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How to develop and motivate employees towards Lean manufacturing
Lean manufacturing wasn’t always a widely-adopted model used by production floor personnel. In 1996, James Womack and Daniel Jones wrote a book titled, Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation, which introduced the five principles of Lean – value, the value stream, flow, pull and perfection. These principles created the foundation for Lean manufacturing that can minimize waste and improve productivity. Why did Lean manufacturing struggle to gain traction?
Coronavirus FAQ: How do I share proof of vaccination with the University?
All faculty and staff at seven Penn State campuses where work is being conducted on federal contracts must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and share proof of their vaccination with the University by Dec. 8, according to a recent executive order from President Joe Biden. The vaccination requirement applies to employees who perform work at or with the following campuses: Altoona, Behrend, Brandywine, DuBois, Fayette, Harrisburg and University Park.
How to avoid COVID-19-related schedule delays using Lean
Rather than traditional design/bid/build, alternative delivery methods may be necessary to meet start of production deadlines. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, many manufacturing companies placed their design and construction projects on hold. Many of these projects were critical to meeting production targets and already had aggressive construction schedules before the pandemic began to impact the global economy.
New president at machine-builder automation and motion-control company
Steve Markham is the new president of Lenze Americas, an automation and motion control company, the company said in a July 7 announcement. Courtesy: Lenze Americas Learning Objectives Steve Markham is the new president of Lenze Americas, an automation and motion control company. Markham plans to invest in logistics and supply chain and expand its motion automation portfolio and engineering support.
Four remote work solutions post-pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic forced many companies to improvise as the sudden shift to remote working disrupted “business as usual” for a lot of employees. At Stellar, we had emergency plans in place to allow for an easy shift to remote work — and it was so successful the company adopted a full-time work-from-home model for the majority of its workforce. With restrictions easing and vaccines more readily available, we’re slowly returning to some sense of normalcy.
Six sigma principles could improve additive manufacturing quality control
Additive manufacturing offers design flexibility and expanded functionality, but the quality and process can drastically differ across production machines. With applications in aerospace, health care and automotive industries with potential for mass customization, additive manufacturing needs quality management.
Nissan accelerates assembly, lowers costs with 3D printing
By Mark T. Hoske July 8, 2021 Learning Objectives Nissan accelerates assembly, lowers costs with 3D printing. About 100 part designs have been 3D printed at Nissan Barcelona. Nissan said it paid off the investment in 3D printers very quickly. Automotive manufacturer Nissan integrated 3D printing into its production process at the Nissan Barcelona factory using BCN3D, a Spanish 3D printing solutions manufacturer.
Researchers propose methods for additive manufacturing quality control
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Additive manufacturing offers an unprecedented level of design flexibility and expanded functionality, but the quality and process can drastically differ across production machines, according to Hui Yang, a professor of industrial engineering at Penn State. With applications in aerospace, health care and automotive industries with potential for mass customization, additive manufacturing needs quality management.
Researchers use AI to analyze patient satisfaction
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Patient satisfaction can determine the probability of a patient to come back for further care, the likelihood of following discharge instructions, and overall health conditions, but artificial intelligence (AI) might be able to improve satisfaction and health outcomes, according to a Penn State research team.
Merging technologies with color to avoid design failures
1/21/2021 By Miranda Buckheit UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Various software packages can be used to evaluate products and predict failure; however, these packages are extremely computationally intensive and take a significant amount of time to produce a solution. Quicker solutions mean less accurate results.
Merging technologies with color to avoid design failures
In an example shown with Old Main — Penn State's main administration building on the University Park campus — the researchers' algorithm takes a simple image of the material microstructure and returns colored channels representing different types of potential failures in the product.
Algorithms and automation: Making new technology faster and cheaper
Compared with traditional metal additive manufacturing, this process contains multiple printable volumes that started from different building surfaces with different orientations. Credit: Xinyi Xiao, Penn State Additive manufacturing (AM) machinery has advanced over time, however, the necessary software for new machines often lags behind. To help mitigate this issue, Penn State researchers designed an automated process planning software to save money, time and design resources.
Penn State researchers to help revive manufacturing enterprises
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A team of Penn State researchers, in collaboration with Texas A&M University and The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV), has received funding from the Clean Energy Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute (CESMII) to help small- and medium-sized American manufacturers be at the forefront of new smart technologies to improve their processes.
New method enables automated protections for sensitive data
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Just as people need to protect their sensitive data, such as social security numbers, manufacturing companies need to protect their sensitive corporate data. There are currently fewer protections for proprietary manufacturing information, making it a ripe environment for corporate data theft of such things as design models.
New department head named to lead industrial engineering
February 13, 2020 By Miranda Buckheit UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Steven Landry, professor of industrial engineering and associate department head of the School of Industrial Engineering at Purdue University, has been named department head of the Penn State Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (IME). He will begin on July 1, 2020.
New method analyzes images to improve healthcare and manufacturing
Hui Yang and Soundar Kumara have developed a novel algorithm, which has implications for health care and manufacturing. Credit: Hui Yang and Soundar Kumara Patterns appear in both natural and human made systems, but they can be difficult for humans to recognize and analyze, especially in dynamic systems like the human heart or factory machines.
COVID-19: Researchers to model novel coronavirus for spread mitigation
With COVID-19 cases rising to 330,000 in the United States with nearly 10,000 deaths, researchers are coming together to find novel methods in an attempt to alleviate the uncertainty surrounding its spread. (Data Source: NBC News– https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/blog/coronavirus-live-updates-lot-death-coming-trump-warns-u-s-n1176996).
Industrial engineering alumna selected as keynote speaker at national conference
3/17/2020 By Miranda Buckheit UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Pooja Dewan, a Penn State industrial engineering alumna, has been named a keynote speaker for the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) Annual Conference, scheduled to be held in New Orleans from May 30 to June 2, 2020. Dewan was selected for her years of experience and expertise working with data and analytics to improve organizational decision making.
Industrial engineering receives sensors to enhance student education
1/22/2020 By Miranda Buckheit UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Students in the Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (IME) at Penn State will learn how wireless sensors and cloud computing can impact the manufacturing field, thanks to a recent gift from KCF Technologies. Headquartered in State College, Pennsylvania, KCF Technologies donated several SmartDiagnostics wireless vibration sensors to the department.
Nominations sought for service enterprise engineering award
9/24/2019 By Miranda Buckheit UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Penn State’s Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (IME) is co-sponsoring the Outstanding Innovation in Service Systems Engineering Award competition at the annual spring Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) Conference and Expo. Individuals and teams from academia and industry are invited to submit nominations by the Jan. 31, 2020, deadline.
Student chapter wins fourth consecutive national industrial engineering award
7/19/2019 By Miranda Buckheit UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The Penn State student chapter of the Institute for Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) has been honored with the organization’s Gold Award for the fourth consecutive year. To determine award recipients, IISE rates each student chapter using the University Chapter Activity Report (UCAR). The UCAR scoring system allows student organizations to track their progress in order to make improvements for each academic year.
Simulated driving study aims to increase trust in technology and road safety
Xiaomei Tan, a graduate student of Yiqi Zhang, an assistant professor, tests out the simulator that is able to judge human reactions. Image: Miranda Buckheit UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Yiqi Zhang, assistant professor of industrial and manufacturing engineering at Penn State, aims to make the roads a safer place for all drivers by better understanding the interactions between human drivers and autonomous vehicle (AV) technologies.
Video: 'Digital brain in the cloud' could provide real-time injury awareness
Penn State researcher Reuben Kraft specializes in constructing computer models of the human brain that may help to diagnose, monitor and give insight on brain injuries by the creation and storage of what he has deemed the "digital brain." Utilizing imaging technology such as magnetic resonance diffusion tensor imaging and computed tomography scans, Kraft, an assistant professor of mechanical and biomedical engineering and Institute for CyberScience (ICS) co-hired faculty member, creates a 3-D...
Self-control develops gradually in adolescent brain
The team discovered that the brain's salience network, a group of regions that work together to help people assess the importance of stimuli in their environment, played a key role in regulating self-control behavior when participants were motivated by incentives. Most previous research in this area had focused on one region of the brain.
Childhood dream to reality: ICS co-hire and volcanologist researches her passion
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Some children fantasize about growing up and being a doctor, police officer, dancer or a big Hollywood star, but Christelle Wauthier had a different career in mind. “I have been interested in studying volcanoes since I was 6 years old,” Wauthier said. “I don’t remember how I got the idea to become a volcanologist, because Belgium has no volcanoes.
Artist of the Month: Sean Bodley
Many people have fond memories of sitting at the kitchen table as a child, playing or talking. For Sean Bodley, these memories entail drawing landscapes and battle sketches. Bodley chuckles at a preschool memory of when he took the painting of a fellow preschooler’s parent, since he liked it so much. Bodley believes this painting was an inspiration for him to become the artist he is today.
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