S. B. Kumar
Kumar
is a multifaceted operations professional who has twenty-four years of
experience in spearheading profit center management, multiple unit manufacturing operations
and quality assurance.
He
is a mechanical engineer (B.E) with an MBA in operations. He has close to a
quarter of a century’s experience in sectors ranging from automotive clutches
to rigid plastics. He has gathered rich first-hand experience of manufacturing processes (P,Q,C,D,S,M,E) while
working for industry leaders like Clutch Auto Limited, Rockman Industries
Limited (a HERO group company) and Hitech Plast Ltd. He also got the rare
privilege of working with and following the manufacturing and quality system
developed by gurus like Prof. S Yamaguchi San, Prof. Takao San of Japan and
chief mentor of ACMA ACT cluster, Mr C Narsimhan. He has completed exhaustive
training in production management form AOTS, Japan and Quality Management
training from AP, Italy.
He
is conversant with world-class manufacturing techniques like lean
manufacturing, TPM, TQM, TOC, TQC, JIT, Six Sigma and Total Lean Six Sigma. He
also has deep implementation experience and expertise in ISO 9001, TS 16949,
GMP, SEDEX Audit, BRC Ion, HACCP and EHC.
When
not busy with engineering tools, Kumar loves to write poems. He has been doing
so since his school days, and his poems bring out the emotions of a common man
who lives and survives every day, one day at a time.
His
first book –PRE-FIT for PROFIT has
been appreciated nationally by both industry experts as well as students for
presenting complex manufacturing, quality assurance, productivity increment
processes and tools in a practical and comprehensive way.