Ganesan Gopal
manager of toolroom
Chennai
Summary
Motivated Manager of forging toolroom with 20+ years of progressive experience. Energetic self-starter and team builder. Navigates high-stress situations and achieves goals on time and under budget.
Overview
2025
2025
years of professional experience
2
2
Languages
Work History
Manager of manufacturing
TVS sundaram fasteners limited autolec division
4 2024 - Current
- Converson control for Hot Rolled RM Bar
- Establishing norms with suppliers
- Supplier rejection control and debit notes
- Monthly reconciliation
- Supplier audits and satisfaction surveys
- Cost reduction initiatives
- Price negotiation
- Sales oversight
- Maintaining supplier matrix
- IATF audit compliance
- Continuous improvement
Deputy Manager of toolroom
MM FORGINGS LIMITED
01.2016 - 03.2024
- Toolroom Functions -Manufacturing Engineering
- Leading operations and attaining the monthly production targets by assigning targets and tracking progress against targets by analyzing daily reports
- Sustaining and improving the productivity with extensive quality and cost reduction
- Mentoring and coordinating with production staff members
- Devising manufacturing strategy for operating in inhouse&outsourced-mode
- Spearheading manufacturing, quality assurance and control, process improvements, maintenance to ensure on time delivery of high-quality product, in shortest lead-time, at lower cost, in respect of safety, health & environment guidelines
- Rendering support to production on process engineering platform; rendering production support to set the process of new products on plant level & ensuring continual improvements to increase the overall efficiency
- Attaining daily forging production plan
- Managing new programs product development standard tool design
- Devising control plan, performing FMEA review and updating as per plan
- Maintaining zero NC in TS and customer audit related to engineering
- Ensuring no non-conformity in quality system and standards process layer audit
- Conducting analysis of daily tool consumption cost and maintaining low consumable tool cost per product
- Cost reduction and Material handling and flow control of
Senior Engineer
Unigraphics
10.2007 - 01.2016
- NX Siemens version 8.0/10 &modeling &manufacturing -programmer and checking &approved cad/cam functions engineer
- Conducted regular staff assessments to ensure they performed duties to high standards to maintain smooth running projects
- Delegated responsibilities, priorities and tasks to engineers, assigning appropriately to ensure projects stayed within schedules
VMC machine function operator &supervisor
MM FORGINGS LIMITED
12.2002 - 10.2007
- Carefully controlled machine settings, including speed and production output
engineer trainee
jyothi malleable
07.2002 - 12.2002
- Safety mock drills, SAP, ERP Systems, Trained on design software such as NX SIEMENS MODLING & MANUFACTURING SOFTWARE, FFAUT, NX TURNING ADD ON, SMED, Poke Yoke, and Lean
Education
BE - mechanical engineering
Madras Institute of Technology
Chennai, TN 01.2015 - 01.2015
Diploma of Engineering - Mechanical
Roever polytechnic
Perambalur, TN 01.2002 - 01.2002
Skills
Tool Room Operations & Development
Accomplishments
- Experience in creating parametric 3D models, associative drawing of complex geometries
- A downtime below 3% due to process issue
- Below 1% tooling downtime due to wrong tooling / Non availability of tools
- Zero Inventory variation of material flow
- Implementing 5S Sustenance & Poke Yoke in critical process
- Continual improvements on Production and process
- Machine OEE Improvements
- Machine Setup time reduction
- NPD on time Achievements based on customer commitments
- Tool manufacturing Lead time Reduced by 21 days
- Cost saving for Tool Re-shinking initiation and successful Trail completion
- Executed Kanban systems with FIFO Process in inventory management
- Non-productive stock and slow-moving parts managements
- Die life improvements by using surface treatment nitrating, PVD
- Recondition of die & tool
- Consumable tool and consumable store maintain cost per ton
- Reduce cutting tool cost by implement regrind & refluting
- Reduce machining time by implement soft die machining
- Cost reduction by implement insert concepts, Various type of holder & bolster
- Attending Asia forging conference meet in Japan
Additionalinformation - Linkedin
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ganesan-gopal-85092b61
Timeline
Deputy Manager of toolroom
MM FORGINGS LIMITED
01.2016 - 03.2024
BE - mechanical engineering
Madras Institute of Technology
01.2015 - 01.2015
Senior Engineer
Unigraphics
10.2007 - 01.2016
VMC machine function operator &supervisor
MM FORGINGS LIMITED
12.2002 - 10.2007
engineer trainee
jyothi malleable
07.2002 - 12.2002
Diploma of Engineering - Mechanical
Roever polytechnic
01.2002 - 01.2002
Manager of manufacturing
TVS sundaram fasteners limited autolec division
4 2024 - Current
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