PLC
Vikneswaran Ramakrishnan
Test Equipment Engineer
Ipoh
Summary
Test Equipment Engineer in in car audio automotive industry with more than 10 years of working experience in maintaining and repairing equipment in production line knowledge in technical, troubleshooting,electrical diagram vision system, robotics, SCADA, equipment calibration PLC troubleshooting, equipment qualification and supervising engineering and technical staff.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
3
3
Languages
Work History
Test Engineer(Shift)
Panasonic Automotive System Sdn Bhd
Perai, Penang
04.2022 - Current
- 3 years experience in Audio Automotive test station downtime control
- Troubleshoot Test Item such as AM/FM signal strength, distortion, GPS, Bluetooth, WiFi
- Develop a daily downtime report for test station downtime
- Setup test station at FPA & FGI involving hardware, software and script for new project
- Troubleshoot Machine Cell error by refer PLC ladder diagram and electrical diagram
- Implement software changes at test station and ensure productivity after changes
- Monitor equipment spare part usage and purchase required spare part for maintenance activity
- Setup and create new vision system for new product implementation
- Develop Preventive Maintenance checklist for line equipment and in charge for preventive maintenance audit
- Arrange and facilitate preventive maintenance activity for technicians and machine operator
- Develop work instruction on maintenance activity and station troubleshooting and train technician and machine operator
Maintenance Engineer 2
B.Braun Medical Industry Sdn Bhd
07.2015 - 03.2022
- Promoted to Engineer 2 after successfully contribute on setting up new production line with new machines and additional responsibility as below:
- Coach and mentor new 5 maintenance engineer and 5 maintenance technicians in machine operations and assist on machine troubleshooting
- Spearhead and lead root cause analysis of equipment failure and implement corrective action using Total Productive Maintenance(TPM) Checklist
- Establish Preventive Maintenance Checklist for 32 new equipments using SAP system and improvise checklist and responsible for the audit
- Support on installation and commissioning of new equipment
- Co-ordinate in facilitate new equipment qualification( IQ, OQ, PQ) and equipment calibration
- Develop in equipment software(PLC,HMI) and image backup and restore for all 32 equipments
Maintenance Engineer
B.Braun Medical Industry Sdn Bhd
Bayan Lepas, Penang
07.2015 - 03.2022
- Pioneered in maintaining and repairing 32 equipment in production line
- New production line and equipment installation for
- Assessed the needs of equipment replacements & spare parts for 32 machines
- Develop Maintenance SOP on packing machine maintenance
- Troubleshoot and fault optimization in case of machine failure
Education
Bachelor of Science - Mechatronics Engineering
Universiti Malaysia Perlis
Kuala Perlis 09.2011 - 06.2015
Skills
- Technical Troubleshooting
- Communication
- Leadership
- Organization
Equipment maintenance
Accomplishments
- Successful in new Pharma Facility setup B1A Line 1 and Line 2.
- Completed Introcan Safety Machine Relocation Project from One Facility to another Facility where involved in dismantling electrical wiring between machine modules.
- Improve critical spare part availability for packing machine from 60% to 73% hence reducing downtime due to lack of spare parts.
- Reduce the downtime rate for packing machine from 15% at first quarter 2019 to 8% at third quarter 2019 by improving the maintenance procedure for the machine.
- Convert all machine preventive maintenance checklist into SAP system so that checklist generated by system for B1A.
- Reduce the spare part cost for new Line Setup for Sterilizer Machine by 59% by analyzing usage of spare part.
- Vision System Software and Hardware Upgrade for Packing Production Line 1, Line 3 & Line 5 for old Pharma Facility.
- Implemented TPM Checklist on Schubert Packaging Machine by analyzing repeated downtime and provide root cause for each downtime.
- Complete hardware and software for Honda and Ford Sync new production line setup.
- Setup vision system at packing line to improve line efficiency eliminating manual checking for Honda line.
- Kaizen improvement by implementing test script at HD station reducing model changeover time.
Certificates And Training
- Sensors & Application
- Introduction to Phytonic Electrical System & Maintenance
- Essential Design of Experiment
- 8D Problem Solve & Decision Making
- Microsoft Excel Basic, Intermediate, Advanced
- Statistical Process Control
- SBM Sterilizer machine training at B.Braun Berlin Germany
- Introduction to Hydraulics
Software
Certification
Certified Energy Manager (CEM) - Association of Energy Engineers.
Timeline
Test Engineer(Shift)
Panasonic Automotive System Sdn Bhd
04.2022 - Current
Maintenance Engineer 2
B.Braun Medical Industry Sdn Bhd
07.2015 - 03.2022
Maintenance Engineer
B.Braun Medical Industry Sdn Bhd
07.2015 - 03.2022
Bachelor of Science - Mechatronics Engineering
Universiti Malaysia Perlis
09.2011 - 06.2015
Certified Energy Manager (CEM) - Association of Energy Engineers.
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