Team Members:
Adam Schoenfeld, Nicholas Slota
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Tool Availability Improvement
The project was designed to close the communication gaps, streamline information flow, and provide a log of historical E3 Tool Errors to assist in gameplan formation and tool troubleshooting. This was done via scripting and the creation of standard operating materials related to training.
Sponsors or Mentors:
Intel Corporation
Avoiding the Void
Avoiding the void is a project that focuses on the importance of eliminating waste within a restaurant. A voided ticket is one where you have to throw away a perfectly good meal and start on a brand new one because a mistake was made. This project set out to decrease the number of voided tickets during a servers shift.
Sponsors or Mentors:
Tina Colindrea
Team Members:
Madison Scott
Team Members:
Jake Hunter, Jacob Crosby
Ergonomics and 5S+1
Evaluation and Reduction of Ergonomic Stresses in the L3Harris Tube Assembly Area. Throughout this project we evaluated the baseline ergonomic stresses using Rapid Upper Limb Assessments and process cycle time. Using the cycle time as a guide we recommended and implemented process improvements to reduce ergonomic stresses and improve 5S+1 practices.
Sponsors or Mentors:
Dr. Mary Parke
Turnaround Planning and Process Improvement Project
The Wood River Refinery conducts Turnaround events annually in which large production units are taken out of service for a limited time to conduct repairs, cleanings, and upgrades to the unit equipment. Previously in 2021, the Turnaround event went approximately 12 days past the scheduled duration and was millions of dollars over budget. This project looked at the past practices in the planning phases of the Turnaround process, identified deficiencies and gaps, determined the impact of these deficiencies and gaps, developed process improvements and standard procedures to these deficiencies, implemented these improvements to the TA planning team in both formal training and reference documents, and created a monitor and control plan for the reference documents and training to ensure there are current and up to date.
Team Members:
Scott Telford
Sponsors or Mentors:
Gerard Jacquin
Team Members:
Anastasija Staletovic
CXFEL Project and Risk Management
The Project and Risk management process that has been implemented in the CXFEL project. Emphasis on the quantitative risk analysis.
Sponsors or Mentors:
CXFEL ASU Biodesign
L3Harris Process Improvement ASU Capstone
The goal of this capstone project is to eliminate ergonomic injuries in the workplace and improve workstations within the manufacturing floor. We have studied operator tasks and how they work on a daily basis, mapped out a baseline system, and created improvements that are cost effective and optimized. By using skills and tools learned in coursework we came up with solutions to identified opportunities for process improvement, ergonomics, and 5S+1.
Sponsors or Mentors:
Dr. Mary Parke
Team Members:
Alex Soto, Sebastian Heeren
Team Members:
Emily Kelsey
InStitches Longarm Department Revamp
InStitches is a sewing and quilting shop in California that just invested nearly $100,000 into three new longarm quilting machines. The department has produced flat profits since its inception. The goal of this project was to evaluate the three major functions within the department with objective of increasing revenue and customer satisfaction.
Sponsors or Mentors:
InStitches
The City of Goodyear - Permitting Process Improvement
The application for making a new project in the City of Goodyear requires two separate applications with two departments in Building Safety and Civil Engineering. This causes long lead times for customers as one department must wait on the other to finish. Our goal is to reduce the lead time and merge the two application processes into one.
Sponsors or Mentors:
Tim Fisher
Team Members:
Aisling Martin, Russell Neumann, Ahmed Alzarooni
Team Members:
Andrew Pause
Sponsors or Mentors:
ExxonMobil Pipeline
Critical Safety Equipment Maintenance System
This project was developed using lean six sigma, by analyzing the current system for critical safety equipment maintenance and identifying the best opportunities to improve it. We deployed GPS location software and a QR code database to ensure accurate equipment identification, and developed an integrated task library to ensure proper task completion 100% of the time. The project accomplishes positive equipment identification and an 81% reduction in associated labor costs
Smart Workbench 4.0
This project is an analysis of Benchmark Electronics' labor tracking capabilities and the method of how to improve them. Using commercial off-the-shelf electronics kits and sensor suites, embedded within Benchmark’s proprietary systems, Benchmark will have a granular dedicated system for tracking labor at its workstations. This system is known as Smart Workbench 4.0.
Sponsors or Mentors:
Benchmark Electronics
Team Members:
Brian Neal, Keira Plano
Team Members:
Aaron Maziarz, Zachary Patterson
Sponsors or Mentors:
Jared Kutsch
AXON Fleet 3 Process Optimization
AXON Fleet 3 Process Optimization is manufacturing line overhaul and rebalancing project for Axon’s Fleet 3 in-car video system. In terms of project scope, this project is focused on: identifying the correct amount of operators to run on any given manufacturing line, finding ways to improve floor space utilization, optimizing the manufacturing layout, and moving towards a one-piece product flow amongst the 15 individual kit components. The project deliverables are: achieve 75% operator efficiency and increase the weekly throughput capability from 576 to 1000 Fleet 3 Car Kits per week, providing as-is cycle time data, and creating a model to identify weekly pallet space requirements based on weekly production estimates.
Training Process Streamlining
This capstone project will assist Iridium Satellite Communications with its satellite training program for the Flight Operations Specialist (FOS-R) position. More specifically, Iridium needs help figuring out a way to best collect and record data that tracks how the newly hired employees are completing their training and retaining the information provided on the Confluence training site. Some steps to address this problem are researching third-party organizations on how they train their flight controllers and researching possible testing applications that could sync to the Confluence site.
Team Members:
Andrew Lemieux, Sarah Pascetti, Evan Zavala
Sponsors or Mentors:
Sam Teplitz
Team Members:
Bryan Davis
ASU Water Treatment Health
This project created a scorecard for the cooling water systems in Air Separation Units. Using the Ready Set Go units to collect data, a database was created and utilized to create an autogenerated report including a score for the health of each plant's water treatment.
Sponsors or Mentors:
Air Products
TRACtion - Lean Reporting
The City of Goodyear is transitioning to a new project management software known as TRACtion. To aid the transition, this project researched and created a standard work document that any team within the city's administration can use. This document was then used to teach five of the major departments how to use TRACtion.
Sponsors or Mentors:
Tim Fisher, City of Goodyear
Team Members:
Daniel Tolbert, Yufeng Zhang, Khalid Alshammari
Team Members:
Leonard Maya
DWE Improvement Project
A consulting engineering company needed help to document and improve their process for creating engineering construction drawings. This project not only significantly improved one of their processes, but also created the framework for many improvements to come.
Sponsors or Mentors:
Robert Cronk - Design West Engineering
Process Design: Data Visualization
This project aimed to tackle the challenges that Arizona Public Service’s Talent Acquisition team was experiencing from the absence of recruiting dashboards. The lack of a data visualization process resulted in many issues, such as the inability to communicate goals, measure performance, and explore opportunities for improvement. Benefits from building and sharing these dashboards included saving the team time and money as a result of reduced manual data efforts, quicker and more effective decision-making, and actionable data analytics.
Sponsors or Mentors:
Arizona Public Service
Team Members:
Rachel Francone
Team Members:
Daniel Hensley
FSM Conversion Tool
FSM Conversion Tool
Sponsors or Mentors:
RPI Consultants
Agile Process Improvement
In order for FMS at Honeywell to transition from the use of Waterfall Method to Agile, an informational/instructional document needed to be created. This document outlines what agile is and how software development teams can effectively use it.
Sponsors or Mentors:
Rick Mahoney at Honeywell
Team Members:
Taylin Aasen
Team Members:
Vanessa Castro, Mark Raban, Gabriel Arredondo
Sponsors or Mentors:
Norson Alimentos
Norson Indirect Cost and Direct Cost Reduction Project
The ASU team partnered with Norson Alimentos and El Tecnologico de Monterrey located in Sonora, Mexico to implement two improvement projects in the Norson plants. The first project consisted of reducing indirect costs such as maintenance costs, special clothing costs, electricity costs, among others, incurred in the Materials Warehouse in the card box area. The second improvement project involved reducing direct costs associated to the process production line for specific meat products such as the “Diezmillo” steak, Ham Slice, Ham Slice Card, and Sparerib.
L3Harris Power Supply Process Optimization
For our 2022 capstone project, we used various tools to improve and optimize the power supply process at L3Harris. We primarily focused on improving the ergonomics of the operators as well as implementing 5S+1 concepts throughout the department.
Sponsors or Mentors:
Dr. Mary Parke, L3Harris
Team Members:
Abdullah Matloob, Connor Townsend, Mason Wong
Team Members:
Cameron Davies, Noelle Hoenicke, Rachel Villaca
Client-Process Optimization
Team 4 worked closely with representatives within A New Leaf, a non-profit organization serving the Phoenix metropolitan area, to construct current-state process flow maps. The completed process flow maps give visual representation of current-state processes, highlight areas of improvement, document data tracking and standardization, and inter-department dependencies. These maps are property of A New Leaf and will be used for employee training and implementation of future process improvements.
Sponsors or Mentors:
A New Leaf (Marge Robba)
Ergonomic Innovations Team
In collaboration with Tecnologico de Monterrey in Sonora Mexico, we had the opportunity to with Norson, the leading pork product-producing company in Mexico to apply engineering skills and knowledge to solve complex obstacles the company is facing. Different ergonomic analysis tools were used to determine which activities the operators performed that were the most harmful to their muscles and joints. After targeting the areas that were affecting the operators the most, we were able to come up with different innovative solutions that would help eliminate the problem or reduce the injuries produced by such activity, saving the company money and most importantly saving the operators' muscles and joints from irreparable damage.
Team Members:
Juan Felix
Sponsors or Mentors:
Luis Resendez, Norson, Diana Felix
Team Members:
Nicole Gasson, Corbin Holland, Wahab Muneeb
Sponsors or Mentors:
Tim Fisher
City of Goodyear- COI Certificate of Insurance and Endorsements
The City of Goodyear Certificates of Insurance and Endorsements team presents the basis of the last year’s project. The team worked with sponsor Tim Fisher to beta test a new software called Origami in order to determine if it was beneficial to the Endorsements team within the city’s Risk and Safety Office.
Capacity Expansion & Product Development
Intentional Foods is a family owned and operated restaurant that has the goal of expanding the capacity of business operations. The problem at hand was the sale of Intentional Foods products were only accessible directly from the restaurant. Due to capacity and resource constraints, expanding the Intentional Foods brand seemed impossible without affecting other restaurant operations.
Sponsors or Mentors:
Ned Heath
Team Members:
Lillian Belmonte, Jacob Grega, Ali Al Ahmed
Team Members:
John Paul Castro-Canaday
Sponsors or Mentors:
Kevin Johnson
Jacobs Technology Requirements Management Data Migration
Jacobs Technology, one of NASA’s leading ground support contractors, has engaged a large-scale data transfer by utilizing systems engineering concepts in parallel with a requirements management tool known as Jama. The advantages of the system transfer include a live, centralized information hub, increased efficiency and interaction through more streamlined user-interfacing, reduction in human error with automatic data capture, and immediate system report generation. This approach has been implemented within NASA’s latest lunar exploration program known as Artemis with a specific focus on Artemis missions II and beyond.
STEP
To train the next generation of space hardware machinists, the Space Technologies Education Program will take entry level machinists and train them the JPL way. This is a large financial undertaking for the group, and requires a lot of preparation work and control planning to succeed.
Sponsors or Mentors:
JPL Group 375E
Team Members:
Kyle Driscoll
Team Members:
Tyler Williams
AES2 Engineering Process Improvement
AES2 did not have an Engineering Process for their company. Williams and Canter set out to fix that. The result: an ISO 9001:2015 certification for the company's Engineering Process.
Sponsors or Mentors:
Don Canter - AES2
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