IdeasUnlimited Reflections

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Ideas-UnlimitedReflections

• Adrian Allen
• Steve Lona
• Nicholas Tracy

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Successes

• Produced the desired quantity of 50 acrylic
  clocks
• Achieved acceptable level of quality

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Failures

• Scraped six products during production
• Broke six 1/32 inch end mills
• Reworked 5 parts as a result
• Lost 2 products during finishing operations

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Results

• Using scrapped material was cheaper, but produced
  greater variability from piece to piece
• Acrylic was easily susceptible to scratches
• Spent twice as long manufacturing than what we
  expected
• Over on budgeted machine and labor hours

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Conclusion

• Moved toward a more Industrial Engineering type
  of environment
• Improved process plans
• Setup reduction techniques
• Assembly Line
• Cross-functional team

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Improvements

• Find a more consistent and scratch resistant
  material
• Use a vacuum fixture to end mill around entire
  work piece
• Better cut-off operations

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IME, Inc. Experience

• Teamwork
• Collaboration with professors
• Working with outside vendor
• Apply past and present coursework into one