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Biodata: Abhaya Sangal

Working as a Lean Consultant at Bangalore for last twenty (20) years Abhaya has acquired total hands on experience in implementation of all aspects of Lean and contributing to improve the Business Results of many organizations such as:

Some of the typical results achieved by Lean Implementation have been like:

• Improvement in House Keeping >25% (Based on 5S audit score) – Typical 5S, Machine 5S (Autonomous Maintenance), 3D Concepts, Visual management
• Space Released >20%, - Re-layouts, 5S, Kanban etc.
• Capacity/Sales improvements >50%, QCO/SMED & Machine 5S, Standardization,
• Lead Time Reduction by >50% - Cell Manufacturing & Pull Production, Load Leveling, Small Batch Production, Raw material Kanban,
• Inventory reduction >30% - Kanban for Raw Material & Finished Goods, Milk Van Run, Pull Procurement, Material Flow,
• Reduction in the distance moved for material up to 80% - Relocation of facilities across departments and joining by cell & Kanban (CONWIP)
• Waste Reduction – Value Stream Mapping & design,
• Inventory Control – Kanban & Pull Procurement
• Cost Reductions thru’ Design for manufacturing and assembly (DFMA) also known as Value Analysis and Value Engineering (VA/VE)

Immediately prior to working as Lean Consultant Abhaya has been working as General Manager (Works) with EID Parry (I) Ltd at their Alwar, Rajasthan Plant. His other past experiences were in companies such as Larsen & Toubro Limited, Bombay; ITW Signode (I) Ltd, Hyderabad; Signode Kenya Limited, Nairobi; Munak Galva Sheets Limited, Delhi etc.

Presently Abhaya has a total experience of 43 years. This experience besides Lean Consulting covers the areas such as General Management, Industrial Engineering, Marketing, Production, Planning & Control, and Green Field & Brown Field Project Management etc.

By education Abhaya has done his M.Tech from IIT, Kharagpur in Industrial Engineering in 1977 and graduation from University of Roorkee (now IIT, Roorkee) in 1975.

Kannan is a Graduate from St. Joseph’s College, and have imbibed from many Lean Gurus the consulting philosophy, “HANDS THAT HELP ARE HOLIER THAN LIPS THAT ADVISE”. Kannan practice this philosophy by using bottom-up approach, heading straight to the shop - floor and getting things done by setting an example.

Kannan has improvised the first of its kind in the world, highly practical, fulfilled, “JIT-GAME” (Lean Simulations). Kannan also help organizations in developing a Kaizen culture through a unique program in Total Employee Involvement (TEI). To implement this he works with ease at all levels in an organization, right from the unskilled level to the Board level. Kannan is frequently invited by other organizations / Institutes to conduct TEI Workshops.

Following are some of the organizations Kannan have been associated during last 20 years:

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