Priorclave has potential to shorten throughput time, increase capacity, refine scheduling, reduce WIP, and meet customer specifications quickly without disrupting the flow of production. In order to illustrate this potential, a current state was established to benchmark against. Lean techniques such as kanban and JIT were then explored along with traditional manufacturing techniques such as MRP. Finally, a future state was developed to show a prototype system that uses lean and MRP techniques to achieve a throughput time of 2 days, and 50% reduction in WIP.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Dowd, Rebecca K.

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 02C021M

Advisor

• Brown, Christopher A.

Year

• 2002

Date created

• 2002-01-01

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Mechanical Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright