Ashish Patel
Mechanical Engineer
Designing / Manufacturing / Application
Self-motivated, goal-oriented, and seasoned professional, offering more than 3 years of progressive experience in mechanical engineering and manufacturing to bring innovation to the company. Equipped with firm expertise in Mechanical Design, Product Development and Product Reconstruction; complemented with Solidwork, Pro/E, Unigraphics, AutoCAD, Abaqus. CAD skills, including solid modeling, assembly , FEA and manufacturing drawing using GD&T. Analytical thinker, who constantly deliver quality work in creating tools and equipment for manufacturing operations. Proficient in implementing resource management strategies to utilize overall resources in completing projects. Equipped with exceptional interpersonal skills to establish strong relationship with clients as well as with colleagues.
Summary of Qualifications
Responsible for all phase of Designing and Simulation, Manufacturing Process planning , creating BOMs, Quality control protocols of metal cutting tools for Aerospace, Automobile and Medical Industries.
Demonstrated abilities in leading teams in achieving productivity gains and cost reductions.
Produced innovative designs and redesigned business processes with positive impacts on profit and technical improvement.
Core Strength
Product Introduction Mechanical Design
Process Development Research and development
Strategic Planning And Execution Cost Reduction
Project Management Resource planning
Staff supervision Reverse engineering
Professional Experience Precision Cutting Tools
FEBRUARY 2011 TO PRESENT
The company is a manufacturer of production and custom end mills and drills for Automobile, Aerospace and Medical Industries.
Mechanical Designing & Manufacturing Applications EngineerMAY 2011 PRESENT
Designed, Simulated and introduced a HIGH PERFORMANCE metal cuttingEnd mills for Aerospace and Automobile industries, that can run up to 33000 rpm, reducing machining time and cost, resulted in increase in profit. This product is running successfully in market.
Direct the day-to-day activities of a team of six designers, drafters and manufacturing staff in the Design specification, Drafting protocols including GD & T, Design Simulation, process planning, BOMs preparation , verification and testing of cutting tools and associated fixtures.
Conduct standard engineering duties including specification interpretation,drawing and BOM preparation, Engineering Change Notification (ECN), Deviation process, Client Engineering Specifications, and Laboratory Procedures, along with inspection of test tools and fixtures after production. Employ AutoCAD, SolidWorks, and SolidWorks Simulation (COSMOS) on a daily basis.
Optimize team performance by an inclusive, interactive approach throughout the design and prototyping stages, resulting in products with better performance characteristics and reduced production costs.
Collaborate with clients or outside suppliers on new designs and specifications. Conduct key technical assessments and planning an appropriate design and manufacturing strategy minimizing costs and risk.
Successfully executed new designs to existing products and custom tool that have enhanced the tool life upwards to 13%.
Implemented the use of the optical measurement unit (Walter Helicheck) for the quality checks reducing set-up time up to 15% ,depending on the complication of the design, while lowering the overall production time by 10%.
Proactively conducted a series of studies from prototyping and production runs and modified manufacturing methods resulting is significant reductions of production costs.
Performed research into new technologies, materials, or manufacturing processes for feasibility into future operations.
Concurrent
Production EngineerFEBRUARY 2011 TO MAY 2011
Eifeler Coating Services
The company provides Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD) coating services for manufacturers for Aerospace, Automobile and Medical Industries.
Designed and simulated a series of holding fixtures that enables the operator to accommodate different size of the work piece for pre cleaning before applying PVD metal coating to increase the working life of the work piece by 15 % while reducing the cleaning cycle times by 18%.
Used AutoCAD, SolidWorks, and SolidWorks Simulation (COSMOS) for conceptual and detailed design of fixtures to meet the appropriate requirements for the PVD coating process. Prepared drawings, Production sequence, BOMs and ordered tools.
Education & Training
MASTER OF SCIENCE - Mechanical Engineering 2010
SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY San Jose, CA GPA 3.6/4.0
BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING - Mechanical Engineering 2008
GUJARAT UNIVERSITY Ahmadabad, India GPA 3.9/4.0
CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Certified SolidWorks Associate, ID Number : C-APBRR75WE9, Dassault Systems, 2011.
Certified AutoCAD, Jamsab Computer Lab (ISO certified), 2007.
Computer & Technical Proficiencies
Design Software
SolidWorks 2009, Unigraphics NX5, AutoCAD 2007, Pro/E, Abaqus FEA,
MATLAB 7.0.
Simulation Software
COSMOS, PRO Mechanica, Unigraphics, Abaqus FEA.
CAM Software
CNC Programming
i-grind, Numroto.
ANCA, SAACKE, ROLLOMATIC, REINECKER.
Other Software
Microsoft Office Suite (Access, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Word),
Visual Shop, QuickBooks.
Operating Systems
Windows Operating Systems.