Benoit Lagneau

Managed day-to-day operation of production lines composed of approximately 35 persons.
• Lead a team from different building trade such as welding, machinery mechanical, assembly, electrical warehouse and logistic.
• Structure the Production, the warehouse and the logistic Department.
• Recruit the operators and train them to the best practice of the Company.
• Completed the work in term of quality, cost, delivery and security.
• Maintain the production cost according the budget, and prepare the quotation for new investment.
• Project leader of a team for the implementation of the ERP including the training of the key users, redaction of the process, the definition of the rules.

Key Accomplishments:

- Verticalized the production and saved 10% of the product cost.
- Implemented the ERP and permitted to reduce the manual operation of 40%.
- Organized the warehouse and maintain the dead sock at less than 3%, and low level of inventory mistake.

• Logistic Manager
o Reorganized the logistic including the packaging and process issues.
o Trained the workers to package the finished goods and to load the trucks safely.
• ERP Project Leader
o Implemented the ERP system including the training of the key users, redaction of the process.
o Created the Production Bill Of Material (BOM) used for ERP system.
• Methods Engineer
o Reduced the working time developing the tool models.
o Remodeled a welding line which was a bottleneck in the process.
• Warehouse Manager
o Organized the procedure and the workflow in the department.
o Reorganized the warehouse layout, the material location system for a better efficiency during the inventory. Deployed the 5S in the warehouse and trained the people to its good execution.
o Improved the picking efficiency of 40% by the creation of logistic tools saving the moving time

Key Accomplishments:

- Successfully implemented the ERP.
- Reduced the packaging volume of 12% and the logistic cost of 10%.
- Improved welding line productivity of 40%.
- Reduced the dead stock of the 30%.

• Created the technical description file for each component of the sale catalogue. Document used as visual support by the sale representative to introduce the product to the client.
• Created the data base of the ERP system (SAP R3) around 300 codes.
• Completed mechanical strength test for the prototype product.

• Key member of team for the creation of a new suspension for the tractor’s cabin.
o Created the specification between the Technical Department, the Test Department and the supplier.
o Developed the suspension for the new range of tractor’s cabin. Created two prototypes of suspension, one hydraulic version and one pneumatic version.
o Searched and audited potential suppliers. Selected three potentials suppliers fulfilling the specification in term of technology, quality, cost and lead-time.
o Analyzed and compared the effect of the suspension prototypes on the cabin in term of vibration and acoustic gains.
o Analyzed the cost of the prototypes to be in accordance with the specifications.
• Key member of team for the Digital Mock-Up of the tractor.
o Created the technical characterization of the entire tractor in order to make it digital mock-up. Established the virtual inertial center of the tractor and compared it with the values acquired on the physical model.
o Modeled the entire tractor on ProEngineer in order to build the Digital Mock-Up on ADAMS (vibration modeling software)

Key Accomplishments:

- Reduced the noise in the cabin of 5%
- Realized the digital mock-up ready for use.