Saurav Patwardhan

Manufacturing Automation Engineer | Additive Manufacturing | Dean’s List (MSc. RWTH Aachen) | COEP Gold Medallist |

Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

About

Manufacturing Automation Engineer at DMFG Solutions, a company focusing on manufacturing innovations using robotic welding and wire arc additive manufacturing technologies. Holds an MSc in Production Engineering with a specialization in Smart Factory Planning and Automation. Master's Thesis and Internship at BMW in the field of long-term production and capacity planning and Supply chain simulations using MILP programming. Prior work experience includes mechanical design engineering, industrial engineering, production engineering, product development, and programming. Master's Thesis and Internship at BMW in the field of long-term production and capacity planning and Supply chain simulations using MILP programming. Worked as a research assistant in the field of Industrial IoT at the WZL Laboratory in Aachen with a focus on programming for data collection from cloud edge devices. Received a full scholarship for my Master's degree from the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Scholarship for gifted International students. Recipient of several academic excellence awards from the RWTH Aachen International Academy, Frank-Hirschvogel Stiftung, and others. Gold Medalist of the Manufacturing Engineering Department from the College of Engineering, Pune (COEP). Team lead of the UNICEF Aachen University Group that organises and conducts charity concerts and information events. Fluent in English, German, Hindi, Marathi.

Experience

  • Manufacturing Automation Engineer at DMFG Solutions GmbH
    Feb 2026 - Present · 5 mos

    Executing Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing Projects

  • BMW Group (On-site)
    • Master Thesis Student
      Aug 2025 - Jan 2026 · 6 mos

      Mathematical optimization and scenario simulation for the design of global production network configurations.

    • Production Strategy and Digitalisation Intern
      Feb 2025 - Aug 2025 · 7 mos

      - Working in capacity and flexibility planning of international electric motor production networks - Built an automated allocation tool to facilitate long term production value chain planning for electric motors

  • Graduate Student Research Assistant at Werkzeugmaschinenlabor, WZL der RWTH Aachen
    Dec 2023 - Jan 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos

    - Working as a research assistant in two departments: 1. Production Systems - Innovation Management: Remanufacturing and Reassembly of E-Scooters - Creation of an interactive demonstrator of a Re-Manufacturing system - CAD Modelling 2. Machine Tools - Smart Automation Lab: Tool Monitoring using Edge devices and Asset Administration Shells in an IOT-linked Production System - Implementation of Tool monitoring dashboards using Node JS and Asset Admin Shells - Major tasks - Programming in Python, NodeJS 3.Built edge-device applications to receive CNC control data and calculate component-level CO2 footprints. 4. Constructed robot-demonstrators using given engineering drawings

  • Product Development Engineer at ElectroMech
    Jun 2022 - Jul 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos

    - Working on the development of the first fully electric RTG crane from India. - Involved in CAD design for manufacturing, vendor development, setting manufacturing processes. - Power and battery calculations, cable selection. - Achieved a 66% reduction in enquiry response time by building an automated estimation tool - Hands on crane testing with batteries as a power source, data analysis.

  • Design Engineer at Solace Time Co.
    Apr 2022 - Oct 2022 · 7 mos

    - Proudly overseeing the design and manufacture of a watch which will be Made in India and use a Japanese Quartz movement. - Involved in CAD design, prototyping and manufacturing of the watch