SAB1 Staff Engineer 2015 first class rate of 91.4%. The five year average is 92.6%.
Significant Events Red Circle- The SAB1 system was one of the first systems that red circle was implemented on. I served as a process engineering resource for the implementation team and monitored the controls as they were implemented to ensure that the process continued to run well. Several times, when a new control was turned on, it would not behave as expected or would uncover a problem that was not anticipated, as the system engineer, I worked to prevent them before they could cause a process upset or recognize and mitigate these problems as they were encountered. SAB1 Filter Problems- The new fiber camera test is significantly more sensitive than
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White Spec Contamination- A hole in the floor allowed RA material to get into a SAB1 Wash Tank. Using Kepner-Tregoe problem solving techniques, I was able to quickly determine the root cause and extent of the problem minimizing the amount of off-class. Improve Mixer and Turbo Operation- Alarms were developed and added to the mixers that will alert operations when a mixer did not get all of its chemicals. This alarm has helped us detect failing valves. Additionally, the OH model was modified so that turbo temperatures are reduced when a turbo reaches OH set point. This has prevented small production upsets from getting worse due to over hydrolyzed dope.
Solus Free Acid Root Cause Determination Worked on a team to determine why Solus had elevated levels of free acid after only a short time in storage. It was determined that the root cause is inherent to low viscosity esters and is not something that can be changed with different stabilization or new bags.
Online Flashed Acid Supply- Determined it is not a cost effective project Many yard tanks in building 120 are in need of major repair or replacement. Each yard tank costs approximately $3 million to replace. I investigated the potential of going to an online supply of flashed acid. This would allow yard tank 16 to be used in an alternate service and would reduce the number of yard tanks that need to be rebuilt. It was determined through dynamic modeling with the Advanced Controls Group that
Our team operated and managed the Littlefield Technologies facility over the span of 1268 simulated days. Our team finished the simulation in 3rd place, posting $2,234,639 in cash at the end of the game. We did intuitive analysis initially and came up the strategy at the beginning of the game. And then we applied the knowledge we learned in the class, did process analysis and modified our strategies according to the performance results dynamically. We have reinforced many of the concepts and lessons learned in class and had a better understanding of the operation of the Littlefield Technologies facility and how certain modifications would affect the throughput and lead time.
HD prefers to expand capacity at existing plants through process improvement and restructuring first and externally only as needed. As part of the 1995 planning, HD should be able to withstand a 30% drop in
As you drive, air rushes past your car. It hits the front of your car and the intake, and this cold air is forced to the engine. As a combination, the turbo and intake greatly improve power and speed.
As part of our MIS 4163 class, we are going to work in a project that will prepare a system design for the application we select. Our team, the Purple Pirates, is a team composed of 5 people. We have selected to put together the design for a service order and invoicing application for an auto repair business. We have named our project ARS which stands for Auto Repair System.
Solutions of 6M H2SO4, 6M NH3, 6M HCl, 6M NaOH, and 1.0 M of NaCl, 1M Fe(NO3)3, 1M NiSO4, 1M AgNO3, 1M KSCN, 1M Ba(NO3)2, and 1M Cu(NO3)2 were given in separate test tubes. The color of possible precipitates, ions, acid-base behaviour, odor and solubility rules were conducted and were reported in Table 1. The key information about a mixture of two solutions was
Alex and his team identified two bottlenecks in the plant. One is the NCX-10 machine and the other is the heat-treat process. There are two things that should be done, they have to make sure that the bottlenecks ' time is not wasted, and make the bottlenecks work only on what will contribute to throughput today. They understood that by using non-bottlenecks for efficiency, they have
Worked in end to end automation of many system reports and created a report dashboard for data extraction.
The vast majority of the recommendations were implemented. The overall outcome of the engagement was a stable RBAC platform, based on recommendations implemented in the course of the engagement. Further integration of Oracle recommended monitoring into USPTO enterprise monitoring capabilities and enabling real time user monitoring are in-progress.
Given the increased technical sophistication of the MES, detailed process specifications are highly recommended especially at the start-up stage, and adequate follow-through during the transition from development to production start-up should be implemented. Any revision or rewrite of process specification can be done throughout the ten-week start-up period. However, instead of making Mr. Michonik the only person for revision approval, we do hope to see Susan’s involvement in the process. Mr. Michonik is the only process engineer who has any familiarity with silicon sensor assembly. Susan has become the soul of SSR and big performance improvement was achieved by the “problem department”, largely if not all, because of her excellent management skills. Nowadays, companies from different
The Early Aberration Reporting System (EARS) is the biosurveillance system developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC, Early Aberration Reporting System” )(Chen et al., 2010) to enhance the surveillance of events with short time period (e.g. Super Bowl, World Series etc.) and limited historical data (Kelly J. Henning, 2004). The EARS has been increasingly used as a standard surveillance system in the United States, which monitors different types of syndromic surveillance data including the emergency visits data, the school and work absenteeism data, the 911 calls, the OTC drug sales data and the physician office data (Hutwagner et al., 2003). The main abrasion detection algorithms implemented in the EARS are the C1,
Faced with the challenge of continuing to remain the leader in industrial valve systems, Orion Controls is required to decide whether or not to carry out product improvement redesigns. A successful redesign will secure the company an initial level of sales of 50 or 90 units to two new customers followed by the benefits of enjoying an innovator’s reputation.
Selected 13 bales are analyzed using different fiber maturity measuring methods (New FIAS, AFIS, and Cottonscope). Maturity distributions of the bales 3097, 3142, and 3051 reported by three methods are shown in Figure 3, Figure 4, and Figure 5 respectively. Even though same bales were used for comparing the maturity distributions, a distinct difference is observed between the maturity distributions. The shape of the New FIAS maturity distributions are similar with the distributions from the AFIS however, are deviated more towards the left side. Similarly, the distributions from the Cottonscope are different with the distributions from the New FIAS and have deviated towards the right side. The distributions from the New FIAS and AFIS are relatively peaked compared to the distributions from the Cottonscope.
Looking at the success of Motorola, many companies like Texas Instruments, Allied Signal etc started using Six Sigma methodology to bring organization-wide improvements.
These systems have a fuel injector for each cylinder, usually located so that they spray right at the intake valve. These systems provide more accurate fuel metering and quicker response.
1) “One example of implementation of GDSS is at IBM. They, as well as many other corporations, initiated GDSS to improve group meetings. A specific case involved a plant manager not being able to identify the cause of problems with shop floor control. After having a meeting for two hours with plant personnel all that resulted were arguments and bad feelings.