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Optimized Automated Checkout Process For Major Food Retailers, Matthew Ritchie, Tiana Longino, Daniel Garza, Alp Katranci
Optimized Automated Checkout Process For Major Food Retailers, Matthew Ritchie, Tiana Longino, Daniel Garza, Alp Katranci
Senior Design Project For Engineers
There has been a push for automation in countless industries to save time and money, increase customer satisfaction, increase customer purchasing options, increase efficiency, and reduce waste. This design project will focus on optimizing the automated checkout process at major grocery retailers. The goal of the design is to reduce customer wait times at the checkout line, thus increasing customer satisfaction and save the retailer cashier expenses. The design was created using the DMAIC (define, measure, analyze, improve, control) process tool. Customers were surveyed to define if there was a problem, and 52.5% of customers felt the wait times at …