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Imerys: Tube Mill Optimization Project, Ryan Waltman, Dalton Beasley, Dyson Beasley, Tristan Mcmichael
Imerys: Tube Mill Optimization Project, Ryan Waltman, Dalton Beasley, Dyson Beasley, Tristan Mcmichael
Senior Design Project For Engineers
The Tube Mill Optimization Project is in partnership with Imerys for Tube Mill 81 at their Marble Hill site in Georgia. Tube Mill 81 is a dry ball mill that operates 24/7 and makes an intermediary product for Plant 3. Tube Mill 81 needs quality improvement and a production rate increase to meet demand. Imerys’s quality specification is between a particle size of 12-18 microns and an acceptable production rate of 5 tons per hour. This project focuses on the development and implementation of three solutions: increase the amps on the separator to increase production, replace missing classifier blades in …
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 …
Mazak Laser Optimization, Maylon Ellington, Terrilian E. Agbor Oji, William N. Palm
Mazak Laser Optimization, Maylon Ellington, Terrilian E. Agbor Oji, William N. Palm
Senior Design Project For Engineers
Starflex Fabrication is a manufacturing company that thrives to provide custom, precision fabricated parts, and assemblies to their customers.The Mazak laser is Starflex Fabrication’s primary cutting machine and is critical to the overall process for each order. Team Flex will look to optimize the laser’s process and improve overall shop throughput.
Implementing Project Management Strategies To Enhance Productivity Within Non-Profit Organizations, Destiny Konan, Brooklyn Harper
Implementing Project Management Strategies To Enhance Productivity Within Non-Profit Organizations, Destiny Konan, Brooklyn Harper
Senior Design Project For Engineers
N-Ovate Ideals is working injunction with a non-profit organization, The MP Foundation, in an effort to optimize their event project management strategies. This process improvement project seeks to propose the implementation of a web-based project management and collaboration tool, Asana. Implementing this software will better assist this organization by tracking their project(s) from a centralized visual dashboard. N-Ovate Ideals seeks to demonstrate how this suggested tool will be able to improve productivity, reduce cost, and improve quality in their efforts to plan and manage projects and events.
Supply Chain Network Analysis For Outboard Motors At Motor Boaters Usa, Seyedalireza (Ali) Ghiasi, Chase Griffith, Djanene Manuel, Yesenia Pérez, Alvand Rafiee
Supply Chain Network Analysis For Outboard Motors At Motor Boaters Usa, Seyedalireza (Ali) Ghiasi, Chase Griffith, Djanene Manuel, Yesenia Pérez, Alvand Rafiee
Senior Design Project For Engineers
Motor Boaters USA found themselves possibly spending too much on their current network distribution of small and large outboard motors and requested new distribution alternatives for the U.S. Through past network distribution data analysis, the team devised 3 scenarios it believed would provide one or more cost effective distribution networks applicable to the request. Through what-if analysis, the teams' calculations produced solid results, which were then presented to Motor Boaters USA for reflection and possible implementation.
Optimization Of The Retention Rates Of Ready Mix Usa Drivers, Pruthvi Hira, Jaime Harmon, Kenneth Correa, Destiny Sessums
Optimization Of The Retention Rates Of Ready Mix Usa Drivers, Pruthvi Hira, Jaime Harmon, Kenneth Correa, Destiny Sessums
Senior Design Project For Engineers
Ready Mix USA, a CEMEX company, is a giant in the building materials industry, servicing the Southeastern region of the United States through various commercial and residential projects. The Atlanta Division of RMUSA currently consists of 15 operational plants in the state of Georgia with its headquarters located in Woodstock. From the years 2015 to 2018, managers at Ready Mix USA noticed a drastic increase in turnover rates of ready mix truck drivers and did not have an answer for the increasing percentages. The Continuous Improvement at RMUSA tasked the student project team from the Industrial and Systems Engineering department …
Class A Average Handle Time Standard, Stephanie Lee
Class A Average Handle Time Standard, Stephanie Lee
Senior Design Project For Engineers
This report provides an analysis and evaluation on the Average Handle Time performed at Class A. The Universal, Shipping, International, Tracking, InfoNotice, Amazon, Field Support Group, and Preferred Customer Associates call types are evaluated in this study. An Average Handle Time Standard is created, while meeting the appropriate sample size, covering multiple site locations, at various times of the day and days of the week, and meeting corporate quality expectations. Methods of cost analysis, Six Sigma, and optimization are utilized in this study. The V-Process Model is used to verify the system. The implementation and results served as the verification …
Optimizing The B.O.B., Valerie N. Washington, Douglas Starzec
Optimizing The B.O.B., Valerie N. Washington, Douglas Starzec
KSU Journey Honors College Capstones and Theses
The Kennesaw State University Department of Transportation manages the Big Owl Bus (B.O.B.). The B.O.B. has 9 routes which provide transportation around and between the Kennesaw and Marietta campuses, as well as to select off-campus apartment complexes and shopping centers. We utilized a number of methodologies to recommend improvements to the efficiency and accessibility of the B.O.B. We first used the vehicle routing problem to develop a binary integer linear programming model. This allowed us to determine a new set of routes that minimize total travel time across the routes. Next, we developed an integer non-linear programming model to assign …
The Context Of Tool Control In An Aircraft Assembly Environment Related To Productivity, Taylor Jay Sisson
The Context Of Tool Control In An Aircraft Assembly Environment Related To Productivity, Taylor Jay Sisson
KSU Journey Honors College Capstones and Theses
The aircraft industry focuses a large portion of its resources on tool control during the assembly of aircraft. Tool control is a strict process that demands time from the assembly process. This time is removed from the value-added time spent actually assembling the aircraft. A study at Lockheed Martin conducted in the Spring of 2016 is discussed that examines the time spent on tool control. Tool control is necessary in aircraft assembly to prevent tools from entering compartments of the aircraft. If such an event occurs, the tool may damage the aircraft. All aircraft assembly processes must be tool controlled, …