Process Improvement - Bharat Forge Limited, Pune. (India)

Bharat Forge Limited (BFL), the Pune based Indian multinational is a technology driven global leader in metal forming having transcontinental presence across nine manufacturing locations, serving several sectors including automotive, power, oil and gas, construction & mining , locomotive, marine and aerospace. Part of Kalyani Group - a USD 2.5 billion conglomerate with 10,000 global work force; BFL today has the largest repository of metallurgical knowledge in the region and offers full service supply capability to its geographically dispersed marquee customers from concept to product design, engineering, manufacturing, testing and validation. The world's largest forging company with manufacturing facilities spread across India, Germany, Sweden and France, Bharat Forge manufactures a wide range of high performance, critical & safety components for the automotive & non-automotive sector. It is India's largest manufacturer and exporter of automotive components and leading chassis component manufacturer in the world. BFL's customer base includes virtually every global automotive backed by several decades of experience in component manufacturing & metallurgy.

We were a part of Process Improvement in one of its Machining component Division-II. We assist in setting up the process for crankshafts. DANA, YUCHAI, CATERPILLER, DETROIT are the customers of these crankshafts.

We identified the machines used in Process, We identified level of automation (Loading/ Uploading / Lifting) needed for the crankshafts. We also help them in identifying & establishing Material flow during the process.

We set up Milestones for in process Inspections, subcontracting involved & scheduled Maintaince of work centers involved.