by joes
8. February 2012 20:43
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Posted by Joe Schilling
Senior, Industrial and Systems Engineering
This quarter, along with most other senior engineering students, I am taking the capstone design course. For ISE it involves a two-quarter long Six Sigma-based project with a company around Athens. Our team consists of four members and we are working at Kenworth Truck located in Chillicothe, Ohio.
The project involves improving efficiency for the receiving docks; we want to reduce the time it takes for incoming parts to be processed. Right now, the process is very hard to understand since we have only seen it a few times. The key to understanding any process is to break it down into steps, and find the root of the problem. This will be especially challenging due to the high volume of parts Kenworth receives daily for its trucks.
Since the project involves Six Sigma, we follow through a sequence of steps: Design, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control. This quarter we primarily focus on the design, measure, and analyze steps. This involves creating how data is to be collected and measured, along with analyzing the system's current capability, and design.
Senior design is the most valuable and challenging class, I have been in thus far. Working for a company provides the real world experience that I need to succeed in my own career. I look forward to providing Kenworth with a valuable solution that can save them money.
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