This project explored the feasibility of lowering overhead costs for General Electric's Cincinnati Service Shops by eliminating the dock facility, Container Place 2. A modified Systematic Layout Planning technique was used to investigate the aircraft engine repair shops and their existing operations. Two consolidation plans for Container Place 2 were developed, including new facility layouts, cost-benefit analyses contrasting the plans against maintaining the present facilities, and action plans for necessary business process adaptations.

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Creator

• Lake, John N.
• Geoffroy, Alison T.
• Wong, Sabrina LapChung.

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 05B004M

Advisor

• Johnson, Sharon

Year

• 2005

Sponsor

• General Electric Company

Date created

• 2005-01-01

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Management Engineering
• Manufacturing Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright