ERIK LOPEZ CODINA

• Responsible in global products
• Lead Engineer, working with multi-functional group like validation, development, prototype assembly, purchasing and quality
• Engineer responsible for sourcing process and changes management
• Quotation and review of drawings for the development of different division(Agricultural and Automotive )harnesses customers, engineering changes implementation, production and manufacturing support in Development routing, work instructions, layout, visual aids, bill of materials, time standard
• Blue print validation, support and coach to production area responsible for new component introduction, lead new technical specification reviews, directly support whit the customer whit mutual feedback to understand correctly each requirement, validate harness applications in prototype and PPAP’S phase.

• Helping on the program of Certification area, attending to the training of each one of the operators, with the purpose to assure the quality level of the critical operations, emphasizing on the principal problems that could be if there not exists a good training
• Establish training system for the production department
• Coordinate people training that were not certified on their working area
• Experience in 5''s process and Lean Manufacturing activities
• Experience in develop training materials related to environmental, health and safety, management systems
• Handling of law qualifications, ability's forms, plans and programs
• Experience in the detection of qualification needs, handling of video projectors, design of presentations and operational training of work stations
• Knowledge of basic principles of quality and team work oriented
• STPS's requirement forms projectors, design of presentations, operational training work stations
• Knowledge of basic principles of quality and team work oriented
• STPS’s requirement forms.

• Responsible for quality activities and key performance indicators throughout the plant having under supervision 15 technicians
• Compliance with Regulatory and Safety requirements in order to cascade down to direct reports
• Responsible for the generation of a strategic plan to improve the business processes and increase production output
• Assure and Supervise the quality of products and processes, identify, measure, analyze and correct quality problems
• Make continuous improvement in hot box metal, fiberglass, aboveground, polymer concrete area
• 8d's development and coordination
• Development of processes and procedures to improve quality in the process
• Carry out training for new staff of quality and production
• Coordinate weekly meetings to reduce DPMOS using tools like Ishikawa, 5 why's, fish diagram
• Communication with design and engineering to make improvements in production processes
• Daily internal audits to keep process controlled
• Cross training for staff in charge
• Follow up on activities in production in order to have better efficiency and have better output of product with zero defects
• Gemba Walks as part of 5’s Program to identify opportunities to avoid quality issues
• Tooling release.

Responsible and accountable for quality activities and key performance indicators throughout the plant having under supervision 23 technician

• Ensure the quality of products and processes, identify, measure, analyze and correct quality problems
• Develops and coordinates written work instructions to ensure that the objectives are achieved
• Use of tools to analyze manufacturing processes and reduce variation when necessary
• Provides advice to Quality Jr Engineers in the use of statistical tools
• Conducts root cause analysis to determine the cause of quality problems and implement corrective and preventive actions
• Assists in complex problems
• Analyze data using data acquisition systems and generate reports to management
• Review conclusions of quality analysis and necessary changes to quality procedures
• Develop and assists in revisions to PFMEAs and Process Control Plans
• Develop, implement and validate quality processes within manufacturing to systematically measure, compare and monitor processes for the purpose of feedback for the prevention of errors
• Review the quality indicators of the process as a daily basis and take necessary actions
• Customer Interaction, solving problem and response to complains.

• In Charge of 7 production lines of the MDX (Honda) platforms
• Responsible of the process design and the developing of the product to achieve low costs, productivity, high quality, performance and Continuous improvement
• Responsible for Planning the material ram up, according to the volumes and due dates, focusing in the goal
• Identify and perform measures for yield improvements
• Detect and prevent failures within the process, preventing and improving costs as well as increasing the profits using tools like PFMEAS and DMAIC
• Planner for Incoming new models
• Supervising drawing changes specification (Honda)
• Release cut tooling, New product development, manufacturing transfers, continues improvement and cost reduction projects, corrective actions follow up
• Engineering clerk’s coordinator.
• Evaluated vendor proposals for component sourcing, selecting partners that provided the best value and reliability.
• Devised new products and features to boost customer satisfaction, reduce costs and propel product line to industry forefront.

• Customer Service and Complains User support, follow up and resolving complaints, Improvements on Database Programs, Analyze and develop Statistics to identify needs and detect failures.

• Vendor negotiation skills
• Inventory analysis, manage, create and maintain purchase orders
• Provide consultancy to vendors in Lean Manufacturing
• Continuous improvement in projects assessments
• Transfer integrated projects
• Standardize work stations, 5's Program, Kanban application oriented to reduce cost and material waste.

• Customer service
• Product engineering
• Interplant, production and manufacture for all the referring changes to the product
• Experience on sewing standards, distribution of areas, product development and tools
• Ability to develop and implement design process focused on Lean Manufacturing
• Knowledge of Quality Systems
• Pattern design system
• Accumark System
• Experience on implementation and control of Engineering Changes
• Accomplishment of new model like Ford, Chrysler, Toyota
• Development of patterns use of the Program Pattern Design System
• Verify Specifications
• Walk on Patterns
• Material Check and sewing specifications
• Production Logs
• Gerber Logs
• Purchase parts logs
• Continuous improvement, in customer complaints
• Pattern's Digitalization
• Coordinate the entrance of new products from its beginning to its production, being maintained to all the departments surrounded in the change, for a fast and effective implementation
• On the other hand, support to manufacture, production and purchases in daily problems
• Seam specifications
• Development improvements in patterns for one better visibility and flexibility at the time of covers assembling.

• Implementation of final of inspections standards from a project that was established on the product final inspection areas
• Increasing the productivity and efficiency by defining the production standards by the MOST system, and achieving the following: Reduction on work stations
• Definition of work method
• Establishment of pieces per hour
• Quality alerts implementation
• Qualification and training to operators on critical operations
• Client complaint reduction
• PFMEA
• Accomplishment visual aid elaboration
• Line balancing
• Part's presentation
• Production process improvement and problem solution
• Meeting coordinator, to corrective actions and 8D review
• Implementation of Lean Manufacturing programs, 5’s
• Manufacturing production line transfers.