Arif Bio,,,,!

I am a global executive and Technology leader with great sense of business skill with more than 17 years of international experience in the industry.

I have started my career as an Engineer in leading company in India Wipro and moved up in ladder and became first young Engineering Manager, then  joined a larger USA corporation Terex as Senior Manager Engineering, contributed significantly towards the success of the start-up center in India and same time gained experience working with Terex globally. Worked with engineers in USA, Europe, China and Visited more than 100 hydraulic cylinder/component suppliers for evaluation and selection process to approve them for Terex as potential suppliers for hydraulic products and then moved to Ireland as Green card holder and joined Burnside as CTO, Now back India and joined back Wipro and playing multi functional role.

Hydraulic Cylinder Industry:

I can say now proudly that I am well conversant with hydraulic cylinder industry and its business, have good market intelligence on global hydraulic cylinder business, worked closely with products, understand the market, Worked both side of the coins, with OEMs and Cylinder manufacturer hence understand the product demands well, being a cost champion developed SMART costing, a purpose build hydraulic cylinder Should costing,  where a cost engineer can estimate what should be the cost of the cylinders, having work with various geographical location, helped me to build this unique costing tool.

Flexibility is my key strength and it advanced me in my career. I always believed, if you want to succeed, you have to be expert in something. I remember of started my hydraulic career as CAD design engineer, working with AutoCAD those days, way back 2000 and understanding a bit on product knowledge and developed interest on application, machines, materials and with no time in 5 years I became a young Engineering manager and since then no looking back. Today I enjoy holding many tags as Technology leader, Cost champion, Business development, NPD leader, CFT leader, Technology collaborator and many,,,,!

Challenges:

I had dream to do well in global hydraulic cylinder market. I started working with getting a professional engineering recognition from Engineering Counsel of United Kingdom, joined for Chartered Engineering (CEng) and hounred with this prestigious award in 2011. This was like dream cum true for me, and had many accolades from within industries. Then I worked for my Chartered Manager which I got awarded in 2012 from Charted Management Institute, well knows as CMI UK, the both the awards shaped my career afterwards!

Joining with Terex Global R&D center, India as a 1^st employee for the start-up center, believe me, it was not easy decision, I love challenges, and it’s my passion and decided it would be a good one to take it . Started the center with 2 direct employees and 40 service engineers and less than 4 years of time, moved to 200 employees supporting more than 20 Terex sites globally. It was like significant growth for the center, have been awarded with many accolades like Best employee of the year, Best cost saver, Global Asset, Collaborator etc.,,,,!

New Beginning in Ireland:

It was 2013 and I started a new beginning in Ireland where I moved with my family to join Burnside as Chief Technology officer (CTO).  It was the time when I was in peak of my career; I knew the journey would not be so rosy. I was the first professional senior leader from outside going to work directly with directors and functional leader, the company was mainly driven by skilled base and that was limited with few workers. I had broad spectrum of competencies which I wanted to capitalise as much as possible. It was great experience to work with them, my whole priority was to give a corporate touch and show them what a OEMs look in potential suppliers. Trust me, my first job to make a proper visiting card and corporate power point presentation which represents company value, brought up lots of systems, standard documents like Material specification, FMEA, NPD, Costing process, Design calculation etc.,,,,! It was new team, new culture, however Great journey to be with and Great success and satisfaction. I excelled what I did and organisation will cherish forever.

I believe on doing things differently, I mean adding value for the company thru process & products where it remains forever. It’s my moto and philosophy of work.

Engineering and Technology is my passion, when your work becomes your passion, then nothing can stop you…..! it’s my believe and I live with it.

Skills

My objective behind coming up with Bio,,, is to capture all my journey , expertise, and experience and bring them together so I can precisely make others understand.

Technical know-how: about 17 years of experience in the industries gave me extensive knowledge of Engineering. Selection of right material based on application, determining force flow within the material, calculation of various stress for components, tubes & rods , right choice of seal, suitable manufacturing process, many more,,,,,

Quality leader: have driven many quality programmes to improve product and process quality, ensuring all development tasks meet quality criteria through test planning, test execution, quality assurance and issue tracking. Ensure the team is focusing on process quality to reduce in process rejections. Keep raising the bar and standards of all the quality process with every project.

NPD leader: worked thru product development and developed NPPD process where every stage of the development reviewed thru defined process. The process involves from handing over from costing team until engineering sign off thru field and in house validation. A purpose build NPPD process developed for hydraulic cylinder development.

Benchmarking of products: the key to any new product development start with correct benchmarking process, a set of defined area to be looked for while carrying out benchmarking exercise.

Cost Champion: being a cost champion understands the costing of cylinders, developed SMART Costing, and designed for hydraulic cylinder. The beauty of SMART costing is, one can verify both technical and commercial both in this tool and moreover, the programme will throw key figures for comparison like price/kg, material cost % Vs Selling price, Manf. Cost % Vs selling price, previous cylinder selling price Vs current one,,,, many more. The overview sheet is like A4 sheet to be reviewed by Directors/Sr. sales leader without going thru detailed costing.

Material expert: My Design, Application and R&D background had developed interest and one step forward to understand material very closely, I could say today, for hydraulic cylinder business, I have gained tremendous material knowledge and treasured them for developing a better product. Not only material but material process selection to get desired properties. Developed 200 pages of Material book for Best cost countries. International working experience has helped to know materials equivalent in Europe, USA, and China.

Supply Chain: have worked very closely with suppliers of forgings, castings, tubes, rods in India, Korea, China, Europe, USA and developed supplier qualification process, gained expertise on cost for various commodities, tons of references of qualified suppliers for hydraulic cylinder business.

Supplier Audit: Have visited more than 100 hydraulic cylinder/component manufacturing companies around the world for assessment to choose the best for supply of cylinders. Developed ETM (Engineering, Testing and Manufacturing) process for carrying the audit for the supplier selection. It’s an extensive audit tool where one can assess supplier thoroughly.

Quality Check: Drawing quality check is my strength, understanding of GD&T, detailed design parameters, surface finish requirements are key for any good products. Have expertise on hydraulic detailed design check and review. Developed micro and macro level check sheet to run thru development at various stage of the development.

R&D activities: Success of new products heavily depends on many R&D activities, conceptualise many life cycle tests for hydraulic cylinders static, dynamic, pulsation, with side load, with artificial environment and many more…!

What I could Support/ play role:

·      Majority of the project success are depends on how successfully technical parts being handled, being multi skilled and in deep product knowledge, it will develop better confidence with customer and CFT team (engineering, sourcing and service team)

·       As I have lead many CFT team in the past, Integration of costing, sales and design team could be a great step towards making success story.

·       Have good application knowledge/Machines functions, so can guide team to have optimised design, “Design to Cost”

·  Work with sales/business development team on new market/new product/new geography

·        Develop new customer, support/joining hands with sales/business development team

·    Understand the cost structure of Europe, USA and India, could support sales and costing team globally

·       As a cost champion, I could add more value to the costing and micro analysis

· As I have seen many small, medium and large size hydraulic companies in Europe/USA/China, there is always possibility to tie up/M&A/JV with them, can support on this activities.

·  Have played key role on start-up, have good experience so could be an added advantage when it comes for starts up. I believe, every growth needs to have starts up, whether its product start-up/process start up or company

·    Oversee all technical feasibility of the RFQs before going to costing team/design team

Thanks a Million
Regards
Arif
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