Progress Report

1 IE 368: FACILITY DESIGN AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT Term Project – Winter 201 7 FACILITY LAYOUT ALTERNATIVES FOR THE MIME MACHINING AND PRODUCT REALIZATION LAB (MPRL) Introduction The School of Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (MIME) at Oregon State University (OSU) has several instructional and research laboratories to support the educational and scholarly needs of students, faculty and staff. One of the most import ant facilities within the School of MIME is the Machining and Product Realization Laboratory (MPRL) located in Rogers Hall 118. The MIME MPRL has the mission to “ help students develop the practical side of their engineering skill set as they complete their undergraduate or graduate program .” As part of this mission, the MIME MPRL is dedicated to enhance student success by providing hands -on experience and knowledge to support academic coursework and extracurricular projects . MPRL staff also designs and fabr icates parts and components needed to support the work of faculty within MIME and across campus for teaching and research. In addition to the space available in Rogers Hall 118, t he current MPRL also includes Project Assembly rooms (Rogers Hall 114, 116) , and a Wood Shop (Rogers Hall 106 ). The MPRL houses several types of equipment such as lathes, milling machines, CNC centers, rapid prototyping machines , welders, and wood sawing and shaping tools among others , and uses a variety of CAD/CAM software tools for solid modeling and computer -aided manufacturing [1] . Every day , the resources of the MPRL are shared between instruction activities for different sections of ME 250 and ME 382 as well as several different projects (inc luding capstone projects) which might present a challenge . As the number of students in MIME continues to grow and more activities need to be supported by the MPRL , the School of MIME is motivated to plan for facility growth. For this reason, MPRL staff is currently engaged in a process to plan additional space for new and existing functional areas of the MIME MPRL and is willing to accept suggestions with respect to their future plans . Project Objective This project will consist of evaluating the current configuration of the facility layout of all of the functional areas of the MIME MPRL in Rogers Hall (including Project Assembly rooms and Wood Shop) and proposing alternative layouts for the expansion of the facility into the first floor of Graf Hall where it is anticipated that it will share space and interact with the Composites Lab . Proper execution of the project would promote more effective use of the MPRL resources available to MIME students , faculty and staff through a more efficient organization that will improve space utilization, flow of operations and reduce congestion in the facility during busy hours . The layout alternatives should be evaluated and justified using the layout design/analysis methodologies covered in class. 2 Project Tasks The project will require teams to complete at least the following task s (more may be needed):  Determine what are the functional areas of the MIME MPRL (both existing and anticipated) that will need to be included in the layout, their space requirements, and their relationships based on data collection and observations.  Evaluate the performance of the current configuration of all functional areas of the MIME MPRL considering space utilization and layout efficiency metrics.  Develop layout alternatives for the future configuration of all functional area s of the MIME MPRL as it will expand into Graf Hall .  Develop t wo dimensional representations of the "best" layout alternatives for the future configuration of all functional areas of t he MIME MPRL considering current and future requirements . Teams should be creative and think of several possibilities. As the mission of the MIME MPRL is to provide hands -on experience to engineering students to enhance their manufacturing processes learning, teams are encouraged to discuss on their proposals how the facility layout would facilitate achieving this missio n. Basic information about functional areas, flow requirements , and floor plans will be provided by Dr. Vergara per request (i.e., I will not make data available unless you ask for it). The MIME MPRL staff will be providing a block schedule that shows available times when teams can visit the facility and interact with staff. The schedule will be posted to Canvas for your reference. Please be respectful and considerate of others during your time at the MPRL, and observe all of the safety regulations that govern the facility at all times . This includes wearing safety glasses at all times while at the facility. Safety glasses are available for students at the shop in a first -come -first - served basis. Teams can also visit the facility to make observations during times that are not listed in the provided time schedule as long as they do not interact with the staff or interfere with the operation of the facility. Safety regulations (including safety glas ses) also apply to these visits. The point of contact at the MIME MPRL wi ll be Brian Jensen , MPRL Manager who can be contacted by e - mail at [email protected] . Please only contact Mr. Jensen if you have a clear (and reasonable) request for him. Dr. Vergara is available to meet with individual teams to answer questions. My suggestion is to contact me first before contacting Mr. Jensen ; I might have the information that you need . Deliverab les and Grading Progress Report ( 50 pts). The first deliverable of this project is a type written status report due on Thursd ay, February 16 , 201 7 at the beginning of class . You will be graded based on the following criteria:  Content of status report (30 points) . The report should contain the following information: o Your understanding of the project objective and customer requirements. o Description of completed tasks (no progress means no credit ). o Description of challenges found and proposed solution plan. o Description of future tasks. 3  Organization of the report (15 points) . The written report shall be typewritten, single -spaced, use 1 -inch margins, and use 12 -point Times New Roman font. The report shall be approximately 1 page in length, not including references or appendices. Papers exceeding the 1-page limit will not be accepted.  Accuracy of material (5 points) . The written report should include a list of references and these references sh ould be properly cited in the report. Final Written Report (1 20 pts). The main deliverable of this project is a type written report due on Fri day, March 1 7, 201 7 by 5pm . Both, a hard copy and an electronic copy of the report must be submitted by this due date. You will be graded based on the following criteria:  Your understanding of the project objective and customer requirements (10 points) . The alternative layouts for the functional areas of the MIME MPRL are based on the voice of the customer. Any assumptions made are clearly s tated and validated with data (where applicable).  Organization of the report (15 points) . The report shall be typewritten, single -spaced, use 1 - inch margins, and use 12 -point Times New Roman font. The report shall be approximately 5 pages in length, not including references or appendices. Papers exceeding the 5 -page limit will not be accepted. The report sh ould include page numbers , and the contents organized in sections.  Originality of treatment (75 points) . The material in the report is clearly a contribution of the students and not just a series of quotations with or with out attribution. A logical thought process was followed to analyze the information provided by the customer and transform it into a plausible solution that can be used for future decision support. The solutions proposed clearly reflect the level of effort invested by the team.  Accuracy of material (5 points) . The written report sh ould include a list of refer ences and these references should be properly cited in the report.  2D model s of proposed layout s for future expansion (15 points) . Computer -generated graphical representation s in two dimensions of the proposed layouts. Dimensions (with specified units) and labels should be clearly visible. The final report should be organized as follows: 1. An executive summary (no more than 1 page in length) that summarizes your objectives, high - level assumptions, and the results from the analyses you conducted. The 1 -page executive summary does not count toward the 5 -page maximum. 2. The remainder of the report should summarize your efforts and provi de enough details so that another industrial engineer can understand the process and logic used to generate your layout alternatives. a. Introduction – Problem statement, objectives of the study, brief description of existing facilities, and constraints and a ssumptions. b. *Descriptions of the data collected – department data, personnel data (if needed) , etc . No handwritten data collection sheets or other handwritten/drawn diagrams should be part of * There is no recipe for these sections. They should not be a chronological description of your every thought. They are to be written for an IE. For example, the details of a from -to matrix need not be explained. If you feel 4 the report. Some appendices may be included as computer files (e.g., a spreadsheet file with collected data). c. *The methods use d to analyze and synthesize the collected data and generate alternatives. Quantitative approaches will get the most credit. d. Appendices: input data from data collection, details of specific analyses, etc. Do not include every possible layout that you generated. Make sure all appendices are titled so that they are self -explanatory . That is, do not have an appendix with “Appendix A” as a title an d then a bunch of numbers listed in a table. Each appendix should be referenced in the report or there is no reason for including it. Project Presentation (50 pts). Groups will prepare and present an oral report during the last week of the term. Each gro up will have 8 minutes to present their work and answer questions. An electronic copy of the presentation is due on Tuesday, March 14, 2017 by 10 am. You will be graded based on the following criteria :  Content and originality of presentation (30 p oints ). The presentation should include at least the following information: o Description of project requirements and major assumptions . o Description of data collected and methods used . o Proposed layouts.  Presentation skills (20 points ). Peer Evaluation ( 30 points ). A peer evaluation form will be provided to each student at the end of the term. The results of this evaluation will be applied to each individual student to determine his/her final grade for the term project. Note:  Rubrics for the Progress Report, Final Report and Presentation will be available on Canvas at least two weeks in advance to the due dates for these deliverables. References [1] MIME Machining and Product Realization Lab , URL: http://mime.oregonstate.edu/facilities/mprl some method or technique used is not common, it may suffice to reference it. Pictures a re helpful as are the careful use of appendices.