Thangamani G

Education

• Ph.D. (IIT Madras)
• M.E. (Industrial Engineering and Management)
• B.E. (Mechanical Engineering)

Research Areas

• Complex System Reliability Prediction and Risk Management
• Business Process Modelling, Analysis and Management
• Product Innovation and Technology Management
• Six Sigma and Lean approaches to Manufacturing/Service systems

Other Professional Appointments

• Worked as Manager in O&G ASE-EMST of GE India Technology Center Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore from March 2004 to March 2010.
• Led Fabric Care Technology Center as Manager, Whirlpool of India Ltd., Pondicherry from October 1997 to March 2004.

Conferences, Seminars & Talks

• THANGAMANI, G., 'Improving New Product Development Performance by applying TOC thinking Process', International Conference on Marketing and Business Strategy (INCOMBS-2012), IBS Hyderabad, May 10-11, 2012.
• THANGAMANI, G., 'Technology Selection Framework using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) - A Case Study', International Conference on Marketing and Business Strategy (INCOMBS-2012), IBS Hyderabad, May 10-11, 2012.
• THANGAMANI, G., 'Availability Analysis of a Lube Oil System using Generalized Stochastic Petri Net', Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Quality and Reliability, Bangkok, Sep. 14-17, 2011, pp. 186-190.

Academic Positions

Worked as Lecturer, Pondicherry Engineering College, Pondicherry for 4 years

Awards

• Obtained '6 Sigma Black Belt' from Whirlpool Europe. Guided several black belt projects for the engineers in Whirlpool of India Ltd.
• Awarded 'Pinnacle Award' two times by Whirlpool of India for the contribution in the design & development of Blade Coffee Grinder and establishing reputation for Fabric Care Technology Center.
• Robust Design Mentor: To disseminate and guide engineers to implement robust design in their design process.

Significant Publications

THANGAMANI, G., 'Technology Selection for Product Innovation Using Analytic Network Process (ANP) - A Case Study', International Journal of Innovation, Management and Technology, 3(5), Oct. 2012, pp. 560-565.

THANGAMANI, G., 'Generalized Stochastic Petri Nets for Reliability Analysis of Lube Oil System with Common-Cause Failures', American Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 2(4), 2012, pp. 152-158.

THANGAMANI, G., 'Availability Estimation of a Cooling Tower Using GSPN', International Journal of Performability Engineering, 9(2), 2013, pp. 03-12.

THANGAMANI,G., NARENDRAN,T.T. and SUBRAMANIAN.R., 'Assessment of Availability of a Fluid Catalytic Cracking Unit through Simulation', Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 47, 1995, pp. 207-220.

THANGAMANI, G., 'Bounding Algorithms for Two-Terminal Network Reliability, Microelectronics and Reliability', 34(6), 1994, pp. 969-981.