Automotive manufacturing
10 manufacturing quality engineering experts
These ten engineers have held quality engineering roles in manufacturing, working on production and process quality. A reader can learn from them how manufacturing quality engineers use tools such as PFMEA, SPC and 8D problem solving to control production quality.
Professionals to explore
01—10Akshay Khatri
LinkedInExperience: PROGRAM QUALITY ENGINEER · Purem by Eberspächer
PROGRAM QUALITY ENGINEER at Purem by Eberspächer since August 2021. The profile describes leading and managing 10 quality engineers and 9 quality technicians across 3 shifts and developing systems for scrap reporting, supplier cost recovery reporting, 8D completions and first pass yields. Former Quality Manager (2017–2021) and QUALITY ENGINEER SUPERVISOR (2016–2017) there.
Alekhya Chowdary
LinkedInExperience: Senior Quality Engineer · Cummins Inc.
Former Senior Quality Engineer at Cummins Inc. (2023–2025), where the profile describes leading and managing all aspects of quality management and ensuring compliance with organizational standards and customer requirements. VPI Supplier Quality Program Lead at Cummins Inc. since May 2026 and former Quality Engineer at Hunter Industries (2018–2023).
Amey Patil
LinkedInExperience: Senior Plant Quality Engineer · ZF Group
Former Senior Plant Quality Engineer at ZF Group (2017–2022) and Engineering Supervisor - Plant Quality there since March 2022. The profile describes systematic implementation of IATF16949 requirements using quality tools such as FMEA, SPC, MSA, APQP, PPAP and 8D, along with 6 sigma projects and statistical analysis including design of experiments.
Cameron Kasey
LinkedInExperience: Staff Engineer, Quality · Kohler Co.
Former Staff Engineer, Quality at Kohler Co. (2023–2025), where the profile describes managing 23 quality technicians across 4 shifts, developing quality audits and SOPs for lab technicians, and leading weekly meetings with the plant manager and department heads. Lead Manufacturing Specialist - Production QC at GE Aerospace since December 2025.
Dr. Susanta Bhuyan
LinkedInExperience: Lead Engineer - Plant Mfg. & Launch Quality Additive Mfg. -3D Printing FDM & Innovation · Ford Motor Company
Former Lead Engineer - Plant Mfg. & Launch Quality Additive Mfg. -3D Printing FDM & Innovation at Ford Motor Company (2018–2023) and Sr. Engineer - Launch Quality there (2016–2018). The profile describes 22+ years in manufacturing engineering, manufacturing quality, launch quality and Six Sigma deployment, and work at Ford India's Sanand Engine Plant.
Ipesh Pandey
LinkedInExperience: Manufacturing Quality Engineer I · Sonic Manufacturing Technologies
Former Manufacturing Quality Engineer I at Sonic Manufacturing Technologies (2016–2017), Sr.Quality Engineer at Sanmina (2023–2024) and Quality Engineer III at Jabil (2021–2023); Quality Engineer III at Regal Rexnord since September 2024. The profile describes completing numerous 8Ds, pFMEAs and SPC projects, MRB process updates and training quality teams.
Manasa Eampati
LinkedInExperience: Quality Engineer · Magna International
Quality Engineer at Magna International since May 2025 and former Quality Engineer at Hyundai (2022–2023). The profile describes executing PFMEA and updating control plans based on field failures to prevent repeat defects in automotive assembly, performing CAPA and 8D investigations on production and supplier-related issues, and reviewing PPAP submissions.
Melody Schultz
LinkedInExperience: Manufacturing Quality Engineering · Ford Motor Company
Former Manufacturing Quality Engineering at Ford Motor Company (2023–2024) and Quality Engineer at John Deere (2019–2022). Lead NPD Quality Engineer at Marmon Foodservice Technologies since May 2024, where the profile describes increasing order fulfillment capacity by 20%. Former Program Manager at John Deere (2021–2023).
Pawan Upreti
LinkedInExperience: Senior Quality Engineer · Foxconn E BG Group
Senior Quality Engineer at Foxconn E BG Group since August 2022, where the profile describes specializing in high-low-mix SMT/PCBA manufacturing and covering quality from supplier qualification and incoming quality through manufacturing process control and NPI. Former Senior Quality Assurance Engineer at Navitasys India Private Limited (2018–2022) and Supplier Quality Engineer at Denso Ten Minda (2017–2018).
Raj Dey
LinkedInExperience: Quality Engineer · Ecozen
Former Quality Engineer at Ecozen (2024–2026) and Quality Control Engineer at Sineng Electric (2021–2024); Senior Quality Assurance Engineer at Exicom since August 2026. The profile describes implementing and maintaining ISO 9001 and IATF 16949 quality systems across production lines and leading root cause analysis with the 8D methodology to resolve quality issues.
Choose the right perspective
Match the person's role to your question: a hands-on quality engineer suits questions about specific tools such as PFMEA, control plans and 8D, while someone who supervised quality engineers and technicians suits questions about staffing and running a plant quality team. Also consider the product and standard the person worked under, since automotive IATF 16949 plants and electronics assembly lines run quality differently.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How do you build and maintain PFMEAs and control plans so they reflect what actually happens on the line?
- 02How do you run 8D or root cause investigations so corrective actions stick?
- 03Which SPC charts and capability studies matter most on a production line, and how do you act on them?
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