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Ernie Ball Guitars Woodshop Facilities Redesign, Cameron Lea Schlemer
Ernie Ball Guitars Woodshop Facilities Redesign, Cameron Lea Schlemer
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
This report details a facilities design for Ernie Ball’s guitar and bass guitar manufacturing facility in San Luis Obispo, CA. Specifically, this project will redesign the layout for the Woodshop, the largest of the 5 manufacturing cells in the facility. This project was completed using the Systematic Layout Planning procedure and focused mostly on phase II and III in which the specifics for a layout are determined, however, space requirements were not evaluated as it was not within scope.
The first step was to develop departments in the facilities; two master departments were identified for the neck manufacturing process and …