My Name : Somnath Kolekar
Nationality :Indian
email : somnath18679@gmail.com
Mobile : +919823667967
Have earned 13+ years of experience, with 5+ years of experience in Pharmaceutical industry and 8+ years of experience in ophthalmic Lens manufacturing industry, working on various managerial positions ie. Asst. Manager technology and Services, Asst. Operation manager, Projects Manager, R&D Manager, Production Manager. Have sound knowledge of conventional and digital Lens surfacing machines. And have handled installation, done maintenance, validation and process integration of machines like Blockers, Generators, Polishers, engravers, lens meters, remote tracing and edging machines, of manufacturers such as Schneider, Satisloh, Coburn, Optotech, Laser 2000, Kepets, Nidek. Have worked with calculation servers such as Seiko Epson, PCS server (CZV), ALS server (CZV), CZV Rx (Sola), Rx- Server (LOH), Kodac, Optocalc, Innovation (Coburn) and LMS such as Drishti and Lensware. Familiar with OMA/VCA commuication and with surface file formats such as DAT, SDF, STF, XYZ, HMF.
While working on a position of “Project Manager” have handled many projects few of them are listed below:
1) Lens Thickness Optimization Calculation. This project added value to the Lens which increased the market demand for our products due to its optimum thickness as compared to our competitors.
2) Auto Lens Surface Programming\Click Fee. This project proved to be the biggest achievements for company, as the success of this project resulted in reduction of manpower, reduction in rejects due to manual errors, reduction in process time, reduction in consumables and opportunity for additional business activity through Click Fee.
3) Remote Edging. The project resulted in more accurate lenses, reduction in market returns and reduction in the order transit time to 50%.
4) Photo App android Application. This project added advantage to the commercials as now the frame details were possible to be sent through just clicking the photo through a mobile or a camera which resulted in thinner lenses.
5)GKB Digital Lens Polisher. This project was the biggest achievement for company. We have developed a digital lens polishing machine in a record time of three months, which was performing almost equivalent to highest selling machine of the similar kind and with only 25% of the cost of the similar kind of machine available in the market.