Ramanathan G

Key leadership roles in business growth and profitability improvement.
Formulating and implementing medium/long term strategic plans for Manufacturing/Process Engineering, R&D, New Product/New Technology Development, and Manufacturing.
Driving new business development with all major international truck/car OEMs to achieve top line growth.
Establishing Green field / Brown field manufacturing plants to support business growth.
Comprehensive and unique experience in devising significant design and manufacturing solutions by managing cross functional teams in Operations, Engineering, R&D and New product development.
Driving cost reduction programs through waste elimination and employee/asset productivity improvements by driving implementation of Lean Manufacturing, TPM and TQM.
Experience in setting up in-house machine building team and spearheading implementation of key procurement and supplier development strategies for plant, machinery, utilities, capital equipment and tooling.
Expert in design and development of manufacturing processes.