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
VMC 3Axis, CNC-turning, CNC Programming & Production, Sequence of Operations
Die and Mould manufacturing and control
Machine OEE, Day to day customer demands and scheduling
Training and Development
Capex Project Implementation
Erection and Commissioning
MRA Reviewing and Validation
Internal & External Audit Handling (IATF, ASES)
Capex Project & Process Establishment
Vendor Evaluation and 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