Materials Info : Your partners for Materials&Processes

Materals info consultancy private limited, Pune, India

raghavendra@materials-info.com

Raghvendra Gopal

A company promoted by IITans, we provide

end to end solutions in product development
right from assisting in design finalization by
providing inputs in materials, manufacturing
processes, conducting CAE for the load cases,
component development at supplier end, PPAP,
APQP, supplier end systems and process audits
design validation to conduct durability and
reliability studies and root cause analysis for
failures during validation to assign the root
cause and take design actions

Raghvendra Gopal

We provide support to companies and

multinational establishing facilities in India for
supply chain, test facility , third party
inspection , Indegenisation of raw
materials/components, dealing with local
law/regulations. We also can provide support
to companies outside India in various sectors
for castings, forgings development from India
to bring down their cost. We act as interface in
such case for all development/tests
andensuring adheerence to systems and final
component requirements.

Raghvendra Gopal

Your Pain Areas

1. Receipt stage:
Material not to spec
Process related issues
Surface protection
Other issues

Raghvendra Gopal

Our solutions :
Working with your suppliers to reduce rejections in the
incoming stage for materials/processes followed by
rejections at supplier factory , Thus increasing your
response time for new developments and reducing
development and supply costs.

Raghvendra Gopal

2. Critical Field failure i.e IPTV and design validation

failures
Our solutions:
Working closely on your field failure/IPTV Data and
carry out root cause analysis with problem solving
tools alongwith internal teams to bring down IPTV,
thus improving reliability of the product and improving
brand image in case of IPTV and reducing the overall
development time

Raghvendra Gopal

3. In process rejections:
Our solutions :
1.
Working through your complete process flow
2.
Finding out the specific root cause to bring down
the rejections , thus resulting in improved
productivity, reduction in cost associated with the
rejections.

Raghvendra Gopal

4. Low Process yield :

Our solutions :
1.
Study of the complete manufacturing process at
all stages
2.
Optimizing the process to improve yield.

Raghvendra Gopal

5. High development time for new products:

Our solutions :
1.
Study of the complete process for new project
introduction.
2.
Working on all stages of new product development
3.
Finding out the bottleneck areas
4.
Plugging the same to reduce the Development
time and thus increasing response for new
developments

Raghvendra Gopal

6. High DMC ( Direct material cost) :

Our solutions :
1. Study of the complete design stages
2. Study the application of the part and associated
load/working stresses/environment.
3. Suggest optimization of part and alternate grade
/type materials to reduce cost.

Raghvendra Gopal

7. High cost of Imported Raw

material/steel/components:
Our solutions:
1. Study the application in detail

2. Work with the steel mills/raw material

source/component manufacturer

Raghvendra Gopal

8. Delay in response/developing export applications:

Our solutions:
1.
Study of the raw material , standards and
equivalent
2.
Study of the whole manufacturing process spec
and sequence

Raghvendra Gopal

9. Delay in taking up projects intensive to new

materials/processes/surface protection adding value
to end customer :
Our solutions:

1.Benchmarking for various materials and processes

2.Trend analysis for new developments in materials
and processes

3. Start pilot study /trials for the same

4. Project introduction

Raghvendra Gopal

10.Lack of Early Vendor involvement:

Our solutions:
1. Involving your vendors in early stage of
development.
2. Working with them continuously to bring down
manufacturing process and material costs during
development

Raghvendra Gopal

11.Weight above benchmark with low fuel efficiency:

Our solutions:
1. Study of benchmark vehicle

2. Alternate materials, constructions and design to

bring down the weight including design with
Aluminium, hybrid and plastic.
3. Working with internal teams for ride/handling and
durability aspect of proposed design till
implementation.

Raghvendra Gopal

Other Support Areas:

1. Working with internal project teams in the area of
QFD, DFMEA, Design for six sigma ,reliability, Lean
process .
2. Awareness trainings for Quality systems, DFMEA,
manufacturing process, materials technology, other
Quaity tools including problem solving both for the
organisation and the critical suppliers i.e
development partners.

3. Design validation right from data acquisition

support, understanding usage requirement, QFD,
co ordination with external test labs for design
validation, materials and process validation,
dimensional and other tests.
Raghvendra Gopal