Professional Brief
Professional Experience
Professor in ECE, Nanotech Research Innovation and Incubation Centre
PSG Institue of Advanced Studies
Vice President, Pricol Limited in field of Automotive electronics – Product development engineering.
Establishment of Electronics development department in Pricol- Selection & recruitment of over 100 engineers- IPR cell introduction in 2008 (30 IPRs so far)- Pricol medical systems established
Vice President, Premier Polytronics limited in fields of Textile Electronic Equipments – R&D, Manufacturing, Materials.
Setting up of R&D in Premier Polytronics and introduction of 3 new products in a single year- Management Representative for getting ISO9000 from BVQI- Successful registration of patents
R&D engineer, BPL India Limited Bangalore in fields of Bio Medical, Oscilloscope and Digital Instruments.
Development of Defibrillator, Monitor, Central Nursing station – first indigenous development in India
Academic Details
Ph.D, Management, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore.
M.B.A, PSG college of technology, Coimbatore.
B.E. (Hons.) (ECE), PSG College of technology, Coimbatore.
Others
- Extensive knowledge in using MS projects 98/2000, Msword, Excel, Power point etc.
- Represented Industry in various boards of studies at Bharathiar University and PSG Institute of management, Kumaraguru college of technology and Sri Ramakrishna Engineering college.
- Had been the mentor for 3 students for BITS, Pilani & had been
- Visiting Faculty for 2 years at PSG College of Technology (Management Department)
- Presented following papers:EMI & EMC in Textile applicationsInstrumentation in textile industry.
- Overseas visits:- Visited Hongkong, Taiwan, Singapore for Component sourcing- Visited Australia for Product development- Visited Italy for Product validation and finalization- Visited Germany for technology absorption- Visited France for project management- Visited Japan for project management
Major Breakthroughs – Bio medical field
- Indigenously developed Defibrillators, monitors, Central nursing stations released first time in India (BPL).
- Reduced field failure rate from 20% to 0.1% and internal mortality rates from 7% to 0.1%
- Traveled extensively to hospitals throughout India to establish the products
- Setting up of Pricol Medical systems & instrumental in converting PC based system to embedded systems for Ventilator project (Pricol)
Major Breakthroughs in Textile electronics
- Establishing the R&D division right from ground 0.
- Release of 3 new products within one year of establishing R&D. Overall launched 7 indigenously developed products over 5 years.
- Contribution to 65% of company turnover from products developed
- Organized a successful vendor conference for first time
- Instrumental in getting ISO 9000 certification from BVQI
- Played a vital role in recruiting and training of engineers for all the departments
Major Breakthroughs Automotive electronics
- Setting up of the electronics development department from scratch & 10 engineers to 100 engineers
- Managed the department with high efficiency inspite of 20 to 25% attrition rates.
- Contribution to more than 60% of turnover from products developed under the electronics department
- Interaction and active participation in bringing industry & institute coordination – got Rs. 70 lakhs sanction for Pricol for the sensor project from ADA along with IITk & IISC.
- Introduced software special software testing tools like QAC, RTRT.
- Introduced an indigenous product with CAN communication for the first time in automobile sector in India
- Successful participation in Design reviews at John Deere(USA) and Denso (Japan) for critical projects
- Registration of 30 IPRs over 2 years including PCT applications as head of IPR cell
Research Group
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Mr.T.Sarathi Research Fellow – Electronics Off: + 91- 422 – 434 4000, Ext: 4328 sar@psgias.ac.in |
