Ford Motor Company; Business logistics--Management; Production management; Manufacturing processes; Organizational change
For many years the concept of Lean Manufacturing has been applied in automotive development as a tool to refine the manufacturing practices to the greatest efficiency possible through waste reduction. Continuous Improvement is a quality innovation...
Implementing Job Rotation as a manufacturing method is beneficial to production efficiency, reduction of labor cost, operator satisfaction, and Work-related Musculoskeletal Disorders (WMSDs) reduction. In this thesis, the steps of simulating the...
Industrial efficiency; Industrial management; New products--Economic aspects
In today's market customers are increasingly demanding a greater number of options in the products they purchase. Offering products in greater variety helps industries cater to a wider range of customers. However, at the same time, this product...
Six sigma (Quality control standard); Manufacturing processes--Quality control--Statistical methods
The objective of this thesis was to apply what was learned from Six Sigma while working for General Electric, towards real applications to improve processes. Two manufacturing problems were targeted. One of the issues dealt with variation, in an...
DENIOS manufactures steel structures for the storage, handling and containment of chemicals. The company has recently relocated into a larger manufacturing facility. This move will allow the manufacturing capacity of the company to grow for the...
This research project describes the application of a master/slave configuration of processors to study a comparison of alternative material handling configurations for automated manufacturing. Such a study usually requires a large number of...
The heat pipe augmented solar wall operates much more efficiently for domestic air heating than alternative passive solar technologies. The thermal diode effect of heat pipes reduces the insulating losses of the unit during nighttime and adverse...
The purpose of this empirical study was to examine the types of e-learning barriers and to establish the nature of relationships among (a) barriers perceived by employee e-learners in the process of starting, continuing, and completing online...
Industrial management--Data processing; Supervision of employees--Data processing; Decision making--Data processing
This paper models a realistic problem involving workforce assignment and training for a large manufacturing environment. In this particular environment, the workforce is undertrained and most assignments will result in necessary training. This...
Merchants & Manufacturing Building at Old Kentucky State Fairgrounds, Louisville, Kentucky. Wide dark three-story building with corner roofed towers and two central domed turrets around entrance. A dome of clouds has been painted in black and...
Merchants & Manufacturing Building at Old Kentucky State Fairgrounds, Louisville, Kentucky, at night. Against a black sky the well lit building glows. Part of the building is shown, from a corner roofed tower to a domed turret. The Old Kentucky...
Inside the Merchants & Manufacturing Building at Old Kentucky State Fairgrounds, Louisville, Kentucky. A long room with very high domed ceilings covered in flags. The room is filled with company kiosks including "Southern Star" and...
Merchants & Manufacturing Building at Old Kentucky State Fairgrounds, Louisville, Kentucky. A long room with very high domed ceilings covered in flags. The room is filled with company kiosks including "Southern Star" and "Auto...
Merchants & Manufacturing Building at Old Kentucky State Fairgrounds, Louisville, Kentucky. A long, bare room with very high ceilings covered in flags. There is a crowd of people near the front. There are also a couple of cows. More people sit...
Address: 729 S. Campbell Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Utility and trolley lines criss-cross in front of the Standard Sanitary Manufacturing building. The cobblestone street has trolley tracks running through it. The sign above the marble-trimmed...
An aerial photograph shows the exhibit area of the Merchants & Manufacturing building at the 1921 Kentucky State Fair. The room is draped with flags of the United States and red, white, and blue bunting. Men, women, and children explore the...
The Standard Sanitary Manufacturing Company's Band stands at attention with their instruments in the middle of Guthrie Street in Louisville, Kentucky. Beyond the band are the shops and offices of Gordon's Millinery, the Speed Building, a Western...
Address: 817 W. Market Street, Louisville, Kentucky. The tall building shown here is Snead Manufacturing Building. This building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. The Snead building is brick, concrete and glass...
Mixing machinery; Production engineering--Case studies
A processing facility in Trenton, Ky owned by HydroSolutions is in need of modernization in order to increase efficiency in the mixing process, improve the safety of the facility, and give the facility the ability to expand in the future. The main...
