Sumit Chavan

Power-train development of 2.6 L engine for commercial and personal vehicle.

• Engine and vehicle testing for calibration and endurance.
• DVP preparation, planning and execution for BSVI OBD-II projects to develop and validate the parts and engine, on engine test bed and on fleet validation vehicles. Helped with planning schedules and delegating assignments to meet project timelines.
• Fleet vehicles validation data analysis, component failure analysis, test report preparation.
• Dataset validation and test data analysis using data analysis software's like MDA, AVL Concerto, VISU and MS-Excel.
• Assisted in organizing and overseeing assignments to drive operational excellence.
• Interacting with suppliers for part development and failure analysis.
• Test standard preparation for production line.
• Assisted in developing test methods to test engines at production line.
• Endurance and durability testing of the engines and report preparation.
• Mentored team members to enhance professional development and accountability in workplace.
• Participating in high altitude and summer validation test.

Project CFT:

• Validation of engine for mechanical development of farm sector, automotive and off-road engine from single cylinder to six cylinder engines of gasoline and diesel fuel.
• Validation of engines for various durability cycles, collecting data, analyzing and preparation of test reports
• Worked as a project CFT member for gasoline engine from concept validation to SOP for 1.2NA, 1.2TCMPFI, 1.2TGDI, 1.5TCMPFI/TGDI and 2.0TGDI engines which involves validation planing, root cause analysis for part failures, revalidation of the solutions.
• Involved in identifying the causes for high oil consumption on gasoline engines.
• Involved in DFMEA, DVP and DVPR.

Member of VA/VE idea generation and validation.

• Planning and validation of VA/VE projects.

Additional responsibilities

• Establishing test standards for production testing.
• Test bed up-keeping and improving utilization.
• internal ISMS auditor

Internal safety in-charge:

• Maintaining safe work zone and imparting training to the team regarding safe activities.
• internal auditor for ISMS,OSHAS and EMS audits.

• Development and validation of single cylinder diesel engine.
• Engine assembling, mounting on test bench, alignment with eddy current dynamometer.
• Conducting tests on engine dynamometer and on lawn mower vehicle.
• Engine endurance and durability testing.
• DOE tests for optimizing the performance.
• Preparing test reports.
• Benchmarking of competitor’s engines and subsystem validation for structural and functional performance.
• Eddy current dynamometer maintenance and installation.

• Engine assembly, installation, alignment and instrumentation in test bed.
• Conducting tests for engine performance and emission measurements.