L. P. Pereira
Senior Vice President,
Central Manufacturing Engineering

Louis Pereira has a Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Mechanical) with a Distinction from the College of Engineering, Pune University, 1970. His career spans 37 years in M&M across Automotive and Farm Equipment Sectors handling Design, Planning, Manufacturing and Quality. As Senior Vice President - Central Manufacturing Engineering he is currently responsible for Projects, Manufacturing Engineering, Asset Management - Automotive Sector. His main Projects under Execution are Mahindra Renault Nissan JV at Chennai, Mahindra International JV at Chakan and other New Product Projects - Vehicles, Engines, Transmissions & Axle.Besides this, he has held the following management positions in the Automotive and Farm Equipment Sector

Automotive Sector:

 
Sr. Vice President - Quality, Engineering & Asset Management
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Responsible for Quality Control, Establishing In-house Manufacturing Process, Capacity Planning, Equipment Selection & Ordering, Budgeting & Asset Management
   
Sr. General Manager (Operations)- Automotive Sector, Kandivli
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Responsible for manufacturing and supply areas covering 390 officers and 2200 workmen
   
Product Unit Manager (Transmission)
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Productionising of BA10 gearbox for the latest product offerings of the company
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Setting up and streamlining the manufacturing systems for the Business Unit.
   
Senior Manager - Quality Assurance (Vendor Parts- Auto Manufacturing)
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Responsible for incoming Quality of Bought out parts
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Deployment of the Quality function at the supplier end, effectively moving from a 100% inspection to an audit inspection
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Leader of CFT for reduction in Warranty of electricals.
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Computerisation of Inspection function
   
Farm Equipment Sector:
 
Head - Production Planning and Control
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In charge of Production Planning of Tractor Manufacturing Unit.
   
Manager - Heavy Machine Shop
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In charge of Engine & Transmission Manufacturing area in the Plant
   
Senior Engineer - Light Machine Shop
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Exposure to a wide variety of Machines / Processes and Practices. Engineer - Tool Design