Ravi Ramarao


Ravi Ramarao

Ravi Ramarao is an expert in Digital Transformation in Manufacturing Strategy & ROI, Enablement, Sustainable Organization - Skills & OCM. Ravi has over 30 years of hands-on experience in World class manufacturing plants, IT Consultancy services and Product build enterprise.

Ravi is an engineering graduate (BSc, B.Tech) and held leadership positions in reputed Companies such as Bosch, TCS and Yokogawa in the areas of Program management, Delivery, Enterprise asset management, Business leadership in manufacturing IT and automation solutions, leadership roles in Smart manufacturing solutions.

Demonstrated case studies in various manufacturing enterprises across the world in the functional & technical roles by Ravi include in brief:

  • built model plants – green field and revamp; successfully addressed challenges in old vs new infrastructure investments and delivered desired outcome;
  • strategy, consulting & delivery of cross functional transformation initiatives for value creation and operational efficiency;

  • established process & system driven manufacturing enterprise with plant quality as competitive advantage, achieved manufacturing excellence, developed an agile & competitive E2E supply chain & sustainable operating model for manufacturing;

  • prepared & facilitated organizational changes to adopt disruptive technologies e.g. "Digital" in operations for growth and profitability, use analytics for visibility and data driven decision making;

  • created workforce of the future;

  • prominent on various public forums/ digital platforms on a wide range of digital topics – IIOT / I4.0 and have authored several points of views on IoT readiness in both WW and Indian context, future of work in Industry 4.0 era.

As a Consultant, Ravi won multi-million $$ business for a Singapore based MNC - established a product development centre in India, was a confidential advisor to large reputed Indian MNC, was responsible for establishing sustainable world class talents at optimal cost and acted as strategic advisor to big business consulting & investment firms.