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PMMI On the Rise Awards Winner 2023 - Naveen Nagarajan

Innovating to solve everyday engineering challenges

Naveen Nagarajan

PMMI has, once again, recognized 10 individuals who are quickly advancing in the industry in its sixth annual PMMI ON THE RISE AWARDS 2023 developed by the Emerging Leaders Committee. The winners were honored in October 2023 at PMMI’s Annual Meeting in Stone Mountain, Georgia. But there’s a lot to learn about these forward-thinking problem-solvers. So, OEM took some time to get to know these outstanding rising stars. Here are their stories.

HSAUSA is an engineering company that specializes in industrial marking systems, providing a variety of industrial product coding and marking applications. Several years ago, Naveen Nagarajan joined the company and has since held a variety of positions in the engineering design, project management, sales, service, marketing, and human resources departments. Today, he is an industrial engineer at the company—which is the perfect fit given that he has a master’s degree in industrial engineering

In his current role, Nagarajan’s long list of responsibilities include industrial systems integration, machine building, continuous improvement/lean implementation, systems/process design, packaging and printing, industrial machine design with 2D and 3D modeling, machine/system validation, site survey, machine and plant layouts, time study, sales and service, and more.

“A big part of my job is servant leadership for high performance team building,” Nagarajan said. “And one of the most important aspects of my job is being a subject matter expert with expert judgment for industrial packaging, labeling and marking equipment, integrated systems, and processes.”

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