QUALITY IMPROVEMENT (LEAN SIX SIGMA) - THE MOUSE FACTORY
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The first part of the project analyzes the production quality at The Mouse Factory. The factory produces USB Optical Mice and within the past 4 months, it had been running without a quality manager, therefore no quality assurance and monitor. This report contains information regarding the defects found, benchmarks, evaluation of the current operation, future results prediction, and quality improvement plan. Benchmark is achieved using 3 different methods; graphical analysis, numerical analysis, and future performance predictions. Additional record such as check-sheet and Pareto chart was added to gain further insight of the current and prediction for the upcoming production. Finally, a quality improvement plan is provided to prevent same defects from happening and an overall improved production quality. In the second part , control chart will be used to better visualize and control the data. Using a web-based application provided, 2 types of analysis will be conducted. The first analysis is a retrospective analysis where control chart is established with the selected sampling technique. The next is an online/real time analysis of the data to compare with the control chart obtained from the first analysis. In the end, difference between using control chart and not using one will provide an insight of the end-result and analysis. Then, a benchmark for all type of parts are conducted as previously. Pareto chart is provided to find the changes after the analysis and determine the new trend/information after the analysis. The final result is to compare the result from the first part and the second.
M.P. FOREST INDUSTRIES FACILITIES DESIGN
In this project, a new commercial wooden door manufacturing facility needs to be set up in a warehouse that has a length of 200 feet and a width of 200 feet, the director of the company wants to know how to design his facility to maximum efficiency while running the plant. The facility is to be built with the goal of reducing operating costs and minimizing distance between departments in order to minimize flow cost and Time in System (TIS) for each unit. The majority of operating costs will be transportation costs from information and material flow between departments. It is essential to place departments so that information and material flow is optimized. The director also had desires to separate departments that are undesirable to ensure proper ergonomics. Our goal was to utilize our expertise in facility design optimization methods to design the layout of his new facility.
TAMU CAPSTONE SENIOR DESIGN ERDC 2
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A senior design capstone project at Texas A&M University, sponsored by the US Army Engineer Research and Development Center. The project was intended to address the Department of Defense’s need to evaluate reliability and its impact on performance and lifecycle costs. The purpose of the analysis is to support the DoD’s engineering design and acquisition process by understanding the correlation and relationships between engineering performance, reliability and lifecycle costs. We undertook this project by utilizing VBA by Microsoft Excel to create a user-friendly interface model to analyze reliability.
MACHINE LEARNING IN CREATING A SUSTAINABLE, SMALL-MARKET NBA CONTENDING TEAM
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A data analytics project to implement machine learning methodologies to determine a correlation between NBA player's salary and their corresponding stats.
Several techniques were tried including regression, classification, neural network, clustering, etc to construct a model with the highest accuracy. Cross validations were performed to confirm the model's accuracy.
This final model based on 2 years all NBA player's salary and stats are to be used for NBA team to analyze whether a player is overpaid or underpaid from solely their performance (stats).
MODERN MANUFACTURING FORKLIFT PROJECT
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A modern manufacturing project consists of designed the forklift from scratch using Solidworks, 3-D printing, machining involving band saw and milling machine, and finally electronics assembly with Arduino as the electrical programming software.
The goal was to create a small forklift prototype that's capable of lifting an object less than 5 lbs from one place and drop it off on the other side with full control.
Some challenging aspects were figuring out how to move the clamp with a stepper motor and strings (own idea), selecting a sturdy and light base (HDPE) to hold the electrical components, motor wheels configuration, and Arduino code.