Fixed-fee plant diagnostics and automation roadmaps for manufacturers who want Fortune 500 operational discipline — without Fortune 500 overhead. 15+ years inside Amazon and Cummins, now working with factory owners across the Pune corridor.
Fortune 500 methods. MSME budgets.
No retainers. Fixed fee, fixed scope. You know the cost before we start.
Two to three weeks inside your plant: OEE, downtime patterns, maintenance discipline, layout, material flow. You get a costed list of where the money leaks and what each fix returns — before you spend a rupee on equipment.
Cobots, AMRs, vision systems, IIoT readiness — selected for payback, not for the brochure. Vendor-neutral: I help you buy right, I don't sell hardware.
Planning discipline, supplier consolidation, inventory that stops eating working capital. Built on ERP and S&OP programs delivered at global scale.
A Fortune 500 operations head, a few days a month — for owners who need senior muscle on modernization without a full-time salary.
Data pull + shop-floor time. OEE baseline, downtime Pareto, maintenance audit, flow mapping. Output: a prioritized leak list with rupee values and payback per fix.
One focused program against the top leaks — stabilize, then harden. Weekly written updates: done, next, blockers, decisions needed. No scope drift.
Standardized workflows, trained supervisors, KPI dashboards your team owns. The point is that you stop needing me — and call me back for the next line, not the same one.
Why this order matters: most automation money is wasted buying machines for processes that were never stabilized. Diagnosis first means every rupee of capex lands on a problem worth solving — that's the Fortune 500 discipline, applied at MSME scale.
Packaging operation constraining the pharma supply chain — chronic downtime, no predictive maintenance, reliability decisions made on instinct instead of data.
Downtime Pareto and OEE baseline first. IoT sensors + data analytics to build predictive maintenance profiles for every equipment class. Standardized maintenance workflows, then trained the people who run them.
Throughput and waste moved double digits in one program cycle, downtime savings hit six figures annually — and the improvement held after handover, because 150+ staff were trained to own it.
Client identity withheld under NDA. Figures from engagement records, Sept 2024 – June 2026.
EMPLOYMENT TRACK RECORD — RESULTS DELIVERED AS AN EMPLOYEE/PROJECT LEADER AT THESE ORGANIZATIONS, NOT AS CONSULTING CLIENTS.
Heard on "Where Strategy Meets Execution" (@Smartsummaries) — talking about factory modernization for Indian MSMEs: what to automate first, what to never automate, and why most Industry 4.0 pitches are built for budgets you don't have.
You describe the plant and the pain. I tell you honestly whether I can help — and if I can't, who can.
Quoted upfront. You get the leak list with rupee values whether or not we ever work together again.
Scoped from the diagnostic, priced before signature. Measured against the baseline we set in week one.
The promise: no open-ended retainers, no theory decks, no scope creep. Every phase has a price, a deliverable, and a number it will be judged against.