APCRE Resources Team

Mr. Kishore Karve

Areas of specialization: ISO 9000 QMS, Lean Management, Occupational Health & Safety. Has conducted over 350 training programs for training the trainers, facilitators,change agents and industry persons (Managers, Supervisors, Operators). Has conducted over 200 Quality Management System (QMS) audits for ISO 9001certification. Units audited are from various Industrial sectors like Light Engineering,Electrical, Chemical, Foundry, Training institutes etc. both Indian and multinationals.Master Trainer for SCORE Program of ILO, and for ZED program of Govt. ofIndia and also NPC & MoMSME (India) accredited Consultant for Lean Manufacturing.

Dr. Jagadish S M


Area of specialization: Making Business Auto pilot, TQM, TPM, Process Improvement, Six Sigma Black Belt, Lean Manufacturing Implementation, Lead Auditor for various Standards such as ISO 9001, ISO14001, ISO45001, and ISO/IEC27001. Training conducted: Over 2,000 Programs and facilitated to more than 1,500 organizations.

Mr. R. Venkatasubramani

Area of specialization: Lean Manufacturing Implementation, Productivity Improvement, Management hand holding for MSME’s.Lean Manufacturing – Empaneled with NPC. Training conducted: Over 100 programmes. ILO SCORE Trainer – Training conducted: Over 100 programmes

Mr. B. Palaniappan

Areas of Specialisation: Implementing and hand holding TQM, Lean and TPM. Enhance Total employee Involvement, Lead assessor for 5S, Lean practices.Mentor for Six Sigma, quality improvement and Productivity improvement projects.  Training conducted: More than 1,500 programmes.  Organisations assessed: About 200.  Jury for the competitions / conventions: About 300

Mr. N. Sivadas

Areas of specialization: Business Process Engineering, Lean Manufacturing, TPM (Total Productive Maintenance), TQM (Total Quality Management), ISO Standards & Procedures, APQP (Advanced Product Quality Planning), VAVE (Value Engineering and Value Analysis).Training conducted: More than 500 Trainings conducted and more than 100 projects implemented.

Mr. Rajesh George

Areas of specialization:Implementation of Quality, Environment, Health& Safety and Social Management System.  Lead Auditor for ISO 9001, 14001, 45001 & Lead Assessor for 5S.Implementation of Leather Working Group practices over 52+ tanneries around the world.Coach for Business efficiency improvement programmes.

Mr. Hemant Shidaye

Area of specialization: Has over 36 years of Industrial experience and about 10 years consulting experience. His wide-ranging experience covers Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing, Projects, Plant Management, Quality Systems.His consultation and facilitation includes, Business Excellence, World Class Manufacturing, Application of Industrial Engineering and Technical Training. He is an empaneled  Lean Manufacturing Consultant, with NPC.

Mr. T.G.KRISHNAN

Areas of specialization: Implementation of Lean Tools, ILO’s SCORE Programme, ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015, ISO 45001:2018

Trainings conducted: Over 300 programs.

Ms. Chandrima Chatterjee

Area of specialization: Research on all kinds of trade and development aspects of textile value chain, formulation of policy and advocacy strategy for strengthening competitiveness of the Indian manufacturers through improvements in productivity, management systems, sustainable production, IT enabled supply chain management, skill development, financial management, policy support, etc.

Mr. M.Viswanathan

Area of Specialization: Leather Working Group Environmental auditing for tanneries worldwide. Served as UNIDO consultant for more than 12 years with areas of involvement in India, Sri Lanka,Bangladesh, Mongolia, Turkey Conducting Workshops, seminars and on-site training programmes to leather industry personnel of more than 1500 employees at different levelsDocumentation, reports and publications on the interested areas

Mr. Piyush Kumar

Principal Consultant & Director, PMG Consultants, over 30 years of excellence in Mechanical Engineering. Black Belt in Lean Six Sigma, SCORE Expert Trainer, Lead Auditor of ISO 9001, ISO 27001, ISO 14001, QS9000, ISO 14064, etc. Engaged as International Expert on Enterprise Development by several International & UN Agencies in order to validate their efforts towards productivity improvement. Having a keen eye on wastes, breakthrough improvement is achieved by the use of structured methodology of LEAN. Preparing the organisations for the Future of Work makes the approach, relevant & value adding. Co-Team Lead and Co-Author, SDG 12.

Mr. Ashok Tyagi

Area of specialization: 32 years of working experience in auto and auto component manufacturing.9 years as LEAN consultant with Kaizen Institute, 6 years as independent Lean Consultant & trainer.Specialist inLean Manufacturing, Kaizen, TPM & OEE improvement, Materials Management, Shop floor Management, Production Management, GMP, DWM

Mr. N.Manoharan

Alumni of Annamalai University &LIBA.Former Head-Mission Gemba-Ashok Leyland. Rich Experience in Quality,HR functions, TQM/Deming Journey.

Area of Specialization: Manufacturing Excellence by focusing on Gemba Concepts of Safety, 5S, Quality, Cost, Inventory, EEI, OLE/OEE, GO Green Initiatives & Deep Dive projects with Integration of the entire workforce of the organization with appropriate training.

Dr. Partha Banerjee

Bachelor of Technology (Hons) and Master of Business Management from IIT Kharagpur, Ph. D. from IIT Delhi, has over 30 years development professional experience as partner in PricewaterhouseCoopers, KPMG; now building his policy research and advisory firm. He has successfully managed large, multidisciplinary, public projects in India and abroad; clientele includes national and provincial governments, UN agencies such as ILO, UNDP and other international institutions such as ADB, EU, GIZ and the World Bank.

Mr. Subramanian Srinivasan

Founder, Mars Consultants. Overall Experience of 29 strong years with wide experience in industry, consulting and auditing. Lead Auditor in ISO 9001, IATF 16949, ISO 14001, ISO 45001. Certified VDA 6.3 Process Auditor. Certified Six Sigma Black Belt and Lean Six Sigma. Certified ILO SCORE Trainer. Certified trainer from Plexus International, USA. Conducted more than 10000 manhours of training. Trained more than 5000 personnel in various topics. Experience in auditing more than 3000 companies.