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RANJITH KUMAR M

Bengaluru

Summary

Competent Engineering Professional with 12.5 years of experience in Automotive Industry. Demonstrated success in handling the FEA team for Structural Simulations and involved in New product development. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet organization goals.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work History

Engineering Supervisor

Tenneco Inc
BENGALURU
07.2013 - Current
  • Led, directed and supervised team of four FEA Engineers to validate and optimize product using CAE tools and techniques.
  • Balanced project priority and business demand and aligned resources to accomplish assignments, projects and continuous improvements.
  • Trained and mentored competent and flexible workforce to meet project needs and promote positive work environment.
  • Developed positive working relationships with global stakeholders to effectively coordinate work activities.
  • Interacted with customers to demonstrate FEA simulations and validation of results to build confidence on proposed designs for new business.
  • Correlated CAE predictions with physical tests to adopt corrections to existing methods and enhance quality of prediction.
  • Gained extensive knowledge in product design and involved in APQP activities like RFQ, SOR review, preparation of XBOM and drawing for CER during period 2016- 2020 for all TATA motors projects.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams like manufacturing, quality on design review process such as DFMEA and DMSO to ensure past lesson learnt and manufacturing aspects incorporated in new design.
  • Identified new ideas, products and/or features that improved customer satisfaction, reduced costs and kept product line in forefront of industry.
  • Communicated with vendors and key suppliers to optimize manufacturability of components and meet customer needs.

CAE Engineer

EASi ENGINEERING SERVICE
CHENNAI
04.2012 - 05.2013
    • Interacted with clients to obtain critical design information necessary to complete projects within intended time frames.
    • Performed final quality assurance assessment of CAE Models of Parts and components like BIW (Upper body & under body Parts), Closures (FR Door, RR Door, Lift Gate, and Hood) and Powertrain system as per SOP before delivering customers.
    • Examined documents and guidelines to best update and maintain project records.
    • Reduced manual processes by modelling library features to increase production efficiency, improving efficiency 10%

CAE Engineer

Apollo Tyres
Vadodara
09.2010 - 04.2012
  • Conducted simulation for strength, durability and static footprint to optimize contact pressure distribution at tire road interface for more than 20 Passenger car tires.
  • Conducted simulation to estimate tires stiffness characteristics under various conditions like Braking, traction, cambering and cornering.
  • Involved in development of lightweight truck bus bias tires.
  • Developed Internal procedure and guidelines for strength and durability simulation of Farm and Truck tires.
  • Analyzed FEA results and determined design feasibility of plies shape and position to improve stiffness and durability performances of radial tires.
  • Created technical presentation and reports to demonstrate simulation results to stake-holders.
  • Conducted materials characterization to identify material constants for different tire compounds.

Education

MBA - Engineering Management

INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCE
Germany
02-2023

Master of Engineering - Engineering Design

ANNA UNIVERISTY
Coimbatore
06-2010

Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering

THANTHAI PERIYAR GOVERNMENT INSITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Vellore
04-2008

Skills

  • P>Structural Strength & Durability Validation

  • P > Multibody Simulation

  • P > Product Design & Development

  • P > Training and mentoring

  • P > Interdisciplinary collaboration

Accomplishments

  • Achieved appreciation from Tenneco Senior leadership for the best team of the year 2022.
  • Achieved "Excellence award" for providing FEA support on major business wins which are nominated during the year 2014-2017.
  • Effectively supported to establish FEA capabilities at Tenneco-HUB and supervised team of four FEA Engineers.

Languages

  • TAMIL

  • ENGLISH

  • GERMAN

Timeline

Engineering Supervisor

Tenneco Inc
07.2013 - Current

CAE Engineer

EASi ENGINEERING SERVICE
04.2012 - 05.2013

CAE Engineer

Apollo Tyres
09.2010 - 04.2012

MBA - Engineering Management

INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCE

Master of Engineering - Engineering Design

ANNA UNIVERISTY

Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering

THANTHAI PERIYAR GOVERNMENT INSITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

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