SURESHKUMAR KANDASAMY

Dedicated professional with extensive knowledge of mechanical technologies, tools and practices working in research & development responsible for managing & executing new product development & sustenance engineering projects.

• Solid knowledge in end to end design.
• Highly diverse knowledge and experience in casting & plastic design.
• Extensive experience in design & development of medical device & industrial products.
• Provide design engineering solution to production, fabrication, operation & quality for client business units.

CSR - Core Team SPOC :

• HCL Foundation, Chennai, India

CSR core team member working in community services and development of urban school

• Adaptable
• Optimistic
• Upgrading

Design & Development:

• Mold design for sand casting.
• Develop and perform functional testing of medical devices.
• Interacting with the customer’s technical team to finalize design.
• Carry out DHF remediation activities as per approved remediation plan.
• Design and Develop fixture for manufacturing feasibility and product testing.
• Develop computerized NC Program and manual NC codes for CNC machines.
• Initiate and handle feasibility analysis study along with other CFT on new SOW inputs from customer.
• Prepare detailed drawing using solidworks 14 and prepare detailed drawing using.
• Comprehensive knowledge of Design Verification (DV) Plan, DV Protocol, Develop DV Test Report and Engineering Memo.
• Performing calculations, material selection, vendor selection, estimate final manufacturing cost and conduct trials to evaluate product performance.
• Spearheading the product life management by guaranteeing the performance of the product in design verification and heading the project until closure.
• Evaluating and optimizing the capability of the design, calculate the capability and if necessary optimize the design in early stage using tolerance analysis.
• Pre-clinical studies. Invivo and Invitro correlation development for drug coated stents.
• Sampling strategy and sampling plan development for product testing.
• Tolerance stack up analysis of catheter shafts for manufacturing feasibility and assembly.
  

Quality Control & Quality Assurance:

• Perform Risk management and risk analysis activities.
• Technical writing – reports and technical justification.
• Carryout Root cause analysis and work on NC/CAPA resolution.
• Identify and carry out corrective actions to address the most serious concerns and Prevent design process mistakes.
• Resolving product and process issues using standard procedures and with tools FMEA, EURA, CAPA, Minitab 17.0 and Rtool.
• Identifying potential failure modes for product by using FMEA tool to assess the risk associated and to rank the issues in terms of importance.
• Carrying out statistical analysis for shelf life verification of a product and fixing the failures via investigation and extending support in terms of proper technical judgments & Implement Design Control to qualify the product.
• Manage customer approved drawings mechanical and electrical (Electrical with the help of electrical team)
• Test method development for balloon catheters.
• Process validation plan, protocol and report.
• Vendor development and vendor identification for cost reduction.
• Gap Assessment of,
  1. Label consideration. (Document number 16016)
  2. Stability testing of active pharmaceutical ingredients and finished pharmaceutical products. (WHO_TRS953 2018)

Project Management :

• Preparing and sending out the weekly status report to the client and offshore team.
• Scheduling and managing workload in the shop floor for smooth production and delivery.
• Key role participation in the offshore calls and handle the technical discussion between off-site resources and client team.
• Interact with CFT to finalize the scope of project and understand the impact on the timeliness, assign tasks and track till completion.
• Attending the project status meeting/ technical discussions held with cross-functional team and handling all the deliverable in support of the project schedule.
• Project Lead, responsible for monthly effort estimation, CSS, Project metrics and Process improvement activities.

• Exploring distant lands
• Every kind of sport
• Strategy & Time management games
• Pet Raising
• Fitness & Nutrition
• Farming

Six Sigma - Green Belt - 2018 :
A Project done for HCL Technologies Ltd. with a cost saving of 281.6K USD / year.

Pro / Engineer Wildfire 5.0 - 2011 :
United Infotech Intermediate Course in Pro / Engineer Wildfire 5.0.

AUTO-CAD - 2009 :
UMS Technologies Training Centre Intensive Course in AUTO-CAD.

• Executed more than 6 projects in a short span of 5 months.
• Core member of TQM & 5’s team. Improved the shop floor and tool room standardization.
• Programmed and generated numerical codes for more than 60 components for milling and turning machines.
  HCL - Corporate Statistical Team (SME), have trained associates across projects in Statistics & Process Control (SPC).
• Achieved optimum yield for molding motor outer body in sand casting and the mold resulted in a material scrap reduction by 60 % per batch.