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Tie Rod Structure Design Project

Students:

Nick Christoforou, mechanical engineering
Jake Owin Ell, industrial & systems engineering
Jessy Ha, mechanical engineering
Madelyn Lew, mechanical engineering
Rungpatch Nethnapat, industrial & systems engineering
Gregory Peterson, industrial & systems engineering
Jasdip Singh, mechanical engineering
Minh-Thu Tran, mechanical engineering

Faculty Adviser:

Ashis Banerjee, Assistant Professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering
Patty Buchanan, Full Time Lecturer, Industrial & Systems Engineering
Corie Cobb, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering

About the Project:

The team worked to explore new design options for tie-rods that can be used in the majority of Boeing airplane locations and reduce the cost of the airplane. They conducted a design analysis of their new concepts and used 3D printing to prototype and test their designs. They also completed a business case that compares the total production cost of their recommended design versus the existing baseline Boeing designs.

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Tug Boat Dispatch Support Tool

Students:

Elizabeth Georg, industrial & systems engineering
Logan Jungkuntz, industrial & systems engineering
Kathleen Karlson, industrial & systems engineering
Maxwell Laroche, industrial & systems engineering
John Macmillan, industrial & systems engineering
Molly O‘Brien, industrial & systems engineering

Faculty Adviser:

Patty Buchanan, Full Time Lecturer, Industrial & Systems Engineering

About the Project:

Crowley Maritime uses centralized dispatchers to facilitate tug boat work in the Los Angeles/Long Beach, San Francisco/Oakland and Puget Sound harbors. The role of these dispatchers is to coordinate matches between tugs and incoming vessels and to resolve scheduling conflicts that occur when multiple vessels arrive and require more tugs than are available at that time. In these cases, dispatchers have the ability to hire competitors’ tugs in order to complete the job on thier behalf. This is known as subbing out work. This project focused on resolving these scheduling conflicts in the most efficient way possible by developing a tool to assist in the decision making capabilities of the dispatchers, using their decision making guidelines.

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Genie Roundabout Production Line Footprint Optimization

Students:

David Imanuel, industrial & systems engineering
Matthew Lin, industrial & systems engineering
Gavin McPherson, industrial & systems engineering
Dennis Muljadi, industrial & systems engineering
Connor Wong, industrial & systems engineering

Faculty Adviser:

Patty Buchanan, Full Time Lecturer, Industrial & Systems Engineering

About the Project:

Genie is constantly working towards improving its facilities by optimizing material flow and consolidating floor space. Currently, building 6 is in the process of moving its assembly lines within the building to improve material flow and optimize floorspace. GR (Genie Runabout) production line was recently moved to its interim location to help facilitate other line moves. To align with the final future state of the production facility, the GR line will need to move again with a reduced footprint. The student team was tasked with analyzing the current state of the GR production line (assembly and weld) and subsequently identifying areas of improvement, including method, machine, manpower or material (4M) related. The team developed a future state layout with the reduced footprint (target reduction ~40%) and validated the changes through simulations.

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Ergonomic Risk Reduction for Hand Layup of Composites

Students:

Parker Cole, industrial & systems engineering
Roman Fomin,industrial & systems engineering
Trenton Lam, industrial & systems engineering
Adrian Steeler Magallanes, industrial & systems engineering
David Setiawan Tjahjadi, mechanical engineering
Marverick Tjeng, mechanical engineering

Faculty Adviser:

Patty Buchanan, Full Time Lecturer, Industrial & Systems Engineering
Pete Johnson, Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, Adjunct Professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering

About the Project:

While automation of composite laminates is increasing across the aerospace industry, there remains a large sector of composite parts that require hand lamination of prepreg materials. This may be due to complexity of the part, low build rates, or continued build of legacy work. The force and dexterity required to sweep fabric into defined tool features takes its toll on the human body, often causing wrist, elbow, and shoulder discomfort. The student team set out to develop the next step in sweeping technology, with a goal to reduce or eliminate ergonomic exposures while not impeding the ability to manually sweep materials into place. Students developed concepts for sweep designs to alleviate high risk activities, tested and analyzed sweep design concepts, and determined how to accurately detect muscle strain based on the required work.

 

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Labor and Deployment Model

Students:

Brendan Bristow, industrial & systems engineering
Jeffrey Roetcisoender, industrial & systems engineering
Soravit Rojanasaksothorn, industrial & systems engineering
Prabhjot Singh, industrial & systems engineering
Griffin Thurlby, industrial & systems engineering
Ryan Tsuji, industrial & systems engineering
Kritten Vibhagool, industrial & systems engineering

Faculty Adviser:

Patty Buchanan, Full Time Lecturer, Industrial & Systems Engineering

About the Project:

MOD Pizza is one of the fastest growing chain restaurants with over 250 locations in the US and United Kingdom and over 5000 employees. With growth, they have had to develop more sophisticated programs and processes that are scalable to business needs, with a goal to have the right people in the right place at the right time to deliver the MOD experience to all customers. The student team worked to develop a validated working labor and deployment model that MOD Pizza can implement into labor scheduling software, to be used at all MOD Pizza locations and all store formats.

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Reach-in versus Walk-in Refrigeration Assessment

Students:

Mikeala Bourree, industrial & systems engineering
Kelly Hoang, industrial & systems engineering
Alexander Mario, industrial & systems engineering
Christine Na, industrial & systems engineering
Lance Phillips, industrial & systems engineering
Josh Quachindustrial & systems engineering

Faculty Adviser:

Patty Buchanan, Full Time Lecturer, Industrial & Systems Engineering

About the Project:

MOD Pizza is one of the fastest growing chain restaurants with over 250 locations in the US and United Kingdom and over 5000 employees. With growth, they have had to develop more sophisticated programs and processes that are scalable to business needs. Much of the current store designs are driven by the placement of walk-in refrigerator/freezer units, which due to size, limits ability to design the optimal store. The student team worked to deliver a recommendation for refrigerated storage and capacity needs for MOD Pizza locations, and considered the type of equipment needed and delivery frequency of product. The project resulted in a validated business case and recommendation for moving from walk-in refrigeration/freezers to reach-in refrigeration/freezers for all future store locations. The team also developed a tool to determine the number of refrigeration units needed depending on store size and frequency of food deliveries.

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Automation Manufacturing Technology Harrisburg Scheduling System

Students:

Dillon Gibbs, industrial & systems engineering
Reid Gilbertson, industrial & systems engineering
Randy Hemion, industrial & systems engineering
Junil Kim, industrial & systems engineering
Jessica Kuskanto Putri, industrial & systems engineering

Faculty Adviser:

Patty Buchanan, Full Time Lecturer, Industrial & Systems Engineering

About the Project:

The TE Connectivity Automation Manufacturing Technology Group located in Harrisburg, PA requires a scheduling system to be developed for its engineering, shop and contract manufacturing resources. The current system is outdated and given the Group’s projected growth it is critical that a new system be established. The current system utilizes spreadsheets and legacy databases to schedule and track materials, costs and resources. The student team set out to understand the business needs of the group and the current methods, and design a feasible, user-friendly scheduling system to be developed and implemented. This system has the ability to schedule materials and organizational resources, track costs, and provide high level and detailed reporting.