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Intern Research Projects
These
projects were all completed this past spring. In the next
few weeks we will be moving these to the archives and
preparing for the next group of projects. Once the thesis
abstracts are available online, we'll be linking to
those, too.
| An
Analysis of Global Manufacturing Strategy for HP |
| Daniel T. Crocker |
The goal of this
project is to provide a realistic comparison of
the manufacturing costs of various global
manufacturing strategies for this division of HP.
The division faces rapid growth in demand
worldwide and is concerned about the
manageability of their current strategy. An
estimation of the costs is thus the first step to
discussing alternate strategies. |
| HP |
| Steve
Graves |
| Supply
Chain Modeling for Inventory Analysis |
| Jennifer Felch |
Developing a
methodology and actual supply chain models for
inventory analysis. One of the most interesting
results of the project is a model that simulates
some of the dynamics of the PC industry and the
resulting effect on customer delivery of a PC
based medical solution. This model looks at the
rapid evolution of the PC, where there are
model/component changes every 6 months, and the
impact on the supply chain for a PC based medical
product. |
| HP |
Steve
Graves
Al Drake |
| Implementation
of Lean Manufacturing and One-Piece Flow at
AlliedSignal Aerospace |
| Steven R. Harman |
Help AlliedSignal
Aerospace's Engines Division (AE) implement lean
manufacturing. This included participating on
numerous Kaizen improvement teams, developing a
rough-cut capacity model for the Static
Components Production Center, and helping develop
and implement a consumption-based (pull)
production scehuling system. |
| Allied
Signal |
Steve
Graves
Stan Gershwin |
| Business
System Improvements Through Recognition of
Process Variability |
| Michael Miller |
Design and
implement a production scheduling policy that
minimizes schedule disruption associated with
rerunning products that have experienced low/no
yield. Revamp inventory safety stocking policies
that reflect the statistical variability of the
process and followup testing. |
| Kodak |
Steve
Graves
Gregory McRae |
| Optimizing
In-Line Vehicle Sequencing Systems: Application
to Ford Component Manufacturing |
| Robert Moeller |
1) proposes a
framework for evaluating a production system for
the ILVS environment; 2) presents a systems
perspective of ILVS to show the impact on system
performance of scheduling, process design, and
product design; 3) proposes metrics for
characterizing a production system; 4)
characterizes several operational control
strategies for managing a production process in
the ILVS environment; and 5) proposes design
rules for future production systems and product
designs to improve their compatibility with ILVS. |
| Ford |
Thomas
Magnanti
David Staelin |
| Optimal
Allocation of Product Loadings Across Multiple
Facilities |
| Stephen C. Muir |
Opportunity exists
to increase wafer starts capacity without
purchasing additional capital equipment by
optimizing the product loadings across multiple
facilities running the same process technology.
Since many equipment capacities are sensitive to
the product mix, a dynamic method is needed to
reallocate product loadings to each facility to
meet changing product demand requirements. |
| Intel |
Duane
Boning
Larry Wein |
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