Expert Details
Machine Design of Unusual and Complex High-speed Machines; Pneumatics; Packaging Machines
ID: 724155
India
He has designed and proven a fully automatic 21st century teeth cutting line for engineers' files, modernizing a machine whose design never progressed beyond eary 20th century technology and design. He had designed world's very first symmetric 3-face hot-rolling machine to roll the points on the blanks for triangular engineers' files. He has designed and proven world's first off-line Mylar balloon folding machine.He has designed and proven world's first parts accumulator for collapsible tubes which has no drive of its own.He has designed and proven world's first machine to manufacture a mosquito-coil of a newly patented design - made from cardboard and paper.
Education
Year | Degree | Subject | Institution |
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Year: 1976 | Degree: B. Tech. | Subject: Mechanical Engineering | Institution: IIT Bombay |
Work History
Years | Employer | Title | Department |
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Years: 1981 to Present | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: Director and Chief Designer | Department: Design |
Responsibilities:He is responsible for designing new and unusual machines from concept to prototypes, often in areas where no previous designs exist. |
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Years | Employer | Title | Department |
Years: 1978 to 1981 | Employer: Electronica Machine Tools Ltd. | Title: Design Executive | Department: Design |
Responsibilities:He was responsible for designing the company's next-generation products (spark-erosion machines) |
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Years | Employer | Title | Department |
Years: 1976 to 1978 | Employer: Godrej & Boyce Manufacturing Co. Ltd. | Title: Design Engineer | Department: Design Centre, Plant 11 |
Responsibilities:He was responsible for developing manual typewriter mechanisms. |
International Experience
Years | Country / Region | Summary |
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Years: 1994 to 1994 | Country / Region: Poole, England | Summary: He guided a team of English engineers in designing blister-packing machines |
Years: 1996 to 1996 | Country / Region: Crawley, England | Summary: He debugged a new, troublesome blisterpacking machine packing ampoules at the SmithKline Beecham plant |
Years: 1997 to 1997 | Country / Region: Bologna, Italy | Summary: He supervised the technology-transfer between an Italian packaging-machinery company IMA and an Indian company |
Years: 2000 to 2000 | Country / Region: Hanover, Germany | Summary: He scouted companies at the Hanover Fair for obtaining various new material-handling technologies for an India client. |
Years: 2005 to 2005 | Country / Region: Paderborn, Germany | Summary: He interacted with an engineering company for help in developing a new kind of brush-making machine |
Career Accomplishments
Associations / Societies |
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Owner of the very popular LinkedIn group: Machine Designers Forum, with over 5,500 members. |
Professional Appointments |
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Managing Director of Neubauplan Automation Machines Pvt. Ltd. a start-up company manufacturing shipping case erector+filler machines of his own design. |
Awards / Recognition |
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A Special Jury's Mention in the Manus competition for innovative use of plastic bearings, conducted in Germany among 300+ entries from all over the world. |
Publications and Patents Summary |
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He has 31 articles and 5 patents to his credit |
Additional Experience
Training / Seminars |
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He conducted Training Workshop titled "Design of Design" to clarify and reinforce machine design methods conducted at Tata Consultancy Services, Kirloskar Brothers Ltd. Apollo Tyres Ltd. and Effica Automation Ltd. |
Vendor Selection |
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He has been getting his prototype parts and assemblies made from various vendors in India and abroad for the last 25 years. |
Marketing Experience |
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Being a full-time designer-innovator, he always has his hand on the pulse of the industry, its trends, growth, risky and receding areas, attitudes. He has written many articles on these topics in the Indian press. |
Other Relevant Experience |
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He has been writing many articles on machine design. |
Language Skills
Language | Proficiency |
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English | He is perfectly at home with International English. He can understand and follow most of the various international accents. |
Hindi | Hindi is his mother-tongue |
Marathi | He has been living in a Marathi-speaking region for the last 43 years |
Fields of Expertise
machine design, machine design review, pneumatics, special machine design, design training, packaging automation, cam design, dimension, bayonet coupling, case packing, film handling, pneumatic actuator, bearing design, design for cost, form/fill/seal packaging machine, engineering design, food packaging equipment, industrial machine design, new product design, filling machine, packaging machine, precision machine design, design review, pneumatic circuit, fluid power circuit, assembly machine design, materials handling, design for assembly, new product development, design for manufacture and assembly, product design, automated machine design, packaging equipment, design engineering, design process, dimension limit, electropneumatic valve, pneumatic valve, pneumatic logic, paper handling, electropneumatics technology