Robin Khandelwal

• Standardized production procedures, scheduling, headcount deployment process, job roles, KPI dashboards, product quality controls.
• Managed internal operational standards and productivity targets.
• Reviewed maintenance and repair problems to determine appropriate action for resolution.
• Managed continuous improvement initiatives through LSS, KAIZEN, CAPA & Internal Audit tools to drive gains in quality, flow, and output with 100% Right First Time.
• Operations capability assessment and advance setup plan for Product Innovations .
• Annual operations budget planning and optimizing overall cost by implementing cost cutting initiatives .
• Leading Periodic reviews for metric performance of manufacturing and warehousing process viz. Yield & Usage loss, True Efficiencies, Quality Audits, Labour Productivity, Internal Defects, MOH Cost Saving etc.
• Determined suitable crew requirements, scheduled employees, and worked with human resources to plan to leverage Plant capacity .
• Partnered with leadership on recruiting, hiring and coaching production personnel.
• Wrote and conducted formal Performance reviews for Production and warehousing team.
• Effective Management of People Processes through SKIP level connect, Grievance Acknowledgement & Resolution Process, ACE conversation tools.
• Cross Functional Internal Relationship building through fortnight connects.

Projects Handled

• LSS : 50% Internal defect reduction for Torn bag at Salt Manufacturing.
• LSS: 20% Improvement in True Efficiency of SERAC.
• LSS: 30% Improvement in True Efficiency of Salt Assembly.
• 10% Water consumption reduction per CIP circuit at Liquid Manufacturing.
• 50% Output Improvement in Manual salt filling station through LSS.
• Semi-Automatic Liquid Filler procurement and commissioning.
• Auger Filler for Powder Filling.
• Semi-Automatic Salt Assembly line .
• 50% Reduction in numbers of touches to SERAC Filler through PIT-STOP .
• Change over reduction at Salt Assembly through SMED Approach.
• Reduction in minor stoppages at SERAC through ‘ Mean Time to TOUCH ' approach.
• PGCS Multisite True Efficiency Global suite review & management for 2022.
• Delivered 36 Product Innovation in 2019 without any major capacity investment.

• Established Gap analysis and process validation for 100% adherence to SOPs .
• Performed Skill Upbuild of worker to achieve 100% work instruction adherence.
• Standardization for CLRI check sheets and process flow charts.
• Monthly Q-Next Assessment and con-call review meetings.
• Monthly MIS reporting for Q-Next.
• Quarterly steering committee review of plant performance indicators.
• Monthly analysis of KPIs using QC tools (Scatter, Ishikawa, ANOVA).
• Monitoring of KAIZENS/OPLs for desired Kaizen implementation and replication, horizontal replication of Tier-1 Kaizen.
• Monthly review of dashboard for North region (3 sites).
• Quarterly & half-yearly process auditing with consultants.
• External benchmarking through CII participation .

Projects Handled:

• SGA project covering all equipment for productivity, quality, cost, and morale targets.
• SMED for variety changeover time reduction.
• TQM projects for weight consistency and packet seal strength improvement.
• TQM project for Jim Jam sandwich biscuit defect reduction.
• Development of standardized e-learning modules.