Mehul Gala

Current

Engineer at Diamond Products

Past

Engineer at MTD Products
Engineering Co-op at MTD Products

Education

Baldwin-Wallace College
Kettering University
Westlake High School

see less...

Recommended

3 people have recommended Mehul

Connections

373 connections

Industry

Mechanical or Industrial Engineering

Websites

My Amateur Bicycle Racing Team

Mehul Gala’s Summary

I am a mechanical engineer with product development and manufacturing experience eager to help my company reach its full potential using practical experience and analytical skills.

Mehul Gala’s Specialties:

Proficient in Unigraphics NX; including sheet metal design, mechanisms, and sketcher packages; Proficient with Soildworks; Capable with ANSYS Design Space, FEA simulation software package; Familiar with certain modules of MAPICS to maintain and search BOM’s; Fluent with MS Office to finalize tasks

Mehul Gala’s Experience

Engineer

Diamond Products

(Privately Held; Consumer Goods industry)

January 2007 — Present (3 years 2 months)

• Redesigned existing saw to be built in two configurations while sharing a majority of components. Allowed for great manufacturing flexibility with limited resources.
• Outsourced fabrication of masonry saw to Taiwanese supplier to improve both margins and quality while keeping final assembly in house. Required creating a parts list book for customers, communicating current design to supplier, and communicating issues to the new supplier.
• Brought a very complicated riding saw, previously produced outside Diamond Products into Diamond Products, allowing the company full control of the product. This involved finding new suppliers and fabricators for the components, creating drawings for all components, creating a parts book for the customer and assembler, creating bill of materials, and trouble shooting small issues that arose.
Engineer

MTD Products

(Mechanical or Industrial Engineering industry)

June 2000 — January 2007 (6 years 8 months)

Assisted and led design and development of innovative platform employing groundbreaking drive, steering, and control systems. Worked with many cross-functional teams consisting of purchasing, tooling, testing, and assembly plant personnel
Adapted rear engine riding mower to employ a new engine within financial and technical constraints and launched pilot and production
Assisted designing, troubleshooting, pilot and production of MTD’s first domestically designed and produced compact tractor
Designed and tested MTD’s largest attachment snow thrower.
Helped lead a Rapid Improvement team in the manufacturing facility, thus allowing the plant better utilize its capacity.
Participated and led a PFEMA event at MTD’s Brownsville assembly plant, implementing ergonomic improvements, successive checks, Poke-Yoke type error proofing, and quality checks to improve existing processes.
Engineering Co-op

MTD Products

(Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; Consumer Goods industry)

October 1995 — June 2000 (4 years 9 months)

Consolidated common components across all attachment snow throwers to facilitate future design changes and improve manufacturability.
Researched and implemented new spot-weld amperage schedules to improve tip life by properly employing existing software.
Participated with a diverse team in a Kaizen event to reduce inventory, eliminate waste and decrease lead-time in a localized area of the production facility.
Examined and documented quality functions of a production facility to prepare for ISO 9001.

Mehul Gala’s Education

Baldwin-Wallace College

MBA , Entrepreneurship , 2008 — 2010 (expected)
Kettering University

BSME , Mechanical Engineering Automotive Specialty , 1995 — 2000

Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering, automotive specialty
Graduated Cum Laude
GPA: 92.0 on a 100.0 scale
Member of Phi Eta Sigma, oldest and largest first-year honor society in all disciplines
Member of Tau Beta Pi, engineering honor society

Activities and Societies:

Phi Eta Sigma, Tau Beta Pi, student tutoring
Westlake High School