Center-Designated Projects
R&D projects tackling manufacturing problems of interest to multiple member companies.
These projects, which may last 1 or 2 years, are selected/voted by members at the annual meeting. Costs are covered by pooled
annual membership fees.
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Integrated Production and Maintenance Management (IPMM) System
Principle Investigator:
Dr. C. Saygin
Timeline: January - December 2013
Objectives:
To develop an integrated production and
maintenance management system that takes into
account the following:
1.Dynamic
nature, real-time data of shop floor
2.Generates
production and maintenance work orders
effectively
3.A
proactive approach to maximize resource
utilization to improve system
throughput
with minimal amount of
inventory
and minimal amount of
operating expense.
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Intelligent Maintenance Platform based on Shop Floor Data
Principle Investigator:
Dr. C. Saygin
Timeline: January - December 2012
Objectives:
1) Develop a shop
floor data-centric production system performance
degradation model that can facilitate effective
preventive maintenance that leads to minimal
downtime.
2) Integrate hardware/sensor based data with
production data that are typically not
considered as a direct indicator for
maintenance, such as number of parts, inventory,
throughput, cycle time.
3) Define metrics at device, unit/station, and
system level that indicate performance
degradation as a symptom that can be tracked to
a root-cause.
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Sustainability in Packaging: An Analysis Tool
Principle Investigator:
Dr. G. Kuriger
Timeline: January - December 2011
Objectives:
- To develop a
regionally-specific methodology for conducting
GHG Emissions Inventories of a selected type of
manufacturing facility. This methodology will
assess three different scopes of GHG emissions
including:
1) Direct emissions due to onsite energy use in
buildings, manufacturing processes, company
owned vehicles, etc.
2) Indirect emissions due to electricity
generation; and
3) Emissions due to secondary activities.
The methodology will be used to develop a
simplified tool (spreadsheet), which can be used
by local manufacturing companies to develop
their GHG inventories, track them overtime, and
forecast the impact of lean methodologies on
reducing emissions.
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Lean Methodology For GHG Emissions Inventory
Principle Investigator:
Drs. G. Kuriger, H.
Rashed-Ali, H. Wan
Timeline: January - December 2011
Objectives:
- To develop a
regionally-specific methodology for conducting
GHG Emissions Inventories of a selected type of
manufacturing facility. This methodology will
assess three different scopes of GHG emissions
including:
1) Direct emissions due to onsite energy use in
buildings, manufacturing processes, company
owned vehicles, etc.
2) Indirect emissions due to electricity
generation; and
3) Emissions due to secondary activities.
The methodology will be used to develop a
simplified tool (spreadsheet), which can be used
by local manufacturing companies to develop
their GHG inventories, track them overtime, and
forecast the impact of lean methodologies on
reducing emissions.
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Energy and Environmental Value Stream Mapping
Principle Investigator:
Dr. G. Kuriger
Timeline: January - December 2010
Objectives:
- The purpose of this project is to
(1) Develop a holistic value stream mapping approach that considers environmental metrics,
energy metrics, and traditional metrics. This is coined as an “Energy and Environmental
Value Stream Map (EE-VSM).”
(2) Develop a method to combine these metrics into one over-arching metric.
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Lean Office Implementation Wizard
Principle Investigator:
Dr. H. Wan
Timeline: January - December 2010
Objectives:
- The purpose of this project is to
(1) Investigate the applicability and priority
of various lean tools in office environment and
(2) Develop a web-based decision support tool to
assist lean practitioners in improving the
office operations, configurations, and culture.
◊ Auto-ID
Technologies for Tracking
Principle Investigator:
Dr. C. Saygin
Timeline: January - December 2009
Objectives:
- To benchmark barcode and
RFID (radio frequency identification)
technologies for
various
tracking applications in manufacturing.
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A
Feasibility Study in Deformation Free Welding
Principle Investigator: Dr. B. Nowak
Project Timeline: January - December 2009
Objectives:
- To conduct a feasibility
study for a fully automated welding process that
examines
requirements
such as, but not limited to, thickness
variations, material properties,
welding
technology, material oxidation prevention.
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Human-to-Robot Collaboration (H2R)
Principle Investigator: Dr. B. Nowak
Project Timeline: January - December 2009
Objectives:
- To examine the problem of
human-to-robot collaboration (shared work
envelope).
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