End-to-End High/Low voltage Design | Quality | Scaled Manufacturing
Design Release Engineer - Electric Motors
WEG Industries, Bangalore, India
About WEG Industries
WEG is a global company regarded as one of the world’s leading manufacturers of energy efficient electric motors, automation, power transmission, renewable resource technologies, solar, and wind power generation, distribution equipment and industrial coatings and varnishes.Â
Doing business in over 135 countries, WEG is one of the top global players with background expertise to provide full turnkey systems for a wide variety of industrial applications.
Responsibilities
January 2018 - July 2019 ( 19 months)
Piloted Design reviews, change control meetings, and TVMs with both India and Brazil teams.
Monitored Engineering Change Order (ECO) and Engineering Change Request (ECR) with appropriate BOM.
Created Test cases and Test procedures for functional testing of prototypes to comply with specified standards.
Facilitated over 4800 client work orders. Acquired an estimated 95% client satisfaction for sanctioned work orders.
Alleviated $60000 (estimate) by standardizing terminal box material property, mounts, and position using DFM.
Efficiently managed workflow leading to 20% reduced backlog by prioritizing weekly open issues followed by release/change process with proper documentation.
Trained 20 apprentices in analyzing customer requirements, basic engineering drawing, material selection, and GD&T.
Extensively managed design and analysis of induction motors, bearings, connectors, switches, and terminal boxes.
Used Solidworks to model and conduct FEA on motor components to analyze stress under no-load/load conditions.
Developed, tracked, and updated component-specific Quality documents like DFMEA, DVPs, Quality check sheets, etc.
Advocated cross-functional teams and supplier teams to meet Quality, Cost, Weight, and Area classification requirements.
Arbitrated with suppliers to support deliverables as related to APQP and PPAP.
Coordinated with clients from across 4 continents to contribute in increasing work order completion from 90% to 93% reported in quarterly KPI.
Samples of the motors I worked on
An air cooled (staggered tube arrangement) horizontal left side mounted master line induction motor with custom terminal box and tab mounts.
A W60 line horizontally left mounted duct cooled (air) induction motor with a power rating of 1000 kW, 4 pole, 3 phase and 10,000 Volts operating at 50 Hz supply.
A W60 line water cooled horizontally left mounted induction motor with a power rating of 1000 kW, 4 pole, 3 phase and 10,000 Volts operating at 50 Hz supply.
A W60 line air cooled horizontally left mounted induction motor with dampers to reduce noise for low noise requirements from customer, having a power rating of 1000 kW, 2 pole, 3 phase and 10,000 Volts operating at 50 Hz supply.
Key Achievements
Trained 20 apprentices in analyzing customer requirements and basic component modeling.
Delivered approximately 4800 client work orders over the span of my career.
$800K for a high volume production project was my highest sanctioned work order.
Contributed majorly towards an increase in quarterly KPI from 90% to 93%.
Competencies
Softwares: AutoCAD, Solidworks, SAP (PLM/PDM), Microsoft Office ( Powerpoint, Excel, Word and Outlook)
Quality Documents: DFMEA, DVP&R, GD&T, BOM, Costing, Purchase and Quotes.
Duties: Design Release, Change management (Requests, Notice, Order number), Troubleshoot design issues during manufacturing, Quality checks.
