Aravind Satyanarayanan

MS Student - Graduated

Biography

Currently, he is pursuing his Master’s degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering at The University of Tennessee under the guidance of Dr. Rapinder Sawhney.

In the university,

• His major role has been the Teaching Assistant for classes that cover Lean Systems and Thinking, Engineering Fundamentals program.
• Students from various majors that include Integrated Business and Engineering Program, Industrial Engineering majors including sophomores, senior year and few working professional cohort students.
• His focus of research in validating factors responsible for enhancing training industrial professionals in lean manufacturing using team based Learning and 3D Hologram as the study tool. 

In CASRE, 

• Implemented Zone Based Manufacturing to reduce transportation waste in the factory floor, thereby increasing the throughput by 40%, organizing effective employee engagement by ergonomic principles.
• Developed a scheduling algorithm to handle the increasing capacity constraint of the distribution facility in processing the E-Commerce demand from 1 Million to 5 Million units per day.
• Surveyed employees on the line to allocate resources equally to convert a non-value-added workstation into an extra quality workstation and increased throughput rate by 14%.

Research

• Operations Management.
• Lean Processes.
• FMEA, Risk mitigation in Industries. 
• Six Sigma Methodology.
• Manufacturing Technology and Statistical Process Controls.

Education

• Masters in Industrial and Systems Engineering;
• Bachelors in Electrical and Electronics Engineering.

Professional Service

• Implemented Continuous Quality Improvement projects using Lean and Six Sigma tools (Root cause analysis, A3, Kanban, DMAIC, PDCA, VSM, Regression Analysis).
• Administered the combined advantages of Systems based thinking and critical problem-solving techniques using Hypothesis testing, and ANOVA to obtain greater efficiency and effectiveness.

Awards and Recognitions

• Six Sigma Green Belt.
• MS Excel - Statistical process Control.