Hemanth Kumar

Lead the quality and manufacturing strategy initiatives for all business divisions outside of Japan with specific focus in Europe & MEA and Americas. Overall shaping the future of SQDIC performance through process innovation using digital technologies by:
• Secure Quality compliance through audits and process digitalization
• Establish Industry 4.0 road map, support implementation.
• SIRI assessments and create Digital Road map for sites.
• Formalize and oversee the implementation of Global digitalization projects.
• Promoting industry best practices in Gemba, Digital operations, sustainability

Overall responsible for day-to-day operations across the Hub of High Voltage Products business line. The operations footprint covers multiple site Production units, Service units in South Asia countries.

I lead Operations & continuous improvement of the region to deliver the target of SQDIP; Safety, Quality, Delivery, Inventory, Productivity. Some key achievement / milestones of the journey in the current job.

· Implemented formal S&OP process in all operating unit with a monthly planning cycle including financial planning.

· Implemented SQDIP and tiered accountability structure to bring SQDIP accountability at all levels of Tier 1 to Tier 4.

· Introduced Direct and Indirect cost dashboard leading to cost out funnel. Driving the accountability to be better than budget across the value chain.

· Implemented new factory strategy to serve increased volume and new NAM market from India. A global footprint strategy action.

· Identify and sponsor the hard cash cost savings (HCCO) projects across value chain, delivered 7MUSD of savings year in 2022.

· Implemented Productivity targets in all units defined by KUSD/employee, Direct labor productivity, Indirect cost per hour. Improved Direct labor productivity by 6%.

· Achieved YoY targets of L6S transformation, as a result developing 7 Black Belts and 45 Green Belts resource pool in the Hub in last 3 years.

· Lead the LLH deployment using ITM assessment framework. Achieved 9 units phase3, 1 unit in Phase 2.

· Validate the CAPEX/new investment, and effective implementation. Oversee the implementation of about 10MUSD CAPEX annually.

· People & Organization; Implemented Leading operation model (LOM) consistently across all units.

HVC is one of the four product groups of the business unit with wide product and solution portfolio to serve customers. HVC global foot print includes 10+ key manufacturing units & 8 customer solutions units located in Americas, Europe and Asia.

· Delivered Quality along the value chain program with digital process integration in 4/10 production sites.

· Secured the product quality in product footprint change projects.

· Implemented common quality standard across all units/production lines, reducing the rework /reject ratio.

· Improve the response time to customer complaints within 24 hours.

· Implemented a global planning process (IBP) to harmonize the capacity planning to reduce costs and better service levels to customers.

High Voltage Products (PGHV) is a global business unit supporting customers with the supply of equipment’s and services for power generation, transmission, and distribution. In India, the PPHV has 6 manufacturing units, a service business unit and also a R&D center.

The job role is to drive quality improvement projects, maintain ISO9000 QMS certifications and also Operational excellence maturity improvement. Further also a member of Global Quality Core team to formulate the strategy, roadmap, methodologies.

REMSC – is one of the 4 regional ERP centers globally supporting ABB operations with ERP solution / landscape. REMSC located in Bangalore to implement SAP ECC6, CRM7 in South east Asia and Middle East countries. The job role was a regional role, to implement the testing practice to ensure that ERP software and processes were error free, and changes are validated before implementation.

· Develop testing resources: people, skills, test scripts, manual test and automated test solutions

· Test execution for change requests, technical and functional upgrades

· Approve the new releases before applying to production environment

· Secure the defect free environment for 20000 users in the region.

· Bring in technical know how, tools and methodologies within testing domain.

REMSC – is one of the 4 regional ERP centers globally supporting ABB operations with ERP solution / landscape. REMSC located in Bangalore to implement SAP ECC6, CRM7 in South east Asia and Middle East countries.

The job role was a regional role, to develop functional solutions according the business blue print, implement change requests, user training, usage analysis and continuous improvement in ERP processes across logistic functions.

· Manage Quality Program for business division comprising 12 business units,

· ISO9000 certification of all 14 production units in India.

· Drive improvement projects, resolve high impact quality problems,

· Support Quality Managers for supplier audits and process improvement,

· SQA implementation,

· Aluminum HPDC process engineering; new part production set up, prototype production, tool approval, standardization and release for production.

· Continuous Improvement: Process monitoring, control variation, process optimization for quality and productivity.

· Cost reduction – Kaizens, mistake proofing.

· Quality Planning; establish standards, visual samples, training and skill development.

· Define and establish QMS as per ISO9000/ QS9000 in all Business Units, documentation, plan and conduct internal audits, follow up for corrective actions, training of personnel on process planning tools APQP, FMEA, control plan, supplier training and certification, Driving improvements and kaizens.

· Achieved the ISO9000 / QS9000 certification (ISO TS16949 today), a qualification to supply to Automotive customers.

· Define and establish QMS as per ISO9000/ QS9000 in all Business Units, documentation, plan and conduct internal audits, follow up for corrective actions, training of personnel on process planning tools APQP, FMEA, control plan, supplier training and certification, Driving improvements and kaizens.

· Achieved the ISO9000 / QS9000 certification (ISO TS16949 today), a qualification to supply to Automotive customers.