Ramanan S. Tiruvannamalai My Bio-Data A brief presentation By Ramanan S. Tiruvannamalai (“Ramanan”) To find more about me…visit my Homepage http://www.angelfire.com/rings/ramanan_ts/

Index My profile Education Research Assistantship at Wichita State University Industrial Experience - My Work history Graduate Course work Thesis work Computer Skills Honors & Activities

Profile 5 years of work experience Resource Modeling and Simulation using Quest & IGRIP simulation tools Manufacturing process improvements for Boeing 767 Strut line 3 years of industrial experience Expertise in Production planning, Inventory management, Process improvements, & Lean manufacturing techniques Trained in Total Productive Maintenance, Statistical Process Control, Six Sigma, ISO 9000, Activity Based Costing and Team Building MS Thesis – Web based Interactive Virtual Factory model for Production Planning Go to Index

Education M.S. in Industrial Engineering (Dec ’03) Wichita State University, Kansas M.S. in Manufacturing Management (Dec ’99) BITS, Pilani, India (Distance learning) B.S. in Mechanical Engineering ( Jul ’98) Madras University, India Go to Index

Research Assistantship (2 yrs) Working as a Graduate Research Assistant with Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering (IMfgE) department Designed and Developed Virtual Reality (VR) models For Boeing 767 strut line to improve manufacturing processes Using Quest® and IGRIP® simulation tools Developed Web based interactive virtual factory models for teaching production systems concepts Designed and maintained web pages for IMfgE Department Worked on “Central Parts Distribution-Warehouse” expansion project at Cessna Aircraft Company Go to Index

Industrial Experience (3 yrs) Shop floor engineer for manufacturing abrasive grinding wheels (at Carborundum Universal, India) Planned and scheduled manufacturing resources for production Managed work in process (WIP) inventory using kanban cards Controlled production losses through continuous process improvement Improved bottleneck machine’s utilization Team member for implementing Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), ERP and other lean manufacturing initiatives Cont. Go to Index

Industrial Experience (cont) Accomplishments Identified key areas for improvement using Activity Based Costing (ABC) and reduced in process waste by 30% Created “As-Is” and “To-Be” Value Stream Maps to reduce lead time from 8 weeks to 4 weeks Improved process capability of bottleneck machines thereby improving Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) from 20 to 35 Awarded “Best team player” for continuous workplace improvement Cont. Go to Index

Industrial Training Participated in the Boeing global gemba kaizen event to improve manufacturing processes Undergone various job oriented training programs 5S & Visual workplace Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) Team building Just In Time (JIT) Statistical Process Control (SPC) Six Sigma ISO 9000 Total Quality Management (TQM) Go to Index

Graduate Course work Lean Manufacturing Production Systems Enterprise Engineering Manufacturing Strategies Operations Research Logistics Management Virtual Reality in Manufacturing Supply Chain Management Enterprise Resource Planning Probability & Statistics Concurrent Engineering Just In Time Manufacturing Total Quality Management Manufacturing Organization and Management Go to Index

Thesis work Title: Web-based Interactive Virtual Factory (VF) Model for Production Planning Designing and developing a VF model using Quest® discrete event simulation tool Web enabling the factory model using VRML and ASP Uses: Helps employees in an organization with an opportunity to change Resource parameters Simulate the model over the web View the results immediately Understand the impacts of local changes on the whole system WEB SITE: http://models.wichita.edu/sim_web/vf/ (TRY IT !) Go to Index

Computer Skills Operating Systems MS-DOS, Win 98/NT/2K Languages C, Java, ASP, XML, VBScript and JavaScript Simulation tools Quest, IGRIP, Logic net Databases MS Access, Oracle Enterprise Modeling Tools ProSim (IDEF3), Ai0WIN (IDEF0) Go to Index

Honors & Activities Certified Kansas Award for Excellence (KAE) examiner [KAE adopted from the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Program] First place in APICS 2003-Donald W. Fogarty international student paper competition [Region 5] - “Web-based interactive virtual factory model for teaching resource management concepts” Diploma in E-commerce from Anna University, Chennai, India APICS student chapter- chairperson for membership. Increased membership by 10% in 2002 Member of Alpha-Phi-Mu – Industrial Engineering Honorary Fraternity Go to Index