Sponsor/Mentor:
Intel
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Lean in Action
Intel in Chandler Arizona is undertaking two massive projects, building two new Semiconductor Fab’s, with a total budget of over 20 Billion dollars. These fab’s are built by trades, with the overall number being over 4,500 tradespeople at any given time. With this many people, increasing their knowledge and awareness of lean methodologies will have an impact on decreasing construction costs and pulling in project schedules.
Team Members
Jacob Mills, Ryan Ridgely
A New Leaf
Team 6 assisted A New Leaf by creating value-added materials in the form of process flow diagrams and data reports meant to achieve a number of goals including standardizing operating procedures, minimizing duplication and waste across multiple programs, improving the quality of communication between departments, and establishing accountability for program outcomes. Through weekly meetings with points of contact and regular discussions with program managers, the team collectively produced six current and future state process flows in addition to completing data analysis for four programs within A New Leaf. The overall goal of these efforts is to enable A New Leaf to run more smoothly and efficiently so that it may better serve the people and communities of Arizona.
Team Members
Willie Trafton, Donovan Bowler, Jade Heidbreder, Yashvi Mehta
Sponsor/Mentor:
Marge Robba
Sponsor/Mentor:
Michelle Hopkins, Lou Weisman
Improved Inventory Process
Our project addresses an issue with continuously growing excess fiber inventory. We found multiple issues contributing to the excess fiber inventory, such as overlapping types of inventories, only having one blanket fiber order per year, and projects ordering fiber before receiving proper mapping. We concluded that the main cause of extreme excess fiber was a non-standardized fiber ordering process and created a fiber forecasting tool to standardize the process.
Team Members
Ryan Wong, Mitchell Meyer, Rhea Abbott
Optimizing Goodyear: Enhancing City Operations through Lean Process Improvement
This project focused on improving the operational efficiency of the City of Goodyear's Planning and Zoning, Building, and Engineering divisions using lean methodologies. By creating and refining Value Stream Maps (VSMs) and employing EngineRoom software, our team identified and eliminated non-value-added activities, significantly reducing lead times. The project not only streamlined processes but also set a model for continuous improvement within the city’s administrative framework.
Team Members
Ahmed AlZeer, Alexander Fuentes, Mohammad Mardood
Sponsor/Mentor:
The City of Goodyear - Tim Fisher
Sponsor/Mentor:
Allison Curran
SCAI Advising Dashboard
Our project involved the creation and implementation of a dashboard for the SCAI Advising team to monitor individual and team performance by functional area. With this Dashboard, the advisors are able to view a graphical representation of their appointment and survey data in one location rather than having to use many different links to access their own data.
Team Members
Drew Kail, Abdulaziz Alojaimi, Meshal Abahussein, Riley Warring
Worker Performance Variance and Output Sensitivity in the Pork Industry
The team addressed discrepancies in production lines for three pork products, impacting key output metrics like production costs, system output, reworked product, first-time right, and profit. The objective was to establish decision support for standardized practices, aiming to quantify the correlation between worker performance and product quality costs. The team developed a simulation model to conduct a sensitivity analysis, evaluating the influence of varying worker performance on product quality and subsequent profits across different production lines.
Team Members
Ashley Hernandez, Ana Rodriguez, Derek Benavidez
Sponsor/Mentor:
Norson, Dr. Pedrielli
Sponsor/Mentor:
Tim Fisher
Continuous Improvement Tracking Using TRACtion
The City of Goodyear decided to start using TRACtion, a project tracking software with other capabilities such as dashboard building and six sigma tools. The problem was a lack of standardization in project work, reporting, and data analytics using TRACtion. The capstone team established and implemented a standardized approach for tracking continuous improvement projects at the City of Goodyear.
Team Members
Yousef Alshraideh, Majd Nawara, Danielle Platt
Dashboard Integration
This is the Dashboard Integration Capstone Project by Ryan Meyer, Abdullah Zia, and Shimeng Lyu. The motivation for this capstone project is to come up with a system that is reliable and user-friendly dashboard. The dashboard features the existing Excel-based system changed to the new Tableau-based system.
Team Members
Shimeng Lyu, Ryan, Meyer, Abdullah Zia
Sponsor/Mentor:
Peter Alosi
Team Members
Xavier Silva, Salem Aljohani, Rashed Alsawaleh
Sponsor/Mentor:
City of Goodyear
City of Goodyear - Certificate of Insurance
The Certificate of Insurance team has been working with the City of Goodyear to improve the total time to procure. The total time to procure is a measure that was created to track how long it takes for the certificate to be sent out, uploaded, verified, and ultimately completed. The team made an 84% improvement in total time to procure over the months of August, September, October, and November.
Strategic Initiative Management
For the Strategic Initiative Management project, I, Zoe Webb, worked with A New Leaf to manage two of the strategic initiatives to support Philanthropy, HR, and IT. I drove on-time task completion and built out an initiative in Microsoft Lists. We had 100% on-time completion and I successfully built out year 1 of the initiative.
Team Members
Zoe Webb
Sponsor/Mentor:
A New Leaf, Marge Robba
Sponsor/Mentor:
Adam Kuper at L3Harris
Automation of Spot Welding at L3Harris
Operators at the L3Harris manufacturing plant currently face ergonomic strain and risk of material splatter as they perform a repetitive weld process by hand. To mitigate these issues, a new semi-automated weld apparatus has been introduced. The goal of this project has been to update the work instructions, decide how to best arrange the workstation, and determine the optimal weld parameters through data collection.
Team Members
Adelynn Smart
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