Pushkar Vaidya

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Imagine transforming your manufacturing operations by merging the power of AI with Lean principles. By synthesizing employee feedback from surveys and focus groups, AI can not only distill key insights but also recommend actionable solutions. In one of my past roles, we leveraged AI to tackle systemic issues by pinpointing areas of focus and suggesting targeted actions. This approach saved us immense time and became a strategic partner in problem-solving, ultimately enhancing performance and making employees’ lives easier. The combination of AI and Lean isn’t just a trend; it’s a revolution in efficiency and employee satisfaction. How are you harnessing AI to elevate your operations, and what successes have you seen? #ManufacturingInnovation #LeanManufacturing #ArtificialIntelligence #OperationalExcellence

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A production team planner plays a crucial role in manufacturing and production environments. Their responsibilities typically include: 1. **Scheduling Production**: Creating and managing production schedules to ensure timely completion of products. This includes planning daily, weekly, and monthly production targets. 2. **Resource Allocation**: Ensuring that the necessary materials, equipment, and labor are available to meet production goals. This involves coordinating with procurement, inventory, and human resources departments. 3. **Workflow Management**: Designing and optimizing workflows to enhance productivity and efficiency. This includes identifying and mitigating potential bottlenecks in the production process. 4. **Monitoring and Reporting**: Tracking production progress and performance against targets. Providing regular updates and reports to management on key performance indicators (KPIs). 5. **Problem-Solving**: Addressing and resolving issues that arise during production, such as equipment failures, supply shortages, or labor disputes. 6. **Continuous Improvement**: Identifying opportunities for process improvements and implementing changes to reduce costs, improve quality, and increase efficiency. 7. **Compliance and Safety**: Ensuring that production processes comply with industry standards, regulations, and safety guidelines. This involves conducting regular inspections and audits. 8. **Collaboration**: Working closely with other departments, such as engineering, quality control, and logistics, to ensure smooth and efficient production operations. Overall, a production team planner is essential for maintaining an organized, efficient, and effective production process, ultimately contributing to the successful delivery of products to customers.

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Professional Pride.. - You hold yourself accountable before anyone holds you accountable. - Do your job before anyone asks you. - Bchill is responsible for your work and that of your team. - Your age does not take praise or appreciation for a job that you do not buy. - Solve your problems without complaint or intimidation. - Your age does not require a need that is not your right. - Your age does not ask for help in a need that you are able to do. - You will not let your team do something that you will not do like them. - Do not settle for the ordinary, traditional and expected results. You always take two steps ahead. - Don't compete with others, compete yourself, every day I want the best. - Your quality standards are higher than others, you will not go down from them. - You will never play dishonestly in order to succeed or achieve a result. You will lose with honor. If you lose. - You will learn the method of two and three to achieve the result. You will innovate and think. - Your age will not give up. You will try once, twice, and three. - You will learn everyone who works with you. And you will emerge each one of them works. You won't be afraid of anyone taking your place. I know your value. - You will grow up with the people around you. You won't grow up on them. - Your age will not sleep and you are falling short in need. Your professional pride is Your personal brand. #leadership #coashing

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🌟 Excited to share some insights on Design for Manufacturing (DFM) – a crucial strategy I found valuable in optimizing product design and manufacturing efficiency. ➡ What is Design for Manufacturing? DFM (Design for Manufacturing) is a systematic approach to product design that takes into account manufacturing processes, materials, assembly, and testing requirements. Its goal is to minimize manufacturing costs and enhance product quality. By understanding manufacturing processes and equipment capabilities, designers can streamline the design, reducing time to market and simplifying production. ➡ When should DFM be performed? To implement early in the product design process. During the conceptual design phase which allows for the identification and resolution of potential manufacturing issues before they become expensive or time-consuming to address. ➡ Why DFM optimization is critical? 🔹 Cost Reduction 🔹 Improved Quality 🔹 Faster Time to Market ➡ Key Principles in DFM 🔹 Simplify the design 🔹 Standardize components 🔹 Design for ease of fabrication 🔹 Design for assembly 🔹 Design for quality . . Disclaimer: This content is being created for educational and knowledge-sharing purposes. . . #enggdesign #mechanicaldesign #designinnovation #designengineering #productdevelopment #engineeringexcellence #dfm #designformanufacturing #manufacturing #prototype

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Hello Professionals, We currently have an opening for the position of Mechanical Engineer with one of our direct clients. 𝐑𝐨𝐥𝐞: Mechanical Engineer 𝐋𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: Boston, MA Duration: Longterm Description: •   Individual should be able to read the technical drawings and/or specifications and manuals, identify parts based on technical information, investigate and source alternative parts from North American suppliers where possible.  •   Major Aim is to convert all normal & non-proprietary parts/components to NA supplied vendor by doing the vendor scouting to source similar spec’ed parts or equivalent specs parts to remove dependency on Mazzoni vendor & shipping from Italy. •   SAP integration & actual registration work à All parts should also need to be registered into the storeroom system by entering in all necessary part information into the parts registration form following the required formats and following up on the registration process until the parts are through the system.  •   Work directly with the storeroom to track parts and ensure that all parts are on track and flag for delivery for additional follow-up and review.  •   Ensure all Italian based Mazzoni parts are in stock, PIF’d and abled to be shipped to AMC. •   When the parts are shipped from Mazzoni, related manuals, specs, documentations are also shipped but those gets missed during current process so expectation is to collect this documents to make proper repository for future reference as well.  •   Mazzoni proprietary components will be still coming from them only & no need to find any alternate but some help might be needed for critical spares which P&G will inform if needed in future.  #MechanicalEngineer #LongtermJob #TechnicalDrawings #VendorScouting #SAPIntegration #PartRegistration #StoreroomManagement #SupplyChain #PartsManagement #DocumentationManagement #MazzoniParts #AlternativeSourcing #NorthAmericanSuppliers #EngineeringJobs #ManufacturingJobs If you're interested in this opportunity, please don't hesitate to share your updated resume with us at dattu@𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐭.𝐜𝐨𝐦

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Getting better for medical OEMS. “It’s our jobs to be more efficient, and we have some of the best engineers that help us to improve our processes on a daily basis.” https://bit.ly/3RvGPxe #ContractManufacturer #PrecisionManufacturing #PrecisionMachining #MedicalDevices #Orthopedics #SurgicalRobotics #LifeSciences #DentalImplants #Prosthetics

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Toll Manufacturing #Tollmanufacturing or tolling is #outsourcing all the #production or part of it to a #thirdpartycompany where you provide all the #rawmaterials or semi finished products. Processing the goods or raw materials to the necessary specifications is the responsibility of the outside business. Full #tollproducers frequently provide #shipping and #warehousingfacilities The #manufacturer receives a fee or toll, a flat fee agreed upon before commencement of processing. They are only responsible for the final product’s #quality as far as the processing is concerned. The source company is responsible for the #quality of materials and the #vendors. The main reason for toll #manufacturing is to utilize specialized equipment and #labor or #technicalities in the #productionprocess. Sometimes you may have to divulge trade secrets and knowhow to the toll company about your product. Contract vs. Toll Manufacturing #Contract and toll manufacturing are sometimes confused with each other. #Contractmanufacturing is another way of #outsourcingproduction. But here, the third-party company is responsible for #sourcing the materials and manufacturing. It will supervise the entire procedure to make sure the finished result satisfies the given specifications. A business may choose to outsource all or a portion of the #productproduction. The amount that must be paid is #prearranged. #Contractmanufacturing is a fast and effective way of making branded or #custommade products without engaging in production. Companies can produce products even overseas without needing to set up expensive factories or buy special equipment. A Toll Manufacturing Agreement is between two companies. One owns a design or idea for a product and #supplies materials to the other to manufacture the product or parts of it. It is essential in protecting #intellectual rights and #tradesecrets from being passed on to #competitors or used to make #competingproducts. Advantages • Saving on #capitalequipment. • Handling raw materials is taken care of by the toll company. • They charge a #flat fee. • Increased #productionefficiency as the toll company specializes in processing. • The toll companies offer #customization. • Reducing #laborcost. • Control over the quality and #cost of raw materials remains with you. • It gives you #productionconvenience, especially for #chemicaltoll #manufacturing. • On #demand #capabilities allow you to seek #services on a need basis. Disadvantages • #Risk losing your #tradesecrets when you share them with the toll company to enable #production. • Delays may cost your company. If their facilities are busy with another order, you may have to wait, affecting your #deliverytimelines. • From the toll company’s point of view, the source company may outsource only complex and #lowmargin processes while remaining with the easier ones. #losistics #Management #supplychainmanagement #supplychainplanning #planningandscheduling #TMA #handlingequipment

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Read Carefully before you Apply - Only US candidates Valid. Location: Plano, TX (Onsite – 5 days) Rate: $60.00/Hr (AI)  Software Engineer, Embedded Devp. We’re hiring for our in-vehicle UI software development team! In this role, your work will have direct impact on a global product, building next-generation software for screens in vehicles around the globe. We’re looking for someone that has a passion for building software focused on good user experience, focus on the customer. On a project of this scale, no one operates alone, so you will need to know how to communicate with your team members — not just engineers, but also Product, UX Design, Project Management, QA, Evaluation Testers and eng counterparts in other regions.   In this role you will: Write code in Dart within the Flutter framework, have the opportunity to contribute to the codebase in Rust, or JavaScript/TypeScript plugins and development tools. Write tests for your own code and maintain responsibility for the fidelity of that code and your overall domain area within a large, distributed global software team. Actively participate in merge request code reviews. Interact with your product team to understand the requirements, designs, and constraints of a given feature being implemented or bug you are trying to eliminate. Configure test hardware and perform hands-on end-to-end testing for your domain area in support of other teams (backend, middleware, cloud, evaluation). Participate (sometimes in the evening) on calls with software team members in other regions, such as Japan, EU, or India to align dependencies and architecture, triage issues.  Necessary experience: Above all else, you maintain respect for others, but are able to change your mind when presented with evidence. You are able to discuss and argue your opinions in a professional, constructive manner. You know when to walk away and when to press for something better. You’ve worked on the UI side of a modern stack; with React or other web component libraries or frameworks, or as a Native developer building mobile or desktop apps. We aren’t hiring “Flutter Devs,” we’re hiring software engineers and will prioritize and support your personal growth and skills if you are willing to put forth the effort.   Bonus points if you Have shipped production code using Dart and/or Rust Have built an app using flutter Have experience configuring CI runners and writing configuration in Gitlab or another similar platform Have any hands-on experience with embedded hardware devices, operating systems (we use Automotive Grade Linux), embedded debugging processes   Location / Hours: Due to the necessity of working with prototype hardware, we are unable to support fully remote work and candidates will need to spend a minimum of 3 full workdays per week in-office at in Legacy West. We focus on getting the job done, not specific office hours, however our work requires us to align with developers. Email resume at-ngupta@nextgeninnovation.com

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Interested in learning more about how the MES can advance automated manufacturing in semiconductor manufacturing?  Check out our FAQs for more info.     https://lnkd.in/gc-WrpRk      #smartfactory #automatedmanufacturing #manufacturingexecutionsystem #semiconductorautomation 

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The hidden costs in mechanical design for mass production: If you are part of leadership in an engineering company, it’s important to at least consider the question: are your engineering teams working on the right things? How would you even know until it’s too late to do anything about it? Arthur Field and I had a conversation on mechanical engineering for mass production where I highlighted several key insights that come out of successful engineering teams. These insights are post research phase when your mechanical engineers should be doing the hard recursive work combining physics with variation. If you are a leader of an engineering company and you find this is not being followed at all or not very well, then it’s costing you major $$$! Its the difference between products that launch successfully and products that never got off the ground. It could actually save your company from closing production lines and shuttering its doors.

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💯 Just completed my first course on Lean Six Sigma. I was surprised by the intersection of statistics, useful insights for entrepreneurs, and quality management at larger scales. I was curious about Six Sigma because I wanted to learn the language that process engineers speak. Smaller companies occupy specific places in the value chain, and being able to understand the concerns arising both upstream and downstream is crucial to designing successful projects. Some highlights I collected from this introduction to the topic of quality management: Quality is closely related to the Voice of Customer (even if it's the internal customer working with the output of a process). What are the features, and in which ranges, that a customer values and uses for deciding whether a product is acceptable or not. Even if not implementing a six-sigma method yet, it's interesting to see that customer input has a central location in business processes. The Voice of Customer has such a deep impact on startups, even if it's very hard to properly collect it. Many entrepreneurs forget how to keep this voice integrated into their development strategies. Surprisingly, even if the course kept the VoC at a central place, forgot about it when discussing how to identify critical-to-quality attributes. It all came down to a brainstorming exercise performed exclusively internally. The VoC becomes just a validation platform for predefined ideas that were sourced internally. I can't say whether this is the case for all Six-Sigma courses. In this case it felt a bit like a letdown. Finding specific attributes is so crucial to gaining a competitive edge that leaving it to the randomness of a brainstorm seems insufficient. And this is a concern both for startups trying to find product/market fit, and for well established companies trying to keep up with their innovation cycles. I was surprised when the course introduced the central limit theorem. It brought me back memories of my time as a student. As a (experimental) physicist, many of the topics seemed straightforward. From measurement biases to calibration. From operator dependance on results to accuracy. It was interesting to understand how things that, perhaps, sound natural for an experimentalist, need to be formalized to include all stakeholders involved in a complex process. Of all the skills an entrepreneur needs to master, I won't put Six Sigma at the top. The quality management needs will arise as the company grows. It's easy to intuitively understand the value of establishing processes when they are needed. At that moment, a properly trained professional can be put in charge and take over. I had never properly followed a MOOC before. This was the first time I commit few hours every week. I'm shocked by the immense value available on platforms such as Coursera and EdX. -- 👋 Hi! I'm @Aquiles. I'm a scientist turned entrepreneur. I share insights on the challenges of #scipreneurship

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Explore how manufacturers can overcome the challenges of automation complexity, cost misconceptions, and skill gaps with strategic 3D scanning solutions. This article provides insights into how manufacturing companies can harness the potential of 3D scanners within automated environments. It also offers guidance for adopting approaches that balance initial technology investments with future scalability toward end-to-end automation. Check out the full article by Creaform here: https://lnkd.in/em7ctNBA -------------------------------- How to get your company on Wevolver? Wevolver is a platform used by millions of engineers to stay up to date about the latest technologies. Learn how your company can connect with the community and reach a global audience of engineers: https://lnkd.in/gtbsMuU2

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𝙄𝙨 𝙇𝙞𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙙 𝙃𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝘼𝙪𝙩𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙄𝙣𝙫𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩? 𝙇𝙚𝙩'𝙨 𝙍𝙚𝙛𝙧𝙖𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙌𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣. When considering liquid handling automation, the first thought often is, "Is it expensive?" Sure, comparing prices alone might make it seem that way. But let’s shift our perspective and consider a few critical factors: ⏱ 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞: Nothing is more valuable than time. Automation dramatically reduces manual labor, allowing your team to focus on more strategic tasks. 💧 𝐒𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐠��𝐢𝐭𝐲: Your samples are precious. Automation ensures consistent handling, minimizing the risk of errors and contamination. 🔬 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐲: With automation, precision and accuracy are paramount. Consistent results lead to reliable data, crucial for any research. 💲 𝐂𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐊𝐢𝐭𝐬: Automated systems optimize the use of consumables, reducing waste and overall costs. Think about these comparisons—do you still feel it's not worth it? At Leader Life Sciences , in partnership with Tecan, we are committed to overcoming all challenges and providing the best sales and service support in the region. If you're uncertain about the benefits of automation, let us create a customized solution for your lab. We would love to hear about your experiences with automation. Share your thoughts and let’s discuss how we can help you achieve precision, save time, and optimize resources. Interested in more details? Let's talk in person or via DM! Feel free to connect with us and explore how we can transform your lab operations. #Automation #LifeSciences #LabEfficiency #Precision #liquidhandling #research #biotech #labautomation #diagnostics

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“I think the important thing for manufacturing leaders is to find the appropriate balance between innovation and hype. There is so much hype around these days.” It might be tempting to jump headfirst into new innovations, especially when robots are involved. But don’t get caught up in the hype, says Ryan Gariepy, CTO of Clearpath Robotics by Rockwell Automation & OTTO Motors. Ryan joined Episode 181 of the podcast to explore the best ways of integrating robotics in the workplace, plus much more. Hear the full talk anywhere you get your podcasts. #manufacturinghappyhour #robotintegration #robotics

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