J P Consulting

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Vijay Sonawane :  Partner

 

An MBA in Operations Management, Master Black Belt (MBB®) Lean Six Sigma, Business Analyst, Reliability professional, and certified Project Mgr., Master trainer for Quality and Environment, Lead Auditor for QMS, EMS, EnMS, OHSMS, and Social domains with over 27 years of experience as the change agent to improve organizational Strategy, Operations, Quality, Manpower Skills, Methods and Compliance to reduce the business risk and improve the bottom line.

 

Specializes in manufacturing transformation, operational excellence, in particular Lean, Six Sigma, supply chain optimization, and capital productivity, and leads our global initiative in agile manufacturing and operations.

 

ABOUT VIJAY

Vijay is a specialist in major transformation programs related to manufacturing, operations and supply chains and leads the transformation work in our Manufacturing and Operations Practice globally. He is also part of the leadership team for the Implementation Practice. Vijay brings his expertise to large, medium, and small companies in many sectors.

As a leading figure in operational excellence issues, he is particularly involved in lean , six Sigma, manufacturing, inventory management, operations, supply chain management, and cost and investment optimization. He also assists management teams in defining their strategic priorities, planning expansions, or development and growth plans.

Vijay also leads a research initiative in agile manufacturing and operations, which aims to increase the operational and strategic responsiveness of companies in the face of the growing uncertainties of their environment.

With a keen interest in implementation and research and learning, Vijay has lead innumerable implementations teams for manufacturing and operations transformation projects in multinational companies, small and medium organisations in diverse sectors like, engineering, metals, automotive, food, pharma etc. 

Education:

01/08/2018 – Present    Doctorate In Management (Ph.D.) (pursuing)    
   Sardar Vallabhai Patel University, Anand (India) 
   Management study on Farm Produce Companies Performance 

01/08/2004 – 30/04/2008    Master In Business Administration (Operation Management)    
   IGNOU, Delhi (India) 
   Operation Management 

01/08/2007 – 31/08/2008    Post-Graduation Diploma in Environment and sustainability    
   IGNOU, Delhi (India) 
   Environment and sustainability 

01/08/2015 – 01/03/2018    Master Black Belt and Black belt Six Sigma    
   Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi (India) 
   Six Sigma Tools, 

01/03/2017 – 01/02/2018    Certificate In Business Analytics    
   IIT KARGAPUR, Chennai (India) 
   Business Analytics 

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PAST WORK EXPERIENCE

18/12/2012 – 30/06/2019 : : Head _Operational Excellence/Corporate Quality
Hitachi Hi-Rel Power Electronics Ltd., Gandhinagar (India) 

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01/05/2009 – 15/12/2012 : : Management System Lead Auditor (QHSE)
Bureau Veritas Certification, Ahmadabad (India) 

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01/04/2005–30/04/2009 : : QMS Lead Auditor cum Product Inspector
TUV Sud India, Ahmadabad (India) 

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24/02/1995–31/03/2005 : : RD/QA/Improvement Engineer
Torrent Cables (Torrent Power Ltd), Ahmadabad (India) 

01/08/1993–20/02/2005 : : Production Supervisor
Polycot cables, Ahmadabad (India) 

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DOMAIN EXPERTISE

As a Management Consultant responsible for clients:
▪    Clients’ key performance lapse & provide its solutions across business domain using Operation Research / Advance Statistical / Industrial Engineering & Lean tools.
▪    Providing Expert solutions in clients chronic problems through Six sigma tools SPC, (CP/CPk), MSA, APQP, PAPP, ANOVA, QFD, FMEA, FTA, DOE, Taguchi Quality Loss, Regression models, Shainin etc.
▪    Coaching clients for designing Lean (TPS) concept across the client’s business lines for deriving optimum business value & flow improvements by VSM, KAIZEN, 5s, ANDON, KANBAN, SMED, Cell & synchronise mfg.  
▪    Assisting clients in freezing & achieving annual operational budget based on forecast & capacity plan.
▪    Instrumental in curbing client’s operation expenditure spend across the value streams by resolving the production bottlenecks Work Station design /Line balancing, layout design, Process flow design
▪    Mentoring clients in TPM implementation for improving productivity OEE as well as asset’s reliability
▪    Guiding clients in implementing and improving Integrated Management System policies and procedure comprising of Quality, Health, Safety, Environment, Ethical, Social, Energy, Information Management across the organization 
▪    Leading number of client’s improvement projects (100+) for getting optimum business value through effective implementation of Lean/Six Sigma/ industrial engineering tools
▪    Train the clients for Six Sigma/lean/ TPM/QHSE/Risk Assessment and other improvements tools 

 

 

 

 

 

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