Krishna Murthy Murthy Venkataramappa
Digital Transformation Lead | Industry 4.0 | Smart Manufacturing | AI & Advanced Analytics
Work Experience
Digital Transformation Lead
Rolls-Royce
• Serve as AI Champion for the Rolls-Royce account, driving AI strategy, use-case prioritisation, innovation governance and PoC development. • Lead enterprise Digital Manufacturing and Future Factory initiatives focused on operational performance improvement. • Drive Advanced Analytics initiatives improving manufacturing intelligence, quality, utilisation, Right-First-Time (RFT) performance and decision-making. • Identify, develop and scale digital solutions from concept through MVP, business case development, implementation and shopfloor deployment. • Lead executive stakeholder engagement, innovation workshops, capability demonstrations and strategic business discussions. • Support business growth through Digital Manufacturing consulting, Industry 4.0 solution development and RFI/RFP pursuits.
Digital Manufacturing Engineer & Team Leader
Rolls-Royce (TCS)
• Led deployment of Digital Manufacturing, MES, Advanced Analytics and Smart Factory solutions supporting Rolls-Royce's manufacturing transformation agenda. • Responsible for developing manufacturing intelligence platforms, enabling data-driven decision making, driving process digitization that improved manufacturing performance, quality and operational efficiency. • Managed onsite delivery teams while coordinating offshore development, stakeholder engagement and deployment activities across manufacturing functions.
Process Owner – Inspection & Site Leader
Rolls-Royce (QuEST & TCS)
• Provided operational leadership for inspection and quality activities across advanced aerospace composite programmes. • Established inspection capability from technology development through production maturity, deployed digital inspection solutions, implemented additive manufacturing initiatives and led multidisciplinary teams supporting manufacturing readiness and operational excellence. • Managed a combined workforce of employees, contractors and specialist suppliers while driving continuous improvement and technology adoption initiatives.
Manufacturing Engineer
Rolls-Royce (QuEST)
• Delivered manufacturing engineering support for aerospace turbine blade and nozzle guide vane programmes across Rolls-Royce operations in the UK, USA and India. • Responsible for APQP, PPAP, FAI/LAI, Teamcenter CAPP implementation, New Product Introduction (NPI), process capability improvement and technical package development while supporting quality, productivity and zero-defect manufacturing initiatives.
Engineer
Maini Precision Products
• Supported New Product Introduction (NPI) and manufacturing engineering activities for precision aerospace and automotive components. • Contributed to process planning, PPAP submissions, inspection strategy development, process validation and continuous improvement initiatives while collaborating with production, quality and supply-chain teams.
Education
Bachelor of Science (BS) in Mechanical Engineering
Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU)