Plenary 14: S. Krishna Kumar
Innovative Product Development in Auto Ancillaries: Lucas-TVS Experience
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S. Krishna Kumar |
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Profile
1. Educational Qualifications
FIRST CLASS WITH HONOURS degree in Mechanical Engineering – B.E. (Hons) from College of engineering, Guindy, Chennai 600025 – April 1970 - UNIVERSITY FIRST RANK
FIRST CLASS WITH DISTINCTION – Post Graduate Diploma of Indian Institute of Technology – DIIT – Mechanical design - IIT Madras - IIT FIRST RANK
FIRST CLASS WITH DISTINCTION – M.B.A. – University of Madras – UNIVERSITY FIRST RANK
3 Tier programme of Management development – IIM – Ahmedabad
Global management development programme – University of Michigan
2. Work Experience
Presently Senior Vice-President QA – Lucas TVS ltd – Padi, Chennai 600050; working with Lucas TVS for the last 17 years; Heading presently Quality assurance, new product quality and Reliability engineering functions for all plants, all customers and all products of Lucas TVS
Earlier – Assistant General manager – Rubber processing machinery – Larsen & Toubro limited – 22 years
R&D Engineer – The English electric co of India ltd – 5 years
3. Visited foreign countries several times for finalisation of collaborations, export business, collaborator training, special design discussions with consultants, etc
4. Fellow of the Institution of Engineers (India)
5. Winner of Vijaya Shree Award from the Govt. of India
6. Foreign Languages Learnt
German, French, Italian and Japanese
7. Had Been a Consultant to University of Georgia on Their International Technology Improvement Programmes
8. Member of Board of Studies – Mechanical Engineering Branch – Anna University
9. Holding Several patents for inventions made in Larsen & Toubro as well as in Lucas TVS
Abstract
The present status of business in India and the necessity to continuously produce new products for new applications in the field are discussed. While carrying out new product development, it is necessary to delight the customer with excitement needs. Lucas TVS has standardized the process of new product development from 1998 and is improving the process continuously based on PDCA (Plan-Do—Check-Act) and SDCA (Standardise – Do-check-Act) processes.
The presentation describes the new product development process carried out in L-TVS. Various elements of new product development to delight the customer including Quality objective, Quality function deployment, effective design reviews, design to target cost, project management, lean manufacturing system, design to target cost, design for manufacturability, reliability predictions and growth are discussed.
An example product has been taken and the processes carried out and the results are explained. New product development process used in L-TVS has been a grand success and has led to growth in revenue for the company and effective delight to the customers.
