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Process Testing And Improvement Of Tapping Machinery At Lisi Aerospace, Michael James Hester Mar 2015

Process Testing And Improvement Of Tapping Machinery At Lisi Aerospace, Michael James Hester

Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

This report documents my senior project for California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo. I have chosen to do a senior project with Lisi Aerospace. Lisi would like to compare the manufacturer rated cycle count of taps versus an experimental one based on our machines in house. My goal for this project would be to run an experiment on one tapping machine and report on the achievable cycle count for the taps. I plan to do this in several ways including:

  • Running extra cycle counts above tap manufacturer recommendations

  • Documenting machine failure modes

  • Create a process document to be repeated …