player” for continuous workplace improvement

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Industrial Training

Participated in the Boeing global gemba kaizen event to improve manufacturing processes

Undergone various job oriented training programs 5S & Visual workplace Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) Team building Just In Time (JIT) Statistical Process Control (SPC) Six Sigma ISO 9000 Total Quality Management (TQM)

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Graduate Course work Lean Manufacturing Production Systems Enterprise

Engineering Manufacturing

Strategies Operations Research Logistics Management Virtual Reality in

Manufacturing

Supply Chain Management Enterprise Resource

Planning Probability & Statistics Concurrent Engineering Just In Time Manufacturing Total Quality Management Manufacturing Organization

and Management

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Title: Web-based Interactive Virtual Factory (VF) Model for Production Planning

Designing and developing a VF model using Quest® discrete event simulation tool

Web enabling the factory model using VRML and ASP Uses: Helps employees in an organization with an

opportunity to change Resource parameters Simulate the model over the web View the results immediately Understand the impacts of local changes on the whole system

WEB SITE: http://models.wichita.edu/sim_web/vf/ (TRY IT !)

Thesis work

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Computer Skills

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Operating Systems

MS-DOS, Win 98/NT/2K

Languages C, Java, ASP, XML, VBScript and JavaScript

Simulation tools Quest, IGRIP, Logic net

Databases MS Access, Oracle

Enterprise Modeling Tools ProSim (IDEF3), Ai0WIN (IDEF0)

Honors & Activities Certified Kansas Award for Excellence (KAE)

examiner [KAE adopted from the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Program]

First place in APICS 2003-Donald W. Fogarty international student paper competition [Region 5] - “Web-based interactive virtual factory model for teaching resource management concepts”

Diploma in E-commerce from Anna University, Chennai, India

APICS student chapter- chairperson for membership. Increased membership by 10% in 2002

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