Steven Tan
Senior Process Engineer at CORINTHIAN INDUSTRIES (ASIA) SDN BERHAD- Claim this Profile
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Experience
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CORINTHIAN INDUSTRIES (ASIA) SDN BERHAD
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Malaysia
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Process Engineer
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Feb 2016 - Present
As a Senior Process Engineer with a managerial role with responsibilities in leading a team (>50 pax) on operations and production planning which includes improving production processes, optimize process capability with optimizing headcount planning and production schedule planning. Achievements as below : - Lead process flow optimizing with headcount reduction by 12%, thus improved overall operation output by 38%. Returns of over RM600k on cost savings. (Apr’18 - YTD) - Initiate product design improvement to optimize raw material usage, up to date 50% of total available product models had been succesfully improved and generating better operating returns of over RM200k on cost savings. (May’18 – YTD) - Improved inventory to system accuracy from 60% to 80% with high focus on WIP tracking and waste reduction with application of LEAN principles. - Leading and cultivating production processes improvement on LEAN principles with heavy emphasis on 5S to all workers, TPM and KAIZEN projects. Successful completion of 3 LEAN projects and on-going 5S culture cultivation among workers. Show less
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Staff Engineer
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Mar 2005 - Jan 2016
Started as a Process Engineer Level 1 and rise up the ranks to Staff Process Engineer, with multiple responsibilities in product development, new product introduction and assembly manufacturing improvement as below: - Led and facilitate assembly process documentations complying with specified manufacturing standard practices. All SOP changes, quality updates and are personally communicated to all level from Supervisors to general operators. - Led teams on multiple NPI projects transfer from Thailand plant which includes, assembly machine transfers, full product assembly process transfer, other NPI projects and also test measurement machines from external fabricators. - Successfully led yield improvement projects, achieving 98% assembly yield together with quality indices target improvement to Cpk1.33. Facilitate in tooling development and improvement on critical to assembly process improvement initiative, such as pick-up tools, visual judgement machines, gauges and other multiple product transfer tools which translate to the yield and quality indices improvements. - Led successful scrap cost improvement projects in product recycle and rework processes. Major project success in improving the rework and recycle process with LEAN concept of which scrap reduction improve by 19%, and full conversion of the standard process line to improved process line with 100% standardization to all lines including the lines in Thailand plant. - Active working usage of statistical monitoring tools such as SPC, JMP & Minitab. Practical usage of Root Cause Analysis tools, such as FMEA, Fishbone and 5Whys - Facilitate in defining recycle & rework inventory system from determining the product explosion point in assembly process. Buy-off, test and refine the system to ensure trace-ability to achieve accurate inventory calculations. - 6 years supervisory experience in managing technician support, OT, yearly KPI objective and performance appraisal. Show less
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Sales Executive
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Apr 2004 - Mar 2005
As a Sales Executive in a leading manufacturer of ready-mixed concrete in the construction industry. - Sales and technical service support for contractors and civil engineers on and off site. - Significant achievement and to breakthrough on acquiring sales and supply for a major sub-contractor with significant influence for the Midvalley 2 project (aka Gardens Midvalley), thus paved the way for the agreement to 100% supply to the project. As a Sales Executive in a leading manufacturer of ready-mixed concrete in the construction industry. - Sales and technical service support for contractors and civil engineers on and off site. - Significant achievement and to breakthrough on acquiring sales and supply for a major sub-contractor with significant influence for the Midvalley 2 project (aka Gardens Midvalley), thus paved the way for the agreement to 100% supply to the project.
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Project Engineer
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Oct 2003 - Apr 2004
As a Project Engineer in a leading OEM supplier in the automotive industry. - Handling projects in planning, manufacturing and meeting requirements on alloy wheels and plastic products. Ensuring client requirements are met and within production capabilities and project schedule. - Significant achievement in reviving a long delayed project with Perodua, with progressing the project past prototype phase to achieve manufacturing phase in my short period in the company. Besides also successfully launched high volume manufacturing of component for the Kembara model for Perodua. Show less
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Education
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University of Wales, Swansea
B.Eng (Hons) in Mechanical -
Tunku Abdul Rahman College
Diploma in Engineering, Mechanical Engineering