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Supply Chain Reduction For Wellstar Kennestone Sterile Processing Department, Thomas Waluk, Michael Aniagboso, Shamaila Khalil, Alondra Quintero

Senior Design Project For Engineers

The WellStar Healthcare System provides world-class healthcare across 11 hospitals. One of those hospitals is Kennestone located in Marietta, GA. They are continuously implementing new technology to attend to their patients in the operation rooms (ORs). However, the hospital’s Sterile Processing Department has seen an increase of unused supplies being returned after surgeries are completed. This results in certain supplies not being placed back in inventory immediately or accounted for. Upon discovering these process inadequacies, WellStar requested a project group to analyze and present a solution for decreasing its rate of returned supplies, quantify the cost of the current processes, …

The Magic School Bus, Thomas Murdoch, Hassan Hassan, Nardeen Saleb

Senior Design Project For Engineers

This report recreates the Fairey Rotodyne in modern, electric form. Extensive research into the market requirements and history of the autogiro are presented as justification for the implementation of such a design. The design criteria and mission profile are selected in order to compete with inter-city commuting in the range of 20 to 30 statute miles or with longer range travel at roughly 100 miles. Cost estimations are also made in order to gauge the feasibility of this design from an economic standpoint. Achieving the design criteria and desired mission profile are done through numerical integration and analysis through CFD …

Size And Cost Reduction Of The Antenna 3000, Mario Mignott, Austin Deaver, Josh Madaris

Senior Design Project For Engineers

For our senior design project, we have partnered with Compass Technology Group to improve its Antenna 3000 manufacturing process. The Antenna we are working on is not actually called this, but due to NDA regulations, we will disguise it as the Antenna 3000. This will include finding a way to minimize material costs and labor hours involved to assemble this product together. Our minimum success criteria will be to reduce both the manufacturing time and materials' cost by 20%. Our primary approach to solving this problem will be to implement Lean Six Sigma practices such as the DMAIC principle.

Using …

Very Light Jet Trainer (Vlj) - Phoenix Iv, Saxton Robinson, Eric Gentry, Daniyel Holmes, Navee Cheng

Senior Design Project For Engineers

This project was pursued to bring another possible solution to a major problem within the pilot training industry. When it comes to pilots training with aircraft, they must often use repurposed older aircraft to log their training hours. With few options when it comes to aircraft that are designed specifically for training, we have researched, modeled, and simulated tests for our own trainer jet to add to the market. The aircraft was designed to seat 4-8 people (1-2 for crew and 2-6 for passengers), weigh less than 10,000 lbs., have a range of about 1195.5 nautical miles, have a max …

Urban Cargo Transport Uav Final Design Review, Niko Giannakakos, Rafael Barreto Gutierrez, Tejas Bhavsar

Senior Design Project For Engineers

Delivery of goods to homes and offices over the last decades has seen a significant increase as more people and businesses need or want items sent directly to them. With the increase in demand, technology has also experienced a rapid growth, specifically in the field of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Many major companies are currently researching UAVs as the future of their delivery operations. With this ever-growing demand, NASA has issued a design competition of a UAV developed for urban deliveries. This unmanned aircraft system (UAS) would need to be able to deliver small packages, in a timely manner, within …

Aerial Screw Vtol Rotorcraft, Macale Rielly, Alexa Culp, Thomas Osteen, Adeline Perry

Senior Design Project For Engineers

Known as the “Renaissance Man,” DaVinci’s impressive knowledge of mechanics and inventive prowess would influence engineers and innovators hundreds of years later to make human flight a reality. However, due to the limited capacity of engineering and manufacturing at the time, his invention had been shallowly investigated in a production setting. This project strove to properly acknowledge DaVinci’s invention by thorough examination and critical analysis of his concept with the hopes of gaining a better understanding of why it is considered the “foundation of vertical flight”.

An iterative design approach was employed, utilizing faculty and university resources, team knowledge from …

Lead Time Reduction At Rudolph Foods, Nelson Farfan, Arturo Rodriguez, Jackson Botti, Fahd Sharfuddin

Senior Design Project For Engineers

The overall goal of this project is to increase productivity and improve the processes of production as well as look at warehouse operations to see if there can be improvements implemented to the Rudolph Foods facility located in Lawrenceville, Georgia. While Rudolph Foods has a simple production process, there are improvements that can be made so that it may be more efficient. Rudolph Foods has an excellent production and shipping standard, but there are instances where management wishes production could be better. In some cases, while working on large orders, there are smaller orders that get put on the backburner …

Kennesaw State University - Maintenance Optimization And Cost Analysis, Mary E. Ogidigben, David T. Murphy, William L. Fowler

Senior Design Project For Engineers

The Department of Housing and Residence Life was looking for ways to improve the quality of their work while saving costs at the same time. The department allowed the team to look over their work orders where the team noticed over 50% of the work orders were related to room turnover. After this discovery, the team focused all efforts on room turnover and went over the process in detail with management. The team asked to see the standard operating procedure for room turnover and learned that most of the staff did not know they had one.

The team wanted to …

Improving The Stainless Steel System At Process Technology International Using 5s, Process Improvement, And Inventory Control, Juan Fernando Sanchez, Jordan Nash, Enis Ormanci, Erion Tafa

Senior Design Project For Engineers

Process Technology International (PTI) is a small manufacturing company producing industrial equipment used in the processing of steel. The purpose of this project is to reduce costs and improve inefficiencies within the stainless steel system.

After meeting with industry sponsors and determining their most pertinent issues, we decided to search for inefficiencies in three places: inventory controls, manual processes, and physical workspace arrangement. To measure how the current inefficiencies were affecting costs, the team performed EOQ analysis on the inventory controls and time study evaluations on the processes. By collecting demand data, holding cost, ordering cost and price break cost …

Optimization Of Vinyl Flooring Packaging, Devon Holloway, Dominique Donahue, Edafe Oyibo, Fatemeh Mafikouhini

Senior Design Project For Engineers

Mohawk Industries, Inc. is one of the leading flooring manufacturers of the world. Mohawk supplies various types of flooring to various markets around the world like the contiguous United States and Southeast Asia. A significant aspect of Mohawk that allows the organization to supply quality flooring products to various markets around the world is their packaging. Recently however, the company has been experiencing damages to their packages being shipped to Southeast Asia, specifically their vinyl flooring packaging. As a result, this team was created with goal in mind of formulating a solution to eliminate the damaging of vinyl flooring packaging …